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Named a 2025 Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year and called a memoir that “delivers suspense and action that rivals any thriller” by Kirkus Reviews, Brenda Coffee’s…
Maya Blue: A Memoir of Survival
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Named a 2025 Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year and called a memoir that “delivers suspense and action that rivals any thriller” by Kirkus Reviews, Brenda Coffee’s memoir follows her through a controlling marriage, her husband’s cocaine addiction, threats from Big Tobacco, and being forced into Guatemala’s jungle at gunpoint. Ideal for memoir readers drawn to survival, resilience, addiction, and finding one’s voice.
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For fans of Breaking Bad and Narcos, a searingly honest and unforgettable memoir that challenges women to rethink everything they know about survival, resilience, and finding their voice.
At twenty-one, Brenda Coffee surrendered herself to her marriage and became a woman who would do almost anything her charismatic and powerful older husband, Philip Ray, wanted. Regardless of whether it was dangerous, adventurous, sexual, or illegal, she wanted to be the one woman he couldn’t live without.
Brenda and Philip’s life together was a fairy tale until it wasn’t. Until Philip, the founder of two high-profile, groundbreaking public companies, began making real cocaine in their basement and became addicted. Until the Big Six tobacco companies threatened their lives for creating the first smokeless cigarette—Brenda coined the terms vape and vaping—and brutal Guatemalan military commandos forced her into the jungle at gunpoint.
A suspenseful, fast-paced memoir that reads like a thriller, Maya Blue will strike a chord with those who’ve lost their voice or had trouble finding their power. It will resonate with those who live with an addict or have grieved the loss of a spouse. But above all, it is an inspiring reminder that as long as you never surrender your voice and always keep your wits about you, you can survive almost anything.
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Best for readers who like detailed military history, command strategy, and World War II naval history.
The Admirals
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The Admirals tells the story of William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey, the four five-star admirals who led the U.S. Navy to victory in World War II. Drawing on journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, it examines their rivalries, leadership, and impact on naval warfare. Best for readers who like detailed military history, command strategy, and World War II naval history.
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Discover how history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.
In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men—who were both friends and rivals—worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II.
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Best for readers who want true crime focused on abduction cases, criminal deception, survivor testimony, and the investigation that follows.
Into the Water
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Into the Water tells the true crime story of Richard Marc Evonitz, a trusted neighbor whose public image hid a violent double life until one young victim escaped and helped expose him. Best for readers who want true crime focused on abduction cases, criminal deception, survivor testimony, and the investigation that follows.
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The true crime story of how the nice guy next door became one of America's most wanted serial killers, by the author of Written in Blood and Bitter Remains.
She was young, terrified, and still bound in handcuffs when she was found on the street screaming for help . . .
To authorities she spilled the shocking details of a night of horror. It was the lead they'd been desperate for in a multi-state manhunt for an elusive serial killer. Where the witness took them was to the last man anyone would have suspected.
Richard Marc Evonitz was beloved by friends and family. He was handsome, intelligent, and compassionate. Serving a spotless eight years in the U.S. Navy, he was a town hero who lived in harmony in an exclusive South Carolina neighborhood. The only ones who saw Evonitz's dark side were his victims. They were helpless teenage girls who, one by one, were subjected to his twisted sexual fantasies of kidnap, rape, and murder—until his double life came undone by the brave cunning of his last young victim. But as authorities and the media descended upon him, Evonitz had one more shocking surprise in store for everyone—a stunning final act of violence and reckoning that would turn a bright sunlit morning blood red.
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Best for readers who like substantial biographies, military history, political power, and European history.
Napoleon
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A New York Times bestseller and LA Times Book Prize winner called “A thrilling tale of military and political genius” by The Washington Post, Napoleon: A Life uses newly available letters to examine Napoleon as commander, ruler, husband, exile, and mythmaker, with a 4.2-star average from more than 28,800 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like substantial biographies, military history, political power, and European history.
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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America—winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller
“A thrilling tale of military and political genius… Roberts is an uncommonly gifted writer.” —The Washington Post
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.
An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.
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Best for readers seeking candid memoirs about surviving abuse, confronting trauma, pursuing justice, and institutional accountability.
Chosen
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Stephen Mills recounts being groomed and sexually abused by a trusted summer camp director at thirteen, the effects that trauma had on his adult life, and his decades-long effort to stop his abuser and hold accountable those who failed to protect children, with a 4.4-star average from more than 70 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers seeking candid memoirs about surviving abuse, confronting trauma, pursuing justice, and institutional accountability.
