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Love, grief, and family memory intertwine in Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, where a granddaughter rebuilds her family’s history through the unmistakable voice of the grandmother…
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
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Love, grief, and family memory intertwine in Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, where a granddaughter rebuilds her family’s history through the unmistakable voice of the grandmother she lost. Bess Kalb draws on saved voicemails and family lore to trace four generations of resilient women, revealing devotion, secrets, and survival across time. This memoir feels intimate, funny, and deeply tender without losing its emotional weight.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of Buffalo Fluffalo comes a heartwarming memoir that creatively reconstructs the author's late grandmother's voice to tell the story of four generations of strong women in their family.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED
“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi Picoult
Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.
Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. But it was Bobby and Bess who always had the most powerful bond: Bobby her granddaughter’s fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me marks the creation of a totally new, virtuosic form of memoir: a reconstruction of a beloved grandmother’s words and wisdom to tell her family’s story with equal parts poignancy and hilarity.
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The mountain is brutal enough without having to fight the world’s expectations on the way up.
Thirty Below
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The mountain is brutal enough without having to fight the world’s expectations on the way up. In Thirty Below, a team of women sets out to become the first all-female ascent of Denali, pushing through deadly conditions, public doubt, and the physical limits of survival itself. This narrative nonfiction account blends adventure, endurance, and the pressure of proving what should never have needed proof.
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Winner of the Banff Mountain Grand Prize and Banff Award in Mountain Literature.
Celebrated in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, TIME, Men's Journal, Outside, The Guardian, and named one of the most noteworthy books of the month by The Washington Post.
"An entrancing tale of a harrowing adventure." -- Kirkus Reviews STARRED review.
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell a propulsive, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten group of climbers who had the audacity to believe that women could walk alone in extraordinary and treacherous heights.
Grace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers' imaginations, and Grace, a doctor in Alaska, had come close to the top, only to be turned back by altitude sickness and a storm that took the lives of seven fellow climbers in one merciless blow.
Other expeditions denied her a place because of her gender, and when a letter arrived from a climber in California named Arlene Blum, who'd also been barred from expeditions, unless she stayed in base camp and cooked for the men, Grace got a defiant idea: she would organize and lead the first-ever all-female ascent of the frozen Alaskan peak.
Everyone told the "Denali Damsels," as the team called themselves, that it couldn't be done: Women were incapable of climbing mountains on their own. Men had walked on the moon; women still had not stood on the highest points on Earth. But these six women were unwilling to be limited by sexists and misogynists. They pushed past barriers in society at large, the climbing world, and their own bodies.
And then, when disaster struck at the worst time on their expedition, they could either keep their wits and prove their mettle, or die and confirm the worst opinions of men.
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Boleyn Traitor drops readers into the Tudor court at its most dangerous, where survival depends on knowing when to speak, when to watch, and when to betray.
Boleyn Traitor
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Boleyn Traitor drops readers into the Tudor court at its most dangerous, where survival depends on knowing when to speak, when to watch, and when to betray. Through Jane Boleyn, Philippa Gregory turns court politics into something sharp, intimate, and deeply unsettling, with ambition and fear pressing in from every side. This is historical fiction built on power plays, family loyalties, whispered secrets, and the constant threat of losing everything with one wrong move.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA Today) Philippa Gregory returns with a dazzling historical novel of ambition, betrayal, and survival in the court of Henry VIII.
“Gregory skillfully captures the lust for power and wealth that overcomes those who serve a mentally unstable ruler.”--Library Journal
“Richly atmospheric, Gregory’s novel delivers a riveting portrait of Jane and drama of the cunning stakes involved in trying to survive Henry’s reign.”--Booklist
Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where secrets are currency, every choice is dangerous, and even the faintest whisper can seal the fate of queens.
For Jane, survival demands playing every role required of her: a loving wife who conceals her doubts, a devoted sister to Anne Boleyn at the height of her power, and an obedient spy who carefully wields her words. But in a court ruled by ambition and a tyrant’s sword, Jane must rely on her sharp wit and skillful maneuvering to outthink those around her, knowing that one wrong move could cost her everything.
