Modern Library, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension."--San Francisco Chronicle WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, January 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph). Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before.....
Scribner, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt...
Univ Tennessee Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The hillbilly hero is an American archetype. Living a hardscrabble life in the mountains of the South, he turns to making moonshine in a homemade still, hidden from the prying eyes of the revenuers--the federal agents who pursue.....
Vintage, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his.....
University of Nebraska Press, June 1980. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely.....
Random House, April 2013. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick! The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled.....
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. New York Times Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of.....
Crown, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in.....
Simon & Schuster, September 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: "Glorious...a philosophically rich ramble through a rock 'n roll life...It's the lyric he was born to write" (USA TODAY, 4 out of.....
North Atlantic Books, September 2000. Trade Paperback. 281 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial.....
Chronicle Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Beatrice Wood's Life has been extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she "wasn't like the rest of them," to her productive life at ninety-five in California's Ojiai Valley. Rebellious, radical and romantic.....
Penguin Classics, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was.....
Simon & Schuster, April 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist.....
Ballantine Books, March 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with her show Nanette when she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her.....
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful.....
Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young people Zlata Filipovic's diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her.....
Parallax Press, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh--icons who changed each other and the world The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their.....
Dey Street Books, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of.....
Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 38 pages. B/W illustrations. Will Croft Barnes (1858-1936) was a soldier, rancher, legislator, preservationist, and author. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Sourcebooks, February 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices.....
Ballantine Books, November 1992. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum.....
Grove Press, June 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in.....
Univ of California Pr, May 1988. Hardcover.
New Directions, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about "clear unspeakable joy" and "just the wish to know" with a radiant new afterword, written during the pandemic and reflecting on current times. This expanded paperback.....