Memoirs

Updated June 8, 2026
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Eloquent rage : a Black feminist discovers her superpower
Cooper, Brittney C.
Paper Book
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library * Mashable * The Atlantic * ...
Finding Edith : surviving the Holocaust in plain sight
Cord, Edith Mayer
Paper Book
Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girlchased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the bookdescribes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up againstthe backdrop of the Great...
A journey to Waco autobiography of a Branch Davidian
Doyle, Clive
Ebook
Nearly twenty years after they happened, the ATF and FBI assaults on the Branch Davidian residence near Waco, Texas remain the most deadly law enforcement action on American soil. The raid by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents on February 28, 1993, which resulted in the deaths of...
Magical realism for non-believers : a memoir of finding family
Fajardo, Anika
Ebook
A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she's never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means   He loved Colombia too much to leave it. The explanation from her Minnesotan mother was enough to satisfy a child's...
Rights remembered : a Salish grandmother speaks on American Indian history and the future
Hillaire, Pauline
Paper Book
Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in...
Under the eagle : Samuel Holiday, Navajo code talker
Holiday, Samuel Tom
Paper Book
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday's vivid account of...
Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
Hong, Cathy Park
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE * A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant...
Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, Nelson
Paper Book
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a...
Spirit of the grassroots people : seeking justice for indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system
Mason, Raymond
Ebook
Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal...
Spacewalker my journey in space and faith as NASA's record-setting frequent flyer
Ross, Jerry Lynn
Ebook
From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US...
Outrageous acts and everday rebellions
Steinem, Gloria.
Paper Book
This phenomenally successful book, that has sold nearly a half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays.
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."--New York...
The Woo-Woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
Wong, Lindsay
Paper Book
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was...
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...

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