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Rachelle Bergstein, The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$31.31
Catherine Raven, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
$19.44
Mary Pipher, A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
$20.51
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
$18.36
Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir
$26.99
Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
$31.32
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
$37.81
Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
$22.67
The World of Jenny Lawson
from $18.35
Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
$27.00
Laura Levitt, The Objects That Remain
$29.11
Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
$23.71
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
$19.44
Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence
$18.36
Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$21.59
Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House: A Memoir
$18.36
Stephanie Danler, Stray: A Memoir
$17.28
Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
$18.36
Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
$18.35
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House: A Memoir
$19.44
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$28.07
Jane Sherron de Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
$19.44
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words
$21.59
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
$18.35
Tara Westover, Educated
$30.24
Jon Meachem, His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
$20.51
David Chang, Eat a Peach: A Memoir
$19.43
Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
$20.52
Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir
$20.52
David Michaelis, Eleanor
$21.59
Jeffry Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
$19.44
Glennon Doyle, Untamed
$30.24
Megan Rapinoe, One Life
$19.44
Trevor Noah, Born A Crime
$19.44
Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
$20.51
The World of Samantha Irby
from $18.31
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
$20.51
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
$19.44
Cathey Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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Gertrude Stein & Maira Kalman, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
$32.40
Prince, The Beautiful Ones
$34.57
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir
$19.43
Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South
$19.43
Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
$19.43
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
from $10.79
John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
$18.36
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
from $7.55
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci
$24.84
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
$23.76
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
$23.76
Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
$18.31
Amanda Jones, That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, 8/27/24
$32.39
Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir 6/25/24
$20.51
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
$19.43
Stephanie Land, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education - 11/7/23
$30.24
Lise Funderburg, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home
$21.59
Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra - 11/7/23
$50.77
Ann Powers, Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, 6/11/24
$37.81
Ada Ferrer, Cuba
$22.68
Laurie Woolever, Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography - paperback coming 10/4/22
$21.59
Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$20.51
Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
$31.32
Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
$19.44
Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child
$21.60
Viola Davis, Finding Me: A Memoir
$31.31
Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
$30.24
Javier Zamora, Solito, paperback 6/6/23
from $19.44
Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays - paperback coming 11/1/22
from $19.43
Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
$20.51
David Maraniss, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
$23.75
Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming, 10/24/23
$30.23
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
from $19.44
Lucinda Williams, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
$21.60
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
$18.36
Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, 2/28/23
$28.08
Maia Kobabe, "Gender Queer: A Memoir"
$19.43
David Sedaris, Happy-Go-Lucky
from $20.51
Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
$21.60
Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
$30.23
Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
$20.51
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar
$18.36
Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
$23.76
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