Category: Biography

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn't shy away from revealin...
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Things Seen (French Voices)

By: Ernaux, Annie

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Bison Books : March 2010

Seller ID: 440588

ISBN-13: 9780803228153

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: "Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse." In this "journal" Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in Bosni...
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

By: Grandin, Temple

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage : January 2006

Seller ID: 345269

ISBN-13: 9780307275653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Updated for a new era, the 25th anniversary edition of this seminal work on autism and neurodiversity provides "a uniquely fascinating view" (Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand) of the differences in our brains. Originally published in 1995 as an unprecedented look at autism, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person to give a report from "the country of autism." Introducing a groundbreaking model which analyzes people based on their patterns of thought, Grandin "charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in w...
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir

By: Wolff, Tobias

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Grove Press : February 2000

Seller ID: 101549

ISBN-13: 9780802136688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author
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This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity

By: Moon, Susan

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Shambhala : June 2010

Seller ID: 472220

ISBN-13: 9781590307762

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Lessons on the joys and challenges of growing older with grace and laughter, from a Zen teacher and writer who is like a Buddhist Anne Lamott (New York Journal of Books) Being a woman over sixty can sometimes be confusing, sometimes poignant, and sometimes hilarious. In this intimate and funny collection of essays, Zen Buddhist and writer Susan Moon maintains her sense of humor as she provides thoughtful insights on getting older. In This Is Getting Old, Moon touches on both the ups and downs of aging: Her bones are weakening, but she still feels her inner tomboy. She finds herself both an orp...
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This Is Paradise: An Irish mother's grief, an African village's plight, and the medical clinic that brought fresh hope to both

By: Shea, Suzanne Strempek

Price: $6.50

Publisher: PFP : April 2014

Seller ID: 409372

ISBN-13: 9780989237291

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Personalized inscription written in ink on title page otherwise pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

By: Holmes, Richard

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Pantheon : March 2017

Seller ID: 105139

ISBN-13: 9780307379689

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, here is a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author's own experiences with a history of the genre and explores the fascinating and surprising relationship between fact and fiction. In a book that ranges widely over art, science, and poetry, Richard Holmes confesses to a lifetime's obsession with his Romantic subjects. It has become for him a pursuit, or pilgrimage of the heart, that has taken him across three centuries, through much of Europe, and into the lively company of many earlier biographers...
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Thomas E. Dewey and His Times

By: Smith, Richard Norton

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1984

Seller ID: 465691

ISBN-13: 9780671417420

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Thoughts While Tending Sheep

By: Ilefeldt, W.G.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Crown : August 1988

Seller ID: 463731

ISBN-13: 9780517569191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir

By: Hijuelos, Oscar

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Gotham : June 2011

Seller ID: 10442

ISBN-13: 9781592406296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and, in turn, his literature. Growing up in 1950's working-class New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos journey to literary acclaim is the evolution of an unlikely writer. Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels. Born in Manhattan's Morningside Heights to Cuba...
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Three Journeys: An Automythology

By: Zweig, Paul

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Basic Books : May 1976

Seller ID: 266997

ISBN-13: 9780465086108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Three Little Words: A Memoir

By: Rhodes-Courter, Ashley

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers : May 2009

Seller ID: 364046

ISBN-13: 9781416948070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An inspiring true story of the tumultuous nine years Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent in the foster care system, and how she triumphed over painful memories and real-life horrors to ultimately find her own voice. Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama. Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the ...
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Three Mothers

By: Tubbs, Anna Malaika

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Flatiron Books : December 2021

Seller ID: 468154

ISBN-13: 9781250756138

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From Gates Scholar and First Lady of Stockton, CA, Anna Malaika Tubbs, comes The Three Mothers, the first book to celebrate the three great women who raised and shaped America's most pivotal heroes: MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about the Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who themselves were all born within six years of each other, all contending with the very specific prejudices faced by Black women during Jim Crow. Berdis, A...
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To Russia with Love: An Alaskan's Journey

By: Fischer, Victor,Wohlforth, Charles

Price: $9.99

Publisher: University of Alaska Press : October 2012

Seller ID: 433181

ISBN-13: 9781602231399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, DJ intact, light wear to edges.
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Trump Ph.D., Mary L.

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2020

Seller ID: 388604

ISBN-13: 9781982141462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combinati...
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Trump Ph.D., Mary L.

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2020

Seller ID: 405501

ISBN-13: 9781982141462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combinati...
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Too Much Of A Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon

By: Curry, Ramona

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press : February 1996

Seller ID: 10157

ISBN-13: 9780816627912

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

By: Simon, Carly

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : October 2019

Seller ID: 429254

ISBN-13: 9780374277727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The instant New York Times bestseller Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazineA chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair--Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history. Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connectio...
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Toussaint L'Ouverture: a biography and autobiography.

By: Series, Michigan Historical Reprint

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library : March 2006

Seller ID: 130997

ISBN-13: 9781425539771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Travel Light, Move Fast

By: Fuller, Alexandra

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : August 2020

Seller ID: 389468

ISBN-13: 9781101979815

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost. Then he lit his pipe and stroked his dog Harry's head. Harry put his paw on Dad's lap and they sat there, the two of them, one man and his dog, keepers to the secret of life. "Well?" she said. "Nothing comes to mind, quite honestly, Bobo," he said, with some surprise. "Now that I think about it, ma...
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Trooper Down! Life and Death in One of the Nation's Most Elite Law Enforcement Agencies

By: Bartlett, Marie

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Pocket : June 1990

Seller ID: 427518

ISBN-13: 9780671676100

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

By: Patchett, Ann

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 2005

Seller ID: 445946

ISBN-13: 9780060572150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives a...
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Truth in the Rivers

By: Hopkins, Bruce, Horii, Howard, N.

