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Raised in a tipi on bug stew and free love, Cea Sunrise Person’s wild memoir is equal parts The Glass Castle and Survivor: Canadian Wilderness.
North of Normal
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Raised in a tipi on bug stew and free love, Cea Sunrise Person’s wild memoir is equal parts The Glass Castle and Survivor: Canadian Wilderness. North of Normal is a funny, raw, and jaw-dropping bestseller with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A story of survival, self-discovery, and how to outrun your past without snowshoes.
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What happens when your childhood starts with a tipi, bug stew, and naked meadow frolicking—and only gets weirder from there?
Born into a pot-smoking, clothes-optional family deep in the Canadian wilderness, Cea Sunrise Person grew up idolizing her eccentric grandfather and surviving harsh winters with no electricity, no heat, and plenty of psychedelic chaos.
But by age five, she was on the road with her young mother and a string of increasingly unstable boyfriends. The further they wandered, the more Cea began to question the free-love ideals that raised her.
Faced with drugs, danger, and disillusionment, she set her sights on something radical: a normal life.
Can a girl raised off the grid find her place in the world—or will the wilderness follow her everywhere?
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A strong fit for readers interested in firsthand military memoirs focused on combat, service, and the personal realities of war.
American Sniper
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Chris Kyle recounts his years as a U.S. Navy SEAL sniper, including his combat deployments in Iraq, his military experiences, and the effect of war on his life away from the battlefield, with a 4.0-star average from more than 143,200 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for readers interested in firsthand military memoirs focused on combat, service, and the personal realities of war.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
"An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq—a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable." — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review
"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him "The Legend"; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him al-Shaitan ("the devil") and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, an Iraq War veteran who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war—including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates—and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris.
Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences in this U.S. Navy SEAL memoir ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.
This unflinching military biography reveals the man behind the legend:
- An Elite SEAL Sniper: Go behind the scope with the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history as he protects his brothers-in-arms on the rooftops and in the streets of Iraq.
- The Pain of War: A brutally honest, first-person account of the tolls of combat, the loss of close teammates, and the difficult transition back to civilian life.
- A Family’s Sacrifice: Through moving passages from his wife, Taya, witness the profound strains that constant deployment and the realities of war place on a marriage and a family.
- Patriotism and Duty: The true story of an American warrior who believed his duty was to eliminate threats to his fellow Americans, no matter the personal cost.
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Yes Please (4.6 out of 5 stars) is Amy Poehler’s bold, hilarious, and sneakily profound memoir.
Yes Please
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Yes Please (4.6 out of 5 stars) is Amy Poehler’s bold, hilarious, and sneakily profound memoir. With poetry, personal essays, and killer one-liners, she shares stories from SNL, Parks and Rec, and beyond. Come for the laughs, stay for the wisdom. This is the book your inner Leslie Knope has been waiting for.
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Ever wish Amy Poehler could be your hilarious, unfiltered, impossibly wise best friend? This is the next best thing.
Yes Please is not your typical celebrity memoir. It’s a mashup of personal stories, irreverent lists, awkward childhood photos, and laugh-out-loud essays that cover everything from showbiz grit to mom guilt to questionable wardrobe choices.
Whether she’s reflecting on her early comedy days or dishing out life advice like “treat your career like a bad boyfriend,” Amy brings her signature blend of honesty, absurdity, and big-hearted brilliance.
It’s smart. It’s weird. It’s full of haiku.
If you’ve ever wanted permission to be ambitious, funny, and a little messy all at once, consider this your official yes.
Actually, make that Yes Please.
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The Perfect Predator (4.7 out of 5 stars) is a jaw-dropping true story of love, science, and survival.
The Perfect Predator
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The Perfect Predator (4.7 out of 5 stars) is a jaw-dropping true story of love, science, and survival. When antibiotics fail, a desperate wife revives a forgotten therapy to save her husband from a deadly superbug. Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson deliver a gripping memoir that reads like a thriller and could change the future of medicine.
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What starts as food poisoning on a vacation to Egypt spirals into a medical nightmare. Psychologist Tom Patterson is dying, and no antibiotic on Earth can stop what’s eating him alive.
