Personal Memoirs
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
$19.99 Read more‘Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It’s a personal journey which becomes univers
- Author: Rogers, Jude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1474622941
- Language: English
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Around the World in Black and White: Traveling as a Biracial, Blended Family
$17.95 Read moreWhen Alana Best and her husband, Roland, decided to travel for a year with their kids, she imagined soaking in sunsets over foreign lands, marveling at monuments she had only read about in books, and … [more below]
- Author: Best, Alana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 164742531X
- Language: English
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Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts
$18.00 Read moreThe CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist offers a path to navigating the toxic division in our culture without compromising our convictions and emotional well-being, based on her exper… [more below]
- Author: Powers, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238257
- Language: English
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Into the Inferno: A Photographer’s Journey Through California’s Megafires and Fallout
$16.99 Read moreIn the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a l
- Author: Palley, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798212184731
- Language: English
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We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor’s Story
$16.99 Read more“This memoir is brutally honest… Wonderful!” – Russell T. Davies
Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride.
Paul Burston wasn’t always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London
- Author: Burston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662501056
- Language: English
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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
$26.00 Read moreA photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evok
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Suleiman, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634817
- Language: English
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond
$17.00 Read moreThe football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in t… [more below]
- Author: Oher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1592406386
- Language: English
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Downton Shabby: One American’s Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family’s English Castle
$27.99 Read moreHGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story–with charm and humor in abundance–about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.
“A true delight…In this ma
- Author: DePree, Hopwood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0063080850
- Language: English
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Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them
$17.00 Read moreDeeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America.
- Author: Higgins, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0143135864
- Language: English
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and with a new afterword
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision
- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063079437
- Language: English
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Forever Young: A Memoir
$17.99 Read moreIn this New York Times and USA Today bestseller, iconic actress Hayley Mills shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child star,… [more below]
- Author: Mills, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 153870420X
- Language: English
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Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
$19.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Founding member, singer, and lead guitarist of Metallica and Megadeath shares the ultimate, unvarnished story behind his involvement in the rise of two of the world’s most inf
- Author: Mustaine, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0061714402
- Language: English
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth.
- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 080521240X
- Language: English
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In the Presence of My Enemies
$16.99 Read moreIn the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nea… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Gracia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0842381392
- Language: English
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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life
$19.95 Add to cartIn this hybrid memoir, Alberto Ledesma wonders, At what point does a long-time undocumented immigrant become an American in the making? From undocumented little boy to “hyper documented” university pr… [more below]
- Series: Latinographix
- Author: Ledesma, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0814254403
- Language: English
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Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains
$34.95 Read moreIn Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, María Cristina Moroles traces the path of her extraordinary life from the streets of Dallas to the wild… [more below]
- Author: Moroles, María Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 168226243X
- Language: English
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Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
$16.95 Read more“Mothercare represents an investigation of the question of duty, or conscience, what we owe or want to provide to the people in our lives. . . For a reader, there’s something bracing about Tillman’s h… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767625
- Language: English
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Son of Southern Illinois: Glenn Poshard’s Life in Politics and Education
$28.95 Read moreA life of principles, service, and faith
This first biography of Glenn Poshard traces the life of a young man who rose from rural poverty in Southern Illinois to become a United States congressman a- Author: Walworth, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339188
- Language: English
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Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
$21.00 Read moreA unique and evocative portrait of World War II–and a charming coming-of-age story–from the private diaries of Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary.
“I am not a great or important personage,- Author: Soames, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364609
- Language: English
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Norma Kamali: I Am Invincible
$35.00 Read moreI Am Invincible features wit and wisdom from the innovative, influential, and empowering wellness guru and designer Norma Kamali.
“After decades in an industry obsessed with youth, the designer writes- Author: Kamali, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1419747401
- Language: English
