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The Fukuhara brothers grow up together in America but find themselves on opposite sides of World War II.
Midnight in Broad Daylight
Biographies & Memoirs
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The Fukuhara brothers grow up together in America but find themselves on opposite sides of World War II. As Harry serves as a U.S. Army interpreter and his brothers fight for Japan, their family faces impossible choices and devastating loss. Midnight in Broad Daylight is a gripping, deeply human history of loyalty, identity, and survival.
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War split nations, but for one family it carved a line straight through the heart.
Midnight in Broad Daylight traces the true story of the Fukuhara brothers, Japanese Americans whose lives diverged in the years before World War II. Harry returned to the United States, only to face internment and then service as a military interpreter. His brothers, Frank and Pierce, remained in Hiroshima and served in the Japanese Imperial Army. As the conflict escalates, the brothers move closer to one another across opposing fronts, unaware of how their paths may collide.
Through intimate detail and meticulous research, Pamela Rotner Sakamoto reveals a family caught between loyalty, identity, and survival.
This is a powerful portrait of resilience, racism, and the human cost of war.
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Lauren Martin’s search for calm began when she realized her anxiety and self-doubt were not hers alone.
The Book of Moods
Biographies & Memoirs
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Lauren Martin’s search for calm began when she realized her anxiety and self-doubt were not hers alone. The Book of Moods blends memoir, psychology, and practical wisdom as she uncovers the triggers behind everyday emotions and learns how to reshape them. A relatable and uplifting guide to understanding yourself with honesty and compassion.
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A single mood can color a day, a season, or a life. Learning where those feelings come from can change everything.
In The Book of Moods, Lauren Martin traces her journey from anxiety, comparison, and self-doubt toward a steadier, kinder way of living. Despite a thriving career and a full life in New York, she found herself overwhelmed by irritability and insecurity she could not explain. A chance conversation revealed she was not alone, and her search for understanding soon grew into a community of women facing the same invisible battles.
Blending personal stories, psychology, and practical insight, Martin explores the triggers that shape our emotional world and the tools that can transform it.
Honest and relatable, The Book of Moods offers a compassionate look at how to reclaim your inner landscape.
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When her marriage shatters, Glennon Doyle must confront the truths she spent years hiding.
Love Warrior
Biographies & Memoirs
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When her marriage shatters, Glennon Doyle must confront the truths she spent years hiding. Love Warrior is an unflinching memoir about betrayal, recovery, and the courage to live without illusion. Through heartbreak and rebuilding, she discovers how honesty can transform a life and a relationship. A deeply moving story of resilience and self-discovery.
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Sometimes the life you build must break before you can truly see yourself.
When Glennon Doyle’s marriage collapses under the weight of betrayal, she finds herself returned to familiar ground: the raw spaces she once navigated through addiction and recovery. With three children, a public platform, and a story the world believed was perfect, she must confront the truth she has avoided and the patterns that shaped her.
As she unravels the ideals that kept her silent, Glennon discovers a deeper path to love, one rooted in honesty, self-worth, and shared humanity.
Love Warrior is a powerful memoir about grief, resilience, and the courage to live without masking pain. Glennon Doyle’s journey invites readers to consider how healing begins when we stop pretending and choose to live true.
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Through secret recordings and candid reflections, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words unveils the woman behind the crown.
Diana
Biographies & Memoirs
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Through secret recordings and candid reflections, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words unveils the woman behind the crown. Andrew Morton’s groundbreaking biography remains a timeless portrait of love, struggle, and resilience, offering new insights into Diana’s legacy and her lasting impact on the modern royal family.
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The woman the world thought it knew finally speaks for herself.
When Diana: Her True Story first appeared in 1992, it shattered the silence surrounding the British monarchy. Based on secret recordings made with biographer Andrew Morton, the book revealed Princess Diana’s private struggles, her courage, and her search for love and purpose within the walls of Buckingham Palace.
Now revisited with newly released material, Morton explores her enduring influence on the modern royal family and the humanity behind the legend.
Both intimate and illuminating, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words remains the most personal portrait of an icon whose voice changed the monarchy and captured the heart of the world.
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Perfect for readers of All That Remains and Stiff.
