Autobiographies/Memoirs

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

$14.99

The instant New York Times bestseller!

“Warm and perceptive.” New York Times

“Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story.” Washington Post

“Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.”  Los Angeles Times

“What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving candor. I was blown away by Griffin Dunne’s life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.” —Anderson Cooper

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

$14.99

From a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful)

The Hiding Place

$4.74

“Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see.”–Corrie ten Boom

The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

$12.99

***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date–a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

$13.99

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
 
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.

The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jewish Lives)

$14.99

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary

“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”—Publishers Weekly

In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

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