Category: Memoirs

All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Books : December 2012

Seller ID: 38370

ISBN-13: 9780143123026

A celebration of love from StoryCorpsIn All There Is, StoryCorps founder David Isay shares stories from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many remarkable journeys that relationships can take. In these pages we discover that love is found in unexpected places: a New York tollbooth, a military base in Iraq, an airport lounge. We encounter love that survives discrimination, illness, poverty, distance--even death. Carrying us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, All There Is enriches our understanding of love and of t...
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All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Books : December 2012

Seller ID: 93102

ISBN-13: 9780143123026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A celebration of love from StoryCorpsIn All There Is, StoryCorps founder David Isay shares stories from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many remarkable journeys that relationships can take. In these pages we discover that love is found in unexpected places: a New York tollbooth, a military base in Iraq, an airport lounge. We encounter love that survives discrimination, illness, poverty, distance--even death. Carrying us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, All There Is enriches our understanding of love and of t...
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Penguin Books for English: Developmental)

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 2008

Seller ID: 77141

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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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Penguin Books for English: Developmental)

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 2008

Seller ID: 93122

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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My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir: A Memoir

By: Abeel, Samantha

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks : January 2005

Seller ID: 99047

ISBN-13: 9780439339056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Abeel describes her struggles with a math-related learning disability, and how it forced her to find inner strength and courage.Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, S...
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Twilight of the Tenderfoot

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing : January 2002

Seller ID: 130987

ISBN-13: 9780739438190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

I Hear She's a Real Bitch

By: Agg, Jen

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Anchor Canada : August 2018

Seller ID: 154003

ISBN-13: 9780385686891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.

Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world around her. Agg's first book, I Hear She's a Real Bitch, is caustic yet intimate, and wryly observant; an unforgettable glimpse into the life of one of the most interesting, smart, trail-blazing voices of this moment.
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $2.95

Publisher: HarperVia : April 1999

Seller ID: 172562

ISBN-13: 9780060930172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, po...
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Three Many Cooks: One Mom, Two Daughters: Their Shared Stories of Food, Faith & Family

By: Anderson, Pam,Keet, Maggy,Damelio, Sharon

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books : April 2015

Seller ID: 250616

ISBN-13: 9780804178952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When the women behind the popular blog Three Many Cooks gather in the busiest room in the house, there are "never" too many cooks in the kitchen. Now acclaimed cookbook author Pam Anderson and her daughters, Maggy Keet and Sharon Damelio, blend compelling reflections and well-loved recipes into one funny, candid, and irresistible book. Together, Pam, Maggy, and Sharon reveal the challenging give-and-take between mothers and daughters, the passionate belief that food nourishes both body" and" soul, and the simple wonder that arises from good meals shared. Pam chronicles her epicurean journey, ...
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

By: Andrews, Bryce

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Atria : July 2014

Seller ID: 236730

ISBN-13: 9781476710846

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed" (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys). In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sun's twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana--a high valley surrounded by mountain ranges a...
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How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Asimov, Eric

Price: $2.50

Publisher: William Morrow : October 2012

Seller ID: 256008

ISBN-13: 9780061802522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eric Asimov, the acclaimed chief wine critic for the New York Times, has written a beautiful and thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto, How to Love Wine.With charm, wit, and intelligence, Asimov tells how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper on Long Island to the most coveted job in the industry. He evaluates the current wine culture, discussing trends both interesting and alarming, and celebrates the extraordinary pleasures of wine while, at the same time, questioning the conventional wisdom about wine.Whether you're a connoisseur or a novice, already l...
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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

By: Auslander, Shalom

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover : October 2007

Seller ID: 219068

ISBN-13: 9781594489556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find his way to a life where he didn't struggle against God daily. "Foreskin's Lament" reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the "blessing bee" (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to an Orthodox-style reform school in Israel after he's caught shoplifting Unio...
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Epileptic (Pantheon Graphic Library)

By: B., David

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Pantheon : July 2006

Seller ID: 122770

ISBN-13: 9780375714689

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe's most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work. David B. was born Pierre-Fran ois Beauchard in a small town near Orl ans, France. He spent an idyllic early childhood playing with the neighborhood kids and, along with his older brother, Jean-Christophe, ganging up on hi...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (The Taliban Shuffle MTI): Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Barker, Kim

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Anchor : February 2016

Seller ID: 129003

ISBN-13: 9781101973127

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton. From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the "dry" city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider's account of the region's "forgotten war" at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, a...
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Levels of Life

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Knopf : September 2013

Seller ID: 166943

ISBN-13: 9780385350778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the Year Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief. Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as "an unp...
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Why I Came West

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Mariner Books : July 2009

Seller ID: 93133

ISBN-13: 9780547237718

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this searching memoir, Rick Bass describes how he first fell in love with theWest -- as a landscape, an idea, and a way of life. Bass grew up in the suburban sprawl of Houston, attended college in Utah, and spent eight years working as a geologist in Mississippi before packing up and heading west in pursuit of something visceral and true. He found it in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, where despite extensive logging, not a single species has gone extinct since the last Ice Age. Bass has lived in the Yaak ever since, a place of mountains, outlaws, and continual rebirth that t...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Beah, Ishmael

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books : February 2007

Seller ID: 30634

ISBN-13: 9780374105235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone?Because there is a war.You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?Yes, all the time.Cool.I smile a little.You should tell us about it sometime.Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like thr...
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Expecting Adam (Target Club Pick)

By: Beck, Martha

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Random House Inc : October 2011

Seller ID: 88699

ISBN-13: 9780307986207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

By: Beck, Martha

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Times Books : January 1999

Seller ID: 169875

ISBN-13: 9780812929805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the moment Martha and John conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. In a matter of months, their ivory-tower, academic life had disintegrated. Then, their unborn son Adam was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Their decision to keep Adam propelled them into a world in which they had no choice but to trust in magic.
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Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

By: Beck, Martha

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Berkley Trade : August 2000

Seller ID: 65599

ISBN-13: 9780425174487

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This rueful, riveting, piercingly funny (Julia Cameron) book is about mothering a Down syndrome child that opts for sass over sap, and it's a small masterpiece of heavenly visions and inexplicable phenomena that's as down-to-earth as anyone could ask for.
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Category: Memoirs