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir
"An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous book is to be transformed utterly by Mills's empathy, resilience, and grace. Mark my words: Chosen is destined to be a classic because this is a book that will save lives." —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker intent on becoming his friend. Stephen, whose father died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who first grooms and then molests him for two years.
Stephen tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his adult life, as intense as his denial: self-loathing, drug abuse, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting other boys. Only physical and mental collapse bring Stephen to confront the truth of his boyhood and begin the painful process of recovery—as well as a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator, find justice, and hold to account those who failed the children in their care.
The trauma of sexual abuse is shared by one out of every six men, yet very few have broken their silence. Unflinching and compulsively readable, Chosen eloquently speaks for those countless others and their families. It is a rare act of consummate courage and generosity—the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole.
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Good for readers who want narrative nonfiction about the climate crisis, firefighting, Indigenous history, and environmental change.
When It All Burns
Biographies & Memoirs
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Called “Exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, When It All Burns recounts Jordan Thomas’s six months with the Los Padres Hotshots, combining firsthand wildfire work with the history, ecology, and politics of megafires, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want narrative nonfiction about the climate crisis, firefighting, Indigenous history, and environmental change.
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2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUS
“Exceptional. . . . When It All Burns is one of those books that immerses the reader in the nuances of a world most of us know only through the lens of tragedy and destruction. Thomas’ visceral, crystalline prose only adds fuel to the fire.” —Los Angeles Times
A gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season, from a cultural anthropologist who spent a year working as a hotshot firefighter, exploring the history and future of fire in America
Eighteen of California’s largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invented the term “megafire” to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been nearly impossible just a generation ago, burning through winter, exploding in the night, and devastating landscapes historically impervious to incendiary destruction.
In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters. Being a hotshot is among the most difficult jobs on earth. Thomas viscerally renders his crew’s attempts to battle flames that are often too destructive to contain. He uncovers the hidden cultural history of megafires, revealing how humanity’s symbiotic relationship with wildfire became a war—and what can be done to change it back.
Thomas weaves ecology and the history of Indigenous peoples' oppression, federal forestry, and the growth of the fire industrial complex into a riveting narrative about a new phase in the climate crisis. It's an immersive story of community in the most perilous of circumstances, told with humor, humility, and affection.
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Best for readers who like nature writing, conservation, wildlife science, and outdoor travelogue.
Grizzly Confidential
Biographies & Memoirs
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Grizzly Confidential follows former paramedic and park ranger Kevin Grange as he travels from the Tetons to bear research centers, wildlife parks, black markets, and Alaska’s bear country to better understand grizzlies and the people working to protect them, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 250 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like nature writing, conservation, wildlife science, and outdoor travelogue.
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In Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos.
His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins; from the Bear Center at Washington State University—where scientists believe the secrets of hibernation might help treat diabetes, heart disease, and obesity in humans—to the dark underbelly of for-profit wildlife parks, illegal animal trade and black markets hawking bear bile.
Along the way, he meets fascinating biologists and activists and discovers that everything he knew about grizzlies was wrong. Ultimately, his odyssey leads him to find answers on a remote corner of the Alaskan Peninsula where, for the last fifty years, humans have coexisted peacefully alongside the largest gathering of brown bears on the planet.?? ??
Grizzly Confidential is about bears but also the inspiring people who look after them. This is a fast-paced, gripping story that educates, entertains, and gives a sneak peek into the secret life of a well-known species. Part science, part travelogue, and a passionate plea for bear conservation, Grizzly Confidential is a lively account for anyone who loves the outdoors and learning about the natural world.
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Good for readers who want true stories about refugees, survival, humanitarian crises, and resilience.
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
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Called “Urgently required reading” by People, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee who flees civil war, survives a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, and fights to keep two toddlers alive at sea, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want true stories about refugees, survival, humanitarian crises, and resilience.
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The gripping story of a young woman who fled civil war in Syria and endured a harrowing journey across the Mediterranean for a chance of a better life.
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around, nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel stays afloat on a small inflatable ring and clutches two little girls—barely toddlers—to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Italy and a new life. For days as Doaa drifts, she prays for rescue and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for them. She must not lose hope.