Written in Bone
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Our bones are the final storytellers of our lives. In Written in Bone, Dame Sue Black explores how every bone reveals secrets of identity, injury, and experience. Blending science, memoir, and true-crime insight, this award-winning work exposes the profound link between biology and humanity. Perfect for readers of All That Remains and Stiff.
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Our bones tell the story of who we were, how we lived, and how we died.
In Written in Bone, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black guides readers through the human skeleton, revealing how every fracture, mark, and joint preserves the truth of a life once lived. From the skull to the smallest bones of the foot, she unpacks the science of bone formation, change, and decay, blending biological detail with scenes from her own career investigating deaths and identifying the lost.
Her perspective is both clinical and deeply human, finding dignity and narrative in the aftermath of mortality.
Winner of the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, Written in Bone combines scientific rigor with compassion and storytelling brilliance.
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At nineteen, Laurie Lee left his English village with nothing but a violin and curiosity.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Biographies & Memoirs
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At nineteen, Laurie Lee left his English village with nothing but a violin and curiosity. His journey across Spain on the eve of civil war became one of the century’s great travel memoirs. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning captures the wonder, danger, and discovery of a young man walking into history.
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On a bright June morning in 1934, a young man shouldered his violin and walked out into the world.
Nineteen-year-old Laurie Lee left his quiet English village with little more than a backpack and a restless heart. From the fields of Gloucestershire to the crowded streets of London, he journeyed on foot, discovering both hardship and wonder at every turn.
His travels soon carried him across the sea to Spain, a country of sunlight, music, and rising political tension. What began as a wandering adventure became a portrait of a world on the edge of transformation.
Laurie Lee’s As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a timeless travel memoir of youth, freedom, and the beauty found in uncertainty.
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From the South Bronx to Hollywood legend, Al Pacino shares his remarkable life and craft in Sonny Boy.
Sonny Boy
Biographies & Memoirs
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From the South Bronx to Hollywood legend, Al Pacino shares his remarkable life and craft in Sonny Boy. Candid and deeply personal, this memoir explores his struggles, triumphs, and the art that sustained him through it all. A vivid portrait of creativity, resilience, and a lifelong love affair with acting.
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A life lived in the spotlight, told with the raw honesty of a man who has nothing left to hide.
In Sonny Boy, legendary actor Al Pacino reflects on the extraordinary path that led him from the streets of the South Bronx to the pinnacle of American cinema. From The Godfather and Serpico to Dog Day Afternoon, Pacino reveals the creative fire and relentless drive behind his iconic performances.
Yet beyond the fame lies a deeply human story—of hardship, artistic devotion, and the saving grace of passion. Acting was his calling, his lifeline, and his first love.
Sonny Boy is an intimate, wise, and captivating memoir about art, perseverance, and what it means to stay true to yourself across a lifetime.
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From champion bodybuilder to global movie star to governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is the ultimate tale of ambition and reinvention.
Total Recall
Biographies & Memoirs
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From champion bodybuilder to global movie star to governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is the ultimate tale of ambition and reinvention. Told with honesty and wit, Total Recall charts his rise from a small Austrian town to worldwide fame and political power—a bold memoir about determination, vision, and the pursuit of the American dream.
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From a small Austrian village to the heights of Hollywood and the governor’s mansion, this is the story of a man who refused to stop dreaming.
Born to humble beginnings, Arnold Schwarzenegger built a life defined by discipline, ambition, and reinvention. From world bodybuilding champion to international movie star to governor of California, his journey redefined the American dream.
Told with candor and humor, his memoir traces the grit behind every triumph and the lessons learned through fame, failure, and public life.
Total Recall is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s inspiring self-portrait—an unforgettable account of determination, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of success that made him one of the most remarkable figures of his time.
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At sixteen, Meredith Hall was shunned by her New Hampshire town after becoming pregnant and giving up her child.
Without a Map
Biographies & Memoirs
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At sixteen, Meredith Hall was shunned by her New Hampshire town after becoming pregnant and giving up her child. Years later, her lost son finds her, and their reunion redefines love and forgiveness. Without a Map is a beautifully written memoir of exile, resilience, and the quiet strength that comes from learning to forgive.
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At sixteen, Meredith Hall was cast out of her home and her town. What followed was a lifetime of searching for belonging.
