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Trapped by a deadly avalanche, climber Jim Davidson survived Everest’s deadliest day.
The Next Everest
Biographies & Memoirs
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Trapped by a deadly avalanche, climber Jim Davidson survived Everest’s deadliest day. Then he returned. The Next Everest is a gripping memoir of disaster, resilience, and the climb that changed everything. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, this suspenseful, true story of survival and second chances will stay with you long after the summit is reached.
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a massive earthquake triggered deadly avalanches, cutting off escape routes and leaving him and his team stranded near 20,000 feet. Eighteen people died on the mountain that day—the deadliest disaster in Everest’s history.
Two days later, Davidson was rescued. Shaken and uncertain, he didn’t know if he would ever return.
But in 2017, he did.
The Next Everest is a gripping true story of survival, resilience, and the long road back after disaster. Davidson combines harrowing adventure with insight from his background in geology and environmental science, revealing both the physical risks of Everest and the emotional toll of climbing it. This isn’t a story about conquering a mountain—it’s about rising to meet your next one.
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Perfect for fans of David Sedaris and anyone who loves a good story with a wink.
How Y’all Doing?
Biographies & Memoirs
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Need a pick-me-up? Emmy winner and viral sensation Leslie Jordan delivers with How Y’all Doing? This bestselling essay collection is packed with outrageous Hollywood tales, laugh-out-loud moments, and heartfelt Southern charm. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, it’s pure joy on the page. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris and anyone who loves a good story with a wink.
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Before he went viral, Leslie Jordan was already a legend in his own right. Emmy winner, sitcom scene-stealer, and Southern Baptist sass factory, Leslie brought joy to millions during lockdown with his hilariously candid videos. In How Y’all Doing?, he brings that same spirit to the page.
This essay collection is full of laugh-out-loud stories and unexpected heart. From West Hollywood Starbucks showdowns to surprise phone calls from Debbie Reynolds, Leslie serves up his signature charm with every sentence.
It’s part memoir, part stand-up set, and all heart. Whether you know him from Will & Grace, Instagram, or just his irresistible one-liners, this book is pure joy in print.
Grab it when you need a pick-me-up, a belly laugh, or just a little Leslie in your life.
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A #1 national bestseller, New York Times bestseller, and Oprah's Book Club pick, From Here to the Great Unknown presents Lisa Marie Presley's story through her own recordings…
From Here to the Great Unknown
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 national bestseller, New York Times bestseller, and Oprah's Book Club pick, From Here to the Great Unknown presents Lisa Marie Presley's story through her own recordings and the work of daughter Riley Keough, covering Graceland, family, motherhood, addiction, and grief, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 8,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for memoir readers interested in complicated family histories, celebrity life, grief, addiction, and the Presley legacy.
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.
A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.
To make her mother known.
This extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mother and daughter communicating—from this world to the one beyond—as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other—the last words of the only child of an American icon.
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Kidnapped by a brutal warlord in 1990s Uganda, Anthony and Florence cling to faith, love, and each other to survive—and to save others from the same fate.
All the Glimmering Stars
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction
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Kidnapped by a brutal warlord in 1990s Uganda, Anthony and Florence cling to faith, love, and each other to survive—and to save others from the same fate. Inspired by a true story, All the Glimmering Stars by #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Sullivan is a powerful, life-affirming tale of courage and redemption.
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Even in the darkest night, love can light the way home.
In 1990s Uganda, gifted students Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori dream of bright futures—until they are abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Forced into the service of a fanatical warlord, they face a world of violence and despair that tests every belief they hold about goodness and faith.
Against all odds, Anthony and Florence find each other and discover a love strong enough to help them survive—and to save others still trapped in the conflict.
Inspired by true events, All the Glimmering Stars by #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Sullivan is a sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive story of courage, devotion, and the enduring power of hope.
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Growing up as Roseanne Barr’s daughter, Jenny Pentland had a front-row seat to fame—and its fallout.
