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Debbie Reynolds looks back on a lifetime in the spotlight, sharing candid stories of friendships, fame, family, and heartbreak.
Make ‘Em Laugh
Biographies & Memoirs
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Debbie Reynolds looks back on a lifetime in the spotlight, sharing candid stories of friendships, fame, family, and heartbreak. From Hollywood legends to private moments far from the stage, this warm memoir blends humor with honesty and grace. Readers praise its charm and insight, earning 4.1 stars on Amazon and more than 1,200 reader ratings.
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"A frothy collection of stories and gossip from the comedic actress . . . [she] looks back happily at her sixty-five-year career on stage, screen, and TV." —Kirkus Reviews
From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making divorce from Eddie Fisher, raising a famous daughter to hitting the road with a successful one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds was in the spotlight for decades. Over her more than six-decade-long career she met presidents, performed for the Queen of England, and partied with kings.
In this fabulous personal tour, she recalls wonderful moments with the greats of the entertainment world—Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, Phyllis Diller, and many, many more—sharing stories that shed new light on her life and career and the glittering world of Hollywood then and now. Debbie has plenty to tell—and in Make 'Em Laugh, she dishes it in the warm, down-to-earth voice her fans adore.
Debbie shares memories of late-night pals and some of the greatest comedians of all time, stories from the big screen and small, and tales of marriage, motherhood, and children. Combining her wicked sense of humor and appealing charm, she reveals the personal side of show business and fame in funny, poignant, and delightful reminiscences. Nothing is off limits: Debbie talks about her sex life, her family drama—and even shares a few secret recipes.
A true Hollywood icon, beloved by millions of fans around the world, Debbie Reynolds died on December 28, 2016, at the age of eighty-four, just one day after the death of her daughter, actress and author Carrie Fisher.
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Good for readers who like WWII nonfiction about espionage, resistance work, courage, and wartime love.
Code Name: Lise
Biographies & Memoirs
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A national bestseller called “A nonfiction thriller” by The Wall Street Journal, Code Name: Lise tells the true story of Odette Sansom, an SOE agent who operated in occupied France, fell in love with her commanding officer, and endured capture without betraying her colleagues, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 4,200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like WWII nonfiction about espionage, resistance work, courage, and wartime love.
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From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion’s Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II—perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Nightingale, and Code Girls.
The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill.
As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. All the while, they are being hunted by the cunning German secret police sergeant, Hugo Bleicher, who finally succeeds in capturing them. They are sent to Paris’s Fresnes prison, and from there to concentration camps in Germany where they are starved, beaten, and tortured. But in the face of despair, they never give up hope, their love for each other, or the whereabouts of their colleagues.
In Code Name: Lise, Larry Loftis paints a portrait of true courage, patriotism, and love—of two incredibly heroic people who endured unimaginable horrors and degradations. He seamlessly weaves together the touching romance between Odette and Peter and the thrilling cat and mouse game between them and Sergeant Bleicher. With this amazing testament to the human spirit, Loftis proves once again that he is adept at writing “nonfiction that reads like a page-turning novel” (Parade).
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Through intimate stories and hard-won insight, The Dogist reveals how dogs quietly reshape our lives.
This Dog Will Change Your Life
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Through intimate stories and hard-won insight, The Dogist reveals how dogs quietly reshape our lives. Drawing from decades of observation, Elias Weiss Friedman explores how dogs teach patience, purpose, and connection, helping us become better versions of ourselves in an increasingly disconnected world. This uplifting nonfiction favorite holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads.
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A uniquely insightful, uplifting, emotional, and informative book that shows us how dogs make our lives better by making us better people from the Dogist.
Elias Weiss Friedman became known as The Dogist when he took thousands of photos of dogs and posted them online along with their unique dog stories. Even before he was The Dogist, though, he was a Dogist—a fervent dog lover, and an evangelist about the relationship between dogs and humans and the joy this bond brings us in the modern world.
