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Biography and Memoir March 2026 |
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A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
by Gisèle Pelicot
In 2024, Gisele Pelicot waived her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her ex-husband and the fifty men accused of sexually assaulting her, a courageous decision that inspired millions of people around the world. Only four years prior, Gisele had made the shattering discovery that her husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, had been secretly drugging and raping her, and inviting strangers to also abuse her in their home for nearly a decade.
By the time Dominique and the dozens of men accused were found guilty three and a half months later, Gisele had become a global figure, and her message--that she and other victims of sexual abuse have no reason to feel ashamed--galvanized a movement that triggered protests and demonstrations around the world.
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| Upside-Down Love: A Memoir in Two Voices by Sari BashiIsraeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi tells the story of how she met her Palestinian Arab husband in a candid and moving memoir.
Osama was a professor who needed to obtain a permit to work outside of the West Bank when he became Bashi’s client, and their attraction to each other was immediate. The two would overcome family pressures, bureaucracy, and racism to build a family together. Bashi’s inspiring “real-life love story brings welcome humanity to a fraught subject” (Publishers Weekly).
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| Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood by William J. MannBiographer William J. Mann's well-researched true crime account offers fresh insights on the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who posthumously came to be known by the moniker "Black Dahlia."
This is the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder--the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history--which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies.
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You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk about It
by Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna is spilling all the tea from the soundstages of Days of Our Lives to the drama of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but she's also opening up about what it means to grow older in an industry obsessed with youth, the lessons she's learned about reinvention, parenting a daughter with a chronic illness, keeping her well-documented marriage alive and healthy, and being forced to grieve in public after the loss of her mother and beloved Beverly Hills fan favorite, Lois.
Bold, brash, refreshingly honest, and told with her signature wit and candor, it's the story of a woman who realizes aging is just a chance at a new chapter.
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
by Mark Haddon
An unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, this is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children.
Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. "As he reflects on his hard-tested loyalty to his parents and his love for his sister, wife, and children, Haddon is pithily hilarious, deeply insightful, and very moving." (Booklist)
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
by Norah O'Donnell
Award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.
From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the Black Founders of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.
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Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family -- And the World
by Gabriel Sherman
The real succession story of the Murdoch empire is more shocking than the fictional TV series. When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir.
Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world's most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots. It is a tragedy Shakespeare would have appreciated, where getting everything you want costs everything you love.
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