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Awkward moments become the doorway to belonging in a collection shaped by humor and vulnerability.
That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You
Biographies & Memoirs
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Awkward moments become the doorway to belonging in a collection shaped by humor and vulnerability. In That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You, Elyse Myers expands on the personal stories that built her online community, reflecting on neurodivergence, relationships, anxiety, and self-acceptance. Blending essays with illustrations, this memoir centers on finding connection through honesty, discomfort, and the courage to be fully seen.
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New York Times Bestseller!
Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book
Elyse Myers is known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing her relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Whether she’s making people laugh with tales of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong.
In That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, Elyse delivers a debut collection of deeply personal stories and hand-drawn illustrations, offering even more intimate reflections beyond what fans have seen on her social media, including:
- Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning her crush
- How Lucy, the Magic 8 Ball keychain, changed her life by accident
- Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself
- How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!—a practical guide and a rumination about…everything
- The “meat cute” when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcher’s counter in Australia—and how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner
Plus, tales involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, and favorite pens and systems to use them, all while loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time.
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A closed case refuses to stay buried as questions linger beneath a killer’s confession.
The Ultimate Evil
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A closed case refuses to stay buried as questions linger beneath a killer’s confession. In The Ultimate Evil, journalist Maury Terry reexamines the Son of Sam murders, tracing inconsistencies and overlooked evidence that suggest a wider conspiracy. Blending investigative reporting with true crime analysis, this unsettling account explores the possibility of cult involvement and the long shadow cast by violence.
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THE TRUE CRIME CULT CLASSIC: Follow journalist Maury Terry’s decades-long investigation into the terrifying truth behind the murders of serial killer Son of Sam.
Inspired the Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness!
On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and the case was officially closed.
Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz’s confession. Spurred by conflicting witness descriptions of the killer and clues overlooked in the investigation, Terry was convinced Berkowitz didn’t act alone. Meticulously gathering evidence for a decade, he released his findings in the first edition of The Ultimate Evil. Based upon the evidence he had uncovered, Terry theorized that the Son of Sam attacks were masterminded by a Yonkers-based cult that was responsible for other ritual murders across the country.
After Terry’s death in 2015, documentary filmmaker Josh Zeman (Cropsey, The Killing Season, Murder Mountain) was given access to Terry’s files, which form the basis of his docuseries with Netflix and a companion podcast. Taken together with The Ultimate Evil, which includes a new introduction by Zeman, these works reveal the stunning intersections of power, wealth, privilege, and evil in America—from the Summer of Sam until today.
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A city builds a monument to progress while a killer builds a monument to death.
The Devil in the White City
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A city builds a monument to progress while a killer builds a monument to death. In The Devil in the White City, architect Daniel Burnham races to create the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair as Henry H. Holmes constructs a hotel designed for murder. This narrative nonfiction work interweaves ambition and atrocity, revealing how spectacle and violence coexisted at the dawn of modern America.
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years
Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.
Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
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A child survives terror that reshapes generations.
Bending Toward the Sun
Biographies & Memoirs
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A child survives terror that reshapes generations. Rita Lurie recounts hiding from the Nazis in occupied Poland and the losses that marked her early life, while her daughter Leslie traces how that trauma shaped their family across decades. Together, they examine memory, inheritance, and resilience in this intergenerational Holocaust memoir centered on survival and the enduring bond between mother and daughter.
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This joint memoir details one mother's childhood struggle to escape the Holocaust and the effect it has on her daughter.
"A memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love . . . Read Bending Toward the Sun and enrich your life."—Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters
A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror.
Rita Lurie was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland to hide from the Nazis in a cramped, dark attic with fourteen members of her family. Young Rita watched her younger brother and her mother die before er eyes. But the tragedy of the Holocaust was only the beginning of Rita's story.
Decades later, Rita's daughter Leslie began probing the traumatic events of her mother's childhood to discover how Rita's pain has affected not only Leslie's life and outlook but that of her own daughter, Mikaela, as well. The result is Bending Toward the Sun, a collaboration between mother and daughter that brings together the stories of three generations of a family to understand the legacy that unites, inspires, and haunts them all.
