Biographies & Memoirs

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Educated

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For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future#1 International...

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If This House Could Talk

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When a middle-aged, retired, trying-to-keep-it-together, ex-wife, widow, kinda-sorta grandma, and sometimes-achiever is thrown into a life of pandemic-mandated isolation, the...

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Kitchen Confidential

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After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all....

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Falling for Myself

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In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to...

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Let's Pretend This Never Happened

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For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny...

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As For Sinclair Ross

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Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar...

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Samuel Pepys

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