Personal Memoirs
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
$17.95 Read moreA na?e lesbian teen in Texas is drawn into a group of Hassidic Jews with their offers of refuge from her troubled family and promises of eternal love. She becomes one of them, but ultimately, as a for… [more below]
- Author: Lax, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1631529951
- Language: English
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Way Down: Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors and More: The Autobiography of Jerry Scheff
$29.12 Add to cartIn this candid and perceptive memoir of his 45-year career, bassist Jerry Scheff takes us onto Elvis’s private jet, on tour with Bob Dylan, and into the studio with The Doors. A stalwart presence behi… [more below]
- Author: Scheff, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 161713032X
- Language: English
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The Application of Impossible Things: A Near Death Experience in Iraq
$14.00 Read moreThis is an amazing true story of a female civilian employee of the Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah and Nasiriyah, Iraq. She was riding in a truck with other men when a roadside bomb destroyed the ve
- Author: Sudman, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 30 2012
- ISBN10: 188694024X
- Language: English
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Nobody Cares: Essays
$17.00 Read more“The internet’s best friend.” — Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the… [more below]
- Author: Donahue, Anne T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1770414231
- Language: English
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Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist’s Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System
$18.95 Add to cartPsychotherapist Michael Pond is no stranger to the devastating consequences of alcoholism. He has helped hundreds of people conquer their addictions, but this knowledge did not prevent his own near-de… [more below]
- Author: Pond, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771641967
- Language: English
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House Lessons: Renovating a Life
$16.95 Read moreFrom New York Times Bestselling Author Erica Bauermeister comes a memoir about the power of home and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular.
“I think anyone who saves an old house- Author: Bauermeister, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173867
- Language: English
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My Inner Sky: On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between
$22.00 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky–twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn–that serves as a loyal companion f… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0143135244
- Language: English
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Over Our Dead Bodies:: Undertakers Lift the Lid
$15.95 Read moreWith humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach’s Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission t… [more below]
- Author: McKenzie, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0806541415
- Language: English
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You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir
$28.00 Read moreFrom the publisher of Pipette Magazine, discover a natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion–and falling in love.
It was Rachel Signer’s dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled- Author: Signer, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0306924749
- Language: English
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To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope
$16.99 Add to cartHow do we heal today’s grief and loss to become the leaders the world needs now? Activist Jen Bailey offers heartfelt letters of encouragement, comfort, revelation, and hope for young activists and em… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0827237278
- Language: English
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En La Casa de Los Suenos
$25.95 Read more- Author: Machado, Carmen Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 8433980904
- Language: Spanish
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The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective
$19.99 Add to cartAfter years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will never forget.
Retired detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto’s homicide squad for over a decade. For
- Author: Ryan, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1459749731
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
$24.95 Read moreA laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age
- Author: Notaro, Laurie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542033519
- Language: English
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Strip: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew … [more below]
- Author: Sward, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1948954672
- Language: English
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Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
$0.00 Read moreMary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already “a Classic in his lifetime,” struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan- Author: Trevelyan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0374203180
- Language: English
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Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir
$20.99 Add to cartTHE “FEARLESS … VIVID … FAST-PACED … AND INSPIRING”* NATIONAL BESTSELLER (*ROLLING STONE)
“Heavy metal’s leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory
- Author: Ford, Lita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062270656
- Language: English
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I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: My Life as a Co-Star
$20.00 Add to cartThis is Judy Greer’s story, from her self-described childhood as “Ugly Judy” in suburban Detroit-ish, Michigan, to trying out for drama school to get even with her frenemy, and then breaking into movi
- Author: Greer, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0345806735
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Add to cartA funny, generous, wonderfully written account of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain–from the first drummer of the rock band Genesis.
No sooner had Chris Stewart- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Stewart, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375709150
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
$30.00 Add to cartGathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section … [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0375711767
- Language: English
