Britney Spears

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

The Woman in Me

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo

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California

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

When Breath Becomes Air

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Michelle Obama

Overcoming in Uncertain Times

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.
 
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
 
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles--the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become." She details her most valuable practices, like "starting kind," "going high," and assembling a "kitchen table" of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.
 
"When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it," writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.

The Light We Carry

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

Note to Self

Mary E. DeMuth

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A Memoir

In this moving spiritual memoir--Thin Places--Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of thin places in her life, places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. From surviving abuse as a latchkey kid to discovering a heavenly Father who never leaves, Mary's story invites you to a deeper understanding of your own story. She calls you to discover new ways to look for God in the past so that you might experience him more profoundly in the present.What if you could retrace your life and discover its thin places--places where the division between this world and the eternal fades? "Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh. He has come near to my life. I will tell you how."

Thin Places

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Tom Selleck’s New book. Never Read. Brand New 

New York

You Never Know

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#history #holocaust #memoir #jewish history 

On the Vistula Facing East

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Peter R. Mccoy

Find Your Own American A Boy's Inspiring Journey From Nazi Germany to Freedom in America

By Peter R. McCoy (formerly Dieter R. Hesse)

Paperback, 2011

Signed by author on inside cover with inscription written out to Crystal.

Blue remainder mark on side. Some creasing to spine and edge wear, including bent corners. Some discoloration from age and handling. Signature can be seen as an raised impression on front cover. 

Scuffing, scratches or dents to cover. 

I ship same or next business day.

Alabama

Find Your Own American

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The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on.
 
For Harry, this is that story at last.
 
With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

Spare

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Jennette McCurdy

Illinois

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail--just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

I'm Glad My Mom Died

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book itself is in perfect condition, just the outer cover is a little worn

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Jason Peter

Tony O'Neill

This New York Times bestselling gritty memoir Hero of the Underground offers a no-holds-barred look at the twisted underbelly of a seemingly perfect life. Jason Peter, an All-American football player, captain of the National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers, first round NFL draft pick. . . and heroin addict.

I wasn't afraid of death.

How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you.

When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . .

I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn't going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out.

"Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he'd have written. Flat-out, mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing." --Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

Hero of the Underground

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Ishmael Beah

New Jersey

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

A Long Way Gone

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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
By Condoleezza Rice 
Hardcover 
1st Ed, 1st Print
As pictured (glare and shadows from my light).
VGC
Any questions, please ask.

Michigan

Extraordinary Ordinary People By Condoleezza Rice Hardcover 1st Ed 1st Print

Pennsylvania

A Novel

National best seller, Japan's most celebrated geisha, confessions novel.

Memoirs of a Geisha

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Jane Goodall

Phillip Berman

A Spiritual Journey

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope.

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity. Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.

Reason for Hope

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Elie Wiesel

Marion Wiesel

The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.

Night

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Walter Cronkite

Rare signed first edition in fine condition. Inscribed. 

Overview: He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Now, at the age of eighty, Cronkite has written his life story-the personal and professional odyssey of the original "anchorman" for whom that very word was coined. As a witness to the crucial events of this century-first for the Houston Press, then for the United Press wire service, and finally for CBS in the fledgling medium of television-Cronkite set a standard for integrity, objectivity, enthusiasm, compassion, and insight that is difficult to surpass. He is an overflowing vessel of history, and a direct link with the people and places that have defined our nation and established its unique role in the world. But Walter Cronkite is also the man who loved to drive race cars "for the same reason that others do exhibitionist, dangerous stunts. It sets us apart from the average man; puts us, in our own minds, on a level just a little above the chap who doesn't race." He is also the man whose "softheartedness knows no rational bounds" and who always had "great problems at the theater, tearing up at the slightest offense against animals and people, notably the very old or the very young." He is the man who could barely refrain from spitting on the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, and who could barely announce President Kennedy's assassination over the air for the sobs in his throat. Walter Cronkite helped launch the juggernaut of television, and tried to imbue it with his own respect for quality and ethics; but now he occupies a ringside seat during the decline of his profession and the ascent of the lowest common denominator. As he aptly observes, "They'd rewrite Exodus to include a car chase." Still, the American people know the difference. They know that for decades they have had the privilege of getting their news from a gentleman of the highest caliber. And they will immensely enjoy A Reporter's Life.

