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Biography and Memoir November 2025 |
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| Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age by Joy HarjoFormer United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s latest book is equal parts memoir and inspirational guide addressed to young Native women. Accordingly, her story is imbued with lyricism, spirituality, and a call to embrace one’s creativity even in the face of the pain, despair, and injustice that many young Indigenous people frequently encounter. For another inspiring memoir that incorporates ethnic identity and creativity, try Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu. |
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Nobody's Girl : A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts GiuffreVirginia Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl, shares her firsthand account of surviving abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, her escape, and her advocacy for victims. Written before her death in April 2025, the book preserves her voice and legacy as a courageous whistleblower and survivor.
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| Joyride by Susan OrleanCelebrated nonfiction author Susan Orlean chooses her own life as subject in Joyride. Orlean openly reveals her bumpy road through the often challenging life of a professional writer, including her years developing a strong journalistic voice, and as a bonus provides indispensable advice to aspiring writers throughout. For another work-centered memoir from a writer of nonfiction, try Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro. |
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Greyhound : a memoir
by Joanna Pocock
"In 2006, Joanna Pocock decided to travel from east to west across the U.S. in a Greyhound bus as she mourned her miscarriages. Seventeen years later, at the start of 2023, and now in her midfifties, Pocock undertook the same journey again. Pocock follows in the wake of Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz, who all chronicled their travels across America. Exploring the intersection between capitalism and geography--urban, suburban and rural--and the impact of our relationship to the landscape, she zeroes in on the rivers of tarmac, the gas stations, the suburbs, and the sites of extraction created specifically for our twenty-first-century lifestyles, and their unintended environmental and social consequences. By revisiting the same cities, edgelands, roads, and motels in 2023 as she did in 2006, Pocock dissects the overlap between place and memory, between an earlier, more prosperous version of the United States and one mired in extreme poverty, drug addiction, and a larger division between the wealthy and the dispossessed"-- Provided by publisher
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Dead center : in defense of common sense by Joe ManchinDead Center is more than Senator Manchin’s declaration of independence from the extremes on both sides. He combines never-before-told stories from inside the Senate and the White House with insights into how government does―or doesn’t―work.
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Awake : A Memoir
by Jen Hatmaker
A candid, humorous, and emotionally raw memoir of personal upheaval, charting the collapse of a long marriage, the unraveling of identity and belief systems and the painful but empowering journey toward healing, self-reliance and unexpected renewal.
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