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1.
Life on Other Planets A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Hardcover Aomawa Shields PhD 9780593299180 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 11, 2023

A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on EarthAs a kid, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she—a young Black woman who also loved fashion, makeup, and the arts—didn’t belong, she left ast... + Read More
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The Crane Wife A Memoir in Essays Paperback CJ Hauser 9780593312889 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 27, 2023

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN“Hauser builds their life’s inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that’s rich l... + Read More
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Rivermouth A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration Hardcover Alejandra Oliva 9781662601699 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 20, 2023

A 2023 Indie Next List PickA Summer/Fall 2023 Adult Indies Introduce PickA 2023 Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club PickWinner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant“With uncut rage and breathtaking prose, Oliva edifies, infuriates, and moves readers all at once. This is required reading.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)A chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States’ “immigration crisis”In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexi... + Read More
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Rehearsals for Living Paperback Robyn Maynard 9781039000674 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 13, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of ... + Read More
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We've Got This Unlocking the Beauty of Belonging Hardcover Ritu Bhasin 9781039004733 $32.95 SELF-HELP Jun 13, 2023

Many of us feel constant pressure to mask and curate who we are—to perform as someone we’re not rather than be who we are. And it hurts us. But we don’t need to live this way.With We’ve Got This, award-winning and globally recognized DEI and empowerment expert Ritu Bhasin delivers a much-needed guidebook on how to heal, thrive, and stand in your power in the face of hate and hardships. She reveals how to unlock belonging—for yourself and for others.Ritu knows firsthand that the path to belonging can be both beautiful and hard. As a child of wor... + Read More
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Never Give Up A Prairie Family's Story Hardcover Tom Brokaw 9780593596371 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

The New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation tells the inspiring, deeply personal story of his own family’s greatest generation: his parents, who embodied the can-do spirit that enabled them to survive the Great Depression and World War II, and to help build the American century.Called “one of our nation’s greatest journalists” by President Obama, Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the sig... + Read More
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Joy Hunter Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything Hardcover Alexis Jones 9780593578063 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

A timely and cinematic memoirchronicling one woman’s journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness—things you can’t check off a list but must find within yourself.With a successful speaking career putting her on the road 250 days a year, a slew of prestigious awards for her activism, the hugely successful book I Am That Girl, and a happy marriage, Alexis Jones was living a seemingly charmed life. But the principles of self-care, setting boundaries, and eschewing perfectionism that she espoused in her talks didn’t seem to transl... + Read More
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Rocky Mountain High A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West Hardcover Finn Murphy 9781324006107 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune… in hemp. After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm... + Read More
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Beyond This Harbor Adventurous Tales of the Heart Hardcover Rose Styron 9780525659020 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroadAn intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote an... + Read More
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The In-Between Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Hardcover Hadley Vlahos R.N. 9780593499931 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir.Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For ... + Read More
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The Summer Friend A Memoir Paperback Charles McGrath 9780593466483 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.“To read Chip McGrath’s gentle, elegant memoir…is to lose yourself in your own past summers, especially the ones of your youth, when you imagined there’d be an infinite number of them, and also friends to share those summers with. That both turn out to be numbered makes ... + Read More
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Almost Brown A Mixed-Race Family Memoir Hardcover Charlotte Gill 9780735243033 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canad... + Read More
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Defiant Dreams The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Hardcover Sola Mahfouz 9780593359761 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school a... + Read More
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Making It Home Life Lessons from a Season of Little League Paperback Teresa Strasser 9780593546086 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward by an award-winning writer and TV personality.When her brother died from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser was left to mourn with her father, a cantankerous retired mechanic. As her son embarked on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and her dad formed a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line.There were no therapeutically trained facilitators and no rules other than those di... + Read More
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Starstruck A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark Hardcover Sarafina El-Badry Nance 9780593186794 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

In a beautifully written and science-packed debut memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina Nance shares her personal story of overcoming sexism, racism, and adversity, and appreciating the most important moments and people in her life by focusing on her lifelong love of the stars.As a child, Sarafina Nance spent nearly every evening with her father, gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. She dreamt of becoming an astronomer from this early age, but it wasn’t long before she was told, both expli... + Read More
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Solito A Memoir Paperback Javier Zamora 9780593498088 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his unforgettable migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book. A masterpiece.”—Emma StraubA READ WITH JENNA PICK“A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave EggersTrip. My parents started using that word about a... + Read More
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A Line Above the Sky On Mountains and Motherhood Paperback Helen Mort 9781529107791 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor’s Choice’A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer’ Jon McGregor’This book is beautiful’ Emma Jane UnsworthClimbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and th... + Read More
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The Education of a Gardener Paperback Russell Page 9781784877743 $31.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

