Autobiographies
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My Road from Damascus: A Memoir
$22.95 Read more“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written w
- Author: Saeed, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416218
- Language: English
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreA compelling memoir–“hilarious and heartbreaking” (The New York Times)–of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family in Ukraine fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shatte… [more below]
- Author: Golinkin, Lev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0345806336
- Language: English
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As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography
$15.99 Read moreIn this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.
Imbued with tender- Author: Harchi, Kaoutar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422841
- Language: English
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My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington
$50.00 Read moreThis magnificent and delightful memoir brings to life a sparkling era of American history and culture.
- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Stevens, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0813195241
- Language: English
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Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
$18.95 Read moreFINALIST – Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction
WINNER – 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prizes for Nonfiction FINALIST – Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction An unforgettable com- Series: Truth to Power
- Author: Mooney, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423460
- Language: English
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community
$24.95 Read moreHelen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington’s 26th vote to lonely voice agai
- Author: Shiller, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598429
- Language: English
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Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
$28.99 Read moreA The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today’s best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington- Author: Bonneville, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423422
- Language: English
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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
$25.00 Read morePAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS
Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the world’s ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story. Richard Branson’s- Author: Branson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0735219605
- Language: English
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Mirrors and Other Reflections
$20.00 Add to cartMirrors is a collection of interconnected essays that recount the author’s being adopted as a young child and then spending his boyhood growing up in rural Louisiana. He writes candidly about his trou… [more below]
- Author: Armand, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1946160962
- Language: English
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La Vergüenza
$12.95 Read moreUna escena familiar, y sus consecuencias perturbadoras, diseccionadas por la autora que ha hecho de su vida materia literaria.
En 1952, cuando Annie Ernaux tenÃa doce años, su padre quiso matar a su
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6070796373
- Language: Spanish
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Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
$22.99 Read morePart memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women.
With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colorism and mental health, and- Author: Dhaliwal, Sharan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1784884391
- Language: English
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
$29.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER
The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession‘s Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotla- Author: Cox, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1538707292
- Language: English
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Dwyane
$35.00 Read moreThe long-awaited photographic memoir from basketball superstar Dwyane Wade, beautifully designed with hundreds of photos from Wade’s life on and off the court.
“[A] trip down memory lane with one of th
- Author: Wade, Dwyane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062968351
- Language: English
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Whispers from the Valley of the Yak: A Memoir of Coming Full Circle
$17.95 Read moreJackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China… [more below]
- Author: Lenox Tuxill, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425492
- Language: English
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Jennie’s Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics
$19.95 Read more** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **
The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious gr- Author: Johnston, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423622
- Language: English
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Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville
$17.00 Read moreNashville native Drew Bratcher writes musically about memory and memorably about music in uncommonly beautiful essays that announce the arrival of a major new voice. The title essay, a requiem in frag… [more below]
- Author: Bratcher, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388496
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
$22.95 Read moreA “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-- Author: Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1517904978
- Language: English
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Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist’s Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System
$18.95 Add to cartPsychotherapist Michael Pond is no stranger to the devastating consequences of alcoholism. He has helped hundreds of people conquer their addictions, but this knowledge did not prevent his own near-de… [more below]
- Author: Pond, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771641967
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
$0.00 Read moreMary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already “a Classic in his lifetime,” struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan- Author: Trevelyan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0374203180
- Language: English
