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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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Exiled and imprisoned, Mary, Queen of Scots, turns her captors’ household into a court of intrigue in Philippa Gregory’s The Other Queen.
The Other Queen
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction
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Exiled and imprisoned, Mary, Queen of Scots, turns her captors’ household into a court of intrigue in Philippa Gregory’s The Other Queen. As loyalties crumble and ambition burns, no one escapes unscathed. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction,” this dazzling Tudor drama unravels love, power, and betrayal.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, seeks sanctuary in England after rebellion drives her from her throne. Instead, she finds herself a prisoner—an honored “guest” in the home of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his formidable wife, Bess of Hardwick. What begins as an act of royal duty soon becomes a deadly game of power, loyalty, and deception.
As Mary charms and manipulates her captors, the Shrewsburys discover that hosting a deposed queen may cost them everything: their fortune, their marriage, and their place in Elizabeth’s court.
Philippa Gregory’s The Other Queen captures the dangerous allure of Mary Stuart in a tale of ambition and betrayal. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the queen of royal fiction” by USA Today.
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Oil made the Osage Nation rich—then someone began killing them for it.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Oil made the Osage Nation rich—then someone began killing them for it. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon unravels a chilling web of greed, racism, and murder that birthed the modern FBI. A #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, this gripping true-crime saga is now a major Martin Scorsese film.
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In the 1920s, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma became the richest people per capita in the world—until the murders began. One by one, Osage men and women were killed for their oil wealth, their deaths dismissed or ignored as greed and corruption spread through every level of power.
When Mollie Burkhart’s family is targeted, her search for justice uncovers a conspiracy so vast it shocks even the newly formed FBI. Led by ex–Texas Ranger Tom White, the investigation unearths one of the darkest chapters in American history—where racism, greed, and violence intertwined to destroy lives for profit.
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a haunting masterpiece of true crime and history. A #1 New York Times bestseller, National Book Award finalist, and Scorsese film adaptation.
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Ideal for readers looking for nature writing that blends science, wilderness travel, personal reflection, and endurance.
The Sun Is a Compass
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 bestseller in Polar Regions Travel, The Sun Is a Compass follows biologist Caroline Van Hemert and her husband on a 4,000-mile, human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Alaskan Arctic. Traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe, they face wilderness dangers while reconnecting with birds, nature, and adventure, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for nature writing that blends science, wilderness travel, personal reflection, and endurance.
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For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.
During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals.
In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences.
A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
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A soldier endures the Bataan Death March.
Hold Strong
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A soldier endures the Bataan Death March. A codebreaker races to save lives. Neither knows their fates are intertwined. Inspired by true events, Hold Strong by Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree is a powerful World War II story of love, survival, and courage. With 4.8 stars on Amazon, it’s historical fiction at its most human.
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Sam Carlson and Sarah Haber dream of a future together in small-town Minnesota—until Pearl Harbor changes everything. Sam is sent to the Philippines, where he endures the Bataan Death March and the horrors of a POW camp. Thousands of miles away, Sarah is recruited as a wartime codebreaker, using her brilliant mind to help win the war.
But when she intercepts a message that could doom Sam’s ship, their worlds collide in a devastating twist of fate.
Inspired by true events, Hold Strong is a sweeping story of faith, love, and survival against impossible odds. Written by Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree, this unforgettable World War II novel captures the power of hope when all seems lost—and the courage to hold strong.
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A must-read memoir for fans of gritty, authentic military history.
Land With No Sun
Biographies & Memoirs
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In Land With No Sun by Ted Arthurs (4.7 out of 5 stars), a Silver Star Command Sergeant Major recounts a year in Vietnam’s deadliest jungles. Leading the Fireball Brigade through relentless combat, Arthurs delivers a gripping, firsthand story of survival, sacrifice, and brotherhood. A must-read memoir for fans of gritty, authentic military history.
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Ted Arthurs didn’t watch the Vietnam War from afar—he lived every brutal, blistering moment of it. From May 1967 to May 1968, as Command Sergeant Major of an airborne infantry battalion, he carried eighty pounds of gear through the triple-canopy jungles of the Central Highlands, leading men through ambushes, monsoons, and the constant threat of death.
His unit was nicknamed the Fireball Brigade for a reason: they went where the fighting burned hottest. Arthurs’s mission was simple but impossible—bring as many of his eight hundred soldiers home alive as he could.
Land With No Sun is a raw, unflinching account of courage, leadership, and the human cost of war, told by a decorated soldier who survived it.
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From the star of Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation comes an unforgettable memoir of life among the haunted.
A Life with Ghosts
Biographies & Memoirs
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From the star of Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation comes an unforgettable memoir of life among the haunted. Steve Gonsalves shares chilling encounters with spirits, eerie voices, and the mysteries that shaped his belief in the afterlife. Told with humor, heart, and awe, A Life with Ghosts explores what it truly means to live with the unseen.
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In the silence of a haunted room, a voice crackles through the dark. Steve Gonsalves listens, not in fear but in recognition. For him, the unseen has always been part of life.
As lead investigator of Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation, Gonsalves has spent decades chasing whispers and shadows across America’s most haunted places. Here, he revisits the encounters that shaped his belief in what lingers beyond death.
From disembodied voices to restless spirits, each story reveals not only what he has found in the dark but what the dark has taught him about fear, faith, and connection.
