Category: Autobiography

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Harper Perennial : January 2009

Seller ID: 111849

ISBN-13: 9780061551840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. An inspiring and thought-provoking work. -Denver Post Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life...
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The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Harper Perennial : January 2009

Seller ID: 158312

ISBN-13: 9780061551840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. An inspiring and thought-provoking work. -Denver Post Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life...
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The Heart of a Woman

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Bantam : May 1997

Seller ID: 158313

ISBN-13: 9780553380095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Desert and the Stars

By: Armitage, Flora

Price: $200.01

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company : January 1955

Seller ID: 130562

ISBN: B001375FQ8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Second printing. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Book is in good condition including a tight spine.
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By myself

By: Bacall, Lauren

Price: $10.01

Publisher: Knopf : January 1978

Seller ID: 116808

ISBN: B0007214M4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Some shelf wear on dust jacket. Boards, spine, and pages in good condition.
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Daybreak.

By: Baez, Joan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Avon : January 1971

Seller ID: 16775

ISBN: B002E6RF38

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Aged but in good shape, pages yellowing from age .Still tight pages , some shelve wear on cover.
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Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story

By: Benny, Jack, Benny, Joan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Warner Books : October 1990

Seller ID: 180240

ISBN-13: 9780446515467

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket and boards.
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Knock Wood

By: Bergen, Candice

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Ballantine Books : February 1985

Seller ID: 179738

ISBN-13: 9780345321374

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Shelf wear on the cover. Pages yellowing from age.
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Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile (Amadeus)

By: Bessette, Roland L.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Amadeus : March 2003

Seller ID: 132639

ISBN-13: 9781574670448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

More than 40 years after his premature death, the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure, a crossover icon embraced and remembered by an entire generation for bridging the gap between popular and classical music, the acknowledged inspiration of today's Three Tenors. Bessette tells his story with a novelist's eye for the inherent tragedy of Lanza's brief life, the contradictory facets of his personality, his passion for life, and his self-destructiveness. HARDCOVER.
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Like a Running Dog, Vol. 1: Los Angeles, 1970-1972

By: Blake, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hrymfaxe LLC : October 2002

Seller ID: 159409

ISBN-13: 9780972475310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Like a Running Dog, Vol. 1: Los Angeles, 1970-1972

By: Blake, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hrymfaxe LLC : October 2002

Seller ID: 159410

ISBN-13: 9780972475310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Up from Slavery (an Autobiography)

By: Booker T. Washington, T. Washington, Booker T. Washington

Price: $15.01

Publisher: Book Jungle : September 2007

Seller ID: 31310

ISBN-13: 9781604241747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bridge for Passing

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Pocket Books : January 2000

Seller ID: 125620

ISBN-13: 9780671803209

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

By: Buckley, Christopher

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Twelve : May 2009

Seller ID: 85969

ISBN-13: 9780446540940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad." As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospit...
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

By: Buergenthal, Thomas

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark : April 2015

Seller ID: 181882

ISBN-13: 9780316339186

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the ...
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $3.25

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks : August 2006

Seller ID: 147067

ISBN-13: 9780312938857

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year-round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull, an electroshock therapy machine could provi...
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir

By: Bush, Barbara

Price: $3.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks : November 1995

Seller ID: 52616

ISBN-13: 9780312956646

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Known for her wit, honesty, and compassion, Barbara Bush has won admirers the world over. Now, in this fascinating autobiography, the former First Lady talks candidly about: -Growing up privileged and meeting George Bush-Life as a young bride and mother in West Texas-How she got through the tragedy of her little girl's death-Her years in public life in Washington, New York and China-The world of Washington politics and the many famous figures she's met-What it was like behind the scenes of the Persian Gulf conflict and the end of the Cold War-Her role as the nation's leading literacy champion-...
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Kit Carson's Autobiography (Bison Book S)

By: Carson, Kit

Price: $4.25

Publisher: BISON BOOKS : March 1966

Seller ID: 137520

ISBN-13: 9780803250314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the saddler's trade. . . . One cent reward will be given to any person who will bring back the said boy.''This notice appeared in the Missouri Intelligencer of October 6, 1826, at about the same time that Kit Carson, in the humble role of cavvy boy in Bent's Santa F caravan, embarked upon his notable career. Thirty years later, a postgraduate of the Un...
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