Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Litt...

Heather Harpham

Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine's April 2018 book pickA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming co...

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Published: Nov 2018

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sack...

Bill Hayes

Amazon’s Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 List\r\n“This touching memoir of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, by a photographer and writer with whom he fell in love near the end of his life, turns a story of death into...

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Published: Jan 2018

When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War...

Glyn Haynie

It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafte...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of...

Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump

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Published: Mar 2016

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life,...

Anthony Ray Hinton

The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection: A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, and justice."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."- Arc...

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Published: Jun 2019

Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series ...

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Published: May 2014

Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss,...

Beth M. Howard

When journalist Beth Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way— be it filming a pie documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of ...

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Published: Sep 2019

A Simple Christmas: Bestseller's Choi...

Mike Huckabee

The former presidential candidate, governor and pastor and current talk-show host and best-selling author shares 12 true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

Dirt Roads and Diner Pie

Shonna Milliken Humphrey

Against a backdrop of highways, diners, and cheap coffee, one couple finds peace through the redemptive power of love.Told from a wife's perspective, Dirt Roads and Diner Pie is the story of one couple's struggle to confront the long-...

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Published: Aug 2016

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

From Chrissie Hynde, one of rock's most iconic, alluring, kick-ass, and (let's face it) sexy women, a brilliant, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock life lived to the hilt. Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and frontwoman of The Pretenders...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2015

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde, leader of the Pretenders, is one of the most widely imitated figures in rock: sexy, unflappable, vulnerable yet tough, a groundbreaking songwriter and performer. In these pages, Chrissie gives us her story. We see her ...

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Published: Aug 2016

Call Me American: A Memoir

Abdi Nor Iftin

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlo...

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Published: May 2019

All There Is: Love Stories from Story...

Dave Isay

StoryCorps travels America, collecting and preserving the stories of our lives. Each conversation is housed in the Library of Congress, and many are broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, heard by millions of listeners each week. Told fr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebr...

Dave Isay

Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir

Kay Redfield Jamison

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind comes a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

He Will Never Forsake You: Deut. 31:8...

Mark Johns

You are holding a true story that reveals the truth about the spiritual warfare going on for our souls. This is the astonishing life story of Mark Johns, he was a boy just like any other boy, who was tormented by the devil all of his ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Hollywood Park: A Memoir

Mikel Jollett

**THE INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** “A Gen-X This Boy’s Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off th...

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Published: Aug 2021

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Saeed Jones

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of s...

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Published: May 2020

Hiking with Nietzsche

John Kaag

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's ...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Girl's Guide to Homelessness

Brianna Karp

Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady ...

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Published: Apr 2011

Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Tau...

Jon Katz

In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people.  In the spring o...

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Published: Aug 2015

Living with Limericks

Garrison Keillor

Radio personality and author Garrison Keillor delights and astounds in this hybrid memoir/poetry collection that combines anecdotes from his childhood and his "A Prairie Home Companion" years with literary limericks, darkly ...

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Published: Nov 2019

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetim...

Scott Kelly

NATIONAL BEST SELLERA stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to com...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2017

Once I Was Almost Famous: A Memoir

Harrison Key

This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who's ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.Little-kn...

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Published: Sep 2018

Bad Dog: (A Love Story)

Martin Kihn

(A true story.) Meet Hola. She's a nightmare, but it's not her fault if she tackles strangers and chews on furniture, or if she runs after buses and fried chicken containers and drug dealers. No one ever told her not to. Worse yet, s...

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Published: Apr 2012

Under the Same Sky: From Starvation i...

Joseph Kim

A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and myst...

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Published: Jun 2016

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th Ann...

Barbara Kingsolver

A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their live...

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Published: May 2017

I Know What I'm Doing -- And Other Li...

Jen Kirkman

New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman delivers a hilarious, candid memoir about marriage, divorce, sex, turning forty, and still not quite having life figured out.Jen Kirkman wants to be the voice in your...

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Published: Apr 2017

Shitfaced: Musings of a Former Drunk

Seamus Kirst

In Shitfaced: Musings of a Former Drunk, Seamus Kirst explores the milestones of self-destruction that marked his coming of age. At 13, he went to the ER for swallowing a bottle of pills. By 16, he was already a veteran of several in-...

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Published: Feb 2017

Appetites

Caroline Knapp

In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, "What do women want?" and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining...

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Published: Jan 2012
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