Autobiographies
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By: Marcade, Phil
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
$15.95PaperbackRead moreAn intimate account of Paris-born author Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States, where-after drifting from Boston to the West Coast and back-he wound up in New York City and became deeply… [more below]
- Author: Marcade, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941110495
- Language: English
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Stray: A Memoir
$16.00PaperbackRead moreFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.
After selling- Author: Danler, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911875
- Language: English
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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story
$26.95HardcoverRead moreThe first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman.
“I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”
— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs ha- Author: Haitiwaji, Gulbahar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211483
- Language: English
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By: Engel, Laura L.
You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA gripping and ultimately redemptive story full of surprises, plot twists, and you-can’t-believe-it’s-true moments, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a testament to a mother’s enduring love-but it’s… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Laura L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 164742349X
- Language: English
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
$17.00PaperbackRead moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges–and rewards–of finding one’s way in the… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059349685X
- Language: English
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By: Compton, Todd
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
$39.95HardcoverRead morePlural marriage in the Nauvoo era of LDS Church history has long been a fascinating subject. To understand it fully requires one to look at it from the perspective of the man who introduced it, but ju… [more below]
- Author: Compton, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1560854480
- Language: English
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By: Faliks, Inna
Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage
$32.95HardcoverRead moreBefore she knew she was Ukrainian, Soviet, or Jewish, Inna Faliks knew she was a musician. Growing up in the city of Odessa, the piano became her best friend, and she explored the brilliant, intricate
- Author: Faliks, Inna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071742
- Language: English
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By: Hansen, Tom
American Junkie
$16.95PaperbackRead moreA non-stop trip into one man’s land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame, as he sells drugs during the Seattle grunge years.
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen maps his her- Author: Hansen, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1593766645
- Language: English
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Poetic License: A Memoir
$16.95PaperbackRead moreAt age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she … [more below]
- Author: Cherington, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1631527118
- Language: English
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By: Day, Daniel R.
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hust… [more below]
- Author: Day, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510532
- Language: English
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By: Shum, Desmond
Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China
$30.00HardcoverRead more“THE BOOK CHINA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO READ.” –CNN
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New- Author: Shum, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982156155
- Language: English
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The Good Fight
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color–a work of immense historical importance
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 006316082X
- Language: English
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By: Baldwin, Caspar
Not Just a Tomboy: A Trans Masculine Memoir
$22.95PaperbackRead moreLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019
‘Strong, powerful and a valuable resource’ – Fox Fisher
This is the story of one trans man’s exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultura- Author: Baldwin, Caspar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 21 2018
- ISBN10: 178592463X
- Language: English
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By: Fraser, Matt
When Heaven Calls: Life Lessons from America’s Top Psychic Medium
$26.00HardcoverRead moreAmerica’s top psychic medium reflects on his life of speaking to Spirit and the lessons he’s learned along the way–from both the living and the dead.
People who are not in the habit of talking with t- Author: Fraser, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982140054
- Language: English
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By: Shulevitz, Uri
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood
$34.99HardcoverRead moreWinner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older Readers
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2020
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
Booklist- Author: Shulevitz, Uri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374313717
- Language: English
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
$39.95PaperbackRead moreIn 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous So… [more below]
- Author: Sutzkever, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0228008999
- Language: English
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Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
$87.07HardcoverRead moreThe battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg High Sch
- Author: Thomas, June Manning
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1643362593
- Language: English
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A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic
$30.00HardcoverRead moreThe captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic from the 1960s to the 1980s is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration, from Jane Goodall’s first assignment to the disco… [more below]
- Author: Grosvenor, Gilbert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1426221533
- Language: English
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No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir
$14.95PaperbackRead moreA powerful memoir about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery.
Growing up, Lisa Nikolidakis tried to make sense of
- Author: Nikolidakis, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542037700
- Language: English
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By: Johnson, Jimmie
One More Lap: Jimmie Johnson and the #48
$48.00HardcoverRead moreCelebrating the astonishing career and life of American race-car driver and consecutive NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson.
In the storied history of NASCAR auto racing, American race-car drive- Author: Johnson, Jimmie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0847872017
- Language: English