This Will Be Funny Later
Biographies & Memoirs
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Growing up as Roseanne Barr’s daughter, Jenny Pentland had a front-row seat to fame—and its fallout. This Will Be Funny Later is a darkly hilarious memoir about brat camps, anxiety, and finding normal in a life that was anything but. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this brutally honest coming-of-age story is equal parts chaos, comedy, and catharsis.
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Jenny Pentland grew up inside a sitcom. Literally. Her early family life became the inspiration for her mom’s mega-hit show Roseanne. But behind the scenes, it wasn’t all punchlines and laugh tracks.
Fame shoved the Pentland family from working-class Denver to the chaos of Hollywood, where Jenny faced relentless public scrutiny, anxiety, and a whirlwind of self-help institutions she never asked to attend. Rehab? Check. Fat camp? Also check. Drugs? Never touched them.
Told with biting humor and brutal honesty, This Will Be Funny Later is a coming-of-age memoir like no other—a sharp, funny, and fearless look at growing up famous, surviving the weirdest parts of the self-improvement era, and finding peace in a life far from the spotlight.
This time, Jenny writes her own story. And it’s hilarious.
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Jonathan Rosen examines his childhood friendship with Michael Laudor, whose life took him from Yale Law School to a forensic psychiatric hospital after he killed his girlfriend while…
The Best Minds
Biographies & Memoirs
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Jonathan Rosen examines his childhood friendship with Michael Laudor, whose life took him from Yale Law School to a forensic psychiatric hospital after he killed his girlfriend while experiencing paranoid delusions. Readers interested in memoirs that examine severe mental illness, failures of care, and the consequences of misplaced optimism should find plenty to consider here.
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023
“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times
“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal
Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.
Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delusions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.
Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.
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Panthers.
Trials of the Earth
Biographies & Memoirs
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Panthers. Fires. Floods. Trials of the Earth is the unforgettable memoir of Mary Mann Hamilton, a pioneer woman who carved out a life in the Mississippi Delta. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and praise from Publishers Weekly, this gritty account of survival and resilience is an essential piece of overlooked American history you won’t want to miss.
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Before paved roads and power lines, Mary Mann Hamilton was building a life from scratch in the Mississippi Delta.
In Trials of the Earth, Hamilton shares her firsthand account of what it meant to survive as a woman on the American frontier. There were floods. Fires. Tornadoes. Snakes and panthers and bears. There was backbreaking labor, staggering loss, and moments of grit so raw they burn off the page.
Written near the end of her life and nearly lost to history, this memoir offers an unfiltered glimpse into the unsung lives that shaped the early South. With stark prose and powerful honesty, Hamilton captures a time and spirit few today can imagine.
This is not a romanticized pioneer tale. It is a testament to survival, sacrifice, and quiet heroism.
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Ideal for readers looking for darkly funny memoirs about queer nightlife, reinvention, performance, and messy self-discovery.
I Am Not Myself These Days
Biographies & Memoirs · LGBTQIA+
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A New York Times bestselling memoir called “absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt” by Armistead Maupin, I Am Not Myself These Days follows Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s dual life as a New York advertising art director by day and glitter-dripping drag queen by night, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for darkly funny memoirs about queer nightlife, reinvention, performance, and messy self-discovery.
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"A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell's cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such insight and wit that the laughter is revelatory, and the tears—and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey—are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves. In a word, wonderful." — Clive Barker
"Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt." —Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City
The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse's move to the country, The Bucolic Plague—in I Am Not Myself These Days, with "plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight" (Washington Post).
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From Grammy winner and co-founder of The Roots, The Upcycled Self is a lyrical, fearless memoir about rising from trauma to artistry.
