Personal Memoirs
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
$21.99 Read moreA new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.
Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commenta
- Author: Lewis, Jenifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 006307964X
- Language: English
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Flourish: The Extraordinary Journey Into Finding Your Best Self
$26.00 Read moreWhat is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels ac
- Author: Case, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1472979710
- Language: English
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Read more“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”–Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbl- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1555976247
- Language: English
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Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
$17.95 Add to cartIn his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy’s and his family’s coming out story, told from multiple perspectives-a s… [more below]
- Author: Ivester, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1631528866
- Language: English
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The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
$25.99 Add to cartAn elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents
From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture t- Author: Sherman, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250206421
- Language: English
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Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
$29.00 Read moreOne of this generation’s hottest and boldest young comedians presents a transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of our dysfunctional relationships, and attempts to point us in the vague direction … [more below]
- Author: Sloss, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525658149
- Language: English
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I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds
$16.99 Read moreThe Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journali
- Author: Hostin, Sunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0062950835
- Language: English
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Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
$27.99 Read more“[From] an influential educational leader and activist…an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
It was a wrong turn that changed everyth
- Author: Mufleh, Luma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0358569729
- Language: English
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My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
$26.00 Read more“Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” – … [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Nabil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 059329596X
- Language: English
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What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
$25.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Facing death is the hardest thing of all, and Tallu Quinn faces hers in a way that broke and healed my heart. This book is a beautiful tribute to life, to truth, and to lo… [more below]
- Author: Schuyler Quinn, Tallu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593442903
- Language: English
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I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
$8.99 Read moreAfter Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory
As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a sci
General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.- Author: Doolittle, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0553584642
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribut… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974281
- Language: English
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On Animals
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1982181532
- Language: English
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My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
$24.00 Add to cart
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
One of LitHub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2020
An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding–and how we are shaped by forces we cannot… [more below]- Author: Dodge, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134361
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope
$18.99 Read moreBetween the Mountain and the Sky turns a hopeful lens on the world and shows us what can happen when a single person takes a decisive action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of h
- Author: Doyne, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0785240438
- Language: English
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The Inland Sea
$22.95 Add to cart“An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre.”–Publishers Weekly
In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existent
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1611720249
- Language: English
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Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
$18.95 Read moreDepression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna Mehler Paperny resolved to put her reporter… [more below]
- Author: Mehler Paperny, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1615194924
- Language: English
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I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
$18.95 Read moreSixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corpor
- Author: Zucker, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1558612882
- Language: English
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
$28.95 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world–an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent – A TODAY SHOW #REA… [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0385547218
- Language: English