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee is used to saving others. Now she’s racing to save her husband. Modern medicine has nothing left to offer, and time is running out.
Desperate, she digs into long-abandoned research and stumbles on phage therapy, an almost-forgotten treatment that uses viruses to fight drug-resistant bacteria. It’s untested. Unapproved. Unavailable. And it might be his only shot.
With help from global scientists, secretive labs, and one relentless wife, a buried cure rises from the past.
Can an extinct treatment rewrite the future of medicine before it’s too late?
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Happiness: A Memoir by Heather Harpham is a tender, sharp, and unexpectedly joyful story of love, parenthood, and survival.
Happiness
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Happiness: A Memoir by Heather Harpham is a tender, sharp, and unexpectedly joyful story of love, parenthood, and survival. From the birth of a dangerously ill daughter to the complex return of a reluctant partner, Harpham’s journey is heartbreakingly honest and full of grace. A love story in the messiest, truest sense.
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Heather Harpham thought she knew how her story would unfold. A whirlwind romance, an unexpected pregnancy, and a quiet life raising a daughter she already adored. But mere hours after giving birth, everything changed.
Alone in California while the father of her child remained in New York, Heather faced a terrifying diagnosis that would reshape their lives. In the shadow of hospital rooms and hard choices, love reemerged in unexpected ways.
Happiness is a memoir of joy found in the messiest places: a newborn’s laugh, the generosity of strangers, and the fragile hope of second chances. With humor and grace, Harpham traces the winding, imperfect path to family, love, and something like happiness, crooked and fleeting, but fiercely real.
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With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts is a gripping single-volume history of WWII.
The Storm of War
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With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts is a gripping single-volume history of WWII. Spanning every front, Roberts combines masterful storytelling with meticulous research, bringing grand strategy and human experience to life. From battlefield brilliance to moral failure, this is an unflinching look at history’s most devastating war.
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World War II reshaped the modern world through strategy, brutality, and courage on an unimaginable scale.
In The Storm of War, historian Andrew Roberts delivers a masterful single-volume history of the conflict, tracing the war from the beaches of Normandy to the deserts of North Africa, from the icy Russian front to the Pacific islands.
With striking clarity, Roberts reveals how the decisions of leaders like Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin shaped the fate of millions. Alongside these towering figures, he gives voice to the soldiers, sailors, and civilians whose stories reflect both humanity’s finest heroism and darkest cruelty.
Meticulously researched and grippingly told, The Storm of War is an essential, vivid account of the global conflict that defined the twentieth century.
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Dreamseller is Brandon Novak’s raw, unfiltered memoir of rising as a pro skater, falling into heroin addiction, and fighting for…
Dreamseller
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Dreamseller is Brandon Novak’s raw, unfiltered memoir of rising as a pro skater, falling into heroin addiction, and fighting for sobriety. From Jackass stunts to rehab stumbles, Novak’s story is heartbreaking, brutally honest, and darkly funny. A gripping tale of fame, addiction, and the courage to start over.
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Brandon Novak was living the dream by fourteen, touring with skate legends, headlining national demos, and riding the wave of early fame. But behind the tricks and the spotlight, heroin was tightening its grip.
From pro skater to garage addict, Novak's story spirals into a raw account of stolen promises and broken trust. He hustled, lied, and spiraled, losing everything but his relentless will to survive.
With the help of friends like Bam Margera and the Jackass crew, Novak faced the truth and clawed his way toward recovery.
Dreamseller is an unflinching look at addiction, fame, and the fight to rebuild a life from the wreckage. This is not a redemption arc. It’s a crash course in falling and learning how to stand back up.
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With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Born with Teeth is Kate Mulgrew’s fierce, funny memoir of a life on and off stage.
Born with Teeth
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With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Born with Teeth is Kate Mulgrew’s fierce, funny memoir of a life on and off stage. From her early years chasing Broadway dreams to the heartbreak of giving up a child for adoption, she brings wit, grit, and unflinching honesty to the story of a woman who refused to play by anyone else’s rules.
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Before she was Captain Janeway or Red, Kate Mulgrew was a girl with poetry in her bones and rebellion in her blood.
