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Told with brutal honesty and heartbreak, Becky is the true story behind one of Britain’s most shocking crimes.
The Evil Within
Biographies & Memoirs
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Told with brutal honesty and heartbreak, Becky is the true story behind one of Britain’s most shocking crimes. Darren Galsworthy’s memoir of his daughter’s 2015 murder by her stepbrother is a searing exploration of grief, betrayal, and justice. Haunting and unforgettable, this 4.5-star Amazon bestseller captures a tragedy that shook a nation.
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Becky Watts was just 16 years old when she vanished from her Bristol home in 2015. Days later, her dismembered body was found—murdered by her own stepbrother.
In this devastating memoir, Darren Galsworthy recounts the unimaginable grief of losing his daughter and the horrifying betrayal of the boy he once called his son. As Darren searches for answers, he confronts the unspoken tensions in Becky’s home life, the chilling nature of the crime, and the cracks in a justice system that struggled to bring resolution.
This is not a voyeuristic retelling. It’s a father’s raw and deeply personal fight for truth, accountability, and the memory of a daughter stolen in the most horrific way.
Some tragedies break headlines. This one broke a family.
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A strong match for readers interested in World War II memoirs, POW survival accounts, and lesser-known perspectives from the Eastern Front.
Death March Through Russia
Biographies & Memoirs
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Death March Through Russia recounts Lothar Herrmann’s path from growing up in Nazi Bavaria to serving in a Wehrmacht Mountain Division, being captured during the retreat from Romania, and surviving years in a Soviet forced labor camp, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers interested in World War II memoirs, POW survival accounts, and lesser-known perspectives from the Eastern Front.
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This World War II memoir by a Nazi soldier details his unimaginable experience as a German prisoner-of-war in the Soviet Union.
Lothar Hermann grew up in Bavaria, going through the RAD (Nazi Labor Service) before being conscripted into a Wehrmacht Mountain Division (the Gebirgsdivision) in 1940. He participated in Germany's advance through southern Ukraine in 1941 and, in 1944, was arrested in Romania while retreating to Germany. The Romanians passed him onto the Soviets, who placed him in a forced labor camp, where he watched two-thirds of prisoners around him die. In 1949, Herrmann was finally released to Germany and returned to Bavaria.
Three million German troops were taken prisoner by the Red Army and around two-thirds of them survived to return to Germany in 1949 like Hermann, but their stories are little known. Klaus Willmann draws on interviews he conducted with Herrmann, to recount these astonishing recollections in the first-person. Depicting the challenges of growing up in Nazi Bavaria to becoming a Soviet prisoner-of-war, this is a gripping and enlightening account from a necessary but rarely explored perspective.
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A searing memoir of survival and resilience, Slow Noodles tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who loses her family to genocide—but rediscovers hope through her mother’s recipes.
Slow Noodles
Biographies & Memoirs
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A searing memoir of survival and resilience, Slow Noodles tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who loses her family to genocide—but rediscovers hope through her mother’s recipes. 4.6 out of 5 stars. Beautiful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, it’s a tribute to food, memory, and the healing power of home.
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During Pol Pot’s brutal regime, nine-year-old Chantha Nguon lost nearly everything—her country, her family, her future. What remained was taste.
From the fragrant herbs in her mother’s kitchen to the painstakingly rolled noodles of her youth, food became her lifeline as she fled Cambodia, survived years of exile, and rebuilt a life from ashes. In Slow Noodles, Nguon chronicles her haunting journey through war, loss, and displacement, where memory is measured in flavors and healing is slow—but deliberate.
Whether cooking in a brothel or nursing wounded refugees, she carried one legacy: her mother’s recipes. Recreating them becomes her act of survival and resistance.
Laced with Khmer and Vietnamese dishes, this memoir is a love letter to food, family, and the will to endure.
What if the way home is something you cook?
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A warm fit for readers who enjoy celebrity memoirs with humor, charm, photos, and personal observations from a beloved entertainer.
If You Ask Me
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller, If You Ask Me collects Betty White’s candid, funny, and straight-to-the-point thoughts on Hollywood, red carpets, beauty, love, animals, and life, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers. A warm fit for readers who enjoy celebrity memoirs with humor, charm, photos, and personal observations from a beloved entertainer.
