Personal Memoirs
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A Head Full of Music: The Soundtrack to My Life
$34.99 Read moreForeword by Bob Stanley
On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked ca- Author: Richard, Cliff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1529907357
- Language: English
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Daddy’s Girl: A Father, His Daughter, and the Deadly Battle She Won
$19.99 Add to cartHow does a young mother overcome an 8 percent chance of living to raise her newborn son? She becomes a warrior and provides hope for others. Daddy’s Girl is the story of a father, his daughter, and th
- Author: Schnabel, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 195645036X
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and se- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0316259586
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$8.95 Add to cart“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”–MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very spec- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531787
- Language: English
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East Side Dreams
$18.95 Add to cartEast Side Dreams is an award winning, inspirational book. As you read, you will experience with the author, Art Rodriguez, the difficult time he had growing up, partly dealing with his dictatorial fat… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0967155568
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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Before There Was An After
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful and emotional mother and son memoir that recounts their seven year journey through his heroin addiction and multiple attempts at recovery. Honest, heartbreaking and revealing they share the
- Author: Davis, Gerad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988398806
- Language: English
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A Very Private School: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Ve- Author: Spencer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1668046385
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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Irma: The Education of a Mother’s Son
$25.99 Add to cartA son’s lessons from his single mother–a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own–from the author of the acclaimed The Ac
- Author: McDonell, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063277972
- Language: English
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Rafa
$19.99 Add to cartIn his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, tennis star Rafael Nadal reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success.
What makes a champ… [more below]- Author: Nadal, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1401310923
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“Worsley offers us much that Austen’s admirers wish to know…with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.” –Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799961
- Language: English
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Coal Miner’s Daughter
$9.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry –… [more below]
- Author: Lynn, Loretta
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701707
- Language: English
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Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life
$22.00 Add to cartA dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman’s transformation from college student to professional dominatrix
While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as- Author: Febos, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0312583788
- Language: English
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Trial And (Mostly) Error: How To Grow Through What You Go Through
$15.95 Add to cartDo you ever look back on your life and wonder, What the hell was I thinking? If so, good for you! As a self-proclaimed black sheep with a rebel heart, Laura relates to so many in her debut compilation
- Author: Young, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887633077
- Language: English
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
$27.00 Add to cartA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
A seed slips bey- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221788
- Language: English
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Unafraid: Staring Down Terror as a Navy SEAL and Single Dad
$26.99 Add to cartHot Wash noun: The review held after military training and real-world operations facilitating growth and improvement; an honest evaluation of strengths and weaknesses
As a special operator in the US
- Author: Penney, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1544532881
- Language: English
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Yellowstone Ranger: Stories from a Life in Yellowstone
$36.33 Add to cartJerry Mernin’s distinguished career in the National Park Service spanned four decades, five national parks, and a remarkable 32-year stay in Yellowstone, the park he loved and never left. In his long-… [more below]
- Author: Mernin, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1606390902
- Language: English
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
$18.99 Add to cartIn this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the d… [more below]
- Author: Trump, Mary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982141476
- Language: English