A Reporter's Life—Signed

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#nonfiction #memoir #hardcover #dustjacket

Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an unconventional upbringing, all while using her trademark self-deprecating humor. Arden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. Arden's parents did one better -- they married on a dare. Growing up in Arden's family, her dad ate nothing but sheet cake, while her mom was busy teaching a Cub Scout troop how to put on a Broadway musical. Oh, and she grew up in a small farm town called Little Compton, Rhode Island. Human population: 3,518. Cow population: 278. General Store: One. Stop Lights: Zero. At nineteen, Arden packed her bags with stars in her eyes and landed at ImprovOlympic in Chicago, where for the first time in her life she felt like she finally made sense. After drinking in as much comedy experience (and Sea Breezes) as she could, Arden got her big break when she was cast on an NBC sitcom. She moved to Los Angeles, knowing no one, and quickly realized she had no clue how to be a fully-grown human adult on her own. How do you date someone and not ruin it? How do you interact with people if you have a teeny bit of social anxiety? How do you stand up for yourself if you're a people pleaser? And most of all, how do you start to believe that you are enough? From small town Rhode Island to accidentally kicking Courteney Cox in the face on a soundstage in Hollywood, Arden's hilarious, inspiring, and honest story shows readers how one totally unconventional upbringing might be the very thing one needs to thrive, all while showing up as your most outrageous, authentic self. Shout out to Little Compton!! Woot Woot!!!

Little Miss Little Compton

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ew lease on life: The story of a city family who quit the rat race and moved to a ranch in Wyoming
First edition signed and inscribed by author. Very rare! 

“At the age of 46” writes Otis Carney, “I finally made the break. Said goodbye to my secretary, put my city suits in mothballs, and quit the big game. My wife, Teddy, and I loaded our three sons in the station wagon; we drove away from a Lotusland existence in Beverly Hills, California, and plowed into a snowbank known as Cora, Wyoming, population three. We bought a kettle ranch here, in the furthest area in the US from a railroad, a wilderness with less than one inhabitant per square mile. “Good God!” said our friends are you nuts? Who will talk to you up there? What will you do? “‘Maybe’ I said ‘I’ll get a new lease on life.’ And it became just that explaining our story in this book.” Nowadays, practically everybody seems fed up by the city rat race. People are drained by scramble, pressure, the high cost of staying alive. They’d love to chuck it and get out. But it’s not quite as easy as it sounds, says Otis Carney. Since boyhood, he had long for the peace and freedom of the land, the time to enjoy nature and grow in spirit. He and Teddy wanted the same experience for their kids. But how, they ask, did you throw out the good life? Could you risk checking your business contacts, your future? Could you and your kids make it on your own in a strange, hard land? New Lease on Life is the story of how the Carneys tried their own thing. They uprooted from the push-button life, settled first on a wild, beautiful ranch in Utah, Teddy learning to milk and cook on a woodstove, Otis and the boys finding the hard side of a cow. From here, they finally gambled on their own land in Wyoming. The boys matured into a kind of strength and freedom, they hadn’t known before. And Otis and Teddy, as he wrote his last major television series – a disaster about Wyoming – how they finally come here to stay. They had their - new lease on themselves!

SIGNED A New Lease on Life by Otis Carney (1971, First Edition, Hardcover)

Sid Hartman

Patrick Reusse

This book has been read but remains in clean condition. The cover and all pages are intact. The spine shows signs of wear.

Minnesota

The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends

"Sid Hartman has been at the center of Minnesota sports for more than fifty years. ..."--Jacket.

SIGNED Sid!

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Priscilla Presley

Sandra Harmon

This book has been read but remains in clean condition. The cover and all pages are intact. The spine and jacket show signs of wear. 

The woman whom Elvis decided to marry when she was an innocent fourteen-year-old writes candidly about their twelve years together, about Elvis the husband and father, and about his drug-wracked decline and death

Elvis and Me

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This book has been read but remains in clean condition. The cover and all pages are intact. The spine shows signs of wear. 

The candid story of Hollywood's popular sex symbol reveals the "girl next door" underneath--marrying her high school sweetheart, founding an international adoption agency--as well as the real truth behind her relationship with Howard Hughes This description may be from another edition of this product.

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The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo

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When Breath Becomes Air

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The Light We Carry

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Note to Self

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You Never Know

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Find Your Own American

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A Long Way Gone

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Extraordinary Ordinary People By Condoleezza Rice Hardcover 1st Ed 1st Print

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Night

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SIGNED A New Lease on Life by Otis Carney (1971, First Edition, Hardcover)

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