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As England descends into civil war, Isobel Fenton will risk everything to keep her home and her freedom.
Wheel of Fortune
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction
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As England descends into civil war, Isobel Fenton will risk everything to keep her home and her freedom. Caught between loyalty and ambition, she becomes a pawn in a struggle for power that threatens to consume them all. C. F. Dunn’s Wheel of Fortune is an immersive tale of courage, passion, and fate in the Wars of the Roses.
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As rebellion brews across fifteenth-century England, a young woman stands at the crossroads of love, loyalty, and power. Her choice could shape the fate of her family and her king.
Isobel Fenton is determined to keep her beloved manor, even if it means marrying a stranger to secure it. But in a realm divided by ambition and betrayal, she soon learns that her land and her heart are worth more than she ever imagined.
When civil war erupts, Isobel is drawn into a dangerous game between the king she serves and the earl who would control her. To survive, she must decide whether to fight for her freedom or surrender to destiny.
C. F. Dunn’s Wheel of Fortune launches a richly detailed, unforgettable Wars of the Roses saga.
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From near-fatal injury to the top of Mount Everest, Bear Grylls’s journey redefines endurance.
Mud, Sweat, and Tears
Biographies & Memoirs
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From near-fatal injury to the top of Mount Everest, Bear Grylls’s journey redefines endurance. Mud, Sweat, and Tears reveals how a fearless explorer was forged through challenge, courage, and unbreakable will. The #1 international bestseller is an unforgettable adventure memoir from the star of Man vs. Wild and Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
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Before he conquered Everest, he had to survive himself.
From a windswept island childhood to the summit of the world, Bear Grylls has lived a life defined by grit, risk, and relentless determination. Trained by his father to sail and climb, he grew into a young man obsessed with adventure, one that took him from Japan’s martial arts camps to the brutal selection trials of Britain’s elite Special Air Service.
After a near-fatal parachuting accident left him with a broken back, Bear faced his greatest test: recovery. Eighteen months later, he stood on Everest.
Mud, Sweat, and Tears is the #1 international bestseller that tells the story of an adventurer, a survivor, and a man who refused to give up.
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FBI agent Mark Putnam had everything to lose when his affair with informant Susan Smith turned deadly.
Above Suspicion
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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FBI agent Mark Putnam had everything to lose when his affair with informant Susan Smith turned deadly. His confession made history and exposed the darkness within the bureau’s ranks. Above Suspicion by Joe Sharkey is a riveting true-crime classic about ambition, obsession, and the price of a single unforgivable mistake.
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He was trained to uphold the law. Then he broke it.
In 1987, rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam arrived in Pikeville, Kentucky, eager to prove himself in the heart of Appalachian coal country. It was a hard post full of drug runners, bank robbers, and old feuds, but his ambition soon made him a rising star. Until he met Susan Smith.
A young mother and small-time informant, Susan was as troubled as she was determined. Their affair began as manipulation and ended in murder. When Putnam strangled her in a moment of rage, he became the first FBI agent ever to confess to killing.
Joe Sharkey’s Above Suspicion is a chilling true story of passion, power, and the thin line between justice and corruption.
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In 1931 Arkansas, teenager Helen Spence shot her father’s killers in open court and became both hero and outlaw.
Daughter of the White River
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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In 1931 Arkansas, teenager Helen Spence shot her father’s killers in open court and became both hero and outlaw. Denise White Parkinson’s Daughter of the White River reveals the true story behind the headlines—a tale of vengeance, injustice, and the forgotten river communities that shaped one of the South’s most tragic legends.
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She was the girl who avenged her father’s death—and became a legend the law could not contain.
In 1931, Helen Spence shocked Depression-era Arkansas when she shot her father’s murderers in open court. Raised among the houseboat communities of the White River, Helen was young, beautiful, and utterly fearless. But her act of vengeance set her on a path that no prison could hold and no justice system could forgive.
Drawing on newly uncovered prison records and firsthand accounts, Denise White Parkinson restores the humanity behind the sensational headlines.
Daughter of the White River is the haunting true story of a woman shaped by loss, survival, and the wild beauty of the river that claimed her life and her legend.
