An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir (Leve Ariel)(Paperback)

An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir (Leve Ariel)(Paperback)

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a

A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir (Anderson Benedict)(Paperback)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian

I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir (Grue Jan)(Paperback)

A brilliantly rendered essayistic autobiography from an award-winning Norwegian author about life in a vulnerable body. I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted

A Quiet Life (Oe Kenzaburo)(Paperback)

A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Copeland Misty)(Paperback)

A bestselling and prizewinning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre--and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old

All Things Remembered (Goldie)(Paperback / softback)

Here is the memoir of an extraordinary life, an explosive story of abuse, revenge, graffiti, breakdancing, gold teeth, sawn-off shotguns, car crashes, hot yoga, absent fatherhood and redemption through reality TV - all told in Goldie's unmistakeable, charismatic

My Judy Garland Life (Boyt Susie)(Paperback / softback)

An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, experiment and hero-worship about one person's enduring obsession. Anniversary Edition with new preface published to coincide with the new film, Judy, starring Rene

Heavy - An American Memoir (Laymon Kiese)(Paperback / softback)

Empty: A Memoir (Burton Susan)(Paperback)

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still.'Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.'--People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton

Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir (Eyles Don)(Paperback)

Memoir of an Anti-Hero (Filipowicz Kornel)(Paperback / softback)

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life (Robbins Tom)(Paperback)

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels--including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From

Life With Picasso (Gilot Francoise)(Paperback / softback)

' Gilot is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art . . . This memoir is both a vivid portrait of a monstrously difficult man and a brilliant depiction of a great artist at work' New York

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Martin Steve)(Paperback)

The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw

Rules Do Not Apply (Levy Ariel)(Paperback / softback)

The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (Addario Lynsey)(Paperback)

-An unflinching memoir . . . that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.- --The Washington Post War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in

My Father and Myself (Ackerley J. R.)(Paperback)

This heartfelt gay memoir about an adult son uncovering the secrets of his father's life is 'a cross between Dickens's David Copperfield, Rousseau's Confessions, and the new pornography' (Donald Windham) When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life

Hope - A Memoir of Survival (Berry Amanda)(Paperback / softback)

A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry and two other young women, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, to his home, where he trapped them and kept them chained. This book describes the unimaginable torment they suffered and the strength

Desire: A Memoir (Dollimore Jonathan)(Paperback)

In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human

A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall (Wall Ingrid)(Paperback)

A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family's loss, and a legacy preserved.Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day's

Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh (van Gogh-Bonger Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. It is Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Van Gogh's sister in law who after Vincent's death and that of her husband, his brother Theo, devoted her life to preserving and exhibiting the

Iceberg - A Memoir (Coutts Marion)(Paperback / softback)

The winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2015, The Iceberg is an extraordinary memoir which leaves an indelible mark on all who read

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Copeland Misty)(Pevná vazba)

A bestselling and prize-winning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre--and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old

A Drinking Life: A Memoir (Hamill Pete)(Paperback)

This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction (New York Times). As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the