Over his decades of studying dogs and their people, Elias has arrived at a deceptively simple realization: Dogs make people’s lives better by making people better. Dogs improve us. They save us. They give our lives greater meaning and fulfillment. They teach us to become the best versions of ourselves. They help us understand our own identities, deepen our relationships, and remind us of patience, purpose, and commitment. We constantly seek those things in our human life, but so many of the answers are already right in front of us, in our dogs.
This book weaves together stories of the many dogs Elias has been lucky enough to know, both in his personal life and while doing his Dogist work. Told in a light tone that does not shy away from more serious issues (Elias is not above the occasional sentimental moment or dog pun), this book charmingly explores the ways that dogs are not just our family and our friends but also irreplaceable beings capable of generating boundless love and restoring balance to our lives.
In an increasingly alienating and divisive world, there is one clear remedy: the one with four legs that rolls over for belly rubs. Dogs can change our lives, and this book might just change yours.
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During a winter expedition in what is now Yemen, Freya Stark searches for a lost Arabian city while recording the customs, conflicts, and quiet humanity of desert life.
A Winter in Arabia
Biographies & Memoirs
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During a winter expedition in what is now Yemen, Freya Stark searches for a lost Arabian city while recording the customs, conflicts, and quiet humanity of desert life. Blending travel, history, and cultural insight, A Winter in Arabia is a classic of exploration, holding 4.1 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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The renowned explorer recounts her expedition to find a lost Arabian city in this "treasure of rare distinction among travel books" (The New York Times Book Review).
One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a Twentieth Century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937–8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist.
There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor," she and two companions spent a winter in search of an ancient South Arabian city. Offering rare glimpses of life behind the veil—the subtleties of business and social conduct, the elaborate beauty rituals of the women, and the bitter animosities between rival tribes—Freya Stark conveys the "perpetual charm of Arabia . . . that the traveler finds his own level there simply as a human being."
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Trapped in a Bangkok hotel room and facing forced return to Saudi Arabia, Rahaf Mohammed risks everything by telling her story to the world.
Rebel
Biographies & Memoirs
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Trapped in a Bangkok hotel room and facing forced return to Saudi Arabia, Rahaf Mohammed risks everything by telling her story to the world. Her real-time escape ignites global support and exposes the realities of life under male guardianship. Rebel is a powerful memoir of survival, courage, and self-determination, earning 4.5 stars on Amazon.
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A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world
In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia—but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she opened a Twitter account. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered—she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West.
Now Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. Raised with immense financial privilege but under the control of her male relatives—including her high-profile politician father—she endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm.
Moving from Rahaf’s early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways, who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebel is a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman’s tenacious pursuit of freedom.
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Using modern investigative techniques and newly discovered documents, a cold case team reexamines how Anne Frank and her family were betrayed.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Using modern investigative techniques and newly discovered documents, a cold case team reexamines how Anne Frank and her family were betrayed. Reconstructing wartime Amsterdam and long-suspected motives, this gripping nonfiction investigation challenges decades of assumptions. A New York Times bestseller with 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong reader engagement on Goodreads.
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A New York Times Bestseller
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...
Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.
With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.
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In drought-stricken Malawi, a determined teenager uses scrap metal and science books to build a windmill that brings electricity and hope to his village.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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In drought-stricken Malawi, a determined teenager uses scrap metal and science books to build a windmill that brings electricity and hope to his village. This powerful true story celebrates curiosity, resilience, and the life-changing impact of education. An Editors’ Pick with a 4.6-star Amazon rating and enduring global acclaim.
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Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a remarkable true story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. It will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.
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A strong match for readers drawn to true crime memoirs that combine family history, investigation, and personal reckoning.
Raised by a Serial Killer
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Called an “engrossing and absolutely terrifying read” by the San Francisco Chronicle, April Balascio recounts discovering that her father was serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards and her effort to understand the truth while confronting cold cases, unsolved murders, and mysteries from her childhood, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to true crime memoirs that combine family history, investigation, and personal reckoning.
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The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this “engrossing and absolutely terrifying read” (San Francisco Chronicle) traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, while confronting cold cases, unsolved murders, and the haunting mysteries of her larger-than-life childhood.