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When Bill Browder uncovered evidence tying a $230 million fraud to Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin made him its number one enemy.
Freezing Order
Biographies & Memoirs
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When Bill Browder uncovered evidence tying a $230 million fraud to Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin made him its number one enemy. Hunted across continents, Browder fought to expose the truth and bring his friend’s killers to justice. Freezing Order is a gripping real-life thriller of money, murder, and moral courage from bestselling author Bill Browder.
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One man exposed a dictator’s fortune. Now the dictator wants him silenced.
After Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, financier Bill Browder vowed to uncover who was behind the $230 million fraud that cost his friend his life. What he found reached the highest levels of the Kremlin—and implicated Vladimir Putin himself.
As Browder followed the money across continents, Putin’s regime struck back with threats, traps, and murders meant to destroy him. Yet Browder refused to stop, pushing governments worldwide to freeze illicit assets and demand accountability.
Freezing Order continues the story begun in Red Notice, an astonishing true account of courage, corruption, and the relentless pursuit of justice from New York Times bestselling author Bill Browder.
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A must-read for fans of wild celebrity memoirs.
Dirty Rocker Boys
Biographies & Memoirs
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The “Cherry Pie” girl tells all. In Dirty Rocker Boys, Bobbie Brown exposes the untamed world of 1990s Hollywood—its fame, heartbreak, and chaos. From rock stars to movie idols, her story of love, addiction, and survival is raw, shocking, and impossible to put down. A must-read for fans of wild celebrity memoirs.
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She was the “Cherry Pie” girl who set MTV on fire. Then the real story began.
Bobbie Brown went from Louisiana beauty queen to Hollywood’s ultimate video vixen, starring in Warrant’s hit music video and capturing the attention of rock’s biggest stars. But fame came with a price. Between her turbulent marriage to Jani Lane, a whirlwind engagement to Tommy Lee, and a spiral through addiction and heartbreak, Bobbie lived the wildest highs and darkest lows of the glam-metal era.
Now, she tells it all.
Dirty Rocker Boys by Bobbie Brown and Caroline Ryder is an unfiltered, unforgettable memoir of love, excess, revenge, and redemption—an explosive backstage pass into the sex, drugs, and rock and roll world of 1990s Hollywood.
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A strong match for readers drawn to diplomatic memoirs, modern Russian history, U.S. foreign policy, and firsthand accounts of the war in Ukraine.
Midnight in Moscow
Biographies & Memoirs
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Former U.S. ambassador John J. Sullivan recounts his service in Moscow before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, taking readers inside the U.S. embassy and Kremlin as U.S.-Russia relations deteriorated, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to diplomatic memoirs, modern Russian history, U.S. foreign policy, and firsthand accounts of the war in Ukraine.
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.
For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the February cold: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and the world would never be the same.
In Midnight in Moscow, Sullivan leads readers into the offices of the U.S. embassy and the halls of the Kremlin during this climactic period—among the most dangerous since World War II. He shows how the Putin regime repeatedly lied about its intentions to invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the attack, while also devoting huge numbers of personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia. And he explains how, when Putin ultimately gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he proved that Russia was not just at war with its neighbor: it was also at war, in a very real sense, with the United States, and with everything that it represents. But while Putin decided how this conflict started, its ending will be shaped by us.
With his unique perspective on a pivotal moment in world history, Sullivan shows how our relationship with Russia has deteriorated, where it’s headed, and how far we should be prepared to go in standing up to the menace in Moscow.
2025 Winner of The Fletcher School's Best Book on U.S.-Russian Relations | One of The Cipher Brief’s “Best National Security Reads for 2024”
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Widowed at fourteen and driven by divine conviction, Margaret Beaufort vows to see her son crowned king of England—no matter the sacrifice.
The Red Queen
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction
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Widowed at fourteen and driven by divine conviction, Margaret Beaufort vows to see her son crowned king of England—no matter the sacrifice. The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory is a sweeping tale of ambition, faith, and power during the Wars of the Roses, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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She was born to power, bound by faith, and destined to crown a king.
At fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is widowed and a mother, her future seemingly written by others. Yet she never surrenders her conviction that her son, Henry, is England’s rightful heir. Through shifting alliances, betrayal, and war, she devotes her life to a single cause—placing him on the throne, whatever the cost.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory comes the story of a woman whose piety masks unyielding ambition. The Red Queen captures the peril and passion of the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of one of its most formidable players. The novel inspired the acclaimed STARZ miniseries The White Queen.
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Cupcake Brown recounts losing her mother at eleven and the years that followed through foster care, abuse, addiction, gangs, crime, and homelessness before she began building a different…
A Piece of Cake
Biographies & Memoirs
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Cupcake Brown recounts losing her mother at eleven and the years that followed through foster care, abuse, addiction, gangs, crime, and homelessness before she began building a different life, with a 4.3-star average from more than 39,700 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for memoir readers interested in addiction, the failures of the child welfare system, survival, sobriety, and personal transformation.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake
“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times
There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.
Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.
And that’s when things got interesting. . .
Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.
A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take.
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When Gustav Kleinmann is sent to Auschwitz, his sixteen-year-old son refuses to be left behind.
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
Biographies & Memoirs
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When Gustav Kleinmann is sent to Auschwitz, his sixteen-year-old son refuses to be left behind. Together they endure six years of horror sustained only by their love and hope. A #1 Sunday Times bestseller, Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is a powerful true story of courage, sacrifice, and the will to survive.
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A father’s love can defy the darkest evil.
In 1939 Vienna, Gustav Kleinmann and his sixteen-year-old son, Fritz, are torn from their home and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Through starvation, torture, and terror, they cling to each other for the will to survive. When Gustav is condemned to Auschwitz, Fritz makes an unthinkable choice: he follows his father into hell rather than be separated.
Drawn from Gustav’s secret diary and interviews with surviving family, Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz tells the true story of endurance, loyalty, and hope in humanity’s bleakest hour.
A #1 Sunday Times bestseller, it stands alongside The Tattooist of Auschwitz as a testament to courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bond of family.
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Jenny Tomlin’s childhood was marked by violence, fear, and survival in London’s East End.
Behind Closed Doors
Biographies & Memoirs
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Jenny Tomlin’s childhood was marked by violence, fear, and survival in London’s East End. With her siblings, she endured years of abuse and found strength in love, humor, and defiance. Behind Closed Doors is a harrowing yet inspiring true story of resilience and hope, told with honesty and heart by bestselling author Jenny Tomlin.
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In the cramped rooms of an East End home, Jenny Tomlin and her siblings grew up surrounded by violence, fear, and silence. Their father’s cruelty ruled every corner of their lives, leaving no one untouched—not even their mother, trapped in the same cycle of abuse.
But in the darkest of places, Jenny found fragments of love and resilience. With her brother and sister beside her, she learned to survive through wit, courage, and an unbreakable bond that defied despair.
Told with raw honesty and compassion, Behind Closed Doors is Jenny Tomlin’s unforgettable true story of endurance and escape, a powerful testament to the human spirit’s ability to rise above even the most harrowing beginnings.
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Beneath the mask of Pogo the Clown, John Wayne Gacy hid thirty-three murders and a lifetime of deceit.
Buried Dreams
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Beneath the mask of Pogo the Clown, John Wayne Gacy hid thirty-three murders and a lifetime of deceit. Journalist Tim Cahill’s Buried Dreams exposes the making of a killer—his childhood, crimes, and chilling psychology—through years of exclusive research. Hailed as “disturbing” and “graceful,” this is true crime that stares unflinchingly into darkness.
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Behind the smiling mask of Pogo the Clown hid one of America’s most terrifying killers. John Wayne Gacy was a successful Chicago contractor and community volunteer—until police uncovered the remains of thirty-three boys buried beneath his suburban home.
In this definitive account, journalist Tim Cahill reconstructs Gacy’s double life with chilling precision, from an abusive childhood to the compulsions that drove him to murder. Through years of interviews, court records, and unflinching reporting, Cahill reveals not only the crimes but the fractured psychology of a man who embodied ordinary evil.
Buried Dreams is a landmark work of true crime—“an absorbing and disturbing story” (Publishers Weekly) and “the stuff of wrenching nightmares” (The Wall Street Journal).
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