Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

Andie Mitchell

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell ha...

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Published: Dec 2015

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Lov...

Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with...

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Published: Apr 2010

Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True ...

Sophie Morgan

In Diary of a Submissive, Sophie Morgan candidly explains what exactly an independent, twenty-first century woman gets out of relinquishing her power and personal freedom in a submissive relationship with a dominant man for their mutu...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Spiral Shell: A French Village Re...

Sandell Morse

When granted a residency at an artists’ retreat in the picturesque village of Auvillar, in southwestern France, writer Sandell Morse noticed a puzzling lack of Jewish memorials and landmarks there that marked the resistance of l...

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Published: Apr 2022

A Place to Land: A Story of Longing a...

Kate Motaung

A Place to Land is a globe-spanning memoir that wrestles with the question, ''Where is my home?'' Kate Motaung watched ''home'' slip away again and again--through her parents' divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten renta...

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Published: Apr 2018

365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy

Charla Muller

When Charla Muller's husband turned 40, she gave him something memorable. Sex. Every day. For an entire year. The Mullers had a solid marriage and two wonderful children, but over the years sex had fallen low on their to-do list. The ...

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Published: Jul 2008

Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, ...

Andy Mulvihill

"Citizen Kane does Adventureland." --The Washington Post The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as...

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Published: Jun 2020

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is...

Laura Munson

When Laura Munson's essay appeared in the "Modern Love" column of The New York Times, it created a firestorm. Readers sent it to their friends, therapists gave it to their patients, pastors read it to their congregations. Pe...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, ...

Carolyn Murnick

A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a "riveting…and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apar...

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Published: Aug 2018

The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife W...

Rebecca Musser

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamen...

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Published: Sep 2014

Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in B...

Lisa Napoli

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left beh...

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Published: Apr 2012

Proud Americans: Vietnam Artillery So...

Terry L. Nau

Told in the voices of Vietnam veterans looking back on their war, Proud Americans is an oral history of the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery unit that served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1972.The 2/32, nicknamed the Proud Americans, fir...

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Published: Nov 2018

What Now, Lieutenant?: Leadership For...

Richard Neal

Wars, fought on a grand scale with global consequences, are made up of countless smaller battles and events. For the men who fought, bled and died in them they are not small—those little pieces of war—and the personal aftermath an...

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Published: Jan 2017

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Fat...

Ariana Neumann

In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that need...

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Published: Nov 2020

You Don't Look Your Age...and Other F...

Sheila Nevins

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Thank you to Sheila Nevins for putting all this down for posterity. Women need this kind of honest excavation of the process of living." ―Meryl StreepAn astonishingly frank, funny, poignan...

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Published: Apr 2019

A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir o...

Juliet Nicolson

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing ...

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Published: Jun 2017

Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Mos...

Kaoru Nonomura

At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura...

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Published: Sep 2015

KooKooLand: A Memoir

Gloria Norris

Gloria Norris's KooKooLand is a memoir written on the edge of a knife blade. Chilling, intensely moving, and darkly funny, it cuts to the heart and soul of a troubled American family, and announces the arrival of a startlingly�...

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Published: Mar 2017

A Widow's Story: A Memoir

Joyce Carol Oates

In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. &...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming...

Joyce Carol Oates

In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce for...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Unc...

Michelle Obama

#1 NEW YORK TIMESAND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 •In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming,former First Lady Michelle Obama shares ...

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Published: Nov 2022

Crazy for the Storm

Norman Ollestad

From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that prepared ...

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Published: Jun 2009

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Surv...

Norman Ollestad

A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing a...

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Published: May 2010

When Life Gives You Lemons: How Much ...

Bonnie Ortega

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" Looking back and thinking about some of the hurtful and trying times of her past, Geena became more and more intrigued with this well-known saying. Although she had heard it many times when...

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Published: Jun 2016

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Att...

Charles Osgood

The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily route, riding the trolley to the loca...

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Published: Aug 2015

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Nadia Owusu

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times,Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) abou...

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Published: Aug 2021

Dear Mr. You

Mary -Louise Parker

A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker.An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the m...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2015

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Bet...

Michael Paterniti

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAME ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science MonitorIn the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge...

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Published: May 2014

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Bet...

Michael Paterniti

In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." Containing nothing but a wooden table and two...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Ho...

Matteson Perry

From "the most entertaining chronicler of nice guy romance since Nick Hornby" (A.J. Jacobs), a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a "nice guy" survived dating in the...

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Published: May 2017
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