Autobiographies
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Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFrom intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth.
Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a
- Author: Pagonis, Pidgeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1542029457
- Language: English
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The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift–and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live mor… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Laura Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987926
- Language: English
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
$16.99 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body tha
- Author: Taussig, Rebekah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 6-Jul-21
- ISBN10: 0062936808
- Language: English
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The Light Room
$28.00 Read more“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.” –Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From “one of our most formally ambitio- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 059342106X
- Language: English
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Catching the Light
$10.95 Add to cartUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274068
- Language: English
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My Own Magic: A Reappearing ACT
$28.99 Add to cartFor every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within…
Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetro
- Author: Kloots, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0785255656
- Language: English
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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
$18.99 Read moreThis autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her… [more below]
- Author: Flack, Roberta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593479874
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
$18.99 Add to cart‘You are no longer a number’
Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, dire
- Author: Elboim, Eti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008600287
- Language: English
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A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery
$20.95 Add to cart‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both – to exist in the ha
- Author: Nicholas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839971835
- Language: English
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The Friedkin Connection
$19.99 Add to cart“Friedkin’s book does the unthinkable: It relates the behind-the-scenes stories of his triumphs like The French Connection and The Exorcist, but also sees Friedkin take responsibility (brutally so) fo
- Author: Friedkin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: 1-Apr-14
- ISBN10: 0061775142
- Language: English
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West with the Night: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time
Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contempora- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22, 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477639
- Language: English
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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
$28.00 Read moreA searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.
“Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola M- Author: Mahfouz, Sola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593359763
- Language: English
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 Add to cartCalled “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.
Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the- Series: The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 22-Feb-22
- ISBN10: 125082978X
- Language: English
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Rebel Rising: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.
For d- Author: Wilson, Rebel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 2-Apr-24
- ISBN10: 1668007207
- Language: English
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Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
$29.00 Add to cartA Belletrist Book Pick for December 2023
Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman’s formative experiences as a veritable “lab rat” in a lifelong- Author: Breslin, Susannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: 7-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 0306926008
- Language: English
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True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartOn May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to land. She had done it. She was the youngest person t… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1451616317
- Language: English
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
$29.00 Add to cartA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mothe… [more below]
- Author: Nguon, Chantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1643753495
- Language: English
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Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color
$19.99 Read moreWitchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists, and there is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja. Brujas chronicles the magical lives o… [more below]
- Author: Monteagut, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609958
- Language: English
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Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
$17.95 Add to cartThe early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collectio- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Wang, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1635901928
- Language: English
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Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation
$29.00 Read moreIn this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way.
As the- Author: Cooper, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593473183
- Language: English