Philippa Gregory masterfully shines a spotlight on the untold story of Jane Boleyn, peeling back the myths to reveal a complex portrait of a woman who dared to survive at any cost. Perfect for fans of thrilling historical drama and readers captivated by the intrigue of the Tudor period, Boleyn Traitor is a must-read.
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Charles Handy looks back from ninety with the kind of perspective most of us are still fumbling toward, offering thoughtful reflections on purpose, grief, acceptance, and what actually…
The View from Ninety
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Charles Handy looks back from ninety with the kind of perspective most of us are still fumbling toward, offering thoughtful reflections on purpose, grief, acceptance, and what actually deserves our attention. The View from Ninety is less about grand life hacks and more about the quieter work of building a meaningful, contented life, drawing on decades of experience with warmth, wisdom, and a welcome lack of nonsense.
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FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE EMPTY RAINCOAT AND UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS.
A Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025
Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or his immense zest for life.
In this, his final book, written from the vantage point of a contemplative old age and drawing on his articles for The Idler he shares his thoughts on the big questions with which we all grapple:
What things really matter?
What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant?
How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us?
How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? How do we cope with grief and loss?
Drawing in part on his own experience, in part on the wisdom of others, he sets out the principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life, and gently points the way to the practicalities of achieving it.
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Cleopatra gets the full epic treatment here, told in her own voice with all the ambition, intelligence, and danger you would want from a woman history refuses to…
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Cleopatra gets the full epic treatment here, told in her own voice with all the ambition, intelligence, and danger you would want from a woman history refuses to stop talking about. The Memoirs of Cleopatra follows her rise as queen, her entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, and the political and personal calculations that shape her fate. It is lush historical fiction built on power, seduction, betrayal, and a woman determined to control her story to the very end.
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Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series.
Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayal in the ancient Egyptian world, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, and does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death rather than be paraded in triumph through the streets of Rome.
Most of all, in its richness and authenticity, it is an irresistible story that reveals why Margaret George's work has been widely acclaimed as "the best kind of historical novel, one the reader can't wait to get lost in." (San Francisco Chronicle).
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A strong pick for readers who want a thoughtful memoir that is moving, funny, and deeply human.
No Time Like the Future
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Michael J. Fox reflects on illness, aging, family, and what it means to keep choosing hope when life gets sharper around the edges. No Time Like the Future blends memoir, humor, and hard-earned honesty as Fox revisits his trademark optimism in the face of Parkinson’s, recovery, and mortality itself. A strong pick for readers who want a thoughtful memoir that is moving, funny, and deeply human.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges.
In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses.
Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.”
Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.
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It fits readers who want emotionally intense memoirs about trauma, resilience, and the long path toward transformation.
How Now, Butterfly?
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An unimaginable crime reshapes every part of one mother’s life in How Now, Butterfly?, a memoir that confronts grief, love, and survival in the aftermath of devastating violence. Charity Lee writes from the impossible space between mourning her daughter and reckoning with the fact that her son was responsible, while still fighting to make sense of what remains. It fits readers who want emotionally intense memoirs about trauma, resilience, and the long path toward transformation.
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A mother recounts her unthinkable experience after her thirteen-year-old son murders his little sister—and her struggle to emerge from devastation.
Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine—but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her thirteen-year-old son, Paris, murdered her beloved four-year-old daughter, Ella.
Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she could have missed the signs that Paris was a true psychopath.
While barely holding herself together throughout her intense grief, Charity is still a mother and feels a need to advocate for her son to receive appropriate treatment while incarcerated, while at the same time trying to ensure he stays in prison so he can never hurt someone again. Charity still loves her son and craves a connection with him despite all he has done. Because of her experiences, she rebuilds her life and starts a non-profit to help other families of victims, as well as offenders.
This book is a meditation on grief, loss, and forgiveness unlike any other. It's also an inspirational story of a true survivor. How Now, Butterfly? is a haunting memoir that no reader will soon forget.
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Small Memories is less a straight-line memoir and more a quiet mosaic of the moments that shape a life.
