Personal Memoirs
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
$17.00 Read more“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseveranc… [more below]
- Author: Stewart Johnson, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1101904836
- Language: English
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
$29.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER
The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession‘s Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotla- Author: Cox, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1538707292
- Language: English
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
$19.95 Read more“For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this bo… [more below]
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765097
- Language: English
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Dwyane
$35.00 Read moreThe long-awaited photographic memoir from basketball superstar Dwyane Wade, beautifully designed with hundreds of photos from Wade’s life on and off the court.
“[A] trip down memory lane with one of th
- Author: Wade, Dwyane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062968351
- Language: English
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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN/Jerard Award
“[A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir.” – Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book- Author: Nguyen, Bich Minh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113038
- Language: English
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Chosen by a Horse
$17.99 Add to cart“Two kindred spirits find each other in this beautifully written memoir about the human-animal bond” (Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation).
The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn… [more below]
- Author: Richards, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0156031175
- Language: English
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Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie Event available on streaming platforms. Front of the Class is now in paperback for the first time and includes a new epilogue.
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Br- Author: Cohen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0312571399
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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Paris to the Moon
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The finest book on France in recent years.”–Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comfort- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758232
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
$19.00 Read moreThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea.
Long regarded as Africa’s preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-- Author: Laye, Camara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1954
- ISBN10: 080901548X
- Language: English
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Tribute to Freud
$16.95 Add to cart“My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent ther… [more below]
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220044
- Language: English
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When Love Broke Through
$14.99 Read moreWhat do you do when life does not got the way you planned? How do you stay optimistic amidst a major health crisis? These are the kinds of questions that are asked and answered as Nicole takes the rea… [more below]
- Author: Body, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1946466832
- Language: English
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The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town
$24.95 Read moreGraffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah. Located just south of Tooele, acros
- Author: Lottridge, Stephen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1647691451
- Language: English
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Basketball Junkie
$20.00 Read moreIn his own words, former NBA and overseas pro Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, this remarkab
- Author: Herren, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250006899
- Language: English
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Whispers from the Valley of the Yak: A Memoir of Coming Full Circle
$17.95 Read moreJackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China… [more below]
- Author: Lenox Tuxill, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425492
- Language: English
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Hand on My Heart: A Canadian Doctor’s Awakening in Afghanistan
$19.00 Read moreCanadian physician Maureen Mayhew returns to her time spent working in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan in an honest and heartfelt examination of our own cultural assumptions around gender, tradition, and… [more below]
- Author: Mayhew, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1773861026
- Language: English
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After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
$19.00 Read moreOn the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the V駘odrome d’Hiver stadium, before b
- Author: Weismann, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066484
- Language: English
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Jennie’s Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics
$19.95 Read more** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **
The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious gr- Author: Johnston, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423622
- Language: English
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It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
$16.00 Read moreA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
- Author: Williams, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566567890
- Language: English
