Biography & Memoir
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Lives That Changed the Conversation
Stories in focus, from artists and musicians to revolutionaries and truth-tellers.
“Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.” ― Kim Gordon, Girl in a BandExplore the collection
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Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga -
Joan Didion: What She Means -
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way -
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition -
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's -
Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal -
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion -
Shot Ready by Stephen Curry -
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante -
Chasing Me to My Grave: Winfred Rembert -
Warhol's Muses by Laurence Leamer -
Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love -
Edie: American Girl -
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Expanded Edition -
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez -
The Portable Faulkner -
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City -
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly -
Just Kids: An Autobiography by Patti Smith -
Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker -
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -
Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe -
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates