Category: Memoir and Essays

A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Hub City Press : October 2020

Seller ID: 178935

ISBN-13: 9781938235719

Condition: New

A New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book - A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris - Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiob...
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Listening Is an Act of Love Deluxe Gift Collection

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Penguin Press : January 2007

Seller ID: 189648

ISBN-13: 9781594201615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : October 2008

Seller ID: 1962

ISBN-13: 9780143114345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times bestseller As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives--to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage, and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or stereotype...
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Rat & The Devil: Journal Letters of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Alyson Publications : January 1988

Seller ID: 192046

ISBN-13: 9781555831103

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way (Unbossed, 2)

By: Adams, Khristi Lauren

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Broadleaf Books : March 2022

Seller ID: 193969

ISBN-13: 9781506474267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Black girls are leading, organizing, advocating, and creating. They are starting nonprofits. Building political coalitions. Promoting diverse literature. Fighting cancer. Improving water quality. Working to prevent gun violence. Are we ready to learn from their leadership? Black women are literally at the helm of every movement, says Tyah-Amoy Roberts, an activist and a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. Every push for social justice. Every push for social change. We need to take our stories into our own hands. In Unbossed, they do. From Khristi Lauren Adams, author of the ce...
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

By: Addario, Lynsey

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : November 2016

Seller ID: 177630

ISBN-13: 9780143128410

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them." --The Washington Post War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It's her work, but it's much more than that: it's her singular calling. Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young ...
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Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

By: Al-Kadhi, Amrou

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Fourth Estate : May 17, 2022

Seller ID: 195710

ISBN-13: 9780008306106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themselfWINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDAmrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.Amrou's parents weren't so happy...From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Musl...
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Harper : November 2019

Seller ID: 186958

ISBN-13: 9780062952394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom's most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her inf...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday : September 1997

Seller ID: 179060

ISBN-13: 9780385484510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your bus...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday : September 1997

Seller ID: 190567

ISBN-13: 9780385484510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your bus...
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

By: Albright, Madeleine

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 2022

Seller ID: 179467

ISBN-13: 9780062802279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." --New YorkerWith a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--among the world's most admired and tireless public servants--reflects on the challenge of continuing one's career far beyond the normal age of retirement.In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America's first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she answered. "I am still ...
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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

By: Alderton, Dolly

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : February 2021

Seller ID: 184787

ISBN-13: 9780062968791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It's a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it." --Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, P...
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The Light of the World: A Memoir

By: Alexander, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : April 2015

Seller ID: 154128

ISBN-13: 9781455599875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid price, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life, the trauma resulting from her husband's death, and the solace found in caring for her two teenage sons, Alexander universalizes a very personal quest for meaning and...
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Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

By: Ali, Wajahat

Price: $26.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2022

Seller ID: 173151

ISBN-13: 9780393867978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent?Awkward, left-handed, suffering from OCD, and wearing Husky pants, Ali grew up on the margins of the American mainstream, devoid of Brown superheroes, where people like him were portrayed as goofy sidekicks, shop owners with funny accents, sweaty terrorists, or aspiring sweaty terrorists. Driven by his desire to expand the American narrative to include protagonists wh...
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Presidential Archivist: A Memoir

By: Alsobrook, David E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mercer University Press : December 2020

Seller ID: 189252

ISBN-13: 9780881467635

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman

By: Anderson, Joan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown : April 2005

Seller ID: 158316

ISBN-13: 9780767914758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the author of the bestselling A Year By the Sea, comes the inspiring story about how her and Joan Erikson's friendship pushed them to remember the importance of transformation and sustained them through their unique challenges. Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson's chance encounter with a wise and astonishing woman helped her usher in the self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal. First glimpsed as a slender figure on a fogged-in beach, Joan Erikson was not only a friend and confidante when she was most needed, but also a guide as Anderson s...
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An Unfinished Marriage

By: Anderson, Joan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Broadway Books : March 2003

Seller ID: 158315

ISBN-13: 9780767908719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight. With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave decision to take a year for herself away from her marriage, her frank assessment of herself at midlife, and her openness in sharing her fears as well as her triumphs won her admirers and inspired women across the country to reconsider their options. In this new book, Anderson does for marriage what she...
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Wouldnt Take Nothing for My Journey Now

By: ANGELOU, MAYA

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Random House Inc : September 1993

Seller ID: 192438

ISBN-13: 9780679427438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ghosting: A Widow's Voyage Out

By: Ascher, Barbara

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Pushcart Press : December 2021

Seller ID: 169897

ISBN-13: 9780960097760

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

By: Ashcraft, Tami Oldham,McGearhart, Susea

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Hachette Books : July 2003

Seller ID: 191812

ISBN-13: 9780786886760

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Picture yourself in a tropical climate, sailing out to sea with your fiance. Life is perfect; you're young and in love. Then picture everything going horribly wrong. You inadvertently sail into a hurricane, you're injured, and you wake up to find that your loved one is gone. Your boat's motor is shot and your masts have disappeared. Utterly alone, you're weeks from dry land. Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed with flashbacks to her romance with her doomed fiance ...
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Category: Memoir and Essays