Personal Memoirs
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
$16.95 Add to cartA gripping and ultimately redemptive story full of surprises, plot twists, and you-can’t-believe-it’s-true moments, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a testament to a mother’s enduring love-but it’s… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Laura L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 164742349X
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Whisperers: Cooking with the Wisdom of Our Friends
$17.99 Add to cartA beautifully written tribute to the people who teach us to cook and guide our hands in the kitchen, by a founding editor of Saveur.
“[The book features] many of the culinary names [Kalins] worked with
- Author: Kalins, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063001659
- Language: English
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Tour de Force: My History-Making Tour de France
$16.99 Read moreFrom illness and mental health challenges to becoming the most successful British cyclist at the age of 22, Mark Cavendish shares his inspiring account of his record-breaking rise to the top of the wo
- Author: Cavendish, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1728265312
- Language: English
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison–Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Eff
$17.99 Add to cartThe Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. “544 Days” is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24.
The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held host
- Author: Rezaian, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691589
- Language: English
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Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller
A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Netwo
- Author: Drummond, Ree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062962817
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
$16.00 Read moreDON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH–NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely es- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0525534164
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy
$18.00 Read moreAn intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time
“Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth readi- Author: Kronman, Anthony T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271069
- Language: English
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Local: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreA powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.
Born and raised in Hawai’i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land
- Author: Machado, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542027322
- Language: English
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Part cookbook, part memoir, these “rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales” (USA Today) are the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s loving tribute to the South, his family and,… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1400032695
- Language: English
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American Junkie
$16.95 Read moreA non-stop trip into one man’s land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame, as he sells drugs during the Seattle grunge years.
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen maps his her- Author: Hansen, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1593766645
- Language: English
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Bishop J. C. Ryle’s Autobiography
$30.00 Read moreJohn Charles Ryle (1816-1900), first Bishop of Liverpool, was one of the most influential evangelical clergymen of the nineteenth century. A popular platform speaker and prolific tract writer, his boo… [more below]
- Author: Ryle, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1848716869
- Language: English
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Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir about What Happens After a Miracle
$29.00 Read moreThe incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.
On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day… [more below]- Author: Day, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701839
- Language: English
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Poetic License: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreAt age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she … [more below]
- Author: Cherington, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1631527118
- Language: English
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The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast
$22.95 Read moreThere are five layers of the ocean, though most of us will only ever see one. The deepest layer is the midnight zone, where the only light comes from bioluminescence, created by animals who live there… [more below]
- Author: Emerick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0870710796
- Language: English
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Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain
$24.95 Read moreThe moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father’s death from Alzheimer’s.
Winner of the Memoir Prize for Books by the Memoir Magazin
- Author: Weinstein, Cindy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1421441268
- Language: English
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Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China
$30.00 Read more“THE BOOK CHINA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO READ.” –CNN
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New- Author: Shum, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982156155
- Language: English
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Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
$27.00 Read more“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
–Mindy K… [more below]- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0593184904
- Language: English
