Fresh Memoirs & Biographies

Sometimes we're in the mood to learn through someone else's trials and celebrations. Looking for a new memoir or biography to read? Check out the list below for memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies freshly added to Bluffton Public Library's collection. Click on the title to be led to our online catalog where you can place a hold or see if it's available on our shelves right now. Or give us a call to schedule a Library Use Appointment to grab one off our shelves yourself!

FOR ADULTS

• The answer is ... reflections on my life / Alex Trebek.
• Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body / Rebekah Taussig.
• Stray : a memoir / by Stephanie Danler.
• The pretty one : on life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me / Keah Brown.
• Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.
• Women of courage [large print] / Margaret Truman.
• Don't stop believin' [large print] / Olivia Newton-John.
• Home work [book on CD] : a memoir of my Hollywood years / Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton.
• Me [book on CD] / Elton John.
• She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
• Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / Dani Shapiro.
• Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me / Adrienne Brodeur.
• Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler / Lynne Olson.
• Napoleon / John Bowle ; introd. by Elizabeth Longford.
• Face it / Debbie Harry.
• Sigh, gone : a misfit's memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in / Phuc Tran.
• This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession / Cameron Dezen Hammon.
• Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir / Ruth Reichl.
• Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb.
• In the dream house : a memoir / Carmen Maria Machado.
• Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement : my story of transformation and hope / Albert Woodfox with Leslie George.
• A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII / Sonia Purnell.
• Just show up [book on CD] : and other enduring values from baseball's iron man / Cal Ripken, Jr ; and James Dale.
• Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving / Mo Rocca.
• Mobituaries [book on CD] : great lives worth reliving / Mo Rocca.
• Becoming Dr. Seuss [large print] : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination / by Brian Jay jones.
• The truths we hold : an American journey / Kamala Harris.
• The valedictorian of being dead : the true story of dying ten times to live / Heather B. Armstrong.
• Edison / by Edmund Morris.
• How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Saeed Jones.
• The sixth man : a memoir / Andre Iguodala.
• Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church / Megan Phelps-Roper.
• Haben : the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law / Haben Girma.
• Love thy neighbor [large print] : a Muslim doctor's struggle for home in rural America / by Ayaz Virji with Alan Eisenstock.
• From scratch [book on CD] : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home / Tembi Locke.
• Officer Clemmons : a memoir / Dr. François S. Clemmons.
• Things my son needs to know about the world / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies.

FOR CHILDREN

• Florence Nightingale / by Kitson Jazynka ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager.
• Claude Monet / illustrated by Caroline Bonne Müller ; written by Lucy Brownridge.
• David Attenborough / written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Mikyo Noh.
• Wild Horse Annie : friend of the mustangs / Tracey Fern ; pictures by Steven Salerno.
• Saving the countryside : the story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit / words by Linda Elovitz Marshall ; pictures by Ilaria Urbinati.
• Fred's big feelings : the life and legacy of Mister Rogers / written by Laura Renauld ; illustrated by Brigette Barrager.
• Free lunch / Rex Ogle.
• A place to land / Barry Wittenstein ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
• All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything / words by Annette Bay Pimentel ; pictures by Nabi H. Ali ; foreword by Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins.
• The bug girl : Maria Merian's scientific vision / Sarah Glenn Marsh ; illustrated by Filippo Vanzo.
• Mahatma Gandhi / written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Albert Arrayás.
• Benjamin Franklin : a nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #32 : To the future, Ben Franklin / by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce ; illustrated by Isidre Monés.
• The boy who grew a forest : the true story of Jadav Payeng / written by Sophia M. Gholz ; illustrated by Kayla Harren.
• Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rafael López.
• Frida Kahlo / illustrated by Sandra Dieckmann ; written by Lucy Brownridge.
• The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come / written by Sue Macy ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
• The oldest student : how Mary Walker learned to read / written by Rita Lorraine Hubbard ; illustrated by Oge Mora.
• Greta's story : the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet / by Valentina Camerini ; translated by Moreno Giovannoni ; illustrations by Veronica 'Veci' Carratello.
• Anne Frank / written by Isabel Thomas ; illustrations by Paola Escobar.
• I am Billie Jean King / by Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos.
• A passion for elephants : the real life adventure of field scientist Cynthia Moss / by Toni Buzzeo ; illustrated by Holly Berry.

FOR TEENS & TWEENS

• The fire never goes out : a memoir in pictures / Noelle Stevenson.
• When stars are scattered / Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed ; color by Iman Geddy.
• Shout : a poetry memoir / by Laurie Halse Anderson.
• Diary of a Tokyo teen : a Japanese-American girl travels to the land of trendy fashion, high-tech toilets and maid cafes / Christine Mari Inzer.

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