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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Shanty Irish
$21.95Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio. Learn More -
Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.
$24.99If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. Learn More -
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
$25.00A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America. Learn More -
Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home
$26.00Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how to truly live. Learn More -
Tales of Woe
$20.00True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. Learn More -
The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar
$25.00"Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable." Learn More -
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
$29.95Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Learn More -
The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend
$27.50This riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon—and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel. Learn More -
The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
$24.99An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Learn More -
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
$25.00At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the @#!% is wrong with my husband?! In David Finch’s case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains David’s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. But it doesn’t make him any easier to live with. Learn More
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