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Titles by Discipline - Memoir & Biography
Click Here to Print This ListIn this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. Raised in Alabama,… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781538707685
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: April 11th 2023
Grand Central Publishing
A New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of-age journey as a Black boy, from the societal roots of trauma to finding joy. "If I had two wishes, it would be that D. Watkins spend an entire book writing through the terrifying wonder of Black boyness… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306924002
USD: $27 / CAD: $34
On Sale: May 17th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541700666
USD: $32 / CAD: $40
On Sale: July 12th 2022
PublicAffairs
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPRThis inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice.They didn't know who they had.So begins… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781538704998
USD: $17.99 / CAD: $22.99
On Sale: May 17th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. “You will fall in love with David Ambroz, his beautifully-told,… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306903540
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: September 13th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781645036524
USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99
On Sale: December 6th 2022
PublicAffairs
In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306924194
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: June 28th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
“Powerful and transcendent" —Chigozie Obioma "Both epic and intimate" —Margo JeffersonA deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781643751016
USD: $27 / CAD: $34
On Sale: February 21st 2023
Algonquin Books
NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE “[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781538753484
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: January 18th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
THE BESTSELLING, "REMARKABLE" (MARIE CLAIRE) MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "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
USD: $19.99 / CAD: $25.99
On Sale: June 2nd 2015
Little, Brown and Company