Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Something Beautiful Happened: A Story...

Yvette Manessis Corporon

Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kin...

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Published: Jul 2018

The Bond

Sampson Davis

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller The Pact, a "timely, healing and hope-filled" exploration of fatherhood (Detroit Free Press).Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt discovered early in their fri...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Ha...

Melanie Gideon

"We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are y...

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Published: Aug 2010

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, ...

Cathy Glass

In her latest paperback, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the ...

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Published: Mar 2009

This Family of Mine: What It Was Like...

Victoria Gotti

For decades, scandalous rumors and sensational tabloid headlines have obscured the truth about one of the most famous and intriguing families in modern history: the real players, the real relationships, behind the closed doors of the ...

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Published: Dec 2010

A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Sp...

Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho is the first undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and WCW, and has been called one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all time. Now retired, he is writing his memoir, telling the story of his journey from wrestling...

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Published: Oct 2008

Paris Letters

Janice MacLeod

Two days into her stop in Paris, she met Christophe, who worked in the butcher shop across from the cafe where she wrote. A sizzling romance began, yet soon her wanderlust pushed her to continue her travels. But his Daniel Craig good...

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Published: Feb 2014

Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cance...

Anita Moorjani

     In this truly inspirational audio book,Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

To Selena, with Love (Commemorative E...

Chris Perez

One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans.  Her tragic murder, at the age of twenty-three, stripped...

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Published: Nov 2013

Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Gr...

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier re...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2008

But Enough About Me: A Memoir

Burt Reynolds

Scandalous, sentimental, frank, and sincere—the ultimate inside account of a television and film icon.Burt Reynolds has been a Hollywood leading man for six decades, known for his legendary performances, sex-symbol status, and stori...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2015

American Desperado: My Life--From Maf...

Jon Roberts

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times bestselling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned, began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star o...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memo...

Saad Sayrafiezadeh

"The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it."With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wis...

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Published: Mar 2010

Name All the Animals: A Memoir

Alison Smith

Recounts the author's teenage experience of losing her beloved older brother in a car accident, a loss after which she managed her grief by engaging in self-destructive behaviors until her forbidden love for another girl helped her to...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2004

The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir

Claire Bidwell Smith

A powerful and searingly honest memoir about a young woman who loses her family but finds herself in the process. In this astonishing debut, Claire Bidwell Smith, an only child, is just fourteen years old when both of her charismatic ...

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Published: Dec 2012

Dimestore: A Writer's Life

Lee Smith

"A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity."—The New York Times Book Review"This is Smith at her finest."—Library Journal, starred review S...

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Published: Apr 2017

Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a...

Michelle Stewart

Michelle Stewart always knew in her heart that her eating disorder would kill her. What she didn't expect in its early stages was that she would continue to function - albeit far from optimally - for decades before succumbing to its d...

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Published: Sep 2015

Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight Pe...

Nick Trout

"The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck." —Dr. Nick Trout New Yo...

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Published: Feb 2012

Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir

Samantha Verant

Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verant's life is falling apart-she's jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck... until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy F...

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Published: Oct 2014

White Like Me: Reflections on Race fr...

Tim Wise

With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm...

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Published: Sep 2011

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and...

Muhammad Yunus

It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls’s memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2006

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Q...

Jen Lancaster

New from the author of Bitter Is the New Black and Bright Lights, Big Ass Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I was sucking down water and aspiri...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

She Got Up Off the Couch

Haven Kimmel

A continuation of the best-selling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by learning to drive, returning to college, and losing fifty pounds, achievements that coincide with Zippy...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2006

Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and...

Meredith Baxter

"I remember Sarah asking me, when I'd just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man.  After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it.  'Hair,' I blurted. 'He has to have hair.'" Meredith Baxter is a ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2011

Transition: The Story of How I Became...

Chaz Bono

Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male At first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastit...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

This Time Together: Laughter and Refl...

Carol Burnett

THIS TIME TOGETHER is 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible.  Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2011

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary...

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Published: Apr 2013

Skating Life, A: My Story

Dorothy Hamill

A poignant, revealing look at a life we might have imagined differently. . . . Her story will give inspiration to anyone striving toward a seemingly impossible dream.' --Booklist 'America's Sweetheart' Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ic...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2008

Jesus Land: A Memoir

Julia Scheeres

Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing...

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Published: Sep 2006
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