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The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Saturday Night Live!
In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs to her beauty regimen (“I have no idea what color my hair is, and I never intend to find out”), Betty White shares her observations about life, celebrity, and love (for humans and animals). Filled with photos, If You Ask Me is funny, sweet, and straight to the point—just like Betty.
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Inspired by a true story, The Last Green Valley follows one family’s harrowing escape from Soviet Ukraine at the end of World War II.
The Last Green Valley
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · World War 2
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Inspired by a true story, The Last Green Valley follows one family’s harrowing escape from Soviet Ukraine at the end of World War II. Torn between the horrors of Stalin’s regime and the menace of Nazi forces, the Martels face impossible choices in their search for freedom. A sweeping, emotional tale of survival and courage by the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
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“Mark Sullivan has done it again! The Last Green Valley is a compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author
From the author of the #1 bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph.
In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans?
The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martels’ story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized.
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Fame, secrecy, and illness converged in the final years of one of rock’s most magnetic performers.
Somebody to Love
Biographies & Memoirs · LGBTQIA+
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Fame, secrecy, and illness converged in the final years of one of rock’s most magnetic performers. In Somebody to Love, the life of Freddie Mercury unfolds through intimate interviews and historical context, tracing his search for love alongside the rise of the HIV and AIDS crisis. This biography examines legacy, identity, and cultural impact with emotional clarity and depth.
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A biography examining the final days of Freddie Mercury in the dawn of AIDS and the legacy he left behind.
For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man.
Here are previously unknown and startling facts about the singer and his life, moving detail on his lifelong search for love and personal fulfilment, and of course his tragic contraction of a then killer disease in the mid-1980s.
Woven throughout Freddie's life is the shocking story of how the HIV virus came to hold the world in its grip, was cruelly labelled "The Gay Plague" and the unwitting few who indirectly infected thousands of men, women and children—Freddie Mercury himself being one of the most famous.
The death of this vibrant and spectacularly talented rock star, shook the world of medicine as well as the world of music. Somebody to Love finally puts the record straight and pays detailed tribute to the man himself.
"Touts rare—and in some cases, never before seen—images of Mercury and new insight into his life."—People
"The book could be a standalone epidemiological study about the history of HIV/AIDS even without Mercury. But eventually, it weaves him into the timeline, giving a detailed account of his personal life, and his battle with the disease that tragically took him at age 45 in 1991. The result is a powerfully emotional read."—Rolling Stone
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A strong match for readers drawn to memoirs about survival, human rights, political oppression, and resilience.
In Order to Live
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 best seller in North Korean History called “one of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring” by The Bookseller, In Order to Live recounts Yeonmi Park’s escape from North Korea, the exploitation she and her mother endured in China, and her journey to freedom in South Korea, with a 4.8-star rating from more than 30,900 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to memoirs about survival, human rights, political oppression, and resilience.
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“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park
“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom.
Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.
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From Staten Island chaos to SNL hijinks, A Very Punchable Face delivers gut-punch laughs and unexpected heart.
A Very Punchable Face
Biographies & Memoirs
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From Staten Island chaos to SNL hijinks, A Very Punchable Face delivers gut-punch laughs and unexpected heart. Colin Jost’s New York Times bestseller is packed with hilarious essays, absurd adventures, and brutal self-deprecation. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and rave reviews from Cosmopolitan and Vulture, this one’s pure comedic gold. Click now and embrace the chaos.
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Colin Jost has built a career out of getting punched—metaphorically, at least.
In A Very Punchable Face, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor takes you on a hilarious and unexpectedly heartfelt tour of his life. From growing up on Staten Island with firefighter parents to surviving Harvard, Czech teenagers, and a parasitic insect in his leg, Jost shares his greatest triumphs and most ridiculous failures with brutal honesty and biting humor.
Packed with behind-the-scenes SNL stories, bizarre life experiences (yes, potato salad attacks are involved), and surprising emotional depth, this New York Times bestseller will have you laughing, cringing, and maybe even tearing up.
And yes—after reading, you’ll still want to punch him. Maybe even more.