A fabulous book about designing gardens great and small, packed with wisdom on the abiding principles of gorgeous garden design.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN TITCHMARSHRussell Page was one of the most legendary gardeners and landscapers of the last century. He designed gardens great and small for clients around the world. A rare combination of born plantsman and garden architect, he was a master of colour, form and structure. Page also understood that most tricky dimension of garden design: the passage of time. From Longleat to the Frick Collect... + Read More
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From a Mountain In Tibet A Monk's Journey Paperback Yeshe Losal Rinpoche 9780241988954 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

’Brilliant and riveting. This book shows us that freedom is a choice we can all make’ Gelong Thubten, author of A Monk’s Guide to Happiness’A fascinating story of an incredible life, told with unflinching honesty’ Dr John Sellars author of Lessons in Stoicism___________________________________________________________________________________Lama Yeshe didn’t see a car until he was fifteen years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran through fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. The a... + Read More
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When the World Didn't End A Memoir Hardcover Guinevere Turner 9780593237595 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2023

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult—and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever knownOn January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions from the Family leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation—a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came.Guin... + Read More
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Quietly Hostile Essays Paperback Samantha Irby 9780593315699 $23.00 HUMOR May 16, 2023

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam.“Irby is back with a new and hilariously relatable essay collection…[she] will have you crying and laughing.” —TODAYSamantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seem... + Read More
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Take Your Own Advice Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself Paperback Jeffrey Marsh 9780593541173 $24.95 SELF-HELP May 16, 2023

For those who are givers, carers, and empaths, a guide to focusing that energy on yourself—even if that feels frightening, from popular LGBTQ+ activist and advocate Jeffrey Marsh.Like many of us, Jeffrey Marsh was conditioned to have an outward focus—to give to others, to be a good listener, and to be the one who gave the best advice. In Marsh’s case, it was a method of survival. Growing up genderfluid in an unaccepting family, Marsh did everything they could to meet the needs of others and not have needs of their own. And ultimately, this mean... + Read More
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A Renaissance of Our Own A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining Hardcover Rachel E. Cargle 9780593134733 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before no longer serve us, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel Cargle, reimagining—the act of creating... + Read More
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The Wreck A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Hardcover Cassandra Jackson 9780593490020 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective,The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into renewal.There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father’s niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father’s beloved mo... + Read More
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Thinning Blood A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Hardcover Leah Myers 9781324036708 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history. Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects ea... + Read More
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City Hardcover Jane Wong 9781953534675 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as th... + Read More
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Better Living Through Birding Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Hardcover Christian Cooper 9780593242384 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2023

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up at the birdsChristian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was... + Read More
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Oh My Mother! A Memoir in Nine Adventures Hardcover Connie Wang 9780593490921 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

“Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME“Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.” —Connie ChungA dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defianceIn Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh ... + Read More
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Arrangements in Blue Notes on Loving and Living Alone Hardcover Amy Key 9781324091738 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell’s album Blue was her inspiration. “Blue became part of my language of intimacy,” she writes, recalling the dozens of times she played the record as a teen, “an intimacy of disclosure, vulnerability, unadorned feeling that I thought I’d eventually share with a romantic other.” As the years ticked by, she held on to this very specific idea of romance like a bottle of wine saved for a special occasion. But what happens when the romance we are all told... + Read More
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Mean Baby A Memoir of Growing Up Paperback Selma Blair 9780593082775 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. “Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer.”—Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together RisingThe fi... + Read More
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Live Learn Love Well Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection Hardcover Emma Lovewell 9780593497357 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

A memoir chronicling Emma Lovewell’s incredible path to physical—and mental—fitness that traces her journey to becoming a beloved Peloton instructor and inspires readers to live, learn and love well.Emma Lovewell is a star instructor at Peloton, a global fitness brand and media content company, but her journey to success began with a simple realization: Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. She chose to grow. In Live Learn Love Well, she shares the moments in her life that shaped her into the woman she is today—from growing up in a mode... + Read More
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Fatherland A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets Hardcover Burkhard Bilger 9780385353984 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Germany of their youth. Winters in the Black Forest, when the snow piled up to the eaves and haunches of smoked speck hung from the rafters. Springtime along the Rhine, when the storks came home to nest on rooftops. His parents... + Read More
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Excellent Advice for Living Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier Hardcover Kevin Kelly 9780593654521 $36.00 SELF-HELP May 02, 2023

