Autobiographies
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
$28.00 Read moreA stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here o… [more below]
- Author: Shields, Aomawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593299183
- Language: English
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Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
$22.95 Add to cart“Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings–the nonhuman animals as well as the human.”–Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023
For readers of R- Author: Beauchemin, Jean-François
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1771649321
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1668015544
- Language: English
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Tastes Like War: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartA powerful account of a Korean American daughter’s exploration of food and family history to understand her mother’s schizophrenia.
- Author: Cho, Grace M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1952177944
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$27.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953534678
- Language: English
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Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
$22.95 Add to cartOn May 12, 2015, Amtrak 188 derailed outside of Philadelphia going 106 miles per hour. Eight passengers were killed and many more severely injured. Geralyn Ritter was thrown from the train with such f… [more below]
- Author: Ritter, Geralyn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1950465551
- Language: English
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A Life with Ghosts: True, Terrifying, and Insightful Tales from My Favorite Haunts
$29.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The debut book from paranormal investigator and Ghost Hunters TV star Steve Gonsalves! Steve Gonsalves–already considered to be one of the top paranormal investigators in the wo- Author: Gonsalves, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1668008327
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir
$27.95 Read moreAt five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father’s abandonment, which left her feeling unworthy of a man’s love and
- Author: Zook, Kristal Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 1478017198
- Language: English
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Omega Farm: A Memoir
$28.00 Read more*A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023*
“Compelling… [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good.” —The Washington Post A moving me- Author: McPhee, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1982197994
- Language: English
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Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
$24.95 Add to cart“One hell of a ride.”–Nick Offerman, actor, woodworker, New York Times bestselling author
“Candid and often moving reflections . . . make for absorbing reading. . . . [This is] a memoir of a journey
- Author: Anderson, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022234
- Language: English
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Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story
$18.95 Add to cartA sensitive and heart warming story of how a little girl in Gaza finds strength and hope through her painting. Sitti’s Bird is a unique children’s picture book, written and illustrated by Palestinian
- Author: Mattar, Malak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718252
- Language: English
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When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreIn this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult–and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving t… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Guinevere
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593237595
- Language: English
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Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth
$30.00 Add to cartThe actress, activist, and once infamous Playboy Playmate reclaims the narrative of her life in a memoir that defies expectation in both content and approach, blending searing prose with snippets of o
- Author: Anderson, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063226561
- Language: English
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
$16.99 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction
“…an essential and engaging look at recent disability history.”– Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US hist- Author: Heumann, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0807002801
- Language: English
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About Ed
$18.95 Add to cartA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ scene.
Bob Gl?k met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist- Author: Gluck, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377764
- Language: English
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Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
$17.00 Add to cart“This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along fo
- Author: Purnell, Brontez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0374612692
- Language: English
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By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship (a Memoir)
$35.00 Add to cartThe internet’s favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life’s daily rituals.
Florian Gadsby has dev- Author: Gadsby, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1984863584
- Language: English
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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
$29.00 Add to cart“Phenomenal…. A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose…. This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”–Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author o
- Author: Lawson, Shayla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593472586
- Language: English
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Funeral for Flaca
$14.00 Add to cartFuneral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found-love, identity, family-and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.
Emilly Prado retraces her experience comin
- Author: Prado, Emilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1892061872
- Language: English
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Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!”–America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty
From the New York T- Author: Sánchez, Erika L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593296958
- Language: English
