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It fits readers who want memoirs that feel intimate, urgent, and deeply human, especially ones shaped by truth-telling, resilience, and the impossible weight of stepping forward.
One Way Back
Biographies & Memoirs
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This is not the headline version. It is the cost-of-speaking version. In One Way Back, Christine Blasey Ford reflects on the months before her testimony, the fallout that followed, and the private fear behind a very public act of courage. It fits readers who want memoirs that feel intimate, urgent, and deeply human, especially ones shaped by truth-telling, resilience, and the impossible weight of stepping forward.
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Now a New York Times bestseller
"A blisteringly personal memoir...a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning." —The Washington Post
"An insightful tour de force." —People
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual assault by the Supreme Court nominee that took place at a high school party in the 1980s. Her words and courage on that day provided some of the most credible and unforgettable testimony our country has ever witnessed.
In One Way Back, Ford recounts the months she spent trying to get information into the right hands without exposing herself and her family to dangerous backlash. Drawing parallels to her life as a surfer, she explains the process of paddling out into unknown waters despite the risks and fears, knowing there is only one way back to shore. The book reveals riveting new details about the leadup to her testimony and its overwhelming aftermath and describes how she continues to navigate her way out of the storm.
This is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, page-turning memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford’s experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing "a ripple that might one day become a wave.”
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When Beth asks her sister Rachel to ride public transportation with her for a full year, what begins as a simple request becomes a life-changing lesson in presence,…
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Biographies & Memoirs
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When Beth asks her sister Rachel to ride public transportation with her for a full year, what begins as a simple request becomes a life-changing lesson in presence, patience, and connection. Riding the Bus with My Sister is a deeply personal memoir about sisterhood, disability, and the everyday communities most people never stop to see. Warm, honest, and reflective, it offers an affecting look at love, forgiveness, and the ways one relationship can quietly reshape an entire life.
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A "heartwarming, life-affirming" memoir of a relationship with an intellectually disabled sibling: "Read this book. It might just change your life" (Boston Herald).
Beth is a spirited woman with an intellectual disability who lives intensely and often joyfully, and spends most of her days riding the buses in Pennsylvania. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers, her community—though some display less patience or kindness than others.
Her sister, Rachel, a teacher and writer, camouflages her emotional isolation by leading a hyperbusy life. But one day, Beth asks Rachel to accompany her on public transportation for an entire year—and Rachel accepts. This wise, funny, deeply affecting book is the chronicle of that remarkable time, as Rachel learns how to live in the moment, how to pay attention to what really matters, how to change, how to love—and how to slow down and enjoy the ride.
Weaving in anecdotes and memories of terrifying maternal abandonment, fierce sisterly loyalty, and astonishing forgiveness, Rachel Simon brings to light a world that is almost invisible to many people, finds unlikely heroes in everyday life, and, without sentimentality, wrestles with her own limitations and portrays Beth as the endearing, feisty, independent person she is.
"With tenderness and fury, heartbreak and acceptance . . . Simon comes to the inescapable conclusion that we are all riders on the bus, and on the bus we are all the same." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
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What begins as the story of a woman terrorized by a violent stalker becomes something even more unnerving once the truth starts to surface.
The Pursued
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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What begins as the story of a woman terrorized by a violent stalker becomes something even more unnerving once the truth starts to surface. The Pursued follows Ruth Finley’s years-long ordeal with threatening letters, escalating attacks, and a case that kept police chasing the wrong answers. More than a true-crime account, it digs into fear, deception, and the devastating fallout of a reality far stranger and darker than anyone expected.
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The terrifying true story of a woman at war with a violent stalker who eluded the police for years—until they found the truth in the last place anyone would have dared to look.
From 1977 to 1981, Ruth Finley, an ordinary wife and mother from Kansas, was tormented by an elusive maniac known as the Poet. The police, already on edge from BTK’s reign of terror, spent years searching for the stalker. Meanwhile, his cryptic letters in rhymed verse grew more disturbing and violent, spilling into deeds like stabbing and kidnapping.
