Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir

Diana Welch

"Perfect is boring."Well, 1983 certainly wasn't boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father's mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother's cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers inte...

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Published: Sep 2010

We've Always Had Paris...and Provence...

Patricia Wells

Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, live the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. After more than a quarter century, they are as close to b...

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Published: May 2009

Life Among the Dead

Lisa Williams

The highly anticipated memoir from the star of the hit series Lisa Williams: Life Among the DeadWhen Lisa Williams was four years old, she told her parents about the spirits in her bedroom. Since those first sightings, Lisa has seen a...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writ...

Marjorie Williams

Beloved by readers and critics nationwide, The Woman at the Washington Zoo collects Marjorie Williams's brilliant writings-from sharp political profiles to witty commentary on gender and family life to tender, intensely personal ex...

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Published: Nov 2006

Up from the Projects: An Autobiograph...

Walter E. Williams

A life of achievement and overcoming the oddsA lifetime of challenging conventional wisdomA uniquely American story of achievementFrom his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelp...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Mother-In-Law Cure (Originally Pu...

Katherine Wilson

Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abro...

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Published: May 2017

Where Am I Now?: Essays

Mara Wilson

For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest book introduces Mara Wilson—the former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire—as a brilliant new ...

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Published: Sep 2016

A Prisoner of Jesus Christ

Jimmy E. Windham

This is the true story of a young boy who grew up with a deep desire for love and acceptance. Instead he was harshly abused and mistreated by his alcoholic preacher father and older brother. He grew into a violent man whose life consi...

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Published: May 2019

The Salt Path: A Memoir

Raynor Winn

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDThe true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thir...

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Published: Mar 2019

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restauran...

Molly Wizenberg

The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven...cheerfully honest...warm and inclusive, just l...

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Published: May 2015

Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Jour...

Alison Wright

An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck...

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Published: Jul 2009

Black Boy [seventy-Fifth Anniversary ...

Richard Wright

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.When it exploded onto the literary scene in ...

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Published: Feb 2020

Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal Histor...

Alexandra Zapruder

The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world. Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that ...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Boy Between Worlds: A Story of Lo...

Annejet Zijl

From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII.When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more dif...

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Published: May 2019

Regifted: An Adoptee's Memoir of True...

Candi Byrne

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Published: Nov 2022

Squint: Re-visioning the Second Half ...

Margit Novack

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Published: Jul 2021

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of ...

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

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Published: Jun 2021

All Things Bright and Beautiful (All ...

James Herriot

The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling seriesMillions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were fir...

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Published: Sep 2014

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the A...

Sue Klebold

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own ...

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Published: Feb 2017

My Friend Leonard

James Frey

In this sequel to A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, in which he chronicled his addictions, James Frey writes about a friend he met in rehab, a former gangster named Leonard. An exploration of trust and friendship and what they can mean, especi...

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Published: Jun 2006

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection ...

Deborah Feldman

Now a Netflix original series Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infideland Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the aut...

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Published: Oct 2012

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a...

Piper Kerman

A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she'd been when, short...

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Published: Feb 2011

Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost a...

Allegra Huston

When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This i...

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Published: Apr 2010

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About H...

Jenny Lawson

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled read...

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Published: Sep 2016

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother ...

Anderson Cooper

A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives.Anderson Cooper�...

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Published: Jan 2017

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Mo...

Laura Jane Grace

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME"The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.It be...

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Published: Sep 2017

Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick

The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award­–nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring...

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Published: May 2017

M Train

Patti Smith

National Bestseller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the cafes and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has descr...

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Published: Aug 2016

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir...

Jen Waite

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Be forewarned: You won't sleep until you finish the last page." —Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful WorldOne night. One email. Two realities.It all started with an email...Before: Jen Wai...

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Published: Jun 2018

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

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Published: Feb 2025
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