Small Memories
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Small Memories is less a straight-line memoir and more a quiet mosaic of the moments that shape a life. Through scenes from Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside, José Saramago looks back on childhood poverty, family grief, hard-won tenderness, and the early sparks of curiosity that helped form one of literature’s most celebrated minds. Reflective, intimate, and full of vivid detail, this memoir finds meaning in the ordinary and turns memory into something quietly luminous.
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The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness recalls the days of his youth in Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside in this charming memoir.
José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young José. Small Memories traces the formation of a man who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world's most respected writers.
Shifting between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this mosaic of memories looks back into the author's boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family's blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago's early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read to poring over a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.
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This fits true crime readers who want something psychological, unsettling, and obsessed with the slippery line between fact and fiction.
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
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A disgraced journalist. A family annihilator using his name. A relationship built on lies from the very first conversation. In True Story, Michael Finkel unpacks the surreal aftermath of his public downfall when accused murderer Christian Longo steals his identity and draws him into a chilling connection that blurs confession, manipulation, and performance. This fits true crime readers who want something psychological, unsettling, and obsessed with the slippery line between fact and fiction.
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The true story of a disgraced journalist, the accused murderer who stole his identity, and their complex friendship—now a major motion picture.
In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. Then he got a call from the San Francisco Chronicle—and Mike was thrust back into the news cycle in a way no one could have anticipated.
In Waldport, Oregon, Christian Longo had killed his young wife and three children and dumped their bodies into the bay. With a stolen credit card, he fled south, making his way to Cancun, where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel, journalist for the New York Times.
True Story is the tale of a bizarre collision between fact and fiction, and a meditation on the slippery nature of truth. When Finkel contacts Longo in jail, they begin a close and complex relationship. Over the course of a year, Finkel's dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says.
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It is an engaging pick for readers who like military nonfiction with strong storytelling and a clear sense that the truth is already wild enough.
Sea Stories
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From childhood adventures to some of the most high-stakes military missions in recent history, Sea Stories traces Admiral William H. McRaven’s path through life in special operations with plenty of action, humor, and hard-earned perspective. Drawing on experiences from Navy SEAL training to leadership in major operations, this memoir looks at courage, discipline, and what it takes to lead under pressure. It is an engaging pick for readers who like military nonfiction with strong storytelling and a clear sense that the truth is already wild enough.
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Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
"Fascinating ... McRaven's war stories deliver remarkable insight into the life of a wartime leader." ―Publishers Weekly
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
Sea Stories begins in 1963 at a French Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II-the place where a young Bill McRaven learned the value of a good story. Sea Stories is an unforgettable look back on one man's incredible life, from childhood days sneaking into high-security military sites to a day job of hunting terrorists and rescuing hostages.
Action-packed, humorous, and full of valuable life lessons like those exemplified in McRaven's bestselling Make Your Bed, Sea Stories is a remarkable memoir from one of America's most accomplished leaders.
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A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about religious control, domestic abuse, survival, and reclaiming agency.
A Well-Trained Wife
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An instant New York Times bestseller, A Well-Trained Wife recounts Tia Levings’s escape from the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement and Christian Patriarchy as she fights to save herself and her children, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 4,100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to candid memoirs about religious control, domestic abuse, survival, and reclaiming agency.
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The instant New York Times bestseller:
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.”
Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, “keepers of the home.”
Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church. Christians were called in scripture to be “in the world, not of it.” So, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women, she began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children.
Told in a beautiful, honest, and sometimes harrowing voice, A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage.
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A Dream Called Home fits memoir readers who want resilience, ambition, the power of words, and an intimate story about education, identity, and creating the sense of belonging…
A Dream Called Home
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In this memoir, Reyna Grande traces her path from an undocumented childhood marked by neglect and instability to college, authorship, and the hard-won life she fought to build for herself. A Dream Called Home fits memoir readers who want resilience, ambition, the power of words, and an intimate story about education, identity, and creating the sense of belonging you were never given.
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“Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true.” —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street
From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time.
As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal. Taking refuge in words, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now estranged from her family and support system. Again, she finds solace in words, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream.
Through it all, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to “a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer” (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist whose “power is growing with every book” (Luis Alberto Urrea, Pultizer Prize finalist); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect.
Told in Reyna’s exquisite, heartfelt prose, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how, by daring to pursue her dreams, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure.
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