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Good for readers who like celebrity memoirs focused on acting careers, TV history, and behind-the-scenes stories.
You Never Know
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An instant New York Times bestseller, You Never Know is Tom Selleck’s memoir about his accidental Hollywood career, from early auditions and Magnum P.I. to westerns, friendships, missteps, and long-term success, with a 3.9-star average from more than 9,500 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who like celebrity memoirs focused on acting careers, TV history, and behind-the-scenes stories.
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There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.
Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate Hollywood memoir from one of the most beloved actors of our time, the highly personal story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career. In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, the famed actor brings readers on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told, behind-the-scenes stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Hollywood (from the Dating Game to the Fox New Talent Program to co-starring with Mae West and escorting her to black-tie social functions). What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come, an actor whose authenticity and ease in front of the camera connected with audiences worldwide while embodying and also redefining the clichés of onscreen manhood.
In You Never Know, Selleck recounts his personal friendships with a vivid army of A-listers, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott, paying special tribute to his mentor James Garner of The Rockford Files, who believed, like Selleck, that TV protagonists are far more interesting when they have rough edges.He also more than tips his hat to the American western and the scruffy band of actors, directors and other ruffians who helped define that classic TV genre, where Selleck has repeatedly found a happy home. Magnum fans will be fascinated to learn how Selleck put his career on the line to make Thomas Magnum a more imperfect hero and explains why he walked away from a show that could easily have gone on for years longer.
Hollywood is never easy, even for stars who make it look that way. In this must-read memoir, Selleck explains how he’s struggled to balance his personal and professional lives, frequently adjusting his career to protect his family’s privacy and normalcy. His journey offers a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Beneath all the charm and talent and self-deprecating humor, Selleck’s memoir reveals an American icon who has reached remarkable heights by always insisting on being himself.
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From protest armbands to Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards has always made noise—and made change.
Make Trouble
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From protest armbands to Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards has always made noise—and made change. Make Trouble is her fierce, funny memoir of activism, motherhood, and resisting with style. Called “truly inspiring” by Redbook and “powerful” by Gloria Steinem, this 4.6-star bestseller belongs on every feminist’s shelf. Click now to meet the most badass troublemaker in politics.
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Cecile Richards has never been one to sit quietly—and thank the stars for that.
In Make Trouble, the former Planned Parenthood president and daughter of political powerhouse Ann Richards shares her riveting journey from seventh-grade rabble-rouser to “badass feminist” (Teen Vogue) leading the resistance. Raised in conservative Texas by activist parents, Cecile learned early that raising your voice is never optional—it’s essential.
Whether organizing laborers, battling misogyny, or navigating motherhood and public life, Richards pulls no punches. Her memoir is part political history, part personal reckoning, and all rallying cry.
With stories that are honest, funny, and unapologetically bold, Make Trouble urges us to take risks, raise hell, and never wait for permission to lead.
Because change doesn’t come quietly—it comes with trouble.
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Good for readers who want memoirs about trauma recovery, mental health, immigrant family history, and researched personal narrative.
What My Bones Know
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A New York Times bestseller called “Achingly exquisite” by Lori Gottlieb, What My Bones Know follows journalist Stephanie Foo as she investigates complex PTSD, family trauma, and the science of healing, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 6,500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want memoirs about trauma recovery, mental health, immigrant family history, and researched personal narrative.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.
In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it.
Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
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Co-written with Jenny Koenig, this memoir offers honest reflection and hope for anyone facing illness, motherhood, or an unexpected life detour.
Still Positive
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In Still Positive, Julie Lewis shares her life after an HIV diagnosis that reshaped her family, faith, and future. Navigating early treatments, secrecy, and stigma, she transforms fear into advocacy and compassion. Co-written with Jenny Koenig, this memoir offers honest reflection and hope for anyone facing illness, motherhood, or an unexpected life detour.
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One Woman's Journey of Advocacy, Faith, and Positivity " You only have three to five years to live." On the day she was diagnosed with HIV and thrust from the confines of her suburban mom bubble into the scary and unpredictable world of AIDS, Julie promptly found herself fighting for her life and rights amidst a disease she never imagined would hijack her future. With three young children, her family began making every effort to create lasting memories while simultaneously managing the debilitating side effects of early meds. They hid her illness for four years, fearing her children would suffer stigma and discrimination often experienced in the early days of the disease. Her diagnosis began a path of advocacy, faith, and positivity despite her life' s detour. Now, Julie advocates for better healthcare outcomes for women through the personal stories and reflections from her life. Her health journey creates space for those walking through their own family or medical crises to be seen and supported.
