Biography & Autobiography
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Cousteau: El Descubridor de Los Mares
$22.95HardcoverAdd to cartThis volume tells the story of Jacques Cousteau, the legendary explorer who discovered the wonders of the underwater world, so close to our lives up to then, and yet so unknown. This exciting epic is … [more below]
- Series: Genios de la Ciencia
- Author: Zwick Eby, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8417137327
- Language: Spanish
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By: Enss, Chris
Daughters of Daring: Hollywood Cowgirl Stunt Women
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cartDiscover the untold stories of the bold women who rode harder, roped faster, and stole the spotlight in early Hollywood.
Since the famous “first” western movie, The Great Train Robbery, starring Bronc- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 149308786X
- Language: English
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By: Evans, Virginia
The Youngest Bee: A Louisiana Story of Sisterhood, Strength, and Alzheimer’s
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartComing of age in the late 1970s/early 1980s in Louisiana, Virginia Evans describes an idyllic childhood filled with summer camps, shopping trips, LSU football games, and her parents’ annual elaborate
- Author: Evans, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1954493851
- Language: English
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Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cart“This book doesn’t offer easy answers, but it offers something better–a way of seeing our shared vulnerability as the starting point for understanding what’s breaking and what still might be saved.&#… [more below]
- Author: Boissoneault, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0807017558
- Language: English
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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By: McKinsey, Mike
I Held the Hand of Jesus in Heaven
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhat if your deepest childhood prayer was answered forty years later in the most extraordinary way imaginable?
Mike McKinsey was a typical construction superintendent-until a ruptured appendix brought
- Author: McKinsey, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1968891870
- Language: English
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By: Sluga, Brian
The Shriek I Do Remember: Winning The Race Of Life And Other Stories
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartWhen Brian Sluga was on his junior college cross-country team, he felt unbeatable. The team had a shot at making the national meet, but Brian was confronted by an opponent he never saw coming. Cancer.
- Author: Sluga, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1965341160
- Language: English
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The House on 9th Line: A Memoir of Grief and the End of a Family
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe House on 9th Line is a raw and deeply personal memoir about love, loss, and the unravelling of a family bound by tradition but broken by silence, favouritism, and emotional wounds left unhealed.
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- Author: Bangay, Aaron R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1069853305
- Language: English
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By: Luzzi, Joseph
In a Dark Wood: A Memoir
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident–in one terrible instant, Luzz
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0062357522
- Language: English
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By: Quaid, Amanda
No Obvious Distress: A John Murray Original
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising’ Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month
‘Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings’ Sarah Ruhl ‘- Author: Quaid, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399824562
- Language: English
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By: Mojica, Carlos
Goal!: Awesome Soccer Stories and Fun Facts for Kids
$19.99HardcoverAdd to cartLearn all about the world’s most popular sport in this fun and vibrant guide to soccer.
Are you a budding soccer star? Or perhaps a superfan of the sport? This young reader’s guide to all things socce- Author: Mojica, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1577157095
- Language: English
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By: Levy, Deborah
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
$27.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her frien- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0374602077
- Language: English
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By: Leith, Prue
Being Old…and Learning to Love It!
$24.99HardcoverAdd to cartSo much more than a memoir, this a spirited canter through Prue’s musings on the triumphs, trials and tribulations of ageing well. Including health, beauty, fashion, business, work, widowhood and find… [more below]
- Author: Leith, Prue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1804193747
- Language: English
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By: Watts, Naomi
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known about Menopause
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “refreshingly real” (People) guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness–with a foreword by Mary Claire… [more below]
- Author: Watts, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593729056
- Language: English
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By: Cook, Corinna
Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
$22.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs–a legacy of government regulation over Ind
- Series: In Place
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1959000705
- Language: English
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One Pocket
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn the summer of 1956, as a ten-year-old black kid living in Michigan, my family placed me on a train bound for Mississippi to visit relatives. My time there allowed me to visit my birthplace, reconne
- Author: Rucker, Joseph William, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994030608
- Language: English
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Glitz & Grit: Beyond the Spotlight: Falling, Rising and Reinventing
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartGlitz & Grit: Beyond the Spotlight is a powerful memoir of resilience, reinvention, and life beyond elite performance. Spanning 22 countries and more than two decades of international touring, former
- Author: Reeves Beleznay, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: January 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9699893877
- Language: English
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Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartWhat is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions–as well as the common
- Author: Boylan, Jennifer Finney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1250382483
- Language: English
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By: Mirvis, Tova
The Book of Separation: A Memoir
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family- Author: Mirvis, Tova
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1328477878
- Language: English
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Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan: Man of Joy and Hope
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis definitive biography of the heroic life of Servant of God Cardinal Thuan is told by his sister ?lisabeth, with Father Stefaan Lecleir, in the context of his family life, priesthood, and prison l
- Author: Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, Élisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1621647374
- Language: English




















