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Biography & Memoir

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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir - trade paperback
By Shalom Auslander - $16.50 - add to cart

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he...

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life - hardcover
By Gerald Martin - $38.00 - add to cart

This unique biography will follow the rags to riches element of García Márquez's story, the tension in his life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing, and between sol...

 

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson - trade paperback
By Jann S. Wenner - $17.99 - add to cart

Hailed everywhere as a brilliant biography, GONZO is a startling portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, the genius who spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear a...

 

The Greatest Manitobans - Hardcover
By Winnipeg Free Press - $29.95 - add to cart

This beautiful hardcover coffee–table book profiles some of the greatest heroes of our time, from Louis Riel to Nellie McClung to Duff Robin to The Guess Who… It’s Manitoba’s history seen throug...

 

Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir - trade paperback
By Carolyn Jourdan - $16.95 - add to cart

Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home--to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and...

 

Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics - hardcover
By Paul Martin - $37.99 - add to cart

Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world. “The next thing you know, I w...

 

Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice - hardcover
By Maureen Mccormick - $27.95 - add to cart

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all—style, looks, boys, brains, and talent. No wonder her younger sister Jan was jealous! Fo...

 

Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping the Charts, and Winning Grammys - hardcover
By David Foster - $29.99 - add to cart

After almost four decades in the music business, David Foster -- producer, arranger, songwriter, performer -- is finally ready to talk. In this compelling and outspoken memoir, Foster shares some o...

 

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - trade paperback
By Toby Young - $16.00 - add to cart

With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there has never been a better time to savor this ...

 

Hurry Down Sunshine - hardcover
By Michael Greenberg - $29.95 - add to cart

At the age of 15, during one long and difficult summer, Michael Greenberg's daughter, Sally, was struck mad. Her visionary crackup occurred on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continued, among...

 

I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny - trade paperback
By Vivian Cash - $17.50 - add to cart

I Walked the Line is a chronicle of first love, long-kept secrets, betrayal, forgiveness, and the truth--told at last by Johnny Cash's first wife, the mother of his four daughters. It is a book tha...

 

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited - trade paperback
By Elyse Schein - $17.00 - add to cart

Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had a...

 

In Search of April Raintree (25th Anniversary Edition) - trade paperback
By Beatrice Mosionier - $18.00 - add to cart

Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they are separated, and each put into different foster homes. Yet over the years, the bond between them g...

 

In Spite of Myself: A Memoir - hardcover
By Christopher Plummer - $37.00 - add to cart

Canada’s most celebrated and acclaimed actor lets loose in a magnificent memoir that will delight and enchant readers across the country. A rollicking, rich self-portrait written by one of today...

 

In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom - trade paperback
By Qanta Ahmed - $15.99 - add to cart

This memoir is a journey into a complex world readers will find fascinating and at times repugnant. After being denied a visa to remain in the U.S., British-born Ahmed, a Muslim woman of Pakistani ...

 

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