Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across...

Daniel Tammet

Owner of 'the most remarkable mind on the planet,' (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vi...

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Published: Dec 2009

My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me

Hilary Winston

TV writer Hilary Winston offers up a witty collection of autobiographical tales about her misadventures in dating. Just when she feels she's getting her life together, Hilary discovers that her ex has written a novel about their rela...

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Published: May 2012

I'm Down: A Memoir

Mishna Wolff

     Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black.  "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jok...

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Published: Jun 2010

It Looked Different on the Model: Epi...

Laurie Notaro

#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER\r\n\r\nEveryone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal b...

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Published: Jul 2011

Mississippi Sissy

Kevin Sessums

MISSISSIPPI SISSY is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, M...

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Published: Mar 2007

Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Re...

Elizabeth Bard

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pave au poivre, the steak'spi...

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Published: Feb 2011

Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Gir...

Susan McCorkindale

A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix.At her husband's prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. To...

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Published: Oct 2008

Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Cont...

Peggy Orenstein

“Dazzling…the platinum standard for memoirs regarding couples struggling to become parents.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer Peggy Orenstein’s widely hailed and bestselling memoir of her quest for parenthood b...

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Published: Dec 2007

Diary of a Psychic

Sonia Choquette

Sonia Choquette discovered her psychic abilities as a young child. Gifted from birth, she was able to see beyond the veil of the inner workings of her family members', friends', and neighbors' lives. While still a teenager, she began ...

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Published: Jul 2003

Concierge Confidential: The Secrets o...

Michael Fazio

New York City's top concierge gives up a keyhole view into the luxe hotel rooms, private dining and dressing rooms of the ridiculous, rich and demanding Michael Fazio is the ultimate behind-the-scenes support man. Want two orchestra t...

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Published: Feb 2012

You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town A...

Heather McDonald

Heather McDonald, a story editor and performer on Chelsea Lately, chronices her 27 years of virginity in hilarious detail.

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Published: Jun 2010

Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean ...

Jessie Sholl

To be the child of a compulsive hoarder is to live in a permanent state of unease. Because if my mother is one of those crazy junk-house people, then what does that make me?When her divorced mother was diagnosed with cancer, New York ...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Lady in the Palazzo: An Umbrian L...

Marlena De Blasi

Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of...

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Published: May 2008

The Last Single Woman in America

Cindy Guidry

A "sassy" (USA Today), "funny, fast-talking" (New York Daily News) "great read" (People) that unfolds like a conversation with your bawdy best friend over a glass—or a bottle—of wine Whether she's bei...

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Published: Feb 2009

Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) W...

Katie Heaney

"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking f...

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Published: Jan 2014

I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Asto...

Diana Joseph

An Entertainment Weekly "must"-"It's hard to recall another collection of essays, or a memoir, with more natural charm." Surrounded by dysfunctional men-from her fourteen-year-old son to her high-maintenance boss...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, ...

Elizabeth Letts

An inspiring tale of a horse that beat the odds. Reminiscent of the inspiring, against-the-odds success story that made Seabiscuit a bestseller, The Eighty-Dollar Champion tells the dramatic odyssey of a horse called Snowman that, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2011

Escort Girl: A Personal Memoir

Melodie Nelson

In this often shocking memoir, Melodie Nelson vividly tells the story of her three years as a female escort. Neither a nymphomaniac nor a drug addict, Melodie for the most part enjoyed her time in the sex industry. She delivers an hon...

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Published: Oct 2010

Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, ...

Molly Ringwald

The iconic Molly Ringwald shares intimate stories and candid advice in this fun, stylish, and sexy girlfriend's guide to life. To her millions of fans Molly Ringwald will forever be sixteen. As the endearing and witty star of the be...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

Sacha Z. Scoblic

The single glass of wine with dinner...the cold beer on a hot day…the champagne flute raised in a toast… what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me…these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober.W...

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Published: Aug 2011

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Sto...

Robyn Scott

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Runaway

Skye Sinclair

Skye's story is one of survival against the odds. Abandoned by her mother at the age of four and placed in a series of horrible institutions, she learned to fend for herself from an early age. After a horrific rape when she was 10, sh...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Golden Willow

Harry Bernstein

Ruby and Harry Bernstein were married for almost 70 years, experiencing the best and the worst of the 20th century together.  Through the depression, a world war, the growth of the suburbs, building a family, and finally settling in ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2009

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me...

Marie Brenner

Hailed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as 'extraordinary,' Apples and Oranges asks a universal question: how can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different? Brenner's brother, Carl, lives in the apple cou...

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Published: Apr 2009

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enl...

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Published: Jun 2005

Why Me?

Sarah Burleton

In the blink of an eye, Mom ran up behind me and pushed me into the fence. Instinctively, I reached out my arms to stop my fall and ended up grabbing the live fence. My hands clamped around the thin wires, and my body collapsed to the...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and ...

Kristin Chenoweth

A lively, laugh-out-loud journey from Oklahoma beauty queen to show biz sensation."Life's too short. I'm not."You might know her as a Tony Award–winning Broadway star who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in th...

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Published: Apr 2010

Has Anyone Seen My Pants?

Sarah Colonna

New York Times bestselling author of Life as I Blow It Sarah Colonna is back with a hilarious, honest look at life in her late thirties—in all its messy, pants-missing glory.How does a gal with a successful career, great friends, an...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and ...

Pat Conroy

America's favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conr...

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Published: Aug 2009

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essa...

Kristi Coulter

Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no lon...

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Published: Aug 2018
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