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Titles by Discipline - Memoir & Biography
Click Here to Print This List“Erudite and devastating… Crawford's writing is astonishing… Notes on a Silencing is a purposefully named, brutal and brilliant retort to the asinine question of 'Why now?'… The story is crafted with the precision of a thriller, with revelations that sent me reeling…” —Jessica Knoll, New York TimesA Best Book of 2020:… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316491556
Price: $28
On Sale: July 7th 2020
Little, Brown and Company
Visionary. Iconoclast. Political Survivor. "A powerful and entertaining look" (Governor Gavin Newsom) at the extraordinary life and political career of Governor Jerry Brown.Jerry Brown is no ordinary politician. Like his state, he is eclectic, brilliant, unpredictable and sometimes weird. And, as with so much that California invents and exports, Brown's… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316392464
Price: $30
On Sale: May 12th 2020
Little, Brown and Company
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316558723
Price: $16.99
On Sale: January 21st 2020
Little, Brown and Company
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781568589404
Price: $16.99
On Sale: February 19th 2019
PublicAffairs
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first"… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781546083450
Price: $17.99
On Sale: September 10th 2019
Center Street
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus)A New York Times Book Review Editors’… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316463591
Price: $29
On Sale: July 14th 2020
Little, Brown and Company
Named by Esquire as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year: Chanel Miller's Know My Name meets Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir of a young soldier driven to prove herself in a man's world.Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781538731529
Price: $17.99
On Sale: June 9th 2020
Grand Central Publishing
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out.… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316322423
Price: $17.99
On Sale: June 2nd 2015
Little, Brown and Company
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541617865
Price: $30
On Sale: March 31st 2020
Basic Books
Written in Auschwitz itself and translated for the first time ever into English, this one-of-a-kind, minute-by-minute true account is a crucial historical testament to a Holocaust survivor's fight for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany."We know that there is only one ending to this, only one… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781538701430
Price: $28
On Sale: January 21st 2020
Grand Central Publishing