Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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The Orchard: A Memoir

Theresa Weir

THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Marr...

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Published: Sep 2012

An Alphabetical Life: Living it up in...

Wendy Werris

Little did Wendy Werris imagine that when she began a temp job at a Hollywood bookstore in 1970 at age nineteen, she had embarked on a thirty-five year career that would stretch into a journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenm...

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Published: Nov 2006

In the New World: Growing Up with Ame...

Lawrence Wright

We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two de...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoi...

Julie Yip-Williams

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a pow...

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Published: Mar 2020

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Rac...

Barack Obama

All men live in the shadow of their fathers--the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, and he also persuasive...

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Published: Aug 2004

A Three Dog Life

Abigail Thomas

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the ye...

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Published: Jan 2006

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Sol...

Ishmael Beah

This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be on...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won...

Betty White

Unabridged, 4 CDs, 4 hours Read by the author It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantru...

Laurie Notaro

Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity–and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut.Join Notaro as she experiences th...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir...

Elizabeth Cohen

A New York Times Notable BookThe Family on Beartown Road is Elizabeth Cohen’s true and moving portrait of love and courage. Elizabeth, a member of the “sandwich generation”—those caught in the middle, simultan...

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Published: Mar 2004

Name All the Animals: A Memoir

Alison Smith

Recounts the author's teenage experience of losing her beloved older brother in a car accident, a loss after which she managed her grief by engaging in self-destructive behaviors until her forbidden love for another girl helped her de...

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Published: Feb 2005

Without a Map: A Memoir

Meredith Hall

A New York Times Bestseller and 2007 Book Sense SelectionMeredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of t...

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Published: Apr 2008

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing U...

Firoozeh Dumas

The author writes about her years in early-1970s America, when her father, an Iranian oil company executive, was posted to California. Their arrival coincided with the hostage crisis, when anti-Iran fervor in America was at its height...

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Published: Jan 2004

While You're Here Doc: Farmyard Adven...

Bradford B. Brown

Veterinarian Brad Brown never knew what to expect when he was called out to a farm to deal with a sick cow or an injured horse. Invariably the cash-strapped farmer would say, 'While you're here, Doc' and rattle off a list of surprise ...

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Published: Apr 2006

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of O...

Chelsea Handler

In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2008

Her Last Death: A Memoir

Susanna Sonnenberg

Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She ...

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Published: Oct 2008

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Busi...

Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and h...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

Losing It: --And Gaining My Life Back...

Valerie Bertinelli

A Note to Amazon Readers (and a Q&A) from Valerie Bertinelli Dear Amazon Customer, Glad to see you here and hopefully purchasing my book. I've heard if you buy multiple copies it's a better experience--a better one for me! But se...

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Published: Nov 2008

The End of the World as We Know It: S...

Robert Goolrick

In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone lo...

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Published: Apr 2008

Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the St...

Carissa Phelps

An inspiring story of redemption, from a young girl who grew up on the streets but found the strength to succeed At age twelve Carissa Phelps ran away from abuse and neglect at home, lived on the streets, and was discreetly abducted ...

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Published: Jun 2013

West of Kabul, East of New York: An A...

Mir Tamim Ansary

Ansary writes with a breezy nonchalance that would seem facile if not for the underlying core of reflection and unacknowledged pain. His book is part memoir, part exploration of militant Islam, with a smattering of contemporary Afghan...

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Published: Mar 2003

Strange Piece of Paradise

Terri Jentz

In 1977, a man in a cowboy suit drove over the tent of two Yale students on a cross-country bicycling trip, and then went after them with an axe, severely injuring them both. The police failed to arrest the women's assailant, and in 1...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2006

Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's A...

Jen Lancaster

In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her grea...

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Published: May 2013

The Burn Journals

Brent Runyon

BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire. This is a true story.In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a chil...

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Published: Oct 2005

American Prince: A Memoir

Tony Curtis

"All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies."He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and ce...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2008

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a G...

Pamela Des Barres

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as sh...

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Published: Oct 2005

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Sissy Spacek

In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech i...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Pieces of My Heart: A Life

Robert J. Wagner

In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome ...

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Published: Sep 2009

If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won...

Betty White

The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Saturday Night Live! In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs to her...

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Published: Feb 2012

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

Julie Andrews

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Me...

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Published: Apr 2009
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