Personal Memoirs
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We Heard It When We Were Young
$16.00 Read moreMost agree that West Liberty is a special place. The first majority Hispanic town in Iowa, it has been covered by media giants such as Reuters, Telemundo, NBC, and ESPN. But Chuy Renteria and his frie… [more below]
- Author: Renteria, Chuy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388054
- Language: English
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Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting
$29.95 Read moreThroughout her forty-year career in broadcast television, including thirty-five as a reporter and anchor on Channel 5 in Boston, Natalie Jacobson told the stories of countless lives. Now she tells her
- Author: Jacobson, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 194215545X
- Language: English
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Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater comes “a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food comes from” (Anthony Bourdain).
“Revelatory . . . With every… [more below]- Author: Rinella, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0385529821
- Language: English
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99: Stories of the Game
$35.00 Read moreIn this sports memoir, Wayne Gretzky weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at professional hockey and the heroes and stories that inspired him.
From minor-hockey phenomenon to Ha… [more below]- Author: Gretzky, Wayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0399575472
- Language: English
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
$28.00 Read moreA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom.
A NEW Y- Author: Hisham, Marwan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0399590625
- Language: English
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
$16.00 Add to cart“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”–Chuck Klosterman
Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly t- Author: Sheffield, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2007
- ISBN10: 1400083036
- Language: English
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
Nadia Murad… [more below]- Author: Murad, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1524760447
- Language: English
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The Burn Zone: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreAfter seven years of faithfully following her spiritual teacher, Renee Linnell finally realized she was in a cult and had been severely brainwashed. But how did that happen to someone like her? She ha… [more below]
- Author: Linnell, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1631524879
- Language: English
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Token Black Girl: A Memoir
$24.95 Read moreRacial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank memoir by fashion and beauty insider Danielle Prescod.
Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an el
- Author: Prescod, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542035163
- Language: English
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A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
$12.99 Add to cartA unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child’s survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them- Author: Rosenberg, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 180096112X
- Language: English
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Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood
$21.00 Add to cartDiscovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become o… [more below]
- Author: Dykeman, Wilma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1469629143
- Language: English
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I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
$19.99 Read moreThe Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor
April 7, 1944–This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious conce- Author: Vrba, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1631584715
- Language: English
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My Forbidden Face
$14.99 Read moreLatifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the
- Author: Latifa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1860499619
- Language: English
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Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle
$18.99 Read moreHow Are You Doing? No, Really …
In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of hi- Author: Edwards, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1645676242
- Language: English
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Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
$23.00 Read more“Masterfully-wrought . . . [A] stunning story of caregiving, with its questions of obligation and ethics and what it means to care for someone who, perhaps, didn’t care for you.” —The Boston Globe
Fr- Author: Tillman, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 159376717X
- Language: English
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
$20.00 Add to cartWalking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign–Desforges Pianos–he enters, only t… [more below]
- Author: Carhart, Thad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758623
- Language: English
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One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
$18.95 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head-on, and bravely healing the scars that endure.
For writer and human rights advocate Rowan Je- Author: Knox, Rowan Jette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0735244634
- Language: English
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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartA son’s poignant letter to his father–from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. – “One of the great confessions of literatur… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0805212663
- Language: English
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Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration
$22.00 Read moreRide along with choreographer Allison Orr and her civic collaborators as they reflect on their dances together
In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 ye
- Author: Orr, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500240
- Language: English
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Walk in a Relaxed Manner
$24.00 Add to cartAt age 60 Joyce Rupp didn’t know what she was getting into when she began a 47-day pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, the road made famous by the movie “The Way”. Joined by her walking
- Author: Rupp, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1570756163
- Language: English
