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Biography and Memoir August 2025 |
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| On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports by Christine BrennanDrawing on interviews and behind-the-scenes reportage, sports journalist Christine Brennan's nuanced and richly detailed biography of record-setting WNBA guard Caitlin Clark discusses the triumphs and travails of her life on the court. Further reading: Becoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar by Howard Megdal. |
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This Happened to Me : A Reckoning
by Kate Price
In this exquisitely rendered, transformative memoir, Price describes how she broke free of that which had defined her childhood and went on to create a purpose-driven life and family, on her own terms. Eventually returning to the same Appalachian community to use her education and advocacy to help ensure children are given the attention, protection, and services that she never received.
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| Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West by Kelly RamseyIn her evocative and compelling debut, Kelly Ramsey reflects on her experiences working as a wildland firefighter in Northern California, detailing how she navigated workplace sexism and demanding physical requirements to find fulfillment in her career. Try this next: Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby. |
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| The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made... by Laurie Gwen ShapiroJournalist and documentary filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro's well-researched and illuminating dual biography of aviator Amelia Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, draws on archival records, diaries, and interviews to reveal how the lesser-known Putnam shaped Earhart's public image and career. For fans of: Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien. |
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything : A Memoir
by Alyson Stoner
Raised on soundstages and studio lots from the time they were six, shuffling between auditions for Disney Channel, Cheaper by the Dozen, or a Missy Elliott music video, Alyson experienced their defining moments of childhood inside the bizarre fishbowl of Hollywood.With striking introspection, Alyson connects the dots across the entertainment industry ecosystem, child development, and media culture, exposing the "toddler to trainwreck pipeline" of child stars and sparking timely conversations about success and society's enchantment with fame.
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| It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin EisingerIn his moving and uplifting graphic memoir, iconic Star Trek actor and activist George Takei offers candid reflections on his early childhood spent in Japanese American internment camps, discovering a love of acting after initially studying to become an architect, coming out publicly at age 68, and more. For fans of: the 2014 documentary To Be Takei. |
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| JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy TaraborrelliKennedy family biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli follows up his bestselling Jackie: Public, Private, Secret with a nuanced and well-researched portrait of America's 35th president, drawing upon interviews and previously unpublished materials to focus on his personal relationships. For more on John F. Kennedy's political life, check out the works of Robert Dallek. |
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
"Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews -- all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer -- surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
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| Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend by Michael WallisBestselling author Michael Wallis' (The Best Land Under Heaven) lively biography of Wild West outlaw Belle Starr (1848-1889) offers a demythologizing corrective to her reputation and legacy. Further reading: Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West by Dane Huckelbridge. |
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| Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship by Dana A. WilliamsHoward University English professor Dana A. Williams' accessible account chronicles Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's publishing career as a senior editor at Random House in the 1970s, where she worked tirelessly to uplift Black authors and bring their works into the mainstream. Try this next: Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle. |
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