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For readers who like memoirs about motherhood, caregiving, family stories, memory, and identity.
What We Carry
Biographies & Memoirs
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“A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of love,” What We Carry follows Maya Shanbhag Lang as her physician mother’s Alzheimer’s reveals hidden truths about their Indian immigrant family and forces Maya to reconsider their shared past, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like memoirs about motherhood, caregiving, family stories, memory, and identity.
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“A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken.”—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk
If our family stories shape us, what happens when we learn those stories were never true? Who do we become when we shed our illusions about the past?
Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya’s mother had always been a source of support—until Maya became a mother herself. Then the parent who had once been so capable and attentive became suddenly and inexplicably unavailable. Struggling to understand this abrupt change while raising her own young child, Maya searches for answers and soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer’s.
Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter—stories about her life in India, why she immigrated, and her experience of motherhood—Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to reexamine their relationship. It becomes clear that Maya never really knew her mother, despite their close bond. Absorbing, moving, and raw, What We Carry is a memoir about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us. It is a beautiful examination of the weight we shoulder as women and an exploration of how to finally set our burdens down.
Praise for What We Carry
"Part self-discovery, part family history. . . [Lang's] analysis of the shifting roles of mothers and daughters, particularly through the lens of immigration, help[s] to challenge her family’s mythology. . . . Readers interested in examining their own family stories . . . will connect deeply with Lang’s beautiful memoir."—Library Journal (Starred Review)
“A stirring memoir exploring the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters . . . astutely written and intense . . . [What We Carry] will strike a chord with readers.”—Publishers Weekly
“Lang is an immediately affable and honest narrator who offers an intriguing blend of revelatory personal history and touching insight.”—BookPage
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A strong match for readers drawn to addiction memoirs with legal consequences, recovery, stigma, and blunt honesty.
High Achiever
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Called “Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange Is the New Black.” and a national bestseller, Tiffany Jenkins chronicles her journey from opioid addiction and twenty felonies to recovery, including 120 days in jail where officers despised her for betraying their fellow deputy sheriff, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 26,300 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to addiction memoirs with legal consequences, recovery, stigma, and blunt honesty.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis.
Tiffany’s story continues in the New York Times bestseller A Clean Mess, available now!
“Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange Is the New Black.”—Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie
When word got out that Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the twenty felonies she’d committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she’d been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff, and his friends—their friends—were the ones who’d arrested her.
A raw and twisty page-turning memoir that reads like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she’d done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. But the true surprise is her path to recovery. Tiffany breaks through the stigma and silence to offer hope and inspiration to anyone battling the disease—whether it’s a loved one or themselves.
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A spring break disappearance at the Mexican border exposes a murder investigation shaped by drugs, fear, and ritualized violence.
Cauldron of Blood
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A spring break disappearance at the Mexican border exposes a murder investigation shaped by drugs, fear, and ritualized violence. In Cauldron of Blood, Jim Schutze examines the Matamoros cult killings through the search for Mark Kilroy and the discovery of a mass grave, tracing how power, belief, and criminal brutality converged in one of modern true crime’s most disturbing cases.
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"Death, drugs and the occult meet in grisly inquiry at the Mexican border" in this true crime account of a mass murder by a serial killing cult leader (The New York Times).
When Mark Kilroy vanished while on spring break in Matamoros, Mexico, the search for the missing pre-med student led to a gruesome discovery on a lonely stretch of land called Rancho Santa Elena: a mass grave containing Mark's mutilated corpse along with the remains of thirteen other people. The investigation uncovered how the victims were brutally killed at the hands of drug trafficker and cult leader Adolpho Constanzo, known by his followers as El Padrino, or The Godfather. Constanzo was a serial killer who, along with his followers, tortured and cannibalized innocent people in the barbaric religious ritual of human sacrifice.
Written by critically acclaimed journalist Jim Schutze, Cauldron of Blood is a must-read for true-crime fans.
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An online feud turns deadly when a fabricated identity pushes fear, jealousy, and manipulation into the real world.
Too Pretty to Live
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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An online feud turns deadly when a fabricated identity pushes fear, jealousy, and manipulation into the real world. In Too Pretty to Live, prosecutor Dennis Brooks examines the East Tennessee catfishing case from the inside, tracing how false messages, forensic linguistics, and digital deception exposed a double murder shaped by revenge and the chilling distance of life behind a screen.
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Murder begins with the click of a button in this true crime story of Facebook, catfishing and deadly jealousy—as seen on Investigation Discovery.
