Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Cupcake Brown

Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing he...

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Published: Feb 2006

Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

"I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way."With striking inti...

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Published: Jun 2008

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss...

Portia De Rossi

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ." Portia de Rossi weighed only ...

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Published: Jul 2011

Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to th...

Freeman Hall

A humorous, easy-to-read, informative book on one of the most chaotic, exhausting, demanding jobs on the planet, "Retail Hell" exposes the day to day trauma of retail life while delivering practical, cynical, and sometimes b...

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Published: Oct 2010

Another Place at the Table

Kathy Harrison

Another Place at the Table' is the story of life at social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank, first-person story of a woman whose comp...

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Published: Jun 2004

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story ...

Mark R. Levin

Although Mark Levin is known as a constitutional lawyer and a nationally syndicated broadcaster, he is, first and foremost, a dog lover. In 1998, he and his family welcomed a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi int...

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Published: Oct 2009

Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth...

Martha Nibley Beck

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." ...

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Published: Aug 2011

Born Round: A Story of Family, Food a...

Frank Bruni

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficul...

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Published: Jun 2010

Grayson

Lynne Cox

One dark morning while the 17-year-old author was training for a long-distance swim, she became aware that something was swimming with her--a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother. This is the magical, mysterious t...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Edith Eva Eger

Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award and 2018 Christopher Award"Edith's strength and courage are remarkable…her life and work are an incredible example of forgiveness, resilience, and generosity."—Sheryl Sandber...

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Published: Sep 2018

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

Laura M. Flynn

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura's father of ...

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Published: Feb 2009

Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True St...

Isabel Gillies

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Hurry Down Sunshine

Michael Greenberg

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and contin...

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Published: Sep 2008

Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blin...

Michael Hingson

Faith. Trust. Triumph./B/PPI"I'm sorry," the doctor said. "He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him."/PPIGeorge and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old...

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Published: Aug 2012

But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town...

J. A. Jance

New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of malls. To music lover Jancee, New York City was a foreign country. So it was with bleak expectations that she ...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Thing About Life Is That One Day ...

David Shields

Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: 'After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years.' By your 80s, you 'no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing.' 'The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as...

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Published: Feb 2008

Exploiting My Baby: A Memoir of Pregn...

Teresa Strasser

Teresa Strasser made her baby a spleen and some eyebrows. He got her a book deal. Everyone loves babies-and pregnant women-so TV and radio personality Teresa Strasser decided to use this obsession to her advantage. She came up with ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and...

Josh Swiller

A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world an...

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Published: Sep 2007

Lips Unsealed: A Memoir

Belinda Carlisle

The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go's will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a ...

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Published: May 2010

The Rainbow Comes and Goes Low Price ...

Anderson Cooper

#1 New York Times Bestseller A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThough Anderson Cooper has always consider...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2017

Not My Father's Son: A Memoir

Alan Cumming

[*Read by the author - Alan Cumming] In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shape...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Mem...

Patricia Harman

Heather is pale and thin, seventeen and pregnant with twins when Patricia Harman begins to care for her. Over the course of the next five seasons Patsy will see Heather through the loss of both babies and their father. She will also c...

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Published: Oct 2009

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Marya Hornbacher

When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher wa...

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Published: Apr 2009

Watch Me: A Memoir

Anjelica Huston

Following her "extraordinary" (Vanity Fair), "evocative" (The New York Times),"magically beautiful" (The Boston Globe), "gorgeously written" (O, The Oprah Magazine) coming-of-age memoir, Academy...

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Published: Nov 2014

Moose: A Memoir

Stephanie Klein

The author of the dishy memoir 'Straight Up and Dirty' returns to share the story of her adolescence. Long before she was a glamorous young divorcee and superstar blogging mistress, Stephanie Klein was a seventh grader with a weight p...

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Published: Jun 2009

Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surger...

Jen Larsen

Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. She was convinced that once she found a way to not be fat any more, she would have the perfect existence she'd always dreamed of. When diet a...

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Published: Feb 2013

Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs,...

Margaret Powell

The sequel to New York Times bestseller Below Stairs, Servants' Hall tells a gripping real-life tale reminiscent of Downton Abbey's Lady Sybil and Tom Branson.Margaret Powell's Below Stairs became a sensation among readers reveling i...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamoro...

Izzy Rose

At 35, Izzy Rose is a successful, Emmy Award-winning television producer, pulling down a hefty salary in a fast-paced newsroom and living the good life of a "middle-class socialite" single gal in San Francisco. She's fine wi...

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Published: May 2009

At Least in the City Someone Would He...

Wade Rouse

We all dream it. Wade Rouse actually did it. Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Staying True

Jenny Sanford

In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life's most trying times.She's been ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010
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