1000 or more books in Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:
Find more Biography & Memoir books by browsing the categories below.
|
|||
From the Ground Up
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $26.00
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $26.00
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
From the Ground Up
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
|||
Klonopin Lunch
A Memoir
Written by Jessica Dorfman Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.00
Gritty. Dirty. Hard-core. Transformative. Funny. This is the real Sex and the City.
By her late twenties, Jessica Dorfman Jones had dutifully achieved everything she thought she was supposed to: marriage, law degree, high-paying job, nice apartment in Greenwich Village. But she was miserable and felt like she was living... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Jessica Dorfman Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.00
Gritty. Dirty. Hard-core. Transformative. Funny. This is the real Sex and the City.
By her late twenties, Jessica Dorfman Jones had dutifully achieved everything she thought she was supposed to: marriage, law degree, high-paying job, nice apartment in Greenwich Village. But she was miserable and felt like she was living... Read more >
An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted... Read more >
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
|
|||
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
Wallflower at the Orgy
Written by Nora Ephron
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.50
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more >
Written by Nora Ephron
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.50
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
|
|||
Mother Daughter Me
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.00
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.00
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Mother Daughter Me
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
|||
Wrapped in the Flag
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $25.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $25.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Wrapped in the Flag
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $28.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $28.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Girl, Interrupted
Written by Susanna Kaysen
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell... Read more >
Written by Susanna Kaysen
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
|
||||
Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
|
||||
Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
|
|||
|
|||
Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
|
||||
Bootstrapper
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
Bootstrapper
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
|
||||
Bootstrapper
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
|
|||
|
|||
Bootstrapper
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $17.50
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $17.50
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
The House Guests
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and considerable narrative talents to the human-animal bond in this charming... Read more >
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and considerable narrative talents to the human-animal bond in this charming... Read more >
|
||||
Tell My Sons
A Father's Last Letters
Written by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Read by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the... Read more >
A Father's Last Letters
Written by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Read by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the... Read more >
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
All God's Dangers
Written by Theodore Rosengarten
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to... Read more >
Written by Theodore Rosengarten
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to... Read more >
|
||||
Dear Girls Above Me
Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.00
Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.00
Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