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea chronicles the life of Doaa, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by the onset of her country's brutal civil war. Doaa and her fiancé, Bassem, decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after setting sail on a smuggler's dilapidated fishing vessel along with five hundred other refugees, their boat is struck and begins to sink. This is the moment when Doaa's struggle for survival really begins.
This emotionally charged, eye-opening true story that represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for the promise of a safe future. In the midst of the most pressing international humanitarian crisis of our time, Melissa Fleming paints a vivid, unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.
"Urgently required reading." —People
"Deeply affecting . . . Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." —The New Yorker
"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria . . . and her book is ultimately a story of hope." —Newsweek
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A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about mental illness, identity, and the cost of keeping pain hidden.
Manic
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Terri Cheney recounts her life as a successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer while privately battling debilitating bipolar disorder, secrecy, mania, despair, and the pressure to appear normal, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about mental illness, identity, and the cost of keeping pain hidden.
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An attractive, highly successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Terri Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder for the better part of her life—and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescription drugs meant to stabilize her moods and make her "normal." In explosive bursts of prose that mirror the devastating mania and extreme despair of her illness, Cheney describes her roller-coaster existence with shocking honesty, giving brilliant voice to the previously unarticulated madness she endured. Brave, electrifying, poignant, and disturbing, Manic does not simply explain bipolar disorder—it takes us into its grasp and does not let go.
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Best for readers who like true stories about horses, grit, cross-country journeys, and midcentury America.
The Ride of Her Life
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A national bestseller called “heartwarming [and] engaging” by Kirkus Reviews, The Ride of Her Life follows Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer who set out on horseback in 1954 to see the Pacific Ocean, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 9,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like true stories about horses, grit, cross-country journeys, and midcentury America.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a “heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography” (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by riding her horse across America.
“[Letts] vividly portrays an audacious woman whose optimism, courage, and good humor are to be marveled at and admired.”—Booklist, starred review
In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.
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A good pick for readers who like candid memoirs about midlife reinvention, grief, humor, travel, and starting over.
Blue Yarn
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A #1 bestseller in African Travel, Blue Yarn follows Carrie Classon after she loses her marriage, career, and home while working in Lagos, Nigeria, then stays in Africa with her deaf cat as she pieces together an unexpected new life. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like candid memoirs about midlife reinvention, grief, humor, travel, and starting over.
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In the space of a few days, Carrie loses her marriage, her career, and her home—all while working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is blindsided by the losses and realizes the story she painstakingly knit together over the past two decades—the story explaining her life and who she is—has unraveled.
With no plan for the future and only her deaf cat, Lucy, for company, Carrie decides to remain in Africa until she figures out what has just happened.
What happens next is an awkward, amusing, and ultimately inspiring journey as Carrie slowly lets go of who she thought she was and starts from scratch at middle-age: making unlikely friends, acquiring dump trucks, tumbling into an improbable love affair, and eventually learning to listen to the elusive and sometimes annoying voice helping her discover who she is, find the neglected artist inside, and piece together her unexpected new life.
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A strong match for readers drawn to sports memoirs about survival, ambition, family influence, and the realities behind a public career.
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised
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A New York Times bestselling memoir, Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised follows Carmelo Anthony’s childhood in the housing projects of Red Hook and West Baltimore, his early life shaped by violence, poverty, family, loss, mentors, and basketball, and his path toward the 2003 NBA Draft, with a 4.8-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to sports memoirs about survival, ambition, family influence, and the realities behind a public career.
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From iconic NBA All-Star and Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore—a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.
For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family’s first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He couldn’t dream any bigger than emulating his older brothers and cousin, much less going on to become a basketball champion on the world stage.
He faced palpable dangers growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and West Baltimore’s Murphy Homes (a.k.a. Murder Homes, subject of HBO’s The Wire). He navigated an education system that ignored, exploited, or ostracized him. He suffered the untimely deaths of his closely held loved ones. He struggled to survive physically and emotionally. But with the strength of family and the guidance of key mentors on the streets and on the court, he pushed past lethal odds to endure and thrive.
By the time Carmelo found himself at the NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden in 2003 preparing to embark on his legendary career, he wondered: How did a kid who’d had so many hopes, dreams, and expectations beaten out of him by a world of violence, poverty, and racism make it here at all?
Carmelo’s story is one of strength and determination; of dribbling past players bigger and tougher than him, while also weaving around vial caps and needles strewn across the court; where dealers and junkies lined one side of the asphalt and kids playing jacks and Double Dutch lined the other; where rims had no nets, and you better not call a foul—a place Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.
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