My Favourite Memoirs and Autobiographies

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  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

    • ASIN: B01MF8LTP4
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Abrams ComicArts

    National bestseller2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.   This b... [Read More]

  • The Best Advice in Six Words: Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More (Six-word Memoir)

    • ASIN: 1250067014
    • ISBN: 1250067014
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    The creator of the bestselling, short-form Six-Word Memoir series, Larry Smith, is back again with THE BEST ADVICE IN SIX WORDS, a poignant collection of universal wisdom, life lessons, and caution thrown to the wind. With 1,000 contributions from celebrities like Molly Ringwald, Whoopi Goldberg, Lemony Snicket, and Gary Shteyngart, as well as ever... [Read More]

  • The Best of Us: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1635570344
    • ISBN: 1635570344
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

    The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journali... [Read More]

  • Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction (Memoir Series)

    • ASIN: 1532984316
    • ISBN: 1532984316
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    "I could feel my chin falling toward my chest, my back hunching forward. My body was acting on its own, and my mind was empty, like all my memories had been erased. There was scenery behind my lids. Aqua-colored water and powdery sand that extended for miles. I was never going back to coke. I wanted more heroin. And I wanted it now." Leaving behin... [Read More]

  • The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

    • ASIN: B004T4KRJM
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Last of the Best a memoir

    • ASIN: 1530978912
    • ISBN: 1530978912
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Humor, pathos, togetherness and individual experiences are woven together in this whimsical memoir creating a tapestry of life as it once was. A new refreshing look at "the good old days." For three long years, forty six young girls who entered nursing school in 1956 pouring all their focus and energy into becoming Professional Nurses. Nine relate ... [Read More]

  • Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii

    • ASIN: 1732771251
    • ISBN: 1732771251
    • Manufacturer: Toby Neal

    For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call it homeless. We're just "camping" in the jungle on Kauai...We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’... [Read More]

  • In Pieces

    • ASIN: 1538763028
    • ISBN: 1538763028
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved... [Read More]

  • Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War

    • ASIN: 0062937480
    • ISBN: 0062937480
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROmaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the astonishing true story celebrated by Tom Brokaw, CBS This Morning, NPR, and the President. Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memo... [Read More]

  • My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife

    • ASIN: 0380794977
    • ISBN: 0380794977
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. And their unlikely union ... [Read More]

  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

    • ASIN: 0425261018
    • ISBN: 0425261018
    • Brand: Jenny Lawson
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, ... [Read More]

  • All the Best: My Life in Letters and Other Writings

    • ASIN: 1476731160
    • ISBN: 1476731160
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

    • ASIN: 1501135929
    • ISBN: 1501135929
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this instant and tenacious bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic,... [Read More]

  • Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction

    • ASIN: 1455559628
    • ISBN: 1455559628
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas reveals her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in a shockingly honest and emotional memoir. Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award in the First Book categoryInstant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to intervi... [Read More]

  • Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1250095913
    • ISBN: 1250095913
    • Brand: Flatiron Books
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

    The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist. Feminist Icon. Survivor.Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied ch... [Read More]

  • The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

    • ASIN: 1400040418
    • ISBN: 1400040418
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through genera... [Read More]

  • City of Girls: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07HZ2Q1MK
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

    Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and jus... [Read More]

  • Memoir '44: New Flight Plan

    • UPC: 824968300275
    • ASIN: B07QL3HJFT
    • Brand: Days of Wonder
    • Manufacturer: Days of Wonder

    Memoir ‘44 - new Flight plan is an expansion for Memoir ‘44. Players deploy air Units, such as fighters, fighter-bombers and bombers to support their Troops on the battlefield. New Flight plan’s set of streamlined rules grants new tactical options and is compatible with all existing scenarios in all theaters of operation.

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