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Titles by Discipline - Memoir & Biography
Click Here to Print This ListThe New Yorker, 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 diva renowned for her singing and… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541700666
USD: $32 / CAD: $40
On Sale: July 12th 2022
PublicAffairs
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
“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541620650
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: February 8th 2022
Basic Books
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
Winner of the 2022 Paris Book Award for General Nonfiction New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults Shelf Awareness 2022 Best Books of the Year Kirkus Review's 2022 Best Nonfiction Books and 2022 Best Books About Black Life in America Aspire TV's Top 5 Celebrity Memoirs of 2022 "If I… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306924002
USD: $27 / CAD: $34
On Sale: May 17th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316450348
USD: $17.99 / CAD: $22.99
On Sale: May 3rd 2022
Little, Brown and Company
"Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. He’d fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator.Then he was accused of… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306924194
USD: $29 / CAD: $37
On Sale: June 28th 2022
Grand Central Publishing
An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780306925146
USD: $17.99 / CAD: $22.99
On Sale: June 14th 2022
Hachette 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
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
USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99
On Sale: June 2nd 2015
Little, Brown and Company