Personal Memoirs
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A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
$21.99 Add to cart“Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about–an exploration of family history an… [more below]
- Author: Tan, Cheryl Lu-Lien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1401341284
- Language: English
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Misty: My Journey Through Volleyball and Life
$18.99 Add to cartThe passionate, poignant, and triumphant story of two-time Olympic gold medal-winning beach volleyball icon Misty May-Treanor.
More than any Olympics in history, the 2008 Beijing Summer Games captured- Author: May-Treanor, Misty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1439148554
- Language: English
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Sliding Into Home
$18.99 Add to cartThe former The Girls Next Door favorite and the current star of the E! hit series Kendra bares all in this funny, fresh, fish-out-of-water memoir that captures the spirit of one of the most beloved Pl… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Kendra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 143918092X
- Language: English
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After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
$17.99 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope’
GUARDIAN, ‘Books to Give You Hope’ ‘- Author: Schloss, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1444760718
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music’s Most Maligned Tribes
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Music Books of 2013When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take … [more below]
- Author: Rabin, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1451626886
- Language: English
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Late to the Ball: A Journey Into Tennis and Aging
$19.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author attempts to become a nationally competitive tennis player–at the age of sixty–in this “soulful meditation on aging, companionship, and the power of self-improvement” (The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Marzorati, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 147673741X
- Language: English
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Short Hair Detention: Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide
$20.99 Add to cartIn April 1975, Channy Chhi Laux was a happy thirteen-year-old girl who was excited to start a new school year. But as news reports announced that the Khmer Rouge was getting closer to taking control o
- Author: Laux, Channy Chhi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: December 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1480852937
- Language: English
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Sog: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
$19.99 Add to cartJohn Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feelin… [more below]
- Author: Plaster, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 150118346X
- Language: English
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The Life Swap: A True Story
$13.99 Add to cartIn February of 1973, Nancy Weber put an ad in the Village Voice offering to trade places with another woman, a stranger, for a month. In hopes of better understanding what was fixed and final in each … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1504015355
- Language: English
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J. Gresham Machen
$35.00 Add to cartJohn Gresham Machen (1881″€”1937) was one of the most significant figures in the evangelical church throughout the twentieth century. He is best known through his vision for a truly evangelical p… [more below]
- Author: Stonehouse, Ned B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1848718748
- Language: English
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Searching for Mom: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartSearching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled
- Author: Easterly, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0578601958
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Monique: Requiem for a Brief Marriage
$15.00 Add to cartWell-known New Mexico author, John Nichols, recounts the four-year marriage of his French mother and American father during World War II. Married in Paris, France, David and Monique struggle between 1
- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0940875128
- Language: English
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Steve & Me
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life. Leaving behind her wildlife rescue work in Oregon, Terri traveled to Australia, and there, at a small wildlife … [more below]
- Author: Irwin, Terri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1416954740
- Language: English
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Here We Are: To Migrate to America… It’s the Boldest Act of One’s Life
$19.99 Add to cartHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namde
- Author: Shahani, Aarti Namdev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1250204747
- Language: English
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains
$18.00 Add to cartIn this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that need… [more below]
- Author: Neumann, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982106387
- Language: English
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The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
$17.00 Add to cartThis genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psyc
- Author: Harvey, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148832
- Language: English
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Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreAn “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and cr- Author: Levin, Daniel Barban
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593138856
- Language: English
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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir, but it’s also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos. . .“—The New York Times Boo- Author: Cho, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798280
- Language: English
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Reading the Water: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood, and Finding Strength in Nature
$27.95 Add to cart“A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters… A heartfelt, beautifully written celebration of the wonders of nature and comfort of family” (Kirkus STARRED)
Fishing was Mark Hume’s pas- Author: Hume, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1771645695
- Language: English
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A Teardrop on a Rose
$28.95 Add to cartOne woman’s inspired idea would help bring about a change in sexual equality unlike any the world had seen before.
A Teardrop on a Rose tells the emotionally gripping true story of how fate brought one
- Author: Lambert, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: March 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1735223131
- Language: English