The Upcycled Self
Biographies & Memoirs
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From Grammy winner and co-founder of The Roots, The Upcycled Self is a lyrical, fearless memoir about rising from trauma to artistry. Named a Rolling Stone Best Book of the Year and rated 4.7 stars on Amazon, Tariq Trotter reflects on the formative relationships that shaped him. It’s part confession, part blueprint, and all heart.
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Before the platinum records and Grammy wins, Tariq Trotter was a kid who burned his house down.
Better known as Black Thought of The Roots, Trotter unpacks his early life with a poet’s rhythm and a survivor’s clarity. The Upcycled Self is more than a memoir. It’s a meditation on transformation—turning pain into power, tragedy into triumph.
Told through four pivotal relationships, his story digs deep into family, friendship, creativity, and community. The result is a raw, lyrical reflection on growth, grief, and the weight of becoming.
With each chapter, Trotter invites readers to ask tough questions about their own origin stories. What do we carry forward? What must we leave behind?
This is the testimony of an artist forged in fire, offering wisdom with the weight of lived truth.
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This will appeal to readers who want humorous memoirs built around social awkwardness, self-examination, and everyday experiences.
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Biographies & Memoirs
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Issa Rae reflects on childhood, dating, friendship, work, identity, and the discomfort of being an introvert in a collection of candid personal essays, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 5,100 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want humorous memoirs built around social awkwardness, self-examination, and everyday experiences.
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The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure.
In this "delightfully deadpan" (Essence) bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.
I’m awkward—and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?
Being an introvert (as well as “funny,” according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that glorifies cool isn’t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, is that introvert—whether she’s navigating love, the workplace, friendships, or “rapping”—it sure is entertaining. Now, in this New York Times bestselling debut collection written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself—natural hair and all.
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no one—awkward or cool, black, white, or other—will want to miss.
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A New York Times bestseller, Finding Fish recounts Antwone Fisher’s childhood in foster care, where he endured years of abuse, and his path into the Navy, adulthood, and…
Finding Fish
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller, Finding Fish recounts Antwone Fisher’s childhood in foster care, where he endured years of abuse, and his path into the Navy, adulthood, and a family he created for himself, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to memoir readers interested in foster care, survival, chosen family, and the process of building a life beyond a difficult childhood.
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The author recounts his life from birth in prison to success in Hollywood in the New York Times–bestselling memoir that inspired the film Antwone Fisher.
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment he was born to a single mother in prison. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself.
Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born—first as the child who painted the feelings his words dared not speak, then as a poet and storyteller who would eventually become one of Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriters.
A tumultuous and ultimately gratifying tale of self-discovery written in Fisher's gritty yet melodic literary voice, Finding Fish "reads like a great work of fiction" (Denzel Washington).
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For fans of The Paris Wife and The Aviator’s Wife, it’s a must-read about art, freedom, and becoming unforgettable.
Peggy
Biographies & Memoirs
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From award-winning author Rebecca Godfrey—finished by Leslie Jamison—comes Peggy, a dazzling portrait of heiress-turned-icon Peggy Guggenheim. Rich with art, tragedy, and defiance, this 4.6-star novel explores a life lived boldly through grief, scandal, and brilliance. For fans of The Paris Wife and The Aviator’s Wife, it’s a must-read about art, freedom, and becoming unforgettable.
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Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim reclines beside her Grand Canal palazzo, sun-drenched and self-made, reflecting on the wild, winding path that brought her here.
She began as the daughter of two powerful Jewish dynasties in New York, shattered by tragedy when her father died on the Titanic. From that loss sprang a lifelong hunger—for passion, for freedom, and for art.
Navigating a world steeped in sexism and anti-Semitism, Peggy forged her own legend, building one of the most influential art collections of the 20th century while surrounded by critics who saw only an heiress, never a visionary.
In Peggy, Rebecca Godfrey delivers a dazzling portrait of a woman ahead of her time—unfinished at the author's death, and brought to life by Leslie Jamison.
Iconoclast. Collector. Feminist icon. But never what anyone expected.
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