Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fat...

Michael Lewis

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fat...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2009

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicil...

Tembi Locke

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food,...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2020

Paris: A Love Story; A Memoir

Kati Marton

[Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris -- and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journal...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2012

Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friends...

Ben Moon

The story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both of their lives.When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oregon, he hadn't planned on getting a dog. But when he first met the soulful gaze of a rescue pup in a shelter, ...

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Published: Jan 2020

Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages

Dawn Newton

When Dawn Newton, an adjunct professor and mother of three, gets a terminal lung cancer diagnosis, the path forward appears rutted. The Great Recession has left her exhausted and juggling multiple jobs. Then she learns of her cancer's...

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Published: Oct 2019

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes w...

Maggie O'Farrell

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O'Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness tha...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2019

Bird Cloud: A Memoir

Annie Proulx

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection ...

Dwayne Raymond

In the spring of 2003 when Norman Mailer was 80 years old, he invited an improbable companion into his life: Dwayne Raymond, 40 years his junior, originally from a small town in Oregon, and now a waiter at a restaurant in Provincetown...

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Published: Feb 2010

Beautiful Boy (Movie Tie-In Edition):...

David Sheff

#1 New York Times bestseller  With a new afterwordNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful mo...

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Published: Sep 2018

Little Failure: A Memoir

Gary Shteyngart

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "SO FAR" BY TIME AND THE WASHINGTON POST • NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' "NEW BOOKS DESTINED TO BECOME CLASSICS" • SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEAR'...

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Published: Oct 2014

Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

Carly Simon

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Comp...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2016

A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

Danielle Steel

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

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From award-winning comedian, writer, producer, and actress Amy Schumer comes The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, a thoughtful, honest, and hysterical collection of (very) personal essays.Never one to shy away from the uproarious, cha...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons...

Adriana Trigiani

"No one ever reads just one of Trigiani's wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked." —BookPageNew York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance f...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2011

Waitress: a memoir

Angel Woolery

Thirty years of hefting trays full of food, warming the muffins of strangers and dealing with cranky customers has brought this waitress to the edge. From ice machine shenanigans to children running amok, you'll experience the restaur...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2015

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoi...

Chester Nez

In the 1920s, growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation wasn't easy. There was no electricity or indoor plumbing. The New Mexico summers were hot and the winters harsh. But the beautiful mesas provided bountiful la...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife an...

Jean Sasson

A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. "I was not always th...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2010

A Long Way Home

Saroo Brierley

As a little boy in India, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, he found his way back. This is what happened in between.Born in a poor village in India, Saroo lived hand-to-mouth in a one room hu...

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Published: Jun 2015

Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mex...

Rose Castillo Guilbault

In this memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. With openness, courage, and charm, she recalls her early struggles...

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Published: May 2006

All Things Bright and Beautiful (All ...

James Herriot

The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling seriesMillions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were fir...

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Published: Sep 2014

Vacationland: True Stories from Painf...

John Hodgman

"I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." —Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that ...

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Published: May 2018

Mama Made The Difference: Life Lesson...

T. D. Jakes

Inspirational writer and minister T. D. Jakes writes lovingly about the key role that his mother played in his life, as he reflects on mothers from scripture and shares memories from other prominent African Americans about their mothe...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2007

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the A...

Sue Klebold

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own ...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary ...

Sy Montgomery

“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.”–from The Good Good PigA naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among...

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Published: Apr 2007

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of Hist...

Ted Sorensen

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and t...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2008

Dixieland Delight: A Football Season ...

Clay Travis

There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot a...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2007

Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin

"A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-meet, desultorily functioning Long Island family, in Massapequa, turn into Ale...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2003

It Happened On the Way to War: A Mari...

Rye Barcott

In 2000, Rye Barcott was a student on an ROTC scholarship when he first visited the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He wanted to understand the ethnic violence he expected to face in uniform. Once there, Barcott befriended a widowed nu...

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Published: Feb 2012

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Gu...

Colin Beavan

A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmenta...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of...

Tom Brokaw

From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life. Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate l...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2015
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