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A WWII hero silenced in childhood used his forbidden language to help win the war.
Code Talker
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A WWII hero silenced in childhood used his forbidden language to help win the war. Code Talker is the powerful memoir of Chester Nez, one of the original Navajo code talkers. A New York Times bestseller with 4.8 stars on Amazon, it’s an unforgettable story of resilience, culture, and courage. Click to read this extraordinary firsthand account of history.
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Before he was a hero, the U.S. government tried to erase his identity. They failed.
Chester Nez wasn’t even allowed to speak his native Navajo as a child—beaten for it in boarding school. But when World War II broke out, that same language became the linchpin in the United States’ most unbreakable code.
Raised on a New Mexico reservation, Chester answered the call to serve after Pearl Harbor. As one of the original Navajo code talkers, he helped create a battlefield language the Japanese couldn’t decipher—and changed the course of history in the Pacific.
Code Talker is his firsthand account of resilience, cultural pride, and quiet heroism in the face of discrimination and war.
This isn’t just history—it’s living legacy.
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Best for readers drawn to candid memoirs about childhood, institutional cruelty, survival, and reckoning with the past.
A Very Private School
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International bestseller called “A tour de force” by The Washington Post, A Very Private School recounts Charles Spencer’s boarding school trauma and its lasting impact, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers drawn to candid memoirs about childhood, institutional cruelty, survival, and reckoning with the past.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2024 | PEOPLE’SBEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS 2024 |TOWN & COUNTRY’SBEST NEW ROYAL BOOKS 2024 |THE TIMES (LONDON) 10 BEST BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS 2024 |WINNIPEG FREE PRESS’SBEST BOOKS 2024
NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD
“A tour de force.” —The Washington Post
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer—the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Princess Diana—recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir’s publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.
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Darkly hilarious and heartbreakingly real, With or Without You is Domenica Ruta’s unforgettable memoir of love, addiction, and escape.
With or Without You
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Darkly hilarious and heartbreakingly real, With or Without You is Domenica Ruta’s unforgettable memoir of love, addiction, and escape. A New York Times bestseller named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (4.2 stars on Amazon), it’s The Glass Castle with more grit—and more swear words. Click to read the debut that lit the literary world on fire.
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What do you do when your mom is your chaos and your compass? With or Without You is Domenica Ruta’s raw, wickedly funny memoir of growing up with a mother who taught her Scorsese before subtraction—and somehow, the importance of storytelling along the way.
Raised in a drug-fueled, debris-filled house north of Boston, Domenica navigated the blurred lines between love and manipulation, brilliance and dysfunction. Kathi, her unpredictable mother, could quote Sartre between drug deals and insisted The Godfather was a better teacher than school.
But this isn't just a tale of dysfunction—it’s about clawing your way out. Ruta doesn’t flinch from the darkness, including her own addictions, but she finds light in the rubble.
A memoir for fans of The Glass Castle, but with more F-bombs and fewer filters.
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When Simone Gorrindo’s husband joins an elite Army unit, she’s uprooted from New York City to a world where she knows no one.
The Wives
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When Simone Gorrindo’s husband joins an elite Army unit, she’s uprooted from New York City to a world where she knows no one. Left to navigate military life alone, she finds an unexpected sisterhood among the wives. A beautifully intimate memoir about love, friendship, and resilience, The Wives is a powerful story of belonging in an unfamiliar world.
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A new marriage. A new world. And a sisterhood that changes everything.
When Simone Gorrindo’s husband joins an elite Army unit, she trades her fast-paced New York City life for the unfamiliar rhythms of Columbus, Georgia. Alone in a place where she knows no one, with her husband frequently deployed, she must find a way to belong.
Then she meets the wives—a remarkable group of women bound together by love, sacrifice, and resilience. As friendships form and truths unfold, Simone gains a profound understanding of marriage, community, and the unseen strength of military spouses.
A deeply moving memoir, The Wives is an unforgettable story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection—offering a rare, hopeful glimpse into a world few outsiders ever see.
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Belonging becomes unbearable when doubt outgrows devotion.
The Book of Separation
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Belonging becomes unbearable when doubt outgrows devotion. In The Book of Separation, Tova Mirvis recounts leaving her Orthodox Jewish faith and her marriage after decades shaped by rules, ritual, and communal expectation. As she steps into an unfamiliar world, she confronts loss, fear, and freedom in equal measure. The memoir offers an intimate examination of identity, belief, and the courage required to choose oneself.
