REAL LIFE
The titles in this section are biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. What's the difference between a memoir and an autobiography?
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The Glen Rock Book Of The Dead
$12.95In her author’s note to the book, Marion Winik writes that in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, “people build altars to their loved ones . . . they go to the cemetery and stay all night, praying, singing, drinking, wailing. They tell the sad stories and the noble ones; they eat cookies shaped like skeletons. They celebrate and mourn at once.” Learn More -
The Girl's Guide to Homelessness: A Memoir
$16.95Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Learn More -
The Elfish Gene - Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange: A Memoir
$14.00A laugh-out-loud funny memoir about a fantasy addicted youth. Learn More -
The Chronology of Water
$15.95This is not your mother’s memoir. Lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful Lidia Yuknavitch accepts a college swimming scholarship in Texas in order to escape an abusive father and an alcoholic, suicidal mother. Learn More -
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
$14.95The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. Learn More -
The Book of Drugs: A Memoir
$16.00Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. Learn More -
The Basketball Diaries
$14.00The classic about growing up hip on New York's mean streets. Learn More -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$15.00Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. Learn More -
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
$15.00A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and Britain Learn More -
The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
$14.00In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina’s former lover, and Hans’s former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of. Learn More
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