Memoirs Books
Random House USA Inc Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi PicoultEven after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always f
£14.40
PRH Grupo Editorial Historia personal Personal History
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Too Much Is Not Enough
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£15.30
Houghton Mifflin Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Book SynopsisCharles M. Blow was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After - the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. This is the story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of America's most innovative and respected journalists.Trade Review"[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting in its language, this slender volume covers a great deal of emotional terrain-much of it fraught, most of it arduous, and all of it worth the trip." -New York Times.
£10.99
Mariner Books Prozac Nation Young and Depressed in America
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£18.39
Cengage Learning, Inc Beautiful Boy
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£17.84
Houghton Mifflin Heart and the Fist The The Education of a
Book SynopsisLike many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make a difference, so he travelled to the world's trouble spots to work in refugee camps. In studying humanitarianism, he realized a fundamental truth: when an army invades, the weak need protection. So, he joined the Navy SEALs. This book tells his story.
£14.36
Random House USA Inc The Great Santini
Book SynopsisThe piercing, iconic semi-autobiographical novel of a domineering father and ambitious son, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine—fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy’s most explosive character—a man you should hate, but a man you will love. Praise for The Great Santini “Stinging authenticity . . . a book that won’t quit.”<
£16.99
Lulu.com Prince of Peace A Memoir of an AfricanAmerican Attorney Who Came of Age in Birmingham During the Civil Rights Movement
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£25.43
Faber & Faber All the Time in the World
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£17.96
Faber & Faber Tunnel Vision
Book SynopsisA lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism.A documentary through the speaker's post-adolescent relationships.An arrangement of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and Madrid.An intimate portrayal of unstable masculinity and sexual repression.A study in artifice, honesty, faith and the image. An autobiography of a compulsive liar.Brave, wild, and genre-bending, Tunnel Vision launches one of the finest new essayists around.
£12.34
Faber & Faber World Within a Song
Book SynopsisWhat makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs? Following publication of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and How To Write One Song, both New York Times bestsellers that cemented and expanded his legacy as one of America's best-loved performers and songwriters, Jeff Tweedy is back with another disarming, beautiful, and inspiring book.Featuring over fifty songs that have both changed Jeff''s life and influenced his musicincluding songs by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilishas well as thoughts on Jeff''s own songs, World Within a Song asks why do we listen to music, why we love songs, and how music can connect us to each other and to ourselves.
£14.24
Outskirts Press Mightier Than the Sword A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story
£27.07
Unit 2 Creations False Confessions The True Story of Doug Williams and His Crusade Against the Polygraph Industry
£22.02
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Rodeo in Joliet
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£13.31
A.J. Schmitz The Death of Our Dreams
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£12.34
Kevin Hu The Human Behind the Controller A Look Into the World of Competitive Smash Bros and Esports
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£11.35
Does Not Apply Solomons Net A Tale Of Madness
£12.76
Anam Cara Companion Soul Companion A Memoir
£15.20
Anam Cara Companion Soul Companion A Memoir
£19.95
Renee Olivier NO ONE KNEW MY EMOTIONAL JOURNEY OF BEING MARRIED TO A SOCIOPATH AND HOW I LEARNED TO HEAL
£10.63
Donnie B Inc. Screw Cancer Becoming Whole
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£11.69
Meta Work
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£11.92
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair
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£15.54
Random House USA Inc Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Book SynopsisPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist“Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably alive.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Publishers WeeklyMama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire fi
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Random House USA Inc All About Me
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in “a wonderful addition to a seminal career” (San Francisco Chronicle), “infused with nostalgia and his signature hilarity” (Parade).ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post • “Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus and dated Joan of Arc?”—Billy CrystalFor anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny.All About Me! charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the
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Random House USA Inc All About Me
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in “a wonderful addition to a seminal career” (San Francisco Chronicle), “infused with nostalgia and his signature hilarity” (Parade).ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post • “Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus and dated Joan of Arc?”—Billy CrystalFor anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny.All About Me! charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Wintering