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The memoir of a woman leaving behind her faith and her marriage to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a world unknown to her.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Best Book Pick by O, The Oprah Magazine; Jewish Week; Real Simple
"An intimate tale of departure . . . [Mirvis] movingly conveys the heartache that accompanies the abandonment of one way of life in search of another." —New York Times Book Review
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family.
But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Mirvis decides to leave her marriage and her religious world and forge a new way of life. In order to do so, she must learn to silence her fears and the voices telling her who she is supposed to be.
Brave and inspiring, The Book of Separation illuminates universal themes of faith, doubt, love, and change, and explores what it means to heed your inner compass at long last.
"Capable of both wry humor and darkly apt turns of phrase, Mirvis is a gifted writer reflecting on her identity: first through the prism of organized religion, then through a self-charted life." —Chicago Tribune
"The author's sensitive thematic treatment of belonging and individuality and her candor about the terror she experienced leaving the only community she had ever known makes for moving, inspiring reading. A thoughtful, courageous memoir of family, religion, and self-discovery." —Kirkus Reviews
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Best for readers who like memoirs about extreme jobs, wildfire response, and high-risk public service.
Smokejumper
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Smokejumper offers a rare firsthand look at the airborne firefighters who parachute into remote wildfires across the United States. Jason A. Ramos explores the danger, skill, history, and growing urgency of smokejumping, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 880 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like memoirs about extreme jobs, wildfire response, and high-risk public service.
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.
Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year — record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select group of men and women are part of America's front-line defense: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program operates through both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they are tremendously skilled and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted into the training program, being a smokejumper remains an art that can only be learned on the job. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading almost instantaneously, shooting downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even flowing like a liquid. In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes readers into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before.
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On 9/11, Marian Fontana became a widow, a single mother—and the unlikeliest of activists.
A Widow’s Walk
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On 9/11, Marian Fontana became a widow, a single mother—and the unlikeliest of activists. A Widow’s Walk is a deeply personal, darkly funny, and heartbreakingly honest memoir of love, loss, and finding purpose in the aftermath of tragedy. A People Top 10 Book of the Year and a must-read reflection on grief, resilience, and unexpected strength.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Marian Fontana was sipping coffee, waiting for her husband to meet her on their eighth wedding anniversary. Minutes later, the sky blackened—and her world shattered. Her husband, a firefighter with Brooklyn’s elite Squad 1, was one of the twelve men lost that day.
A Widow’s Walk begins in that moment and follows Marian’s first year of grief, motherhood, and unexpected activism. From organizing to save her husband’s firehouse to founding a support network for 9/11 families, Marian’s journey is one of heartbreak, strength, and quiet heroism.
With sharp wit and raw honesty, this memoir offers an intimate look at life after unimaginable loss—and the resilience it takes to keep walking forward when the world falls apart.
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Best for readers who enjoy celebrity memoirs filled with classic-Hollywood anecdotes, family stories, and behind-the-scenes film history.
Unsinkable
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Called “Nothing could sink this lady.” by the New York Post, Debbie Reynolds looks back on Hollywood’s Golden Age, her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, her marriages and family life, and her work as a collector of Hollywood memorabilia, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who enjoy celebrity memoirs filled with classic-Hollywood anecdotes, family stories, and behind-the-scenes film history.
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"Anyone who loves Hollywood and movies is bound to enjoy this lively, funny book, filled with candid recollections . . . I love her clear-eyed memories." —Leonard Maltin, author/film critic
Foreword by Carrie Fisher
In Unsinkable, the late great actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, anecdotes about her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, her experiences as the foremost collector of Hollywood memorabilia, and intimate details of her marriages and family life with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher.
A story of heartbreak, hope, and survival, Unsinkable picks up where "America's Sweetheart" left off in her first memoir, Debbie: My Life, and is illustrated with previously unpublished photos from Reynolds's personal collection.
Debbie Reynolds died on December 28, 2016, at the age of eighty-four, just one day after the death of her daughter, actress and author Carrie Fisher.
"[Reynolds is] indisputably a grand dame of show business." —NPR
"Lively." —People
"Debbie Reynolds knows exactly how to steal the scene, wring tears, and most important, how to leave the audience feeling thoroughly entertained." —New York Journal of Books
"Nothing could sink this lady." —New York Post
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