Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in ...

Alan Greenspan

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdow...

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Published: Sep 2007

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Bich Minh Nguyen

As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmu...

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Published: Feb 2008

Center Cannot Hold, The: MY JOURNEY T...

Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a 'grav...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

Ruth Wariner

A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist cult.Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye ...

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Published: Jan 2016

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of ...

Lee Woodruff

In January 2006, Lee and Bob Woodruff seemed to have it all–a happy marriage, four beautiful children, and marvelous careers. Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, but then, while he was embedded with the mi...

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Published: May 2007

Life's That Way

Jim Beaver

A remarkable memoir that shows the capacity of the human heart to heal after the challenge of having to say goodbye. Even the hardest lessons contain great gifts. Jim Beaver and his wife Cecily Adams appeared to have it all-followin...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

Susan Boyle

From British singing sensation Susan Boyle, a memoir about overcoming adversity and achieving your dreams, no matter the obstacles you face.

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Published: Oct 2010

Here If You Need Me: A Memoir

Kate Braestrup

When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, a...

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Published: Jul 2008

Hope's Boy

Andrew Bridge

Critics Choice . . . Shocking, inspiring, unforgettable.' --People magazine 'Andrew Bridge has written an affecting, moving memoir which in the end is a poignant cry for rethinking our foster care system. Hope's Boy will stay with ...

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Published: Feb 2009

Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing ...

Kerry Max Cook

Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police...

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Published: Mar 2008

Blue Nights

Joan Didion

A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and d...

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Published: May 2012

Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .: Comedy C...

Rachel Dratch

DIVBThe former ISNL/I star recounts the adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mom when she least expected it—at the age of forty-four. /BBRbr Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 kn...

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Published: Feb 2013

This Lovely Life

Vicki Forman

Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to 'let her babies go' — she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they c...

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Published: Jul 2009

Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Ann Hood

A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.

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Published: May 2009

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Dou...

Reza Kahlili

The true story of a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran while serving as a member of the secretive and feared Revolutionary Guards.

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Published: May 2010

Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide...

Matt Kailey

A transsexual takes readers on a fascinating tour of his gender reassignment surgery and its aftermath, beginning with his life as a straight woman, exploring all aspects of this difficult physical and social passage from one gender t...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays an...

Marina Keegan

The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" (O, The Oprah Magazine).Marina Keegan's s...

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Published: Apr 2015

Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles A...

John Kroger

Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate...

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Published: May 2009

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fat...

Michael Lewis

The New York Times bestseller: "Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis' book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids."—Boston Globe When Michael Lewis became a father, ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Drama

John Lithgow

Through the vivid stories in "Drama", John Lithgow shares a backstage history of his struggle, crisis, and discovery, and the scenes of his early life and career that took place before he became a nationally-known star. Abov...

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Published: Sep 2011

Body of Work: Meditations on Mortalit...

Christine Montross

This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on h...

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Published: Jul 2007

Born with Teeth: A Memoir

Kate Mulgrew

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdene...

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Published: Apr 2015

Things I've Been Silent About

Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mo...

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Published: Dec 2008

Loud in the House of Myself

Stacy Pershall

"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the shocking to the simply lovely."—Marya HornbacherStacy Pershall grew up as an overly intelligent, depressed, deeply strange gir...

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Published: Jan 2012

Accidentally on Purpose: The True Tal...

Mary F. Pols

At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never--not in a million years--on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would...

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Published: May 2009

Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels ...

Karen Wheeler

In her mid-thirties, fashion editor Karen has it all: a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London, and an array of gorgeus shoes. But when her boyfriend, Eric, leaves she makes an unexpected decision: to hang up her Manolos and wa...

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Published: Aug 2011

Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

Alysia Abbott

A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and '80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. With a new foreword After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two...

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Published: Jun 2014

Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out o...

Jessica Alexander

Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. But the world that she encountered in the field was dr...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Dream: A Memoir

Harry Bernstein

"Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future."During the hard and bitter years ...

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Published: Apr 2009

A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Le...

R. Dwayne Betts

A powerful debut memoir from a published poet and emerging writer. At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts- a good student from a lower-middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a mat...

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Published: May 2010
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