"[An] affecting memoir. . . . Vivid. . . . Riveting. . . . An amazing story of wartime survival."—Kirkus Reviews
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In a glamorous Greenwich Village loft shaped by art and excess, a young girl grows up without boundaries or a stable sense of self.
Everything/Nothing/Someone
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In a glamorous Greenwich Village loft shaped by art and excess, a young girl grows up without boundaries or a stable sense of self. In Everything/Nothing/Someone, Alice Carrière traces her descent into dissociation, overmedication, and fractured identities as she searches for solid ground. This intimate memoir examines neglect, mental illness, and the fragile process of reclaiming identity through love and hard-won self recognition.
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New York Times Editor’s Choice * Indie Next Pick * Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2023 * Kirkus Best Nonfiction 2023 * Amazon Best of the Month * B&N Most Anticipated * Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick
A “remarkable” (New York Times Book Review) memoir that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and the love affair that, against the odds, allows her to save herself.
Alice Carrière grew up in a converted factory in Greenwich Village in the 1990s, an extravagant home based on the hyper-aestheticized vision of her artist mother, Jennifer Bartlett—with two studios, an indoor swimming pool, a rooftop garden with a koi pond, and multiple, cavernous rooms through which a steady stream of visitors flowed. Alice’s iconoclastic European father was a fleeting, atmospheric disturbance.
Alice grows up as a child living in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision. As she enters adolescence, a dissociative disorder erases her identity, and overzealous doctors medicate her further into madness. In the absence of self, she inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men, a provocateur who weaponizes intellectual dazzle and outrageous candor—until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Finally, a soulful connection with a generous and sensitive musician allows her to free herself from the pathologies that defined her and recognize her true self. With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Carrière has written a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, at last, cure.
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Survival strips away status and exposes what remains.
Into the Abyss
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Survival strips away status and exposes what remains. In Into the Abyss, four men endure a plane crash in the frozen wilderness of northern Alberta, bound together by circumstance despite stark differences in power and background. As they struggle through the night, this narrative nonfiction account examines resilience, moral reckoning, and the fragile line between life and loss.
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Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).
On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. Constable Scott Deschamps was escorting Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant. Against regulations, Archambault's handcuffs were removed-a decision that would profoundly impact the men's survival.
As the men fight through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth, and status are erased, and each man is forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence.
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For readers who want true crime focused on poisonings, family history, and criminal psychology.
Preacher’s Girl
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Called an “excellent true-crime study” by Publishers Weekly, Preacher’s Girl examines the life and crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, whose husbands and previous boyfriend suffered symptoms later tied to arsenic poisoning. Jim Schutze traces the investigation, victims, and questions around Moore’s motives, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. For readers who want true crime focused on poisonings, family history, and criminal psychology.
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An "excellent true-crime study" of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 (Publishers Weekly).
Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became?
In this riveting true crime account, critically acclaimed journalist Jim Schutze explores the harrowing motivation and chilling details of the lives, loves, and victims of North Carolina's oldest living inmate on death row.
"Involving . . . chronicle of the murderous career of a Bible Belt Borgia." —Kirkus Reviews
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He appeared friendly, dependable, and ordinary, which made the violence harder to see.
To Kill and Kill Again
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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He appeared friendly, dependable, and ordinary, which made the violence harder to see. In To Kill and Kill Again, the story of Wayne Nance traces a twelve-year killing spree that terrorized Missoula while he hid in plain sight. This true crime account examines manipulation, missed warning signs, and the investigation that finally exposed a predator who nearly escaped justice.
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The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spree
To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986.
Nance's only requirement for murder was accessibility—a preacher's wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a married couple. Putting on a friendly façade, he could easily gain his victims' trust. Then, one September night, thirty-year-old Nance pushed his luck, preying on a couple who lived to tell the tale.
A true story with an incredible twist, written by former Wall Street Journal editor John Coston and complete with photos, To Kill and Kill Again reveals the disturbing compulsions of a charming serial killer who fooled everyone he knew, stumped the authorities, terrified a community, and nearly got away with it.
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Deviant revisits the quiet Wisconsin farm where ordinary appearances concealed a decade of horror.
Deviant
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Deviant revisits the quiet Wisconsin farm where ordinary appearances concealed a decade of horror. Harold Schechter traces Ed Gein’s life, crimes, and the warped fantasies that reshaped American true crime history. Moving beyond myth and movie legend, this account examines the psychology, isolation, and cultural aftermath of a killer whose violence still unsettles the national imagination.