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The memoir that changed millions of lives.
Eat Pray Love
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The memoir that changed millions of lives. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a radiant story of one woman’s quest for meaning, spanning Italy, India, and Bali. A journey of pleasure, devotion, and balance, this beloved classic returns in a stunning 10th anniversary edition. Click now to rediscover why true happiness begins with daring to seek it.
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At thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything society told her she should want—yet she was profoundly unhappy.
In Eat Pray Love, the beloved memoir that has inspired millions, Gilbert dares to break free, leaving behind her marriage, career, and expectations to find herself across three stunning landscapes. In Italy, she savors pleasure. In India, she seeks spiritual devotion. And in Bali, she strives for balance between the two.
Poignant, funny, and profoundly transformative, Eat Pray Love is a journey of self-discovery that speaks to anyone who’s ever yearned for more from life. Now in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, this timeless memoir invites a new generation to search for joy, faith, and their own path to wholeness.
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Ever wondered what therapists talk about on the couch?
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Biographies & Memoirs
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Ever wondered what therapists talk about on the couch? In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb—bestselling author and practicing therapist—shares the hilarious, heartbreaking, and illuminating journey of both her patients and herself. A New York Times bestseller now in TV development with ABC, this unforgettable memoir is a must-read. Click now for a glimpse inside every heart.
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What happens when your therapist needs a therapist?
In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, New York Times bestselling author and psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the therapy world—with hilarious, raw, and unexpectedly moving results. As she helps her patients wrestle with heartbreak, regret, illness, and self-sabotage, Lori also finds herself on the other side of the couch, reeling from a personal crisis she never saw coming.
Through candid storytelling and sharp humor, Gottlieb reveals the universal struggles that unite us all—and the power of vulnerability, hope, and healing.
Now being developed as a TV series with Eva Longoria and ABC, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a wise, laugh-out-loud journey into the messy, beautiful process of becoming human.
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From childhood tragedy to Saturday Night Live stardom, Molly Shannon’s Hello, Molly!
Hello, Molly!
Biographies & Memoirs
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From childhood tragedy to Saturday Night Live stardom, Molly Shannon’s Hello, Molly! is a hilarious, heartbreaking memoir of resilience, comedy, and the father-daughter bond that shaped her. Packed with never-before-told Hollywood stories and behind-the-scenes chaos, this New York Times bestseller is an unforgettable ride through loss, laughter, and legendary mischief.
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Before Molly Shannon became a Saturday Night Live legend, she was a fearless little girl shaped by unimaginable loss. At just four years old, a tragic car accident took her mother, baby sister, and cousin—leaving Molly and her father to navigate grief, survival, and an unconventional childhood filled with improvisation, mischief, and resilience.
From sneaking into talent agencies as a teenager to crafting some of SNL’s most iconic characters, Hello, Molly! is both wildly hilarious and deeply moving. With never-before-told stories of Hollywood, comedy, and the father-daughter bond that shaped her, this candid memoir proves that humor and heartbreak often go hand in hand.
A New York Times bestseller, Hello, Molly! is a must-read for fans of comedy, resilience, and outrageous behind-the-scenes stories.
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An international bestseller, perfect for fans of Helen Macdonald and Cheryl Strayed.
The Wild Silence
Biographies & Memoirs
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In the luminous sequel to The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth return to life off the trail—but find that true home still lies in nature. The Wild Silence is a moving story of love, healing, and rewilding a life as much as the land. An international bestseller, perfect for fans of Helen Macdonald and Cheryl Strayed. Click now to rediscover hope.
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After 630 windswept miles along England’s coast in The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth found healing and a kind of home in the wild. But when they return to four walls, the comfort they once knew feels distant—and the weight of Moth’s terminal diagnosis lingers.
Then, an unexpected offer changes everything: the chance to rewild a neglected Cornish farmhouse. As they restore the land, they begin to rebuild themselves, discovering new hope in the rhythms of nature and the resilience of love.
The Wild Silence is a luminous, deeply moving sequel about healing, belonging, and the unbreakable bond between people and the natural world. For fans of The Salt Path and H is for Hawk, it’s a reminder that sometimes, going home means learning how to grow roots again.
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