A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Irby, SamanthaSummary: - Author:Burke, Kelley Jo.Summary:
Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the...
- Author:Kanyon, Chris, Clark, RyanSummary:
A rare glimpse not only into the life of a professional wrestler, but the life of a gay man in a straight world, this tragic memoir is told in Chris Kanyon’s own words, with the help of journalist Ryan Clark.
One of the most...
- Author:Geering, LloydSummary:
Biography of New Zealand theologian Lloyd Geering [1918-]
- Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:
Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world's most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling. Each short chapter focuses on one author's life, using simple, entertaining text to weave tales of the pets...
- Author:Bliss, MichaelSummary:
One of Canada’s best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world he has known, Michael...
- Author:Senghor, ShakaSummary:
New York Times bestseller from a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100. An unforgettable memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America's mass incarceration epidemic.
Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on... - Author:Wideman, John EdgarSummary:
An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till-a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective...
- Author:McFarlane, JudySummary:
When Judy McFarlane is asked if she will help Grace, a woman with Down syndrome who dreams of becoming a famous writer, she realizes she holds deep, unacknowledged fears that Grace will be a dull-eyed young woman who can't read, let...
- Author:Thompson, David, Moreau, William E.Summary:
David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western...
- Author:Fang, FangSummary:
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the...
- Author:Boisson, PierreSummary:
Au début du mois d'avril 2011, un homme de 50 ans disparaissait sans laisser de traces, avant qu'on ne retrouve les corps de sa femme, de leurs quatre enfants et de leurs deux chiens enterrés sous la terrasse de leur maison...
- Author:Point Bolton, Rena, Daly, RichardSummary:
Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River...
- Author:Tendō, ShōkoSummary:
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because...
- Author:Smith, PattiSummary:
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's...
- Author:Wong, AliceSummary:
This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project In...
- Author:Rhimes, ShondaSummary:
The mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder chronicles how saying YES for one year changed her life?and how it can change yours, too. With three hit shows on...
- Author:Rogen, SethSummary:
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in...
- Author:Hern, FrancesSummary:
During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on the railroads. Among them was 36-year-old...
- Author:Carrère, EmmanuelSummary:
This is the story of a book about yoga and depression. Meditation and terrorism. The yearning for unity and bipolar disorder. Things that don't seem to go together, and yet: they do go together. With great accuracy, Thibault de...
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