“One hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom.” —Seth GodinWise, practical, optimistic life advice from author and leading technology thinker Kevin KellyOn his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life’s wisdom into these pages. K... + Read More
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Don't Call Me Home A Memoir Hardcover Alexandra Auder 9780593299951 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva. Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” —Debbie Harry“Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed and cried, and cheered hard throughout for our intrepid narrator, who has gifted us an incomparable tale.”—Maggie Nelson author of The Argonauts and On FreedomA moving and wickedly funny memoir about one w... + Read More
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Out of the Corner A Memoir Paperback Jennifer Grey 9780593356722 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing“Jennifer Grey peels back all the artifice, denial, obfuscation, and myriad assumptions and exposes a gorgeous, human portrait of her life.”—Jamie Lee Curtis“We all know Jennifer Grey as a talented actress, but Out of the Corner introduces us to a gifted writer.”—Michael J. FoxIn this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes readers on a vivid tour of the experiences that have sha... + Read More
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Mistakes to Run With My Story of Rebellion, Life on the Street, and Finding My Way Paperback Yasuko Thanh 9780735234437 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2020 BC Book Prizes’ Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesFrom the winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize comes an honest memoir that examines how circumstances—and the choices we make—dictate the people we become.Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to r... + Read More
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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You A Memoir Hardcover Lucinda Williams 9780593136492 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs.Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working- class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe ment... + Read More
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Mott Street A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Hardcover Ava Chin 9780525557371 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family’s epic journey to lay down roots in AmericaAs the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over de... + Read More
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Perfectly Queer Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet Paperback Jillian Abby 9781401970741 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

This humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother’s journey of self-discovery and acceptance as she comes out as a lesbian in her late 30s.Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship with her college sweetheart, two wonderful kids, and rescue cat from the Humane Society. They lived in a nice suburban home with a white picket fence and owned a small bar that was rated one of the “Best Mom & Pop” businesses in Tampa Bay. From the outside, everything looked perfect.Perfectly Queer takes the reader on Jillian Abby’s poignant and painf... + Read More
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Good Pop, Bad Pop The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker Hardcover Jarvis Cocker 9781787330566 $42.95 MUSIC Apr 25, 2023

The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.’It’s real gold…its storytelling first class’ Sunday TimesWhat if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions:Who do you think you are?Are clothes im... + Read More
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The Puzzler One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Paperback A.J. Jacobs 9780593136737 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.“Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than BeforeWhat makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their clo... + Read More
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A Map to the Door of No Return Notes to Belonging Paperback Dionne Brand 9781039005815 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”Now entering its third decade in print, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a disquisition on ‘being’ in the Black diaspora. With a new afterword by Saidiya Hartman.“This book is a world, a triumph of art and thought, a compass for the ages.” —David ChariandyA Map to the Door of No Return explores the relevance and nature of identity... + Read More
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The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Hardcover Jonathan Rosen 9781594206573 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 18, 2023

Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, ... + Read More
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Remedies for Sorrow An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth Hardcover Megan Nix 9780385548595 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 18, 2023

This “compulsively readable memoir…brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored…An immensely important book” (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet).A story of a mother’s fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women: “both a beautiful family story and an urgent call to action… [A] moving, potentially life-altering book” (Robert Kolker, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road).After a seemingly un... + Read More
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Unearthing A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets Hardcover Kyo Maclear 9781039006706 $34.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 18, 2023

For readers of Crying in H Mart and Wintering, an unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love.Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise:... + Read More
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In Our Shoes On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So "Post-Racial" America Paperback Brianna Holt 9780593186398 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 11, 2023

A memoir-in-essays about black millennial women and the stereotypes and preconceived notions they are expected to live up to, examined through the lens of Brianna’s lived experience and pop culture to help readers unlearn their biases and expand their worldviews.Part-memoir, part cultural critique, IN OUR SHOES will walk readers through the common stereotypes and issues Black millennial women have to overcome in modern America in order to dismantle the myths about Black womanhood and explore the roles Black millennial women play, simply to surv... + Read More
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Breakup A Marriage in Wartime Hardcover Anjan Sundaram 9781646221158 $34.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 11, 2023

Award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and heartfelt” (The Washington Post) work, must reckon with the devastating personal cost of war correspondence when he travels to the Central African Republic to report on preparations for a genocide hidden from the world, leaving his wife and newborn behind in CanadaAfter ten years of reporting from central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Pr... + Read More
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The Dead are Gods Hardcover Eirinie Carson 9781685890452 $36.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 11, 2023