In 1965, after becoming pregnant, Meredith is shunned by her small New Hampshire community and exiled from her family. Alone, she gives up her baby for adoption and wanders through Europe and the Middle East, trading safety for survival. Years later, when her lost son finds her, their reunion forces her to confront the grief and love she has carried for decades.
Through memory and forgiveness, she learns how compassion can grow from pain.
Meredith Hall’s Without a Map is a lyrical, unflinching memoir of loss, reconciliation, and the hard-earned grace of finding one’s way home.
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Comedian Maria Bamford has joined every cult, class, and program in search of belonging.
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult
Biographies & Memoirs
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Comedian Maria Bamford has joined every cult, class, and program in search of belonging. In her hilariously candid memoir, she turns her struggles with mental illness and fame into sharp, compassionate comedy. Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult is a fearless, funny look at survival, self-help, and the strange comfort of trying to fit in.
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Maria Bamford has tried everything to belong. Twelve-step programs, self-help seminars, even a Richard Simmons workout or two. Nothing has quite worked, but it has made for one hell of a story.
In Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult, the beloved comedian and mental health advocate turns her sharp, fearless humor inward. From childhood struggles and psychiatric hospitalization to the strange joys of show business, Bamford finds laughter in the moments most people hide.
Through honesty, absurdity, and heart, she explores what it means to live with mental illness while still believing in hope, connection, and fudge recipes.
Maria Bamford’s memoir is brutally funny, deeply human, and proof that finding your people sometimes starts with laughing at yourself.
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After a devastating car accident claimed her three daughters, Jackie Hance faced a grief that defied understanding.
I’ll See You Again
Biographies & Memoirs
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After a devastating car accident claimed her three daughters, Jackie Hance faced a grief that defied understanding. With honesty and grace, she recounts her journey from despair to healing, guided by faith, family, and love. I’ll See You Again is a deeply moving memoir of tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of hope to restore a shattered life.
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In this “wonderful and courageous” (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and—slowly, painfully, and miraculously—her cautious return to hope and love.
Until the horrific car accident on New York State’s Taconic Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. After the tragedy, she was “The Taconic Mom,” whose unimaginable loss embodied every parent’s worst nightmare. Suddenly, her life-long Catholic faith no longer explained the world. Her marriage to her husband, Warren, was ravaged by wrenching grief and recrimination. And her mind, unable to cope with the unfathomable, reinvented reality each night, so she awoke each morning having forgotten the heartbreaking facts: that Emma, age eight; Alyson, age seven; and Katie, age five, were gone forever. They were killed in a minivan driven by their aunt, Jackie’s sister-in-law, Diane Schuler, while returning from a camping weekend on a sunny July morning.
I’ll See You Again chronicles the day Jackie received the traumatizing phone call that defied all understanding, and the numbed and torturous events that followed—including the devastating medical findings that shattered Jackie to the core and shocked America. But this profoundly honest account is also the story of how a tight-knit community rallied around the Hances, providing the courage and strength for them to move forward. It’s a story of forgiveness, hope, and rebirth, as Jackie and Warren struggle to rediscover the possibility of joy by welcoming their fourth daughter, Kasey Rose Hance.
The story that Jackie Hance shares for the first time will touch your heart and warm you to the power of love and hope.
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When his brother vanished in 1984, Ted Kergan vowed to uncover the truth.
My Brother’s Keeper
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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When his brother vanished in 1984, Ted Kergan vowed to uncover the truth. For nearly thirty years, he followed two suspects across the country, risking everything to bring them to justice. Chris Russo Blackwood’s My Brother’s Keeper is a haunting true story of faith, family, and the relentless pursuit of justice against impossible odds.
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When Ted Kergan’s brother vanished one November night, he made a promise: he would not rest until he found the truth. Decades later, that promise still defined his life.
In 1984, Gary Kergan disappeared in Baton Rouge, leaving behind blood, questions, and two suspects who fled across the country. With no body and no trial, Ted devoted his fortune and his future to tracking them from New Orleans to Las Vegas, refusing to let his brother be forgotten.
Nearly thirty years later, science and persistence finally delivered justice. A diary, a courtroom, and a brother’s unyielding love brought the case to its end.
Chris Russo Blackwood’s My Brother’s Keeper is a powerful true story of loss, loyalty, and the long road to justice.
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