Autobiographies
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter: Football’s Impact on an NFL Player’s Body and Soul
$35.00 Read moreAfter his release from the Green Bay Packers, realizing that his football career was abruptly over, Delvin Williams asked himself some hard questions: What happened to the game he fell in love with a
- Series: Swaim-Paup Sports Series, Sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra
- Author: Williams, Delvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430716
- Language: English
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Xoxy: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)
$20.95 Add to cartAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 2021 STONEWALL HONOR BOOK
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an interna- Author: Zieselman, Kimberly M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1785928376
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pie
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read- Author: Lee, Jen Sookfong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0771025211
- Language: English
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Higher Ground: My American Dreams and Nightmares in the Hidden Halls of Academia
$28.00 Read moreWhen Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, “I do not want to be poor!” Her mother replied: “Then go to school and be a good student. This
- Author: Katehi, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1684017238
- Language: English
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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
$26.00 Read moreA photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evok
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Suleiman, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634817
- Language: English
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Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse
$19.95 Add to cartAlbert Einstein said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpé’s mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this l
- Author: Wolpé, Sholeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1682261980
- Language: English
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and with a new afterword
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision
- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063079437
- Language: English
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Enjoy Me Among My Ruins
$15.95 Read moreCombining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Juniper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 155861382X
- Language: English
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An Unplanned Life: A Memoir
$33.82 Read moreA major autobiography of a remarkable life that broke down racial barriers, transformed institutions, and energized the struggle for justice, by the former president of the Ford Foundation
“Frank has- Author: Thomas, Franklin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977575
- Language: English
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Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
$18.00 Read moreFrom the legendary author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat a volume of essays on everything from primordial life and the mysteries of the brain to the ancient ginkgo and the power of the writ… [more below]
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1101972327
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
$24.95 Read moreFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-bor
- Author: Bacho, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749776
- Language: English
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Warrior: My Path to Being Brave
$28.00 Read moreLisa Guerrero chronicles her iconic career–from dealing with harassment as a sports broadcaster to chasing “bad guys” for Inside Edition–and proves that through small, daily acts, bravery is a muscl… [more below]
- Author: Guerrero, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0306829495
- Language: English
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This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community–A Life in Streetwear
$28.00 Read moreThe story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself
Streetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine “cool” coexists with big business; wh- Author: Hundreds, Bobby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0374275793
- Language: English
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Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir
$17.95 Add to cart“Skate, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll “–Kat Von D, LA Ink
Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death
Forward by Tony Hawk- Author: Novak, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0806538287
- Language: English
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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
$19.00 Add to cartFrom iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore–a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.
F- Author: Anthony, Carmelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982160608
- Language: English
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Lebron: Life Lessons from the King
$19.99 Read moreA biographical account featuring the secrets to success from one of the greatest basketball players of all time: LeBron James
“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” His power, speed, and killer in- Author: Boone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250282152
- Language: English
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Archive Activism: Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey
$34.95 Read moreArchive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history–by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missin… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419080
- Language: English
