Category - Biography & Autobiography
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I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug de...
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Forty Acres and a Goat
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In Forty Acres and a Goat, Will D. Campbell picks up where the award-winning Brother to a Dragonfly leaves off, accounting his adventures during...
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The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Activist and public relations thought leader David Fenton shares lessons on how to organize successful media campaigns, cultivated from more than...
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Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon: Hesitate No Longer
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /It was the spring of 1871. Pioneer entrepreneur Abigail Scott Duniway, on a business trip to purchase stock for her millinery store back in Oreg...
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Wild and Precious Life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the mother of Brittany Maynard comes an endearing memoir honoring the young woman who made the decision to travel to Oregon and end her life...
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Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a t...
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Dorothy Day: Love in Action
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /By any measure, Dorothy Day lived a fascinating life. She was a journalist, activist, single mother, convert, Catholic laywoman, and co-founder o...
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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization”...
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A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."The late editor of the late Miami News, Bill Baggs, stamped these words o...
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America's Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith's Lasting Message of Peace
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a lett...
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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A leading voice in the global climate movement delivers a powerful manifesto and moving memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—buil...
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Cronies, A Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways. It all began at a cockt...
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world...
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Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /***Winner PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award*** "A fine, taut analysis of the great African American athlete, singer, actor, and political a...
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A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and...
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose work...
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Busting the Brass Ceiling
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /FANCHON BLAKE changed the face of policing around the country. She joined the LAPD in 1948 and walked a beat in a skirt and heels for three year...
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Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Ca...
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the M...
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Asylum Speakers: Stories of Migration From the Humans Behind the Headlines
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Asylum Speakers is truly an anthology of humanity. It's a reminder of how much we all have in common and that each of us has an equal right to b...
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Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2023 * "Powerful and unforgettable" —Qian Julie Wang, author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful ...
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Warrior: Audrey Hepburn
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"UNICEF thought that with my mother they would get a pretty princess to show up at galas. What they really got was a badass soldier.” – Luca Dott...
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Kate: The Making of a Princess
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Kate by Claudia Joseph, is a true-life fairy tale: the biography of Kate Middleton, Princess-in-Waiting, who is quite possibly poised to be the n...
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A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a...
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