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  • BOOK OF LIVES -10%
    BOOK OF LIVES
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. 'Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not...
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    Q. 360Q. 324

  • YOU WILL NOT KILL OUR IMAGINATION -10%
    YOU WILL NOT KILL OUR IMAGINATION
    SAEED TEEBI
    A vital, fearless memoir explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion—a book that Omar El Akkad says "so perfectly contextualizes and humanizes so much of what has led us to this awful moment,...
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    Q. 250Q. 225

  • MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME -10%
    MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
    ROY, ARUNDHATI
    Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer.Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring ac...
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    Q. 300Q. 270

  • DIDION AND BABITZ -10%
    DIDION AND BABITZ
    ANOLIK, LILI
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this "vivid, engrossing" (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow li...
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    Q. 190Q. 171

  • THE YEAR OF THE TIGER -10%
    THE YEAR OF THE TIGER
    BRODY MILLER
    The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Wood's magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation--a show of unparalleled dominance in the sport with which he has become synonymous. In the annals of golf, one achievement towers above all others--the Tiger Slam. A quarter century ago, between 200...
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    Q. 310Q. 279

  • DETAINED -10%
    DETAINED
    D. ESPERANZA / GERARDO IVÁN MORALES
    "A shocking and moving read. A brutally honest account of the impact of family separation at the US border."—Kirkus Reviews The first-ever memoir of a child's experience in detention on the US/Mexico border under President Trump's infamous family separation policy.D Esperanza was just thirteen years old when he lost his caregivers, his beloved grandmother and uncle. Since both...
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    Q. 270Q. 243

  • HOPE DIES LAST -10%
    HOPE DIES LAST
    ALAN WEISMAN
    The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain futureIn this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet's existential crisis....
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD -10%
    MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD
    MARY MCCARTHY
    Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who ...
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    Q. 310Q. 279

  • MEMORIAL DAYS -10%
    MEMORIAL DAYS
    GERALDINE BROOKS
    "Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it's moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief." —Los Angeles Times"A rich account of marriage and mourning...
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    Q. 205Q. 185

  • I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME -10%
    I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME
    LUCY SANTE
    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate"Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. " —The Washington Post"Sante's bold devotion to complexity and clarity makes this an exemplary memoir. It is a clarion call to live one's most authentic life...
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    Q. 150Q. 135

  • HOPE -10%
    HOPE
    POPE FRANCIS / BERGOGLIO, JORGE MARIO / PAPA FRANCISCO
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now."Hope vividly recreates the colorful world where the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up."—The New York TimesHope is the first autobiography in hi...
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    Q. 300Q. 270

  • IN THE RHODODENDRONS -10%
    IN THE RHODODENDRONS
    CHRISTLE, HEATHER
    For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell's Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers--as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics--the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing. When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virgini...
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    Q. 280Q. 252

  • BREAD OF ANGELS -10%
    BREAD OF ANGELS
    PATTI SMITH
    God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A postWorld War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the childs world of the imagination where S...
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • STUBBORN LIFE -10%
    STUBBORN LIFE
    FRANCESKA MICHALSKA
    A memoir of theRussian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Polesfrom the region.The end of the 1920s, the author's first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of "anti-Soviet activities." He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occ...
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • PATRIOT -10%
    PATRIOT
    ALEXEI NAVALNI (NAVALNY)
    The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his ...
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    Q. 325Q. 293

  • FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN -10%
    FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN
    PRESLEY, LISA MARIE / RILEY KEOUGH
    Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never kn...
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • OUR MIGRANT SOULS -10%
    OUR MIGRANT SOULS
    HÉCTOR TOBAR
    WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2023 A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2023 AT CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARYA new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a...
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    Q. 200Q. 180

  • JANE AUSTEN: THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA -10%
    JANE AUSTEN: THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
    CLAIRE SAIM / GWEN GIRET
    From the novels to the screen, from adaptions to filming secrets, dive into the world of Jane Austen. Discover her life, inspirations, correspondence and the incredible influence of her work in her time through to today.A modest young lady of the countryside gentry, like many of her heroines, Jane Austen could have made her life the theme of one of her novels. To understand the...
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    Q. 670Q. 603

  • DOPPELGANGER -10%
    DOPPELGANGER
    NAOMI KLEIN
    A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 Vulture's #1 book of 2023One of Slate's ten best books of 2023 A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 One of Time's ten best books of 2023 Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award"I'v...
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    Q. 150Q. 135

  • REAGAN -10%
    REAGAN
    MAX BOOT
    In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides "the best biography of R...
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    Q. 415Q. 374

  • MEN HAVE CALLED HER CRAZY -10%
    MEN HAVE CALLED HER CRAZY
    ANNA MARIE TENDLER
    A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women. In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected...
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    Q. 340Q. 306

  • THE WIDOW'S GUIDE TO DEAD BASTARDS -10%
    THE WIDOW'S GUIDE TO DEAD BASTARDS
    JESSICA WAITE
    After the sudden death of her husband, a woman unearths surprising revelations about the man she was married to for seventeen years. A compulsively readable, darkly funny, posthumous love story about loss, grief, and unresolved relationships.Jessica Waite's successful, charismatic husband, Sean, is on his way home from a business trip when he collapses in a Houston airport. Hav...
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • THE LUCKY ONES -10%
    THE LUCKY ONES
    ZARA CHOWDHARY
    A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country's unique Islamic heritage—"a must-read in our warring world today" (NPR)"A harrowing survivor's tale, an important history lesson, and a desperate warning from someone who has seen the tragic effects of ethnic violence."—T...
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    Q. 310Q. 279

  • JFK JR. -10%
    JFK JR.
    ROSEMARIE TERENZIO / LIZ MCNEIL
    The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became t...
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    Q. 360Q. 324

  • TIGER, TIGER -10%
    TIGER, TIGER
    PATTERSON, JAMES / PETER DE JONGE
    The impossible life of Tiger Woods--how did he become the G.O.A.T., what drove him to fall so spectacularly, and how has he made his way back to the pinnacle of golf? In Patterson's hands, Tiger's story is a hole-in-one thriller. On April 13, 1986, ten-year-old Tiger Woods watches his idol, Jack Nicklaus, win his record sixth Masters. Just over a decade later, it's chants of ...
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    Q. 340Q. 306

  • KISSING GIRLS ON SHABBAT -10%
    KISSING GIRLS ON SHABBAT
    SARA GLASS
    A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman's desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn's Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted we...
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    Q. 290Q. 261

  • CATHERINE DE' MEDICI -10%
    CATHERINE DE' MEDICI
    MARY HOLLINGSWORTH
    A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable - and remarkably traduced - woman. History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de' Medici, Italian-born queen of France an...
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    Q. 320Q. 288

  • WHY WOMEN GROW -10%
    WHY WOMEN GROW
    ALICE VINCENT
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONTHE TIMES / WATERSTONES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE INDEPENDENT, STYLIST, RHS, GARDENS ILLUSTRATED and moreWomen have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand wha...
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    Q. 120Q. 108

  • KNIFE -10%
    KNIFE
    SALMAN RUSHDIE
    From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and remind...
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    Q. 290Q. 261

  • COMMITTED -10%
    COMMITTED
    SUZANNE SCANLON
    A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental...
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    Q. 200Q. 180