Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir

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  • We All Got Something

    We All Got Something

    $21.95

    When you’re always searching, you might just surprise yourself with what you findAfter a rocky attempt at living in London with his partner, Lawrence finds himself single, broke, and back at home in Compton with his mom and great-aunt, moping from bed tokitchen table and back to bed again, with long layovers on the front…

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  • Hip Hop Family Tree 1983-1985 Vols. 3-4 Gift Box Set

    Hip Hop Family Tree 1983-1985 Vols. 3-4 Gift Box Set

    $49.99

    Hip Hop hooray for the holidays! Get on this gift box set of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree 3 and 4! From Fantagraphics.

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  • So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship

    So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship

    $24.99

    A 2023 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Graphic MemoirA 2023 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection Part memoir, part self-help book, So Much For Love offers hilarious and empathetic advice on how to survive a relationship with a master manipulator. Sophie had always been cynical about love–until she meets Marcus. His affection and doting…

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  • The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir

    The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir

    $26.95

    Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an adolescent in the late 1930s. An irreverent, comic, rageful man with three names, who spoke three languages, lived on three continents, and always kept his papers in order,…

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  • Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

    Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

    $22.99

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself…

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  • This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

    This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

    $25.95

    “With light and airy illustrations, Mahdavian tackles these complex themes with humor and wit.” —NPR, Books We Love 2023 NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ● NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS WE’VE READ IN 2023● A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New…

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  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

    The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

    $29.95

    One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020! Featured on best of the year lists from Publishers Weekly and the Washington Post! A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The…

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    Mom’s Cancer

    $16.95

    The winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version, “Mom’s Cancer” is now available as a graphic novel. It offers an honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families.

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  • Carnet de Voyage

    Carnet de Voyage

    $21.95

    A unique insight into an acclaimed cartoonist’s travels through Europe and Morocco Riding the international success of Blankets, Craig Thompson sets out on a tour across Europe and Morocco, promoting the various European editions of his book and beginning research for his next graphic novel, Habibi. Carnet de Voyage is a gorgeous sketchbook diary of…

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  • All My Bicycles

    All My Bicycles

    $19.99

    “A bicycle is a machine that you power yourself. You decide where you want to go,” writes cartoonist Powerpaola, as the guiding principle of this graphic memoir. All My Bicycles is a story that never really begins, existing all at once in Paola’s memory. The book illustrates Powerpaola’s relationships through her many bicycles: in fragments,…

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    Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

    $14.99
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  • Caligramas

    Caligramas

    $27.95
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  • Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

    Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

    $28.99

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself…

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  • Cover image for Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation

    Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation

    $19.99

    AN EISNER AWARD NOMINEE A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY “BEST NEW COMIC OF 2022 FOR ADULTS” Beautifully adapted and rendered through piercing illustrations by acclaimed creators Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly’s complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a groundbreaking moment in history and reveals a haunting and timely glimpse at the…

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  • Traces of Madness: A Graphic Memoir

    Traces of Madness: A Graphic Memoir

    $19.95

    I want to share my story to understand what is happening to me. Fernando Balius was a perfectly ordinary, if misunderstood, young adult–until he started hearing voices. In Traces of Madness, Fernando describes what it feels like, both mentally and physically, to lose your grip on reality. His life spins out of control when the…

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  • Transitions: A Mother’s Journey

    Transitions: A Mother’s Journey

    $19.99

    When Anne learns that her 19-year-old is a transgender man, she struggles to understand her son’s new identity. A new landmark in nonfiction comics, Transitions is a sympathetic, informative, and moving story of a family’s journey to acceptance. “I thought I was open-minded… The news of my child’s gender change hit me like a tidal…

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