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£21.25
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Welcome Home A Guide to Building a Home for Your
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes Welcome Home, a powerful blueprint for building a strong foundation of self-worth, belonging, and happiness.“A master class in self-actualization and compassion.”—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure for you to customize your journey to personal transformation as Najwa Zebian shares her own experiences in building a home within herself, and shows you how to construct the following “rooms”: • Self-Love: Learn how to build an individualized self-care routine to reflect your daily needs.• Forgiveness: Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events.• Compassion: Discover the three different types of compassion and learn how you can let people in wh
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Random House USA Inc Phosphorescence
Book Synopsis“Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments.“What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has been the notion that we have the ability to find, nurture, and carry our own inner, living light—a light to ward off the darkness. This is not about burning brightly; it’s about yielding a more simple phosphorescence—being luminous, having stored light for later use. Staying alive, remaining upright, even when lashed by doubt.” After surviving a difficult heartbreak and battle with cancer, acclaimed author and columnist Julia Baird began thinking deeply about how we, as people, persevere through the most challenging circumstances. She started to wonder, when we are overwhelmed by illness, loss or pain, or a tragedy outside o
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Random House USA Inc Running for Your Life
£20.90
Random House USA Inc The Crane Wife
Book SynopsisA 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 & GUNHauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites. —The New York Times“Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days aft
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Matrescence
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£24.00
Random House USA Inc Four Hundred Souls
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, Ms. magazine, BookPage, She Reads, BookRiot, Booklist • “A vital addition to [the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”—The Washington Post “From journalist Hannah P. Jones on Jamestown’s first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group How Not to Kill Yourself
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S CRITICS' PICKS • ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE’S 55 BOOKS WE LOVED THIS YEAR • ONE OF KIRKUS’S BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR• 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 have examined it.” —Esquire <
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Penguin Publishing Group Why I Am Not an Atheist
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£23.80
Random House Publishing Group Push Off from Here
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£15.20
Penguin Putnam Inc Hot and Bothered
Book Synopsis“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informative, entertaining and desperately needed book.” —Jen Sincero, author of You Are a BadassWhen Jancee Dunn hit her mid-forties, she was bombarded by seemingly random symptoms: rampant insomnia, spring-loaded nerves, weirdly dry mouth, and Rio Grande-level periods. After going to multiple doctors who ran test after fruitless test, she was surprised to finally discover the culprit—perimenopause. For more than two decades, Jancee had been reporting on mental and physical health. So if she was unprepared for this, what about all the women who don’t write about health for a living?Hot and Bothered is the book she wishes existed as she was scrambling for information: an empowering, research-based guide on how women can tackle this new stage of life. Menopause isn’t a disease, but a natural
£23.20
Random House Publishing Group How to Baby
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£18.34
Random House USA Inc What It Takes to Heal
£13.77
Penguin Publishing Group Other Rivers
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£20.95
Penguin Publishing Group When the Going Was Good
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Penguin Putnam Inc Be Useful
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Random House USA Inc Raising Hare
£20.40
Random House USA Inc The Season
£17.68
Penguin Young Readers When Were Born We Forget Everything
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£19.87
Random House Publishing Group Good Soil
Book SynopsisA profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm?I needed this book. I think you need it, too.??Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place BeautifulIn his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary?s ?Farminary??a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life?s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating ?good soil,? both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land.In gorgeous, transporting reflections, Chu introduces us to the cast of characters, human and not, who became his teachers. While observing the egrets that visit the pond, the worms that turn waste into fertile soil, and the Chinese long beans that get passed over in the farm?s CSA, Chu considers our desire to belong, the story behind the food on our plate, and the significance of his own roots. What is the earth trying to tell us, if we?ll only stop and listen?Good Soil helps readers connect to the land and to one another at a time when we seem drawn most to the phones in our hands. For nature lovers, foodies, and anyone who has daydreamed about a more fulfilling life, this book is a tribute to friendship, to the sacredness of our bond with the natural world, and to how love can grow from the unlikeliest of places.
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