Memoirs
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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Francis draws on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the...- $ 450.00
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Winter
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasonal Quartet, the acclaimed Norwegian author continues his intimate project of writing to his unborn daughter, offering her glimpses of the world she is about to enter. 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but...- $ 450.00
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Autumn
Written as a letter to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to introduce her to the world she will soon enter—not through grand declarations, but through the small, often overlooked details that make up a life. Each short essay, written daily, captures...- $ 450.00
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Becoming
In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares the story of her extraordinary journey—from growing up on the South Side of Chicago to becoming a lawyer, a mother, and a historic figure in American life. With honesty, warmth, and...- $ 430.00
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The Argonauts
Genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...- $ 350.00
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The Geography of Bliss
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens...- $ 450.00
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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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Our Migrant Souls
In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now. Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant...- $ 500.00
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Bicycle Diaries
Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his...- $ 450.00
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The Color of Everything
Growing up in the mountains of Utah, Cory Richards was constantly surrounded by the outdoors. His father, a high school teacher and a ski patroller, spent years teaching Richards and his brother how to ski, climb, mountaineer, and survive in the wild. Despite a...- $ 580.00
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Persepolis
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The...- $ 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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Stay True
Despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not...- $ 400.00
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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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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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I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died is Jennette McCurdy's bestselling memoir, offering a candid, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous account of her life as a child actor and the complex relationship she shared with her mother. Pushed into the entertainment industry at a young age, McCurdy...- $ 450.00
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How It Feels to Be Alive
Encounters with Art and Our Selves. Drawing on criticism, memoir, and cultural reflection, How It Feels to Be Alive explores the profound role art plays in shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. Inspired by Barbara Kruger’s idea of art as...- $ 500.00
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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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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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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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