Biography and Memoir
March 2024
Recent Releases
The Many Lives of Mama Love : A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
by Lara Love Hardin

"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.
Keep My Memory Safe : Fook Soo Am, the Pagoda
by Stephanie Chitpin

Born in Hong Kong to unwed parents, Stephanie Chitpin was transported illegally to the Island of Mauritius by Ah Pak, the head nun of a Buddhist temple. Keep My Memory Safe poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and the move to Canada. This immigration story is totally unique as no other orphaned temple nuns are known to have gone on to acquire a topnotch education and become academics.
Brave the Wild River : The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
by Melissa L. Sevigny

The story of two pioneering female botanists and their historic 1938 boat trip down the Colorado River which led them to be the first to survey and catalog the plant life of the Grand Canyon.
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult : A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by Maria Bamford

Sharing her forever fight to find a place to belong, a stand-up comedian, with sincerity and transparency, recounts every anonymous fellowship she's joined, including Debtors Anonymous and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, exploring what it means to be a member of society despite not being very good at it.
Jumpman : The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan
by John Matthew Smith

Blending dramatic game action with the social forces of the early 90s, an acclaimed sports historian charts Michael Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress, demonstrating how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.
Bruno Schulz : An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by Benjamin Balint

A biography of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist includes an account of the discovery of his last artworks--murals painted on the walls of a villa occuppied by a Nazi officer--sixty years after his death and the complicated political dispute over the ownership of the murals.
Johnny Cash : The Life in Lyrics
by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than six hundred songs and sold more than ninety million records. He received twenty-nine gold, platinum, and multiplatinum awards for his recordings and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is the first time Cash's fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere; this book includes the lyrics to 125 songs and the stories behind them.
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