In this propulsive nonfiction account, as Ruth is surveilled from all sides, her nightmare takes a chilling turn: The stalker is no stranger at all. It’s someone the police have been close to for years, someone nearer to home than Ruth dared to admit. The revelation recasts what seemed like a cruel twist of fate as something far more disturbing.
The Pursued is not just a gripping true-crime story. It’s also a darkly textured portrait of the deceptions that drive us and the explosive reckonings that occur when they finally tumble down.
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The Two Kinds of Decay is not interested in offering a neat, inspirational version of illness.
The Two Kinds of Decay
Biographies & Memoirs
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The Two Kinds of Decay is not interested in offering a neat, inspirational version of illness. Sarah Manguso writes about her nine-year battle with a rare autoimmune disease in spare, piercing prose that captures pain, addiction, depression, and the strange instability of living inside a body you can’t trust. What makes this memoir hit so hard is its refusal to soften the experience. It’s sharp, intimate, and devastating in a way that feels painfully honest rather than performative.
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A poet and author recounts her nine-year struggle with a rare autoimmune disease in this spare and unsparing memoir of illness and recovery.
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.
Praise for The Two Kinds of Decay
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Best Book of the Year, San Francisco Chronicle and Time Out Chicago
"Moving . . . a fiercely truthful memoir." —The Boston Globe
"Hers is not a day-by-day description of this grueling time, but an impressionistic text filled with bright, poetic flashes. . . . Many sick people learn to live in the moment, but the power of Manguso's writing makes that truism revelatory." —The Washington Post Book World
"Sarah Manguso has miraculously elevated the act of memory. She has found honesty, fear, longing and beauty in every moment of her young life, giving this book an intensity found nowhere else. You put it down panting with wonder and grief, but never with pity. A breakthrough in the memoir, and in writing." —Andrew Sean Greer
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After her husband’s betrayal shatters the life she has been expected to endure, Del Wensley jumps a coal train and sets out toward something she has never truly…
October in the Earth
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction
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After her husband’s betrayal shatters the life she has been expected to endure, Del Wensley jumps a coal train and sets out toward something she has never truly had: a life of her own. Set during the Depression, October in the Earth follows her across a harsh and uncertain America, where friendship, danger, and hard-won freedom reshape what survival can look like. It is atmospheric, emotional, and full of grit.
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In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night.
Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband’s infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she’s known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails.
Rumbling across America, Del is soon drawn into a transient community among outcasts—and finds a special friend in Louisa Trout. A nomadic single mother, Louisa teaches Del the ways of the boxcars and promises to help her reach a migrant enclave where Del can learn the skills she’ll need to survive. But as they move forward together under desperate circumstances, even the closest of bonds threatens to break.
With the Depression taking its toll, Del must gather her strength and faith. As she carries on toward one unknown after another, her life becomes a fulfilling, sometimes dangerous, and exhilarating adventure. But no matter the risks, it’s a life that she alone controls.
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It’s a strong fit for readers who like true crime with vivid storytelling, strange real-life details, and cases that feel as unsettling as they are compulsively readable.
She Kills
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Some true crime stories are horrifying. Some are bizarre. Some make you pause and wonder what on earth was happening in that town, that house, or that person’s head. She Kills collects true crime cases centered on female perpetrators, from poisonings to murder-for-hire plots, all told through sharp, immersive reporting from longtime Texas Monthly writer Skip Hollandsworth. It’s a strong fit for readers who like true crime with vivid storytelling, strange real-life details, and cases that feel as unsettling as they are compulsively readable.
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"I love Skip Hollandsworth. I love his extraordinary stories, I love his rabid curiosity, and I love that as a writer, he personifies toeing the line between horror, humor, and absurdity. I am inspired by every single character he has introduced us to. "—Laura Dern
A superb collection of true-crime stories—written by Texas Monthly’s legendary feature writer Skip Hollandsworth—that reminds us why America is perennially obsessed with the genre.
Skip Hollandsworth has been covering true crime since long before the podcasts, networks, and television shows discovered it. Raised in Texas, the revered journalist joined Texas Monthly in 1989, and the stories he has written over three-plus decades have helped define a locale and a culture.
