Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir

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  • Over Easy

    Over Easy

    $24.95

    A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the late 70s After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret takes a waitressing job at local Oakland fixture: the Imperial Café. Here an impressionable young woman transforms into the worldly Madge as she is introduced to the wisecracking, fast-talking,…

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  • Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

    Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

    $18.95

    The perennial graphic novel about a “hermit country,” with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the…

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  • Cover image for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life

    Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life

    $19.99

    Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering a self-help guide of tips, tricks and tools by someone who has been…

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  • Cover image for Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language

    Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language

    $26.00

    Winner of NPR Best Books of 2024 Top Ten List, 2025 American Library Association Best Graphic Novels for Adults Gold Medal, 2024 PubWest Book Design Award Gold Medal, 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal, 2025 IBPA Book Awards Between Two Sounds follows the life of world-famous composer Arvo Pärt from his birth in…

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  • Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

    Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

    $29.99

    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the American Library Association’s Pura Belpré HonorWinner of the Society of Illustrators Gold MedalWinner of Pop Culture Classroom’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Award for Adult NonfictionFrom “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming…

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  • Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2

    Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2

    $19.99

    Milo Manara’s Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2, the second half of Manara’s epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the run for killing a man in a duel in Rome. With a price on his head, Caravaggio flees to Naples, Malta, and Sicily…

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  • Cover image for Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition: Japan's Legendary Book on Samurai Military Strategy

    Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition: Japan’s Legendary Book on Samurai Military Strategy

    $14.99

    A new manga adaptation of Musashi’s legendary BOOK OF FIVE RINGS! Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned for his fighting prowess and famous for having never having been defeated. Then he mysteriously disappeared at the relatively young age of 29 to meditate and study. This book tells the fascinating…

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  • This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir

    This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir

    $24.99

    A vibrant graphic memoir of a woman–an immigrant, a survivor, a writer, a foodie, and, ultimately, an optimist–who rebuilds her life in New York City while recovering from the trauma of an abusive relationship. “An intimate portrait of the city not only as a place of dreams, but as a vital source for healing and…

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    Principles for Success

    $28.00

    An entertaining, illustrated adaptation of Ray Dalio’s Principles, the #1 New York Times bestseller that has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Principles for Success distills Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio’s 600-page bestseller, Principles: Life & Work, down to an easy-to-read and entertaining format that’s acces-sible to readers of all ages. It contains the…

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  • Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir

    Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir

    $40.00

    WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE – Available for the first time in English: a moving and masterful graphic memoir exploring one woman’s search for identity as she slowly uncovers the truth of how her Jewish relatives “disappeared” during World War II. Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember…

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  • Hybred: A Graphic Novel

    Hybred: A Graphic Novel

    $20.99

    “Sci-fi that might just save you.”–Black Nerd Problems “Immediately engrossing . . . powerful.”–Multiverse of Color “The textured world . . . does a job of messing with your head as your brain sees these stylized images and instantly associates them with a kid’s bedtime book, if they were Guillermo del Toro or Tim Burton.”…

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  • All the People I Have Been

    All the People I Have Been

    $24.99

    It’s better to laugh in life. And, if possible, to laugh at yourself. In this new graphic novel, cartoonish Alfonso Casas reflects on the various phases of life, portraited through beautiful illustrations created to remind us of the power of our thoughts and the new worlds in which we constantly find ourselves. As in his…

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  • All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

    All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

    $18.00

    Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”–and to the past sixty years of American culture–from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel…

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  • Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

    Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

    $24.95

    Fat girl problems. Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT–that is, until her body got in the way. Shrink is a work of graphic medicine that depicts the emotional and physical realities of inhabiting a large body in…

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  • Give Me Space But Don’t Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety

    Give Me Space But Don’t Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety

    $25.00

    A tender, funny, illustrated memoir about anxiety and self-acceptance from the artist behind @haleydrewthis Anxiety has been glued to Haley Weaver’s side since she was a child. Like most people, Weaver saw the constant what-ifs and worst-case scenarios that Anxiety whispered in her ear as an obstacle to her happiness. Maybe she could dump her…

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  • Jim Aparo: Brave & Bold Artist

    Jim Aparo: Brave & Bold Artist

    $39.95

    For a generation of comic-book readers, Jim Aparo is considered the greatest Batman artist of them all. Aparo–with his strong, dynamic style, well-grounded in realism–together with Batman made a team worthy of the title, The Brave and the Bold. But before that team-up book, he made a name for himself on such series as Aquaman,…

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