An Oprah Daily Spring 2023 Reading List Pick “…striking a deeply resonant chord for anyone who has experienced the obsessive self-searching that often accompanies a sudden loss.” —Oprah Daily “A gorgeous, grief-stricken remembrance…a wise reminder that we all must ”weather the storm“ of loss.” —People Magazine “Carson captures the pervasive nature of grief with a poetic voice that beautifully resonates.”—Shondaland “This is raw, heartfelt, beautiful, soul-opening and real.”—Zibby Owens for Good Morning America From an exciting new literar... + Read More
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Just Once, No More On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer Hardcover Charles Foran 9781039001053 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 11, 2023

In his poignant memoir, Charles Foran presents a portrait of his gruff-but-fond father wrestling with the end of life as Charlie acts as witness, solace, and would-be guide while facing his own mortality. What story can we tell ourselves and those we love, this radiant book asks, to withstand the inevitable mutability of time and self? A powerful meditation on fathers and sons, love and loss, and what it means to be alive “just once, no more.”Dave Foran was a formidable man of few words, from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, Ch... + Read More
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I Can't Save You A Memoir Hardcover Anthony Chin-Quee 9780593418888 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 04, 2023

The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward.At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story. A smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist—an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated.As a self-described “not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,” Chin-Quee knows that he doesn’t fit easily into any category. Growing up in a family with a background of depre... + Read More
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Likeness Fathers, sons, a portrait Paperback David Macfarlane 9780385693738 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 04, 2023

From one of Canada’s most celebrated writers and the author of the classic memoir The Danger Tree comes an occasionally hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking meditation on love, memory and the fathomless depths of grief.When the worst that can happen, happens, the only useful lesson is the knowledge that it can. That’s the take-away: a world can actually end, time can actually run out, sadness can prevail. But I didn’t know that then…Likeness is a multi-generational story told through the vehicle of a painting, a portrait of Macfarlane by the well... + Read More
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Fly Girl A Memoir Paperback Ann Hood 9781324050414 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 04, 2023

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer... + Read More
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Life on the Rocks Building a Future for Coral Reefs Paperback Juli Berwald 9780593087312 $24.95 NATURE Apr 04, 2023

The story of the urgent fight to save the coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they’re thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean’s surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their ow... + Read More
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Crying in H Mart A Memoir Paperback Michelle Zauner 9781984898951 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTIn this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few A... + Read More
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How Not to Kill Yourself A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Hardcover Clancy Martin 9780593317051 $41.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and philosophy professor, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.” “A deep meditation that searches through Martin’s past looking for answers about why he is the way he is, while also examining the role suicide has played in our culture for centuries, how it has evolved, and how philosophers h... + Read More
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Train Lord The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Trac k Paperback Oliver Mol 9780241525081 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all’An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality’ THE TIMES__________Life is beautiful - even in the dark…Oliver Mol was happily drifting through his twenties when the migraine exploded in his head.Suddenly, he could barely function. He felt marooned. Nothing helped. Yet he was desperate to save himself.Then he found the trains. The job of train guard has intense moments of strict, regimented activity in between periods o... + Read More
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Ten Steps to Nanette A Memoir Situation Paperback Hannah Gadsby 9781984819802 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette when they declared that they were quitting stand-up. Now they take us through the defining moments in their life that led to the creation of Nanette and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.Hannah Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, Gadsby found themselves adrift, working itinerant j... + Read More
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Undercooked How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live Hardcover Dan Ahdoot 9780593240793 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2023

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man’s obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule—and sometimes ruin—his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network’s Raid the Fridge“When most people say they have an unhealthy relationship with food, they mean they eat too much of it or too little. When I say I have an unhealthy relationship with food, I mean it’s what gives my life meaning. That’s a really dumb way to live your life, as the stories in this book will attest to.”Despit... + Read More
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Skinfolk A Memoir Hardcover Matthew Pratt Guterl 9781324091714 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2023

A haunting, poignant story of growing up in a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey, in the tradition of The Color of Water. Race is made, not born. It can materialize with a thunderous suddenness. It can happen to you in moments that will be cauterized into memory as if into flesh. Could a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with children drawn together from around the globe? And what if, within the yard, the lines of kin and skin, of family and race, were deliberately knotted and twisted? In 1970... + Read More
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Once Upon a Tome The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Hardcover Oliver Darkshire 9781324092070 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 14, 2023

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleef... + Read More