Curated by Hollandsworth, She Kills brings together beloved stories that focus in particular on female perpetrators—from the high schooler who was so desperate to move back in with Mom that she had no choice but to poison her father’s refried beans, to the wallflower nurse in small-town Texas who one day started killing off her patients, to the lovelorn dental hygienist who ordered a hit on her rival.
These are expertly crafted tales that will stop readers in their tracks and leave them gasping with shock and pleasure. Each story is updated by Hollandsworth, who provides background on his original storytelling and new information on the perpetrators and victims, where available.
She Kills is a jaw-dropping, addictively readable compendium of women whose often sensational crimes and circumstances put them on the wrong side of the law.
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A life built around love fractures in an instant, leaving grief to reshape everything that follows.
Here After
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A life built around love fractures in an instant, leaving grief to reshape everything that follows. In Here After, Amy Lin reflects on her marriage to her husband Kurtis and the devastating loss that ends it far too soon. Through memory, longing, and quiet reflection, this intimate memoir traces the disorienting landscape of mourning and the fragile ways love continues to echo after loss.
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A USA Today Bestseller
Starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal
Best Book of 2024 Pick by Esquire, ELLE, SheReads, and Kirkus
A 2024 NPR “Book We Love” Pick
A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection
An Apple Books Best Book of March
Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
A Great Group Reads of 2024 from the Women’s National Book Association
Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut Canadian author Amy Lin that will resonate deeply with anyone who has been in grief’s grasp.
When he dies, I fall out of time.
Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. On a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds’ move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy’s family. It is the last time she sees her husband alive.
What follows is a rich and unflinchingly honest account of her life with Kurtis and the vortex created by his death. Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a memoir so finely etched that its power will remain with you long after the final page.
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A young babysitter becomes a deadly liability after she agrees to testify in court.
Don’t Tell a Soul
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A young babysitter becomes a deadly liability after she agrees to testify in court. In Don’t Tell a Soul, Cherry Walker’s brutal murder in Texas exposes a chilling attempt to silence a witness whose honesty threatened to reveal a mother’s hidden crimes. This true crime investigation follows the unraveling of Kim Cargill’s deception and the disturbing psychology behind a calculated act of violence.
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The New York Times bestselling author of If You Only Knew shares the true-crime story of a babysitter murdered to hide a mother's dark secret.
Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it—and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused with lighter fluid and set aflame.
Attractive, manipulative, and violent, mother of four Kim Cargill had a wealth of dirty secrets she'd do anything to keep hidden. This in-depth account by bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps takes you inside Cargill's shocking trial—and into the mind of one of the most conniving female psychopaths in recent history—and on death row.
Praise for M. William Phelps
“One of America's finest true-crime writers.” —Vincent Bugliosi, New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter
“Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.” —Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell No Lies
“Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience.” —Suspense Magazine
“Phelps is the king of true crime.” —Lynda Hirsch, Creators Syndicate columnist
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A quiet American city lives in fear as a serial rapist stalks the streets at night.
Son: A Psychopath and his Victims
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A quiet American city lives in fear as a serial rapist stalks the streets at night. In Son, the shocking arrest of a suspect in Spokane, Washington reveals that the attacker is the respected son of a prominent local family. This true crime investigation examines the unraveling of a household and the disturbing psychology behind violence hidden beneath privilege and respectability.
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“Remarkably well done. . . Olsen brings his strange subjects to vivid life in this memorable reconstruction.” - Publisher's Weekly
“A chilling story . . . Gruesomely spellbinding.” - Glamour
"A classic from “the dean of true crime”. This 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city’s most elite families." - The Washington Post
For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a reward—the calls taken by the distinguished managing editor himself, Gordon Coe. In March 1981, luck and inspired police work at last produced an arrest, and Spokane shuddered. The suspect was clean cut and conservative…and Gordon Coe’s son.
For eighteen months, Jack Olsen researched the cases of Fred and Ruth Coe to try to learn not only what happened within that family, but how and why. He interviewed more than 150 people and built up a portrait not only of that extraordinary family, but of the mind of a psychopath. And searching the memories of the women in Fred Coe’s life, he unearthed a most horrifying question: What is it like to love and live with a man for years—and then discover he is a psychopathic criminal?
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A missing husband exposes a life built on deception when a suburban story begins to unravel.
