Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
This Is Basic Sh*t: Uncensored Thoughts from a Black Dude about Stuff We Know and Are Shocked You Don't
From the creator of the award-winning TV series black-ish comes a collection of personal, hilarious, and provocative essays on what it's like to be black in America today.In THIS IS BASIC SH*T, Kenya Barris uses his own personal stories to talk about...
$28.00
The Diary Of A Young Girl
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.Updated...
$14.00
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.......
$16.00
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the...
$18.99
Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
A 2015 Stonewall Honor BookA groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable...
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Facing Adversity with Audacity
This is a very engaging book based on compelling stories of human triumph over adversity coming out of Africa, Asia and America. Gideon's personal journey and his account of his mother and uncle in this book exemplify what it means...
$47.00
Armed with Good Intentions
Wallace “Wallo267” Peeples spent twenty years in and out of the prison system before restarting his life and catapulting himself to unforeseen levels of social impact, cultural influence, and success. Now he shares his story with the trademark honesty that’s...
$28.99
Elizabeth Hooton 1600 1672 Une Guerriere De La Paix. Ses Lettres (French Edition)
Through her Letters written to Friends, to her opponents: priests, magistrates, politicians, including the king, Elizabeth Hooton leaves a captivating testimony of her fights for and of her activism in quest of the Truth, Freedom, Justice and equity for all...
$47.00
Crossing the River
What do you do when you realize that one of your most fundamental ideas about yourself is actually false? How do you resituate yourself in a world that has been turned upside down? This book charts the early stage of...
$37.50
Compagnon! journal d'un noussi en guerre: 2002-2011 (French Edition)
Compagnon ! Journal d'un noussi en guerre: 2002-2011 raconte la vie tant intime que professionnelle de Garvey dont une partie importante s'est déroulée pendant 'les années d'instabilité' en Côte d'Ivoire. Pendant cette période Garvey a joué un rôle substantiel dans...
$73.00
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICK From the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous book that traces the passing of...
$32.00
$24.00
Born to Rule
Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African president-monarch. He writes about his 30-year reign during which he has been in the driver's seat leading his country on the cobbled road from underdevelopment to underdevelopment. The author points out...
$55.00
The Black Man and His Visa
Tardif is the son of a medical practitioner, an herbalist and a spiritual healer in northwestern Cameroun. When his father eventually gives up his practice, his mother struggles to put him and four of his sisters through high school. But...
$47.00
Before the Rainbow
Emmanuel Fru Doh, a native of Cameroon, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He taught at the University of Yaounde (E.N.S. Bambili) for almost a decade-the 90s-before leaving for the US. He then had a brief...
$33.00
Lovely One: A Memoir Hardcover
Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve...
$35.00
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You and I, as Mothers: A Raw and Honest Guide to Motherhood
“[Prepon] returns to the written word with this heartfelt, honest look at motherhood, styled as both informative guidebook and raw memoir.” ―Entertainment Weekly When actor, director, and author Laura Prepon first became a mother, she felt raw, full of stress, and blindsided....
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$21.99
Beyond the Mask: How My Tragedy Sparked an Incredible Life: Lessons I Might Never Have Learned
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Beyond the Mask: How My Tragedy Sparked an Incredible Life: Lessons I Might Never Have Learned
As a seventeen-year-old volunteer firefighter, Brian Walsh suffered third-degree burns to his face. But he chose not to let that tragedy destroy him, and instead used it to create a magnificent life—both personally and professionally.Minutes before Brian Walsh, then just...
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Angels and Entrepreneurs: A Lifestyle Formula for Starting Your Own Business and Riding the Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurship
Wall Street Journal bestseller!Get inspired to start your own successful business!Bob Schlegel grew up on a struggling family farm, and like his entrepreneurial father, he took charge of his destiny by starting his own businesses—often more than one at a time....
$28.00
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2013
This long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century, from Mexico to Morocco, Paris to Rome, and beyond. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been...
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$27.00
Freud: The Man, The Scientist, and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Featuring 150 images and documents—including diary extracts, personal notes, and otherexclusive items from London's Freud Museum—this insightful bio provides a glimpse into the mind of the “Father ofPsychoanalysis.” Sigmund Freud remains a towering figure whose therapeutic innovations, including the “talking cure,” free...
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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek―a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat,...
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$23.95
I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know
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I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know
This gripping inspirational memoir grapples with the tension between faith and science—and between death and hope—as a seasoned neurosurgeon faces insurmountable odds and grief both in the office and at home.WINNER OF THE ECPA CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD® • “Beautiful, haunting, powerful.”—Daniel G....
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Billy Graham and Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me contains 101 fascinating stories from all the living U.S. presidents, well-known pastors, country singers and other celebrities, and world leaders, relating their personal experiences with Billy Graham.Steve Posner teaches Advanced Writing...
$16.00
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me contains 101 fascinating stories from all the living U.S. presidents, well-known pastors, country singers and other celebrities, and world leaders, relating their personal experiences with Billy Graham.Renowned Evangelical preacher Billy Graham has...
$24.95
Margaret Thatcher on Leadership: Lessons for American Conservatives Today
This inspirational and practical guide for conservatives combines stories from Lady Thatcher’s life with principles and strategies conservatives can apply to their challenges today. Nile Gardiner and Stephen Thompson outline the critical lessons conservatives can learn from Lady Thatcher on...
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Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America’s Favorite Carpenter
Ty Pennington shares stories from his life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite home shows! As a kid, Ty Pennington had too much energy. He was chaotic, bouncing off the walls, and on a first-name basis with the local...
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Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862-June 1863
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Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862-June 1863
No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the “cavalier mystique” as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at...
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Why Soldiers Miss War: The Journey Home
What is it about war that soldiers miss? War correspondent Peterson explores this topic from the perspective of both a combatant and a witness in this moving book.Ask most combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and...
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$24.95
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help
In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes for their daughters. But now their...
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Teddy Roosevelt: American Rough Rider
Theodore Roosevelt was much more than "just" the 26th President of the United States. He wore the titles of explorer, soldier, statesman and others you'll see in Teddy Roosevelt.You may think of Teddy Roosevelt as a famous president and renowned explorer. But...
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