Chris was a CIA agent worried for the safety of Jenelle Potter. Contacting her parents and boyfriend, Chris warned them that Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth were bullying Jenelle online and posed an imminent, physical threat. Something needed to be done, Chris said. And he'd have their backs if they took action to protect Jenelle. And so they did.
Jenelle's father and boyfriend murdered Payne and Hayworth in their own home—mercifully leaving the couple's infant unharmed. But when they told their story to the police, they discovered a devastating truth: there was no Chris. It had been Jenelle the entire time, catfishing them to exact revenge over a Facebook feud.
Using forensic linguistics and diving through the brambles that Jenelle laid to cover her tracks, police were able to put together a chilling portrait of a sociopath who set a double murder in motion from the shadows of the internet. Dennis Brooks, the lead prosecutor in this strange and tragic case, examines the crime and trial from all angles in Too Pretty to Live.
What the police investigation turned up, though, made this crime all the more terrifying. Jenelle had been Chris the entire time, catfishing her family and her boyfriend to act in vengeance on her behalf. Using forensic linguistics and diving through the brambles that Jenelle laid to cover her tracks, police were able to put together a chilling portrait of a sociopath, made all the more ruthless by the anonymity of her online life.
Bizarre and unforgettable, Dennis Brooks examines the crime and trial from all angles, bringing his expertise as the lead prosecutor in the strange and disturbing case.
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A notorious murder trial becomes a mirror for a nation eager to decide what kind of woman could be guilty of violence.
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A notorious murder trial becomes a mirror for a nation eager to decide what kind of woman could be guilty of violence. In The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Cara Robertson revisits the 1892 Fall River murders through court transcripts, newspaper coverage, letters, and legal records, making this true crime account a layered study of evidence, public judgment, gender, class, and American mythmaking.
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WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling” book, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime narrative of the Lizzie Borden murder trial and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most notorious and enduring murder mysteries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her murder trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone—rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars, and laypeople—had an opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn’t she?
An essential piece of American mythology, the popular fascination with the Borden murders has endured for more than one hundred years. Told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror. In contrast, “Cara Robertson presents the story with the thoroughness one expects from an attorney…Fans of crime novels will love it” (Kirkus Reviews). Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden is “a fast-paced, page-turning read” (Booklist, starred review) that offers a window into Gilded Age America. This “remarkable” (Bustle) book “should be at the top of your reading list” (PopSugar).
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The Way Out examines a brief backcountry ski trip that became a thirty-hour ordeal in the Colorado mountains, leaving tragedy and impossible questions behind.
The Way Out
Biographies & Memoirs
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The Way Out examines a brief backcountry ski trip that became a thirty-hour ordeal in the Colorado mountains, leaving tragedy and impossible questions behind. Devon O’Neil reconstructs the 2017 blizzard, the search, and the aftermath through the people closest to the event. This is true survival writing shaped by wilderness danger, trauma, community grief, and the difficult work of living after catastrophe.
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“On par with Into the Wild... Fast-paced, yet thoughtful and empathetic, all the way to its devastating conclusion, this psychological thriller will haunt me whenever I step off the pavement into the woods. I couldn’t stop reading it, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” — Bill Gifford, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Outlive
A harrowing, never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains—thirty hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure.
“You wanna ski a lap?”
Fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler couldn't resist. This was why they’d come to the backcountry, after all—three fathers and four teenage children together for a bonding alpine getaway outside Salida, Colorado, in January 2017.
Within minutes, Cole and Brett Beasley, a longtime Forest Service ranger and expert outdoorsman in his mid-forties, had pushed off from their cabin, expecting to be gone for a half hour or so. But an unforgiving blizzard transformed their quick jaunt into a thirty-hour ordeal that would end in tragedy, as the community raced to find them.
The Way Out is the story of those ensuing hours and their aftermath—an almost unbelievable event that shook a tight-knit mountain community and raised difficult questions about life and death, guilt and redemption, and the pursuit of adventure. Why, when we know that the wilderness can kill, can’t we stay away? When the unthinkable happens, how does a community forgive the survivors? And how do the survivors forgive themselves?
Drawing on firsthand interviews with those closest to the tragedy, including the key eyewitness, and written with the gripping intensity of classics such as Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, O’Neil recreates that fateful day. The Way Out is a thoughtful investigation of the allure of the mountains and the aftermath of trauma, and an unforgettable look at life at its very edge.