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From the author of “top-drawer true crime” (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein—the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.
The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors, Ed Gein was a slight, Midwestern farmhand with a twisted little smile. To an unsuspecting nation, he would become one of the most notorious crime figures in history, having lived for ten years in his own secret world of brutal murder and unthinkable depravity.
Here is the grisly true story of “the Butcher of Plainfield,” a deranged killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired such works as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. More horrifying than any movie or novel however, Deviant dares to explore in chilling detail the life and times of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of true crime—one who still haunts us to this day—and how he transformed his small, nondescript farmhouse in the American heartland into his own private and inescapable domain of ghoulishness and blood.
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Best for readers who like memoirs combining foreign correspondence, travel, relationships, and personal reckoning.
Love, Africa
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Journalist Jeffrey Gettleman's memoir follows his enduring pull toward Africa alongside the long-distance relationship, dangerous reporting, and difficult choices that shape his personal and professional life, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like memoirs combining foreign correspondence, travel, relationships, and personal reckoning.
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"A page-turner. The portrait of Africa that emerges is disturbing, tender, and harsh. . . . A tremendous read. I couldn't put it down." —Abraham Verghese, New York Times–bestselling author of The Covenant of Water
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling a teenage dream.
At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa—a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart.
But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student—the brightest, classiest, most principled woman he'd ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions.
A sensually rendered coming-of-age story, Love, Africa is a tale of passion, violence, far-flung adventure, tortuous long-distance relationships, screwing up, forgiveness, parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places.
"Aptly displays why [Gettleman's] a Pulitzer Prize winner and a New York Times bureau chief . . . there's a thrilling immediacy and attention to detail in Gettleman's writing that puts the reader right beside him. . . . An absolute must-read." —Booklist, starred review
"Love, Africa offers a key to understanding humankind's past and future and a key to understanding our hearts." —Sheryl Sandberg
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Hope endures even in a cell built for execution.
The Sun Does Shine
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Hope endures even in a cell built for execution. In The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton recounts the thirty years he spent on Alabama’s death row for crimes he did not commit, confronting despair, injustice, and isolation. This memoir traces his fight for freedom and the resilience that sustained him, offering a profound examination of wrongful conviction, faith, and human dignity.
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.
But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence—full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon—transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.
With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy.
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In an age when women were meant to serve, one found freedom in the night sky.
The Woman and Her Stars
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction
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In an age when women were meant to serve, one found freedom in the night sky. Caroline Herschel lives in her brother’s shadow until astronomy awakens her own ambition and talent. As she steps from assistant to discoverer, The Woman and Her Stars traces her fight for recognition in Georgian England through science, sacrifice, and quiet resolve.
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From the acclaimed author of Follow Me to Africa comes The Woman and Her Stars, a hopeful and uplifting novel inspired by the true story of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet. Perfect for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood.
She must find her own place amongst the stars.
Caroline Herschel has always lived in the shadows. Beholden to her wildly popular older brother, William, who rescued her from servitude, she's worked hard to build a life for herself – one where she can go unnoticed and repay the debt she believes she owes him. But when her brother becomes obsessed with sweeping the stars, everything changes.
Newly appointed as the King's Astronomer, William is rushed away from the bustling streets of Bath to the quiet countryside of Windsor. When Caroline makes a discovery that could send her right back to the people she was rescued from, she has no choice but to leave her carefully constructed life and follow her brother. Taking up the position as William's assistant, Caroline resolves to learn everything she can about astronomy. But the more she understands, the more she falls in love with her telescope, and soon, she discovers that she might be good at the science, great, even, and that the stars could offer her the freedom she's always secretly wanted. When it's clear that Caroline is just as much the astronomer as her brother, she realizes she must break free from the life she has lived and find her own place in the night sky.
Based on the true story of Caroline Herschel, The Woman and Her Stars shines a light on a woman who was raised to believe she was worth nothing more than to serve others, but whose genius and resolve made her one of the world's leading astronomers. An awe-inspiring story set within the societal boundaries of the Georgian era, it's a hopeful journey of self-discovery, familial bonds, and passion.
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