Memoir

This leaderless, grassroots social movement cuts through the noise and inertia of car-clogged urban transportation and…

These hundred essays begin with the heady blooming of spring and ends with tucking the garden into bed for the winter.…

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

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

Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle…

What does it mean to be a man? What about a "good man"? As a trans man, Thomas McBee finds himself wrestling with…

How to Grow Up is absolutely the story of Michelle Tea's life, of her exes, her working class roots and her youthful…

When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of…

Ram Dass shares his journey from privileged child to renegade Harvard psychedelics researcher to beloved spiritual icon,…

From a childhood of abuse, poverty, and crime to battles with addiction, the Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones presents…

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

Travel along with Patti Smith as she draws out her dreamscape in front of you in her year of solitude. Grappling with…

Now in paperback, this is the new, illustrated, and updated single-volume young adult edition of Howard Zinn's classic…

Andre Roussimoff is known as the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal…

When Jon Ronson is drawn into an elaborate hoax played on some of the world’s top scientists, his investigation leads…

Trans Voices seeks to form a wider understanding of the many ways people experience gender. Drawing from over 100…

Cartoonist Ellen Forney chronicles and explores her journey through a life of ups and downs in this graphic memoir.…

Mia's deeply personal and witty account of growing up in the UK as the kid who never fit in, but who never quite had the…

A fascinating look behind the scenes of the most harrowing deaths in NYC, including first hand accounts of the events of…

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

Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of a…

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This colorful and beautifully illustrated guide chronicles the life of prolific artist Frida Kahlo. With a timeline and…

After years of hard living, addiction, and many concussions, rocker Rob Roberge found himself slowly losing his…

A big, super-nice, full-color comics anthology with all kinds of stories of stupendous queerness. Learn about some…

Knowing where your scars come from doesn’t make them go away. When Jackie Shannon Hollis marries Bill, a man who does…

Three days after the terror attack on Bastille Day, Mohamed Asem was detained overnight by British immigration officials…