Category: Biographies

Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned by the decade she had spent as a lifestyle journalist, advising other people how to live their best lives, she had little idea how best to live her own life. She did know one thing: She no longer wanted to writ...
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This Is Happy

By: Camilla Gibb

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Anchor : 2016

Seller ID: 0128514

ISBN-13: 9780385678148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

In The Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Price: $12.48

Publisher: Strange Light : 2019

Seller ID: 0157626

ISBN-13: 9780771094507

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narra...
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This Time Together

By: Carol Burnett

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Three Rivers Press : 2010

Seller ID: 0158111

ISBN-13: 9780307461193

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett--funny, irreverent, and irresistible. Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time Together, Carol really lets her hair down and tells one funny or touching or memorable story after another. In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; the ba...
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Great Catherine (Catherine II aka Sophia Augusta Federicka)

By: Carolly Erickson

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Simon and Schuster : 1994

Seller ID: 0067105

ISBN-13: 9780671712280

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Rivehead Books : 2015

Seller ID: 0160494

ISBN-13: 9781594486630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Blue Rider : 2016

Seller ID: 0152602

ISBN-13: 9780399185793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time. When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivet , and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was...
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Facing Terror

By: Carrie McDonnall

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Integrity : 2005

Seller ID: 0111887

ISBN-13: 9781591453871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Welcome Pilgrim

By: Catherine De Hueck Doherty

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Madonna House : 1991

Seller ID: 0117781

ISBN-13: 9780921440239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

After The Falls

By: Catherine Gildiner

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage Canada : 2009

Seller ID: 0131500

ISBN-13: 9780307398239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic. When Cathy McClure is thirteen years old, her parents make the bold decision to move to suburban Buffalo in hopes that it will help Cathy focus on her studies and stay out of trouble. But "normal" has never been Cathy's forte, and leaving Niagara Falls and Catholic school behind does nothing to quell her spirited nature. As the 1960s dramatically unfold, Cathy takes on many personas -- cheerleader, vandal, HoJo hos...
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