Memoir

A celebrity psychic shares his most fascinating stories. Learn how he gets information from the other side and the…

Did you know David Bowie once lived on a diet of milk and red bell peppers? Or that in 2009 a bright-yellow spider was…

What are the successes and failures of punk and its institutions? What happened to a once-thriving punk underground…

A collection of wit and wisdom uttered by the extremely quotable Dolly Parton. Culled from her interviews, speeches,…

Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it…

Inspired by a bag labeled "To Throw Away Unopened" she found when sorting through her mother's possessions…

This is George Orwell's first full book. The first part is an account of his days starving in Paris and then working…

After a suicide attempt in her early 20s, journalist Anna Paperny decides to put her reportorial skills to…

History calls them "internment camps" as if that helps lessen the blow of how we once imprisoned Japanese…

It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the…

A hypertext memoir, in a series of vignettes, some in the style of a choose-your-own adventure novel that traps you in…

The world is on fire! So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal…

"This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is…

An eyewitness account compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, Mary Parrish fled into the…

In this sequel dive deeper into other extraordinary stories of women throughout history that inspire us all to seek the…

A provocative book that uncovers the truth about a misunderstood and stigmatized disorder for a deeper, more empathetic…

The poignant lessons and practical applications an Ivy League psychiatrist learned from her daughter with a brain…

Black writers from all disciplines tell one of history’s great epics: the journey of African Americans from…

Not everyone knows the history of bands that made it big, but it can be interesting to see what made them into the…

In this moving, tender, and heart-breaking memoir, Jennifer Finney Boylan tells the story of her life through seven dogs…

Studs Terkel's classic book Working is comprised of interviews with working-class people about their jobs, so who…

As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina…

Dozens of lovely essays, interviews, poems, and illustrations are compiled here in this best-of collection from…

"Don't read my diary when I'm gone...Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please…

The term Zami comes from the Carriacou word to describe women working together as friends, lovers, and companions. In…

Award-winning author and social theorist Ibram X. Kendi weaves together history, law, science, ethics, and his own…

This brief but inclusive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, helps us…