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New Biography & Memoir

Updated 10/14/20

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The Cancer Journals (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Tracy K. Smith (Foreword by)
$14.00
ISBN: 9780143135203
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 13th, 2020
The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain Cover Image

The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain (Hardcover)

By Mark Salter
$35.00
ISBN: 9781982120931
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 13th, 2020
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck Cover Image

Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (Hardcover)

By William Souder
$32.00
ISBN: 9780393292268
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 13th, 2020
Is This Anything? Cover Image

Is This Anything? (Hardcover)

By Jerry Seinfeld
$35.00
ISBN: 9781982112691
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 6th, 2020
Golem Girl: A Memoir Cover Image

Golem Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Riva Lehrer
$30.00
ISBN: 9781984820303
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Published: One World - October 6th, 2020
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard Cover Image

The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (Hardcover)

By John Birdsall
$35.00
ISBN: 9780393635713
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 6th, 2020
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America Cover Image

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Hardcover)

By Maria Hinojosa
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982128654
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Published: Atria Books - September 15th, 2020
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter Cover Image

Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter (Hardcover)

By Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984878168
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Published: Viking - September 15th, 2020
Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual Cover Image

Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual (Hardcover)

By Terri Cheney
$27.00
ISBN: 9780306846304
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Published: Hachette Go - September 8th, 2020
Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady Cover Image

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady (Hardcover)

By Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982151249
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Published: Gallery Books - September 1st, 2020
I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir Cover Image

I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Chasten Buttigieg
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982138127
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Published: Atria Books - September 1st, 2020
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi Cover Image

The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi (Hardcover)

By Richard Grant
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501177828
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 1st, 2020
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic Cover Image

How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic (Hardcover)

By Bill Hayes
$20.00
ISBN: 9781635576887
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - August 25th, 2020
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir Cover Image

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Sara Seager
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525576259
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Published: Crown - August 18th, 2020
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts Cover Image

Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts (Paperback)

By Jessica J. Lee
$16.95
ISBN: 9781646220007
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Published: Catapult - August 4th, 2020
The Fixed Stars Cover Image

The Fixed Stars (Hardcover)

By Molly Wizenberg
$25.00
ISBN: 9781419742996
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - August 4th, 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Cover Image

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)

By Natasha Trethewey
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062248572
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Published: Ecco - July 28th, 2020
The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life Cover Image

The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life (Hardcover)

By Alex Trebek
$26.00
ISBN: 9781982157999
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 21st, 2020
Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game Cover Image

Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game (Hardcover)

By Oliver Stone
$28.00
ISBN: 9780358346234
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - July 21st, 2020
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Cover Image

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You (Paperback)

By Aleksandar Hemon
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250619648
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Published: Picador - July 28th, 2020
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Miracle Country: A Memoir Cover Image

Miracle Country: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Kendra Atleework
$27.95
ISBN: 9781616209988
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Published: Algonquin Books - July 14th, 2020
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) Cover Image

Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (Paperback)

By MELVILLE HOUSE (Series edited by), Nikki Giovanni (Introduction by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781612198736
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Published: Melville House - July 7th, 2020
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt Cover Image

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (Hardcover)

By Anonymous
$24.00
ISBN: 9780358216773
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - July 7th, 2020
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir Cover Image

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Michele Harper
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525537380
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 7th, 2020
Empty: A Memoir Cover Image

Empty: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Susan Burton
$27.00
ISBN: 9780812992847
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Published: Random House - June 23rd, 2020
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Cover Image

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Bakari Sellers
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062917454
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Published: Amistad - May 19th, 2020
All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir Cover Image

All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Mary Morris
$26.95
ISBN: 9780385546096
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Published: Nan A. Talese - June 9th, 2020
Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power Cover Image

Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power (Paperback)

By Jennifer Worley
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062971326
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Published: Harper Perennial - June 9th, 2020
The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border Cover Image

The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border (Hardcover)

By Rosayra Pablo Cruz, Julie Schwietert Collazo
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062941923
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Published: HarperOne - June 2nd, 2020
The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem Cover Image

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem (Hardcover)

By Sandra Tsing Loh
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393249200
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 2nd, 2020
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir Cover Image

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Wayétu Moore
$26.00
ISBN: 9781644450314
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Published: Graywolf Press - June 2nd, 2020
One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems Cover Image

One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems (Hardcover)

By Aaron Berkowitz
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062964212
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Published: HarperOne - June 2nd, 2020
Fairest: A Memoir Cover Image

