Memoir

Updated March 17, 2025
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century At...
Soft As Bones : A Memoir
Sage, Chyana Marie.
Paper Book
A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing In candid, incisive, and delicate prose, Chyana Marie Sage shares the pain of growing up with her father, a crack dealer who went to prison for...
How to Survive a Bear Attack : A Memoir
Cameron, Claire.
Paper Book
*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* CBC's Great Canadian Books to Read This Spring In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an...
Adrift [Movie tie-in] A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Ashcraft, Tami Oldham.
Ebook
New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). "An inspirational and empowering read."--Shailene Woodley<...
Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times
May, Katherine
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name." --Krista Tippett, On Being "Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a...
Whiskey tender : a memoir
Taffa, Deborah Jackson
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence Winner of the Southwest Book Award A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers Weekly An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting...
Over the influence : a memoir
JoJo
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recording artist behind hits like "Leave (Get Out)," "Too Little, Too Late", and the Grammy Award-winning "Say So"<...
We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people
Nenquimo, Nemonte
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Library Journal "An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick) ...
Swiftly Flowing Waters: A Metis Woman's Story of Resilience, Reflection and Reclamation
Skene, Pat Lamondin
Paper Book
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The chair and the valley : a memoir of trauma, healing, and the outdoors
Lyon, Banning
Paper Book
Banning Lyon was your average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He enjoyed skateboarding, listening to punk rock, and even had a part-time job. But in January 1987 his life quickly changed after a school guidance counselor falsely believed he was suicidal after giving away a skateboard. Days later...
Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
Jagger, Steph
Paper Book
Birding to change the world : a memoir
O'Kane, Trish
Paper Book
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. It was a lone red cardinal and a bumptious cast of house sparrows that changed everything...
White robes and broken badges : infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us
Moore, Joe
Paper Book
In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group's structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal:...
The Longest Road : To Hell and Back Again from Addiction to Advocacy
Calendino, Joe.
Paper Book
Recovery is the longest road toward a better future. "When you are that far into addiction, one of the things you are ruled by, you live for, is the drug. It becomes your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, your lover." In The Longest Road, Joe...
The Klansman's son : my journey from white nationalism to antiracism : a memoir
Black, Derek
Paper Book
Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. His father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet's first white supremacist website-Derek built the kids' page. His godfather, David Duke, was also his...
Down with the system: a memoir (of sorts)
Tankian, Serj
Paper Book
THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  USA TODAY BESTSELLER An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A...
Fi : a memoir
Fuller, Alexandra
Paper Book
From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child "A mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon,...
Water Confidential: A Memoir about First Nations' Drinking Water and Justice Denied
Blacklin, Susan
Paper Book
In Water Confidential, Susan Blacklin (formerly Sue Peterson) revisits the important work of her late ex-husband, Dr. Hans Peterson. Beginning in 1996, Peterson, growing frustrated with his work in government funded research in Saskatchewan, brought attention to the desperate need for equal...
Force of nature : three women tackle the John Muir trail
Griffin, Joan, M
Paper Book
"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail...
Letting magic in : a memoir of becoming
Toll, Maia
Paper Book
From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic.
The temple at the end of the universe : a search for spirituality in the Anthropocene
Neufeld, Josiah
Paper Book
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith. Our species is leaving scars on the earth that will last for millennia. How has religious ideology helped bring humanity to the brink of catastrophe?...
Harvesting freedom : the life of a migrant worker in Canada
Allahdua, Gabriel
Paper Book
In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada's farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to...
Walking with gorillas : the journey of an African wildlife vet
Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys
Paper Book
An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal. In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain...
North American odyssey : 12,000 miles across the continent by kayak, canoe, and dogsled
Freeman, Amy
Paper Book
"Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land." When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they set out on an unusual honeymoon: a three-year, 12,000-mile journey across North...
This one wild life : a mother-daughter wilderness memoir
Abdou, Angie
Paper Book
"Through the story of facing her fears, Abdou shows us that we are much stronger than we think." -- Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom This personal memoir of self-discovery tackles the problems of modern parenting in a digital age Disillusioned with...
Where the falcon flies : a 3,400 kilometre odyssey from my doorstep to the Arctic
Shoalts, Adam
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL OUTBOOK AWARD FOR JOURNEYS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL From Canada's most accomplished adventurer and...

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