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Inside a Milwaukee interrogation room, a detective listens as one of America’s most notorious killers begins to describe the crimes hidden behind an ordinary apartment door.
Grilling Dahmer
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Inside a Milwaukee interrogation room, a detective listens as one of America’s most notorious killers begins to describe the crimes hidden behind an ordinary apartment door. Detective Patrick Kennedy recounts the weeks he spent questioning Jeffrey Dahmer, balancing procedure, patience, and horror as the truth emerged. Grilling Dahmer is true crime focused on investigation, confession, and the psychological weight of confronting extreme violence.
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The Milwaukee detective who interrogated the notorious serial killer shares a vivid chronicle of what was revealed during the weeks-long encounter.
In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer.
As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There the thirty-one-year-old killer described in lurid detail how he lured several young men to his apartment where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims.
In Grilling Dahmer,Kennedy takes readers inside the mind of evil as he patiently, meticulously, listens to unspeakable horrors.
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Self-destruction, recovery, and reinvention collide in a memoir that treats shame with blunt honesty and sharp comic timing.
Idiot
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Self-destruction, recovery, and reinvention collide in a memoir that treats shame with blunt honesty and sharp comic timing. Laura Clery traces her path from addiction, toxic relationships, fear, and instability to a life rebuilt through sobriety, marriage, work, and self-awareness. Idiot fits readers looking for a candid celebrity memoir with messy humor, emotional candor, and a recovery story that refuses to sound polished.
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From nationally bestselling author, YouTube star, and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays that paint “an honest, complicated portrait of how your life can change” (SheKnows).
Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills!
Now, in her first-ever book, Laura recounts how she went from being a dangerously impulsive, broke, unemployable, suicidal, cocaine-addicted narcissist, crippled by fear and hopping from one toxic romance to the next…to a more-happy-than-not, somewhat rational, meditating, vegan yogi with good credit, a great marriage, a fantastic career, and four unfortunate-looking rescue animals. Still, above all, Laura remains an amazingly talented, adorable, and vulnerable, self-described…Idiot.
With her signature brand of offbeat, no-holds-barred humor, Idiot introduces you to a wildly original—and undeniably relatable—new voice.
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Good for readers who want memoirs about grief, resilience, humor, family, and starting over.
Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
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Amy Dickinson, the advice columnist behind “Ask Amy,” reflects on family, second chances, love in middle age, stepparenting, disordered eating, spiritual awakening, and the final days she shared with her mother in a memoir told through linked essays, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want memoirs about grief, resilience, humor, family, and starting over.
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In Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.
By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motivation that has fueled her calling. Through a series of linked essays, this moving narrative picks up where her earlier memoir left off.
Exploring central themes of romance, death, parenting, self-care, and spiritual awakening, this touching and heartfelt homage speaks to all who have faced challenges in the wake of life's twists and turns. From finding love in middle-age to her storied experience with stepparenting to overcoming disordered eating to her final moments spent with her late mother, Dickinson's trademark humorous tone delivers punch and wit that will empower, entertain, and heal.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir follows her from a strict childhood through civil war, forced marriage, asylum, political life, and public threat, making this a powerful fit for readers…
Infidel
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Infidel traces a life shaped by obedience, violence, exile, and the dangerous cost of refusing to stay silent. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir follows her from a strict childhood through civil war, forced marriage, asylum, political life, and public threat, making this a powerful fit for readers drawn to memoirs about survival, conviction, women’s rights, and personal transformation.
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In this political memoir, one of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament.
Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced.
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering women’s rights advocate. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.
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Unorthodox traces a young woman’s struggle to imagine freedom inside a world designed to control her choices, body, and future.
Unorthodox
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Unorthodox traces a young woman’s struggle to imagine freedom inside a world designed to control her choices, body, and future. Deborah Feldman recounts her upbringing in the Satmar Hasidic community, her early marriage, and the private reading life that helped her see another path. This is memoir shaped by identity, constraint, and the cost of self-determination.
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Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.
Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down.
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Grief can turn memory into a haunting, especially when family history already carries its own ghosts.
Seeing Ghosts
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Grief can turn memory into a haunting, especially when family history already carries its own ghosts. In Seeing Ghosts, Kat Chow traces her mother’s death, her family’s migration from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America, and the uneasy work of preserving what loss threatens to erase, creating a memoir about inheritance, mourning, and identity.
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This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander.
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her.
After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family’s story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss.
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