Raised in a raucous Irish Catholic family, Mulgrew left her Midwestern hometown at eighteen to chase her acting dreams in New York. Under the legendary Stella Adler, she learned to transform heartbreak into art, a skill she would need when, at twenty-two, she gave up her newborn daughter for adoption, a decision that shaped her life.
From the heights of stage and screen to the quiet grief she carried alone, Born with Teeth reveals the fierce, vulnerable woman behind the iconic roles.
Kate Mulgrew’s memoir is sharp, funny, and unflinchingly honest—a portrait of a life lived out loud, on her own terms.
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The House of Gucci is a gripping true crime saga of fashion, betrayal, and murder.
The House of Gucci
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The House of Gucci is a gripping true crime saga of fashion, betrayal, and murder. Sara Gay Forden unpacks the rise and fall of the Gucci dynasty, culminating in the shocking assassination of Maurizio Gucci and the arrest of his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani. Glamour never looked this deadly.
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Milan, 1995. Four gunshots cut through the morning calm, leaving Maurizio Gucci dead on the steps of his office.
Two years later, the arrest of his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, known to the press as the Black Widow, sent shockwaves through the fashion world. Was it jealousy, betrayal, or something colder that led to his murder?
Sara Gay Forden’s The House of Gucci unravels a dynasty driven by ambition and undone by greed. From glittering runways to courtroom drama, this is the true story of a family that built an empire of luxury, then tore it apart from within.
Murder, madness, and millions collide in this gripping portrait of the Gucci legacy, where power and passion left no room for mercy.
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Love becomes an act of courage when a marriage is forced to face an ending neither partner can outrun.
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
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Love becomes an act of courage when a marriage is forced to face an ending neither partner can outrun. In In Love, Amy Bloom writes about her husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and their decision to pursue an assisted death in Switzerland with honesty, tenderness, and clarity. This memoir belongs with stories of grief and devotion that confront loss directly while honoring love without sentimentality.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post)
“A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today
AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Real Simple, Prospect (UK), She Reads, Kirkus Reviews
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease.
Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace.
In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
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With 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Just as I Am is Cicely Tyson’s powerful and poetic memoir, co-written with Michelle Burford.
Just as I Am
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With 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Just as I Am is Cicely Tyson’s powerful and poetic memoir, co-written with Michelle Burford. From Harlem church pews to red carpets, she shares a truth marked by faith, resilience, and fierce integrity. A must-read from an icon who lived her art and left history changed in her wake.
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Cicely Tyson’s voice was always intentional. Every role she chose, every moment on screen, every silence meant something.
In Just as I Am, she finally tells her story. Not the Hollywood version, but the truth behind the glitter. Tyson reflects on a life that stretched from a quiet Harlem childhood to stages and screens around the world. She was a daughter, a mother, a pioneer, and a woman who dared to dream out loud in a world that tried to silence her.
Through heartbreak and triumph, she carried dignity like a banner. Her legacy isn’t just in the characters she played, it’s in the lives she touched and the doors she opened.
This is the voice behind the icon. Measured. Lyrical. Unflinching. And entirely unforgettable.
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Best for readers who want memoirs about cult survival, family loyalty, religious control, and resilience.
The Sound of Gravel
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A New York Times bestseller called “A haunting, harrowing testament to survival,” The Sound of Gravel follows Ruth Wariner’s childhood in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult, where she begins to question her family’s beliefs while trying to protect her siblings and build a different future, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 11,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who want memoirs about cult survival, family loyalty, religious control, and resilience.
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A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.
“A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." — People Magazine
“An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community.” — New York Magazine
Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible. After Ruth's father--the man who had been the founding prophet of the colony--is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries, becoming the second wife of another faithful congregant.
In need of government assistance and supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where her mother collects welfare and her step-father works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth comes to love the time she spends in the States, realizing that perhaps the community into which she was born is not the right one for her. As Ruth begins to doubt her family’s beliefs and question her mother’s choices, she struggles to balance her fierce love for her siblings with her determination to forge a better life for herself.
Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of a girl fighting for peace and love. This is an intimate, gripping book resonant with triumph, courage, and resilience.
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