One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the “Sweetheart Murders” cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father’s dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history.
In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other.
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Alone and on foot, Sarah Marquis traverses more than ten thousand miles across continents, surviving extreme climates, illness, and danger through instinct and grit.
Wild by Nature
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Alone and on foot, Sarah Marquis traverses more than ten thousand miles across continents, surviving extreme climates, illness, and danger through instinct and grit. Her journey is a meditation on solitude, resilience, and freedom. Wild by Nature is a gripping adventure memoir with 4.0 stars on Amazon and Editors’ Pick recognition.
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One woman
10,000 miles on foot
6 countries
8 pairs of hiking boots
3,000 cups of tea
1,000 days and nights
"The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now."—from Wild by Nature
Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail in her memoir, Wild, has there been such a powerful epic adventure by a woman alone. In Wild by Nature, National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis takes you on the trail of her ten-thousand-mile solo hike across the remote Gobi desert from Siberia to Thailand, at which point she was transported by boat to complete the hike at her favorite tree in Australia.
Against nearly insurmountable odds and relying on hunting and her own wits, Sarah Marquis survived the Mafia, drug dealers, thieves on horseback who harassed her tent every night for weeks, temperatures from subzero to scorching, life-threatening wildlife, a dengue fever delirium in the Laos jungle, tropic ringworm in northern Thailand, dehydration, and a life-threatening abscess.
This is an incredible story of adventure, human ingenuity, persistence, and resilience that shows firsthand what it is to adventure as a woman in the most dangerous of circumstance, what it is to be truly alone in the wild, and why someone would challenge themselves with an expedition others would call crazy. For Marquis, her story is about freedom, being alive and wild by nature.
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When two sisters vanish during a bitter custody battle, their father refuses to stop searching.
The Girls Are Gone
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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When two sisters vanish during a bitter custody battle, their father refuses to stop searching. As the case deepens, a web of deception and adult complicity comes into focus. This unsettling true crime account explores how the truth was hidden in plain sight, earning 4 stars on Amazon and widespread reader discussion.
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On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born to David Rucki and Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, the teenage sisters vanished in the midst of their parents’ divorce.
The girls’ father, David Rucki, worked tirelessly with law enforcement to search day and night for his two missing daughters, following every lead while raising three remaining children at home. Their mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, used her newfound freedom to vacation around the world, abandoning her children. And as the investigation intensified, catching the attention of the media, Sandra also disappeared.
The Girls Are Gone is the true story of two sisters who went missing, the father who kept searching, and the adults who conspired to keep the truth hidden.
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Brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin uncovers the structure of DNA, only to have her discovery taken by others.
Her Hidden Genius
Biographical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin uncovers the structure of DNA, only to have her discovery taken by others. Set in the fiercely competitive world of midcentury science, this historical novel explores ambition, betrayal, and resilience. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, it is praised for restoring credit to a woman history overlooked.
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"Brings to life Franklin's grit and spirit...an important contribution to the historical record." —The Washington Post
The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie!
She changed the world with her discovery. Three men took the credit.
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider—brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets.
Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture—one more after thousands—she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her.
Then it finally happens—the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what unfolds next, Rosalind could have never predicted.
Marie Benedict's powerful new novel shines a light on a woman who sacrificed her life to discover the nature of our very DNA, a woman whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind.
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A strong fit for readers interested in celebrity memoirs that address fame, social media, mental health, and growing up under public scrutiny.
The Half of It
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Singer-songwriter Madison Beer recounts growing up in the public eye, including online hate, cyberbullying, mental health struggles, her work on Life Support, and her recovery. A strong fit for readers interested in celebrity memoirs that address fame, social media, mental health, and growing up under public scrutiny.
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A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight—the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won’t see on social media.
Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties.
In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then. This memoir is an honest and unflinching account of self-love, mental health, and advocacy from one of the fastest-rising musical voices and most influential social media presences of her generation. It hammers home the point, more striking and urgent than ever, that no matter how close the internet may make us feel to people, we truly don’t know the half of it.
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