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Biography and Memoir February 2026 |
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Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician
by Dan Chiasson
The early days and inexorable rise of the young Bernie Sanders, the visionary who changed American politics forever, told by a son of the People's Republic of Burlington, Vermont. In this symphonic origin story of an era-defining politician, Dan Chiasson, a Burlington native who had a ringside seat to Bernie Sanders's development, reconstructs the rise of an American icon. Full of Sanders himself, reflecting and raging, hitting his themes, Bernie for Burlington is a mesmerizing portrait of a politician, a place, and a movement that would change America.
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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Matthew Pinsker
An eye-opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory.
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It's Never Too Late: A Memoir
by Marla Gibbs
At 93, Marla Gibbs chronicles her climb from a difficult youth to the high-stakes world of Hollywood, where she became a confident powerbroker learning to work behind the scenes for fair pay, access, and more creative control for herself and her colleagues. She describes moving to Los Angeles to rebuild her life after an abusive marriage, how she became an actor, and how she learned to balance acting with show running. Though her behind-the-scenes authority created tensions on and off the set, her hard-luck life had prepared her to succeed even as her tenacity was put to the test, and her experiences laid the groundwork for powerbrokers like Shonda Rhimes and Issa Rae.
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La Lucci
by Susan Lucci
Susan Lucci knows a thing or two about life, love, joy, adventure, and remaking oneself after loss, both personally and professionally. Her character Erica Kane on All My Children had married 11 times during her 41 years on air, but Susan married only once - to the love of her life, Helmut Huber. When Helmut passed away unexpectedly in 2022, she faced one of the greatest challenges of her life - overcoming grief and striving to live with hope and joy again while still honoring her memories. At turns entertaining, funny, sad, healing, and genuinely informative, her stories are not just about mourning loss, they are about grabbing and living life with gusto at every stage... on every stage.
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Color
by Mark Haddon
Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mâché and mental breakdown and great white sharks. 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 bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.
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My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir
by Gil Z. Hochberg
My Father, the Messiah traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades--from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg's father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. Gil Hochberg reflects on her evolving relationship with her father through personal letters and writing, offering a poignant account of queer identity, familial love, and Israel's shifting sociopolitical landscape.
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Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen Without a Crown
by Ann Foster
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of Brunswick, was freed from her family's gilded cage by an unexpected marriage proposal from George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales and the eldest son of Britain's King George III. Always staying true to herself, Caroline stepped into her role of queen-to-be without compromising her character, despite being ostracized as an outsider by her in-laws, and thus became the unlikely figurehead of the anti-monarchists, aided by the just-emerging tabloid press. Nevertheless, George abandoned Caroline and their daughter--barring them from the royal court--soon after his coronation.
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
by Gavin Newsom
From California Governor Gavin Newsom, an intimate and reflective memoir laying bare the defining moments of his liminal childhood splintered by his parents' divorce that shaped Newsom's visionary and relentless commitment to the state and nation.
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