Genre search:Biography & Memoir

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

Bossypants

by Tina Fey
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Memoir, Non-Fiction, Comedy, Humor, Autobiography, Feminism
Status
Available
Call number
792.7028092

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Non-Fiction, Ethics, History, Biology, African Americans, Medicine, Science, Racism, Biography, Research
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Non-Fiction, Biography, Historical figures, World War II, History, European history, Blitz, Person - Winston Churchill, Country - England
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
940.54

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Paperback, 1983
Tags
American Literature, Rape, Memoir, Coming of age, Civil rights, Black American Literature, Feminism, Black Americans, 20th Century
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
818.54092

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American Literature, Founding Fathers, Autobiography, American history, Memoir, Non-Fiction, 18th Century, American Revolution, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.3092

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Non-Fiction, Survival stories, Mountains, Adventure, Mountaineering, Country - Nepal, Memoir, Disasters, Nature
Status
Available
Call number
796.522092

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

by Frederick Douglass
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Series - Penguin Classics, 19th Century, American Literature, Black American Literature, Autobiography, Slavery, American history, Black Americans
Collection
Penguin Classics
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Racism, Race, Black studies, Non-Fiction, Social history, Social justice, Sociology, African Americans, Black Americans, Anti-racism, Race relations — 1 more, White privilege
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (The Midwife Trilogy)

by Jennifer Worth
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Memoir, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Country - England - London, Midwifery, Nurses, 20th Century - 1950s, Poverty, Social history
Series
Midwife Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
618.2

Modern Classics Goodbye To All That (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Robert Graves
Paperback, 2000
Tags
War, 20th Century, World War I, English Literature, Trench warfare, Memoir, Autobiography, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
940.48142

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston
Paperback, 1989
Tags
American Literature, Asian Americans, Asian American Literature, Chinese Americans, Memoir, Immigrants, Feminism, 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
979.4053092

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

by Rinker Buck
Paperback, 2016
Tags
History, American history, American West, Oregon Trail, Memoir, Travel, Pioneers, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
978

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 2007
Tags
American Literature, Black American Literature, Black Americans, Race, Children, Racism, Memoir, 20th Century, USA - Mississippi, Non-Fiction, Autobiography
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

by Aminatou Sow
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Friendship, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Relationships, Sociology
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
177.62082

Walden and Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback, 2012
Tags
American Literature, Philosophy, Transcendentalism, Essays, Memoir, Nature, Non-Fiction, Politics, 19th Century
Status
Available
Call number
818.303

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Non-Fiction, Humor, European history, Royal families, Princesses, Monks and clergy, Monarchy, Scandal, Sexuality, British history, Church and papacy
Status
Available
Call number
920.02

William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius

by Anthony Holden
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
Non-Fiction, Person - William Shakespeare, Theatre/Plays, Drama, Biography, Elizabethan, 16th Century, Renaissance drama, Literary criticism, Person - Anne Hathaway
Status
Available
Call number
822.33

Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

by Donald R. Howard
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
Poetry, Biography, Person - Geoffrey Chaucer, Middle Ages, Medieval Literature, Medieval Europe, European history, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
821.1

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)

by Peter Abelard
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Series - Penguin Classics, 12th Century, Letters, Medieval Literature, Middle Ages, Romance, French Literature, Christianity, Philosophy, Theology
Collection
Penguin Classics
Status
Available
Call number
189.4

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas De Quincey
Paperback, 2009
Tags
19th Century, Addiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Drugs, English Literature, Essays, Non-Fiction, Romanticism
Status
Available
Call number
828.809

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2008
Tags
American history, Non-Fiction, Humor, Social history, Pirates, Historical figures, Founding Fathers, Anecdotal, Biography, American Revolution
Status
Available
Call number
973

The Book of Margery Kempe (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

by Margery Kempe
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Medieval Literature, Autobiography, Christianity, Women, Christian mysticism, Non-Fiction, Religious writing, Religion, 15th Century, Middle Ages, English Literature — 1 more, Spirituality
Collection
Norton Critical Editions
Status
Available
Call number
248.22092

A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2003
Tags
American history, Non-Fiction, Humor, Social history, Historical figures, Founding Fathers, POTUS, Scandal, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.099

Home and Exile

by Chinua Achebe
Paperback, 2001
Tags
African Literature, Autobiography, Non-Fiction, Postcolonialism, Memoir, Essays, Country - Nigeria, Literary criticism, 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Saints

Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Non-Fiction, Religion, Religious studies, Illustrated, Saints, Reference, Hagiography, Christianity, Biography
Status
Available
Call number
270

A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Women

by Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Series - Penguin Classics, Travel, Autobiography, English Literature, Scandinavia, Memoir, Romanticism, Women, Country - Denmark, Country - Sweden, Country - Norway — 1 more, 18th Century
Collection
Penguin Classics
Status
Available
Call number
828.603

A Brief History of British Kings and Queens : British Royal History from Alfred the Great to the Present

by Mike Ashley
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Non-Fiction, History, British history, Royal families
Status
Available
Call number
941.0099

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

by Simon Glendinning
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Non-Fiction, Person - Derrida, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, Philosophy, French philosophy, Critical theory, Literary theory, Postmodernism
Collection
A Very Short Introduction
Series
A Very Short Introduction (278)
Status
Available
Call number
194

Habermas: A Very Short Introduction

by Gordon Finlayson
Paperback, 2005
Tags
Non-Fiction, Person - Habermas, Philosophy, Critical theory, Political theory, Cultural studies, Cultural criticism, Sociology, Literary theory, Literary criticism
Collection
A Very Short Introduction
Series
A Very Short Introduction (125)
Status
Available
Call number
193

I Never Knew That About New York

by Christopher Winn
Paperback, 2014
Tags
American history, USA - New York - New York City, Non-Fiction, Travel, Geography, United States
Status
Available
Call number
974.7

Antonio Gramsci (Rct) (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

by Steven J. Jones
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Non-Fiction, Literary criticism, Literary theory, American culture, Hegemony, Marxism, Philosophy, Politics, Person - Antonio Gramsci
Series
Routledge Critical Thinkers
Status
Available
Call number
306
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