Memoirs
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The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir
$21.00 Add to cart“Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” -Lao Tzu
In 1920s Detroit, King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’ laundry business, where sh
- Author: Jensen, Karin K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897409709
- Language: English
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The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartA sequel to the author’s critically acclaimed Delphinium title, One of These Things First, The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls is a poison-pen, love letter to the end of an era–Manhattan … [more below]
- Author: Gaines, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1953002420
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons–the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives–evoke a lifetime’s … [more below]
- Series: At Table
- Author: Fussell, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803220979
- Language: English
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What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Dr. Kwane Stewart, CNN’s Hero of the Year for 2023.
Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian s
- Author: Stewart, Kwane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063215837
- Language: English
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Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy
$28.99 Add to cartWhen a hereditary cancer threat echoes her mother’s journey, one woman chooses to rewrite her story–crafting a radiant memoir about embracing life’s precious moments and finding strength in the infin
- Author: Graham Charkosky, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1662532202
- Language: English
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How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
$22.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely transformative” (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family–sustenance and survival–from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust surv… [more below]
- Author: Reichert, Bonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0593599187
- Language: English
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A Brambleton Girl’s Tale
$19.99 Add to cartAgainst all odds, a young woman rises from the struggles of teenage motherhood and loss, transforming her life through education and resilience. Her journey inspires others to fight for a brighter fut
- Author: Martin, Kobe L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318818424
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an iti
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993537
- Language: English
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Extra Sauce: The Good, the Bad, and the Onions
$32.00 Read moreA raw and raucous memoir from chef and writer Zahra Tangorra about the great meals and great loves of her life, reflecting on family, friendship, grief, and the solace that can be found through food
Ex… [more below]- Author: Tangorra, Zahra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593733371
- Language: English
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On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites
$30.00 Read moreWith lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world.
As- Author: Kennedy, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836335
- Language: English
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Where the Silence Ends: Echoes of a Childhood
$19.99 Add to cartA powerful journey of resilience unfolds as a young boy navigates the shadows of mental illness and violence, ultimately transforming pain into purpose through education and empathy, proving that our
- Author: Malach, Carol W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318814501
- Language: English
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Fall to Pieces PB
$19.99 Add to cartOn the surface Mary Weiland had a fairy tale life. She was a successful model married to a successful rock star–Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland–and a world traveler wi
- Author: Weiland, Mary Forsberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0061719161
- Language: English
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It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect: A Memoir
$30.00 Read moreFolk musician, Broadway composer, and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea’s warm, funny, poignant memoir is a love letter to every kind of body, to music, and to making it work–inviting us to embrace all… [more below]
- Author: Lea, Gaelynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1643756435
- Language: English
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
$19.00 Add to cart
“Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST – “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”–The Washington Post- Author: Foer, Esther Safran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575995
- Language: English
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What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation
$30.00 Read more“This book is everything a reader could want. It will crack your whole heart open.”–Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises and Women We Buried, Women We Burned
Two decades after her father… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1335449396
- Language: English
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood
$22.00 Add to cartMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life
Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there- Author: Pierce, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149532
- Language: English
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Your Mother’s Story
$13.99 Add to cartYour Mother’s Story – A Guided Journal to Preserve a Lifetime of Love and Wisdom
Honor the heart of your family with Your Mother’s Story, a beautifully designed guided journal created to help mothers
- Author: Piccadilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1488975132
- Language: English
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Moving to My Dog’s Hometown: Stories of Everything I Didn’t Know I Wanted
$18.99 Add to cartBetsy Vereckey was thirty-seven and newly divorced when she rerouted her life from New York City to a tiny town in New Hampshire she knew virtually nothing about . . . except that it was her dog’s hom
- Author: Vereckey, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: January 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1578692040
- Language: English
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When We’re Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning anc… [more below]
- Author: Rabins, Alicia Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593702166
- Language: English
