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Dry 10th Anniversary Edition

by Augusten Burroughs

 The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.

“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First....


From Harvey River

by Lorna Goodison

"Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up."...


Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir

by Greg Bellow

Saul Bellow was easily angered, prone to argument, and palpably vulnerable to criticism, but according to his son, his young father was also emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to...


Intimacy With Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters

by Ciaran Carty

‘This wonderful book builds a mosaic of stories about fame and failure, love and loss, of public achievement and private concern. An immensely enjoyable read.’ – Joseph O’Connor. Intimacy With Strangers...


My Animals and Other Family

by Clare Balding

"I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of...


The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir

by George Estreich

"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."-PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week]

When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or...


Maggie & Me

by Damian Barr

It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding...


Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia

by Karl Taro Greenfeld

“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the...


Conundrum

by Jan Morris

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and...


I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

by Jen Kirkman

"You'll Change Your Mind."

That’s what everyone says to Jen Kirkman— and countless women like her—when she confesses she doesn’t plan to have children. But you know what? It’s hard enough to be an...


I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays

by Elinor Lipman

A winning collection of essays about home, love, cooking, politics, and the writing life from the acclaimed novelist.


Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice

by Katherine Preston

A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection.

Imagine waking up one day to find your words trapped...


Once Upon a Gypsy Moon: An Improbable Voyage and One Man's Yearning for Redemption

by Michael Hurley

Michael Hurley watched his world unravel in the wake of infidelity, divorce and failure. In August 2009, he was short of money, out of a job, and seeking to salvage a life that had foundered. Deeply in need...


The Invisible Girls: A Memoir

by Sarah Thebarge

Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving...


Confessions Of an Art Addict

by Peggy Guggenheim

A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal...


The Friedkin Connection

by William Friedkin

With such seminal movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection, Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin secured his place as a great filmmaker. A maverick from the start, Friedkin joined other young...


Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

 

Christine Byl first encountered the...


A Fort of Nine Towers

by Qais Akbar Omar

One of the rare memoirs of Afghanistan to have been written by an Afghan, A Fort of Nine Towers reveals the richness and suffering of life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own.

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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

by Kathryn Edin & Timothy J. Nelson

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men...


Owsley and Me: My LSD Family

by Rhoney Gissen Stanley & Tom Davis

Owsley and Me is an insider's account of sixties counterculture, told by the partner of Owsley "Bear" Stanley.