Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Without a Map: A Memoir

Meredith Hall

A New York Times Bestseller and 2007 Book Sense SelectionMeredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of t...

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Published: Apr 2008

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing U...

Firoozeh Dumas

The author writes about her years in early-1970s America, when her father, an Iranian oil company executive, was posted to California. Their arrival coincided with the hostage crisis, when anti-Iran fervor in America was at its height...

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Published: Jan 2004

While You're Here Doc: Farmyard Adven...

Bradford B. Brown

Veterinarian Brad Brown never knew what to expect when he was called out to a farm to deal with a sick cow or an injured horse. Invariably the cash-strapped farmer would say, 'While you're here, Doc' and rattle off a list of surprise ...

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Published: Apr 2006

Her Last Death: A Memoir

Susanna Sonnenberg

Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She ...

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Published: Oct 2008

Losing It: --And Gaining My Life Back...

Valerie Bertinelli

A Note to Amazon Readers (and a Q&A) from Valerie Bertinelli Dear Amazon Customer, Glad to see you here and hopefully purchasing my book. I've heard if you buy multiple copies it's a better experience--a better one for me! But se...

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Published: Nov 2008

The End of the World as We Know It: S...

Robert Goolrick

In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone lo...

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Published: Apr 2008

Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the St...

Carissa Phelps

An inspiring story of redemption, from a young girl who grew up on the streets but found the strength to succeed At age twelve Carissa Phelps ran away from abuse and neglect at home, lived on the streets, and was discreetly abducted ...

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Published: Jun 2013

West of Kabul, East of New York: An A...

Mir Tamim Ansary

Ansary writes with a breezy nonchalance that would seem facile if not for the underlying core of reflection and unacknowledged pain. His book is part memoir, part exploration of militant Islam, with a smattering of contemporary Afghan...

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Published: Mar 2003

Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's A...

Jen Lancaster

In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her grea...

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Published: May 2013

The Burn Journals

Brent Runyon

BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire. This is a true story.In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a chil...

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Published: Oct 2005

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a G...

Pamela Des Barres

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as sh...

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Published: Oct 2005

Pieces of My Heart: A Life

Robert J. Wagner

In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome ...

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Published: Sep 2009

If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won...

Betty White

The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Saturday Night Live! In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs to her...

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Published: Feb 2012

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

Julie Andrews

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Me...

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Published: Apr 2009

Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

"I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way."With striking inti...

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Published: Jun 2008

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss...

Portia De Rossi

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ." Portia de Rossi weighed only ...

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Published: Jul 2011

Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to th...

Freeman Hall

A humorous, easy-to-read, informative book on one of the most chaotic, exhausting, demanding jobs on the planet, "Retail Hell" exposes the day to day trauma of retail life while delivering practical, cynical, and sometimes b...

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Published: Oct 2010

Another Place at the Table

Kathy Harrison

Another Place at the Table' is the story of life at social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank, first-person story of a woman whose comp...

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Published: Jun 2004

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story ...

Mark R. Levin

Although Mark Levin is known as a constitutional lawyer and a nationally syndicated broadcaster, he is, first and foremost, a dog lover. In 1998, he and his family welcomed a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi int...

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Published: Oct 2009

Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth...

Martha Nibley Beck

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." ...

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Published: Aug 2011

Born Round: A Story of Family, Food a...

Frank Bruni

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficul...

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Published: Jun 2010

Grayson

Lynne Cox

One dark morning while the 17-year-old author was training for a long-distance swim, she became aware that something was swimming with her--a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother. This is the magical, mysterious t...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Edith Eva Eger

Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award and 2018 Christopher Award"Edith's strength and courage are remarkable…her life and work are an incredible example of forgiveness, resilience, and generosity."—Sheryl Sandber...

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Published: Sep 2018

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

Laura M. Flynn

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura's father of ...

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Published: Feb 2009

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

Michael Hingson

Faith. Trust. Triumph./B/PPI"I'm sorry," the doctor said. "He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him."/PPIGeorge and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old...

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Published: Aug 2012

But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town...

J. A. Jance

New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of malls. To music lover Jancee, New York City was a foreign country. So it was with bleak expectations that she ...

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Published: Jul 2007

Exploiting My Baby: A Memoir of Pregn...

Teresa Strasser

Teresa Strasser made her baby a spleen and some eyebrows. He got her a book deal. Everyone loves babies-and pregnant women-so TV and radio personality Teresa Strasser decided to use this obsession to her advantage. She came up with ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and...

Josh Swiller

A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world an...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Mem...

Patricia Harman

Heather is pale and thin, seventeen and pregnant with twins when Patricia Harman begins to care for her. Over the course of the next five seasons Patsy will see Heather through the loss of both babies and their father. She will also c...

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Published: Oct 2009

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Marya Hornbacher

When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher wa...

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Published: Apr 2009
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