Dancing with Death
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A missing husband exposes a life built on deception when a suburban story begins to unravel. In Dancing with Death, investigators in Phoenix confront the brutal murder of art dealer Jay Orbin after his wife reports him missing weeks after his disappearance. As evidence mounts against Marjorie Orbin, this true crime account reveals how secrets, betrayal, and violence shattered a carefully constructed life.
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A former stripper turned suburban housewife is exposed as a brutal killer in this shocking true crime tale of a loving husband beheaded in Phoenix.
Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person's report on her husband, Jay. She claimed that the successful art dealer had left town on business after celebrating their son's birthday more than a month before. But no one believed that Jay would abandon the family he loved. Authorities suspected foul play . . .
As the search for Jay made local headlines, Marjorie's story starting coming apart. Why did she wait so long before going to police? If Jay was away on business, why were there charges made to his credit card in Phoenix? Then, the unthinkable happened.
Jay's headless, limbless torso was discovered on the outskirts of the Phoenix desert—and all evidence pointed to Marjorie as the killer. The investigation revealed surprising details about her life—six previous marriages, an ongoing affair with a man from her gym, and alleged ties to the New York mafia.
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A quiet homestead on the Kansas frontier hides a killing ground that shocks a nation still recovering from civil war.
Hell’s Half-Acre
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A quiet homestead on the Kansas frontier hides a killing ground that shocks a nation still recovering from civil war. In Hell’s Half-Acre, the discovery of bodies buried near the Bender family’s cabin exposes a series of brutal murders that sent investigators and newspapers into a frenzy. This historical true crime account examines how a family of killers vanished into the uncertainty of nineteenth century America.
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One of NPR's "Books We Love"
New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022"
"Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street Journal
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.
In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders.
The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders—one among the thousands relocating farther west in search of land and opportunity after the Civil War—were capable of operating "a human slaughter pen" appalled and fascinated the nation. But who the Benders really were, why they committed such a vicious killing spree and whether justice ever caught up to them is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set against the backdrop of postbellum America, Hell’s Half-Acre explores the environment capable of allowing such horrors to take place. Drawing on extensive original archival material, Susan Jonusas introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, many of whom have been previously missing from the story. Among them are the families of the victims, the hapless detectives who lost the trail, and the fugitives that helped the murderers escape.
Hell’s Half-Acre is a journey into the turbulent heart of nineteenth century America, a place where modernity stalks across the landscape, violently displacing existing populations and building new ones. It is a world where folklore can quickly become fact and an entire family of criminals can slip through a community’s fingers, only to reappear in the most unexpected of places.
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A sudden illness turns into a chilling mystery when a respected woman dies under suspicious circumstances.
We Thought We Knew You
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A sudden illness turns into a chilling mystery when a respected woman dies under suspicious circumstances. In We Thought We Knew You, the poisoning of Mary Yoder in upstate New York fractures her family and community as investigators pursue a tangled web of accusations. With multiple suspects and shifting loyalties, this true crime narrative traces how betrayal, hidden resentment, and deception led to two gripping trials.
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In this chilling true crime thriller by New York Times bestselling journalist M. William Phelps, a woman’s mysterious death in upstate New York plunges her family into a nightmare of accusations and vengeance.
In July 2015, Mary Yoder fell ill in the chiropractic center she operated with her husband, Bill. Doctors in the ER and ICU were baffled—and unable to save her life. Weeks later, her family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned. Another shock followed when the local sheriff received a claim that Adam Yoder had poisoned his mother. But Adam was not the only person of interest . . .
Kaitlyn Conley, Adam’s ex-girlfriend, worked at the Yoders’ clinic and was at Mary’s bedside during her last hours. Still, some spoke of her history of rage-fueled behavior. Had Kaitlyn and Adam conspired to kill Mary? Yet another suspect emerged when accusations were hurled at grieving husband Bill Yoder . . .
M. William Phelps unravels a twisting trail of evidence to reveal the heartless scheme that tore a family apart, divided a community, and culminated in two gripping, high-profile trials.
“Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.” —Allison Brennan
“Phelps knows how to work it.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience.” —Suspense Magazine
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