Fairest: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Meredith Talusan
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525561309
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Published: Viking - May 26th, 2020
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes Cover Image

The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes (Paperback)

By Judith Hoare
$20.00
ISBN: 9781950354108
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Published: Scribe Us - May 26th, 2020
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir Cover Image

The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By André Leon Talley
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593129258
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Published: Ballantine Books - May 19th, 2020
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth Cover Image

Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth (Hardcover)

By Benjamin Taylor
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525505242
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Published: Penguin Books - May 19th, 2020
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Cover Image

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Bakari Sellers
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062917454
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Published: Amistad - May 19th, 2020
Stray: A Memoir Cover Image

Stray: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Stephanie Danler
$25.95
ISBN: 9781101875964
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Published: Knopf - May 19th, 2020
The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies Cover Image

The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies (Paperback)

By Megan Griswold
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593139264
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Published: Rodale Books - May 19th, 2020
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s Cover Image

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (Hardcover)

By Maggie Doherty
$29.95
ISBN: 9781524733056
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Published: Knopf - May 19th, 2020
How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir Cover Image

How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir (Paperback)

By Kate Mulgrew
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062846839
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - May 19th, 2020
Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown Cover Image

Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown (Hardcover)

By Jim Newton
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316392464
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 12th, 2020
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On Lighthouses (Hardcover)

By Jazmina Barrera, Christina Macsweeney (Translator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781949641011
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Published: Two Lines Press - May 12th, 2020
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story Cover Image

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story (Hardcover)

By Bess Kalb
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525654711
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Published: Knopf - March 17th, 2020
The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Cover Image

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (Hardcover)

By Samantha Harvey
$24.00
ISBN: 9780802148827
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Published: Grove Press - May 12th, 2020
Grand: A Grandparent's Wisdom for a Happy Life Cover Image

Grand: A Grandparent's Wisdom for a Happy Life (Hardcover)

By Charles Johnson
$19.99
ISBN: 9781335015860
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Published: Hanover Square Press - May 5th, 2020
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Pelosi (Hardcover)

By Molly Ball
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250252869
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 5th, 2020
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees Cover Image

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees (Hardcover)

By Helen Jukes
$26.95
ISBN: 9781524747862
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Published: Pantheon - May 5th, 2020
The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland Cover Image

The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland (Hardcover)

By Walter Thompson-Hernandez
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062910608
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Published: William Morrow - April 28th, 2020
I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir Cover Image

I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Val Kilmer
$27.99
ISBN: 9781982144890
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 21st, 2020
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In Cover Image

Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Hardcover)

By Phuc Tran
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250194718
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Published: Flatiron Books - April 21st, 2020
What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers Cover Image

What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers (Hardcover)

By Jessica Pearce Rotondi
$26.00
ISBN: 9781951213077
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Published: Unnamed Press - April 21st, 2020
What We Carry: A Memoir Cover Image

What We Carry: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Maya Shanbhag Lang
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525512394
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Published: The Dial Press - April 28th, 2020
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs Cover Image

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250261878
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Published: Celadon Books - April 21st, 2020
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Cover Image

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Hardcover)

By Alia Volz
$27.00
ISBN: 9780358006091
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - April 20th, 2020
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love Cover Image

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love (Hardcover)

By Nina Renata Aron
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525576679
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Published: Crown - April 21st, 2020
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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Cover Image

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)

By Lulu Miller
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501160271
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 14th, 2020

Aggie's Nonfiction Pick for April

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Cover Image

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)

By Robert Kolker
$29.95
ISBN: 9780385543767
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Published: Doubleday - April 7th, 2020
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir Cover Image

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover)

By Esther Safran Foer
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525575986
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Published: Tim Duggan Books - March 31st, 2020
About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son Cover Image

About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son (Hardcover)

By Peggy Rowe, Mike Rowe (Foreword by)
$26.00
ISBN: 9781948677448
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Published: Forefront Books - April 14th, 2020
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir Cover Image

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir (Hardcover)

By Madeleine Albright
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062802255
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Published: Harper - April 14th, 2020
Miss Aluminum: A Memoir Cover Image

Miss Aluminum: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Susanna Moore
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374279714
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 14th, 2020
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars Cover Image

Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars (Hardcover)

By Francesca Wade
$28.99
ISBN: 9780451497796
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Published: Tim Duggan Books - April 7th, 2020