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Ice Cube Pr : November 2013

Seller ID: 37120

ISBN-13: 9781888160727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

By: Allison, Dorothy

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Plume : July 1996

Seller ID: 433318

ISBN-13: 9780452273405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them,...
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UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour

By: Kaz, Donna

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Skyhorse : November 2016

Seller ID: 407808

ISBN-13: 9781510709430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear to edges.
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Uncharted Journey

By: Kern, Elizabeth Holland Kern, Patrick

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Secret Garden Publishing : 2012

Seller ID: 16623

ISBN-13: 9789110005709

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Uncharted TerriTori

By: Spelling, Tori

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Gallery Books : June 2010

Seller ID: 424193

ISBN-13: 9781439187715

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Welcome to Los Angeles, birthplace and residence of Tori Spelling. It's not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand, and business is booming. Too bad when your job is to be yourself, you can't exactly take a break. Tori finally has everything she thought she wanted--a loving family and a successful career--but trying to live a normal life in Hollywood is a little weird. With the irresistible wit, attitude, and humor that fans have come to love, the New York...
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Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent

By: Burnett, John F.

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Rodale Books : September 2006

Seller ID: 445235

ISBN-13: 9781594863042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this candid, intimate account, an award-winning 20-year veteran NPR correspondent takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it's really like gathering the news on the front linesAs a radio journalist whose work appears regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, John F. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff and the Kosovo conflict. He has covered the drug wars in Central America; been embedded in a Marine Division in Iraq; and weathered Hurricane Katrina, breaking news hourly on the conditions in New Orleans. And he was...
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Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

By: Brennan, John O.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Celadon Books : October 2020

Seller ID: 463741

ISBN-13: 9781250241771

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** John Brennan is one of the hardest-working, most patriotic public servants I've ever seen, and our country is better off for it. As president, he was one of my closest advisors and a great friend. And in his memoir, Undaunted, you'll see why. I hope you'll read it.--President Barack ObamaA powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would b...
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Untamed

By: Doyle, Glennon,Melton, Glennon Doyle

Price: $8.98

Publisher: The Dial Press : March 2020

Seller ID: 469667

ISBN-13: 9781984801258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Over two million copies sold "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron saint of female empowerment" (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others' expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine - The Washington Post - Cosmopolitan - Marie Claire - Bloom...
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Unto the Sons

By: Talese, Gay

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Knopf : January 1992

Seller ID: 478034

ISBN-13: 9780679410348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World
At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.

"From the Paperback edition."
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Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of 18th Century America

By: Crawford, Alan Pell

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2000

Seller ID: 315174

ISBN-13: 9780684834740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Recreates one of the most sensational trials in American history involving Nancy Randolph, a young woman from a wealthy family in Virginia, who played a role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused on fathering and killing an illegitimate child.
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Up from Slavery: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, and Composition History, Criticism:2nd (Second) edition

By: Washington, Booker T.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Bantam Classic : January 1959

Seller ID: 412382

ISBN: B0012WXBBU

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Completely intact inside and out just a little dirty
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Vanilla Slim: An Improbable Pimp in the Empire of Lust

By: Armstrong, Bob

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Da Capo Press : December 2005

Seller ID: 235713

ISBN-13: 9780786717019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On December 8, 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article by "Insight" contributor Bob Armstrong titled "Zen Dolls: Confessions of a Pimp in the Pod." In the article, Bob briefly recounted his adventures running an "escort" service before being arrested on March 27, 2002, on one count of pimping and two counts of selling drugs, all the while working as a freelance journalist. He spent time in the county lock-up where fellow inmates dubbed him "Vanilla Slim," but with a clean record he got off with 19 days served and three years probation. Articulate, argumentative, engaging, and wi...
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

By: Schiff, Stacy

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Modern Library : April 2000

Seller ID: 440141

ISBN-13: 9780375755347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's V ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the migr author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, V ra, and third for no one at all. "Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spannin...
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Vesco

By: Herzog, Arthur

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Doubleday : September 1987

Seller ID: 433575

ISBN-13: 9780385241762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Village Idiot: A Manhattan Memoir

By: Sheinkopf, David

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Full Court Press : February 2022

Seller ID: 415045

ISBN-13: 9781946989963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer

By: Dalsimer, Katherine

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : March 2002

Seller ID: 458326

ISBN-13: 9780300092080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows," beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father, and brother. Yet vulnerable as she was ("skinless" was her word) she began, through these years, to practice her art--and to discover how it could serve her. Ultimately, she came to feel that it was her "shock-receiving capacity" that had made her a writer.Astonishingly gifted from the start, Woolf learned to be attentive to the ...
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Visions of Kerouac: The Life of Jack Kerouac

By: Jarvis, Charles E.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Ithaca Pr : September 1974

Seller ID: 473885

ISBN-13: 9780915940004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good