With warmth, humor, and deep curiosity, A Life with Ghosts offers an unforgettable journey through the world of the paranormal.
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In Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (4.5 out of 5 stars), the legendary actress and writer spills her Hollywood secrets with wit as sharp as Leia’s blaster.
Wishful Drinking
Biographies & Memoirs
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In Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (4.5 out of 5 stars), the legendary actress and writer spills her Hollywood secrets with wit as sharp as Leia’s blaster. From Star Wars stardom to family chaos, Fisher’s candid memoir is laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly profound. A cult classic of celebrity confessions and comedic brilliance.
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Carrie Fisher has lived more lives than most galaxies can hold. Born to Hollywood royalty, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, she grew up amid fame, scandal, and more drama than a season of reality TV. At nineteen, she became Princess Leia—and instantly a global icon, an action figure, and a punchline.
In Wishful Drinking, Fisher turns her chaotic, star-studded life into a brilliant comedy act on the page. From marriages to Paul Simon and mishaps with Elizabeth Taylor to addiction, electroshock therapy, and motherhood, she shares every outrageous detail with biting honesty and self-deprecating humor.
Wild, witty, and unexpectedly heartfelt, Wishful Drinking is Fisher’s hilarious confession: fame is absurd, family is complicated, and survival is the best revenge.
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A strong fit for readers who enjoy candid rock memoirs, heavy-metal history, and firsthand stories from a decades-long music career.
I Am Ozzy
Biographies & Memoirs
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Ozzy Osbourne recounts his life from a working-class childhood in Aston through Black Sabbath, his solo career, years of drugs and alcohol, family life, and the excesses that became part of his public legend. A strong fit for readers who enjoy candid rock memoirs, heavy-metal history, and firsthand stories from a decades-long music career.
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Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne shares his unbelievable story for the first time in this tell-all memoir of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.
Take what you thought was "rock and roll excess" and double it–you still wouldn't be anywhere near the dizzying life of Ozzy Osbourne. Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, music was his salvation, and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the musical landscape forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs, and Ozzy soon fell into an epic relationship with booze and chemicals.
The stories of Ozzy's days on the road are now those of legend–biting the head off a live bat, the tragic plane crash that took the life of his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoades–but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of hard living. In the end, it was the love of his family that saved him.
Told for the first time in the rocker’s hilarious and inimitable voice, Ozzy finally comes clean.
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Best for readers who enjoy candid music memoirs about identity, family, creative ambition, and the experiences behind an artist's work.
Broken Horses
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “one of the great memoirs of our time” by Glennon Doyle, Broken Horses follows Brandi Carlile through a childhood shaped by instability and music and her experiences with faith, sexuality, parenthood, and her career, with a 4.4-star average from more than 37,700 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who enjoy candid music memoirs about identity, family, creative ambition, and the experiences behind an artist's work.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about faith, sexuality, parenthood, and a life shaped by music in “one of the great memoirs of our time” (Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed).
“If anyone ever has a doubt in their mind that the wildest of dreams can be realized from complicated circumstances, they should read Brandi’s story. I absolutely loved it.”—Elton John
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND AUTOSTRADDLE
Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving an indelible mark on her formative years and altering her journey into young adulthood.
As an openly gay teenager, Brandi grappled with the tension between her sexuality and her faith when her pastor publicly refused to baptize her on the day of the ceremony. Shockingly, her small town rallied around Brandi in support and set her on a path to salvation where the rest of the misfits and rejects find it: through twisted, joyful, weird, and wonderful music.
In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art—from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John’s “Honky Cat” in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her to collaborations with personal heroes like Elton John, Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Pearl Jam, Tanya Tucker, and Joni Mitchell, as well as her peers in the supergroup The Highwomen, and ultimately to the Grammy stage, where she converted millions of viewers into instant fans.
Evocative and piercingly honest, Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church’s basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind, a brilliant artist, and a genuine empath on a mission to give back.
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Hadley Vlahos’s The In-Between is a New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America favorite that brings beauty and clarity to life’s final chapter.
The In-Between
Biographies & Memoirs
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Hadley Vlahos’s The In-Between is a New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America favorite that brings beauty and clarity to life’s final chapter. Through stories from her hospice patients, Vlahos explores loss, love, and faith with humility and grace. With 4.7 out of 5 stars, this powerful memoir comforts, inspires, and reminds us how to truly live.
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Death is something most people avoid talking about. For hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, it became her life’s purpose. In The In-Between, she shares the extraordinary lessons learned from those standing at the edge of life and what their final moments reveal about meaning, love, and peace.
Raised in a strict religious household, Hadley’s path was anything but easy. Pregnant at nineteen and shunned by her community, she built a new life through nursing, finding her calling in hospice care. Through stories of laughter, faith, and quiet courage, she reveals how the dying often teach us how to live.
Tender, spiritual, and deeply human, this memoir offers comfort for those grieving and gentle guidance for anyone seeking to live more fully.
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Good for readers who want memoirs about migration, family separation, danger, resilience, and unexpected care.
Solito
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller called a “gripping memoir” by NPR, Solito follows nine-year-old Javier Zamora’s journey from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 11,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want memoirs about migration, family separation, danger, resilience, and unexpected care.
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New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award
“I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub
“A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”
Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
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