Memoirs
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Notes from an Island
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual...- $ 600.00
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including...- $ 550.00
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Doppelganger
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d...- $ 500.00
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Aftermath
Acclaimed author Rachel Cusk offers a raw account of life after the collapse of her ten-year marriage. Set in the aftermath of personal upheaval, the memoir follows Cusk as she navigates the complex process of rebuilding her identity—not just as a writer or woman,...- $ 500.00
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In Order to Live
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto...- $ 400.00
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Knife
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife.What...- $ 650.00
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Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built...- $ 650.00
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst...- $ 400.00
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The Liars' Club
A 20th-anniversary edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, featuring a new foreword by Lena Dunham. When it was first published twenty years ago, THE LIARS' CLUB took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new...- $ 360.00
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Pageboy - Signed
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate...- $ 500.00
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in...- $ 350.00
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Madly, Deeply
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard’s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and...- $ 400.00
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Dreams From My Father
The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawai’i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts...- $ 350.00
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides – a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she’s learned over years...- $ 370.00
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The Memory Keeper
Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt – where they will starve to death. Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative...- $ 500.00
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The Heart of Things
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words...- $ 350.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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The Trip to Echo Spring
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men:...- $ 500.00
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My First Summer in the Sierra
A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane.In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California’s Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His...- $ 550.00
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Art Work
On the Creative Life. Sally Mann reflects on the creative process through a collection of personal stories, insights, and lessons drawn from her life and career as an artist. Blending humor, honesty, and thoughtful reflection, the book explores themes such as hard work, risk-taking,...- $ 650.00
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis. In 1984, Marjane escapes the rise of fundamentalism and the Iran-Iraq War, beginning a new life in Vienna. Far from her family and friends, she navigates the turbulence of adolescence in exile, finding fleeting belonging among other...- $ 350.00
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The Passage of Power
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964. It is an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both John Kennedy’s 1960 presidential nomination and his decision to offer Johnson the vice...- $ 450.00
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M Train
In M Train, Patti Smith invites readers into her daily ritual at a quiet Greenwich Village café, where black coffee fuels reflections that drift between memory, dream, and reality. From this intimate starting point, her journey unfolds across a vivid landscape—visiting Casa Azul, the...- $ 300.00
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
With a foreword by Hilton Als, this collection gathers essays written between 1968 and 2000 by the celebrated essayist and journalist Joan Didion, many of them published together for the first time. The pieces offer a revealing look into Didion’s mind and working process,...- $ 400.00
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South and West
Joan Didion, acclaimed bestselling author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has long kept notebooks filled with overheard conversations, interviews, essay drafts, and collected articles. Two extended excerpts from her 1970s notebooks offer a sharp and...- $ 400.00
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Night
A powerful new English translation by Marion Wiesel brings renewed clarity to Elie Wiesel’s most renowned work: Night, a stark and deeply moving autobiographical account of his experiences as a teenager imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Rendered by Marion Wiesel, the author’s wife and...- $ 250.00
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton first met at a poetry workshop at Boston University, where an immediate connection quickly developed into a complicated rivalry fueled by both admiration and envy. In the years that followed, the...- $ 400.00
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Happening
In 1963, twenty-three-year-old Annie Ernaux discovers she is pregnant. Unmarried and alone, she is overwhelmed by shame and fear. In a society where such a pregnancy would mark both her and her family with social disgrace, she knows she cannot keep the child. Written...- $ 300.00
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Means of Ascent
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This...- $ 450.00
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The Liars' Club: 10th Anniversary Edition
A fierce, funny, and unforgettable memoir that redefined the genre. In The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr recounts her turbulent East Texas childhood with sharp wit, raw honesty, and unflinching love. Amid the oil refineries and cigarette smoke of a small town, Karr grows up...- $ 360.00
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The Book of Alchemy
From a young age, Suleika Jaouad has turned to journaling to navigate life’s triumphs and trials. Through illness, heartbreak, and uncertainty, the simple act of putting pen to paper has been her lifeline—and she knows she is not alone. In a world that often...- $ 450.00
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Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia from Revolution to Autocracy Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the women who have lived, fought, and struggled within it—from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family...- $ 650.00
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Notes on Grief
Written after the sudden loss of her beloved father in the summer of 2020, Notes on Grief unfolds against the backdrop of a world transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Separated from her family during lockdowns, Adichie confronts the shock of his passing, the pain of...- $ 250.00
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The Woman in Me
With over two million copies sold, The Woman in Me is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), and “radiant” (The New York Times). In June 2021, the world stopped to listen as Britney Spears spoke...- $ 600.00
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty two books—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our...- $ 500.00
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Lee Krasner
Long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now recognized as a major figure in 20th-century art—a bold innovator whose work helped shape modernism. In Lee Krasner, acclaimed biographer Gail Levin offers a richly detailed and engrossing account of an artist...- $ 400.00
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Memorial Days
Many cultural and religious traditions make space for grief, urging the bereaved to withdraw from daily life and tend to their sorrow. But in today’s world, grief is often met not with stillness, but with bureaucracy and to-do lists. That’s exactly what confronted Geraldine...- $ 400.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
In this profound memoir, Yiyun Li confronts the unimaginable grief of losing both of her teenage sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. Vincent died in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Li refrains from labeling her experience as "grieving,"...- $ 550.00
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Swing Low: A Life
One quiet morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and ended his life. In the eyes of his Mennonite community, he was everything a man should be: a devoted husband, a beloved father, and a gifted teacher admired...- $ 400.00
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
In her first work of nonfiction, acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews turns her gaze inward in a raw, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the impossible task of explaining why we write. When a literary event organizer in Mexico City asks Toews a simple question—“Why...- $ 550.00
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Cry for Me, Argentina
A chaotic, hilarious, and unfiltered memoir of absurdity, survival, and sex jokes—from Argentine American writer and performer Tamara Yajia. Tamara Yajia was born into a family where normal didn’t stand a chance: her grandfather sold poppers and salami, her mother is an OnlyFans model,...- $ 550.00
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
A brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard. Determined to not let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA after graduation, Nguyen opted...- $ 550.00
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The Light We Carry
In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering...- $ 450.00
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Climbing Days
Dorothy Pilley was a pioneer of women's climbing a hundred years ago. She founded a club celebrating women's climbing and - starting in Wales, the Lake District and Skye - she went on to climb the major mountain ranges of Europe throughout the 1920s....- $ 500.00
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Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw
A witty and heartfelt journey across Canada through the eyes of acclaimed writer Will Ferguson. From soaring over Newfoundland in a seaplane to paddling through the quiet northern wilderness, Ferguson explores the breathtaking landscapes and hidden stories of his homeland—sometimes accompanied by his curious...- $ 500.00
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Cacophony of Bone
When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of that...- $ 550.00
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Summer
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...- $ 500.00
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Spring
You don’t know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don’t know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don’t know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don’t know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in...- $ 450.00
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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
A Rebel in Gaza is the powerful memoir of Asmaa al-Ghoul, a fearless Palestinian journalist and activist born in Rafah and raised in the Gaza Strip. From a young age, she defied the restrictive norms around her—refusing to cover her hair, questioning political dogma,...- $ 450.00
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