Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir

Emma Forrest

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2011

Devotion: A Memoir

Dani Shapiro

In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do l...

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Published: Feb 2011

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really l...

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Published: Sep 2009

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really l...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2009

Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, E...

Pattie Boyd

A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight Why are you writing the book now? I have been asked for the last 15 years to write a book, and it is only now that I feel the time is right. My confidence in myself was restored a...

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Published: May 2008

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir

Augusten Burroughs

Millions of listeners have been flat-out astonished, profoundly moved, and massively entertained by the writing of Augusten Burroughs. Now, with A Wolf At The Table-his first full-length memoir in five years-Augusten returns to his li...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop ...

Catherine Friend

Describes how an urban bookworm and children’s book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash cour...

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Published: Mar 2006

Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

Jillian Lauren

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's hare, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audit...

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Published: Apr 2010

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A...

Jenny Lawson

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.DIV Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we'd like to pretend never happened—...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

Dean and Me: (A Love Story)

Jerry Lewis

An intimate memoir by the legendary funny man recalls his long-time partnership with crooner Dean Martin; their remarkable decade-long success as a team of performers in radio, TV, film, the theater, and nightclubs; their traumatic br...

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Published: Oct 2006

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Wanted to G...

Malala Yousafzai

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shoppi...

Judith Levine

Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2007

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Re...

Sarah Silverman

Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? A ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraor...

Lisa/ Abraham Beamer

2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. He--and all the other passenger heroes--lost their lives in...


Published: Aug 2002

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You ...

Kathleen Flinn

This is the funny and inspiring account of Kathleen Flinn's struggle in a stew of hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, her own "wretchedly inadequate" French, and the basics of French cuisine. Flinn was a thirty-six-y...

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Published: Oct 2008

Please Excuse My Daughter

Julie Klam

A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish ...

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Published: Apr 2009

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As ...

Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful--and seemingly impenetrable--agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuve...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2011

Mississippi Sissy

Kevin Sessums

Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs by Mary Karr and Augusten Burroughs, Kevin Sessums brings the American South an...

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Published: Mar 2008

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of ...

Leigh Anne Tuohy

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring storyFirst came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has ...

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Published: Feb 2011

It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

Andie Mitchell

A 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 had eaten lustily and mindl...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2015

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living a...

Nina Riggs

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *"Stunning…heartrending…this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY"Deeply affecting...

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Published: Feb 2018

Confessions of a Crack Head

Zach Samuels

Zach Samuels is a devoted father, musician, teacher, and counselor who simply cannot put the pipe down. One day worth half a million dollars, the next day he's picking up butts off the ground, homeless. Zach tells of his trials and tr...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2008

Ever by My Side: A Memoir in Eight [A...

Nick Trout

Ever By My Side is a very personal memoir told through the lens of all the pets Dr. Nick Trout has had in his life.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

Magical Thinking: True Stories

Augusten Burroughs

A collection of personal writings features observations on such topics as a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the emotional side of killing a rodent in one's home, and the brief fame that accompanies starring in a commer...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

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

Michael Hingson

A blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror.It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael's bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense the dista...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2011

An Italian Affair

Laura Fraser

When this memoirist's husband left her after a year of marriage, she retreated into the splendor of Southern Italy to recover. Knowing that there's nothing like a fling with Parisian art historian to cheer one up, she slowly came back...

Paperback
Published: May 2002

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Histo...

Jonathan Franzen

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen’s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a “small and fundamentally ridiculous person,” into an adult wi...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2007

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Conf...

Dublanica Aka the Waiter Steve

According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2009

About My Sisters

Debra Ginsberg

The author of Waiting and Raising Blaze explores the connection she shares with her three sisters, recounting how their parents' frequent moves resulted in a deep bond between the four siblings that continues into their adult lives. R...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2005

High Achiever: The Incredible True St...

Tiffany Jenkins

An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. "Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange I...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2019
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