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Biography and Memoir October 2025 |
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All the way to the river : love, loss, and liberation
by Elizabeth Gilbert
A raw and unflinching memoir of love, addiction, heartbreak, and transformation from the author of Eat Pray Love traces her journey from deep friendship to destructive passion and the hard-won freedom from patterns that once felt impossible to escape. Illustrations.
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| Awake by Jen HatmakerPopular Christian living author and podcaster Jen Hatmaker courageously explores the heartbreaking and humiliating end of her marriage of 26 years and the challenges of reclaiming her independence. Hatmaker, suddenly a single mother of five, is relatable as she searchingly poses questions about her purpose and identity that she had taken for granted for so long. For fans of: Untamed by Glennon Doyle. |
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The invention of Charlotte Brontèe : a new life
by Graham Watson
Revisits the writer's dramatic life and legacy through the lens of her friend Elizabeth Gaskell's scandalous tell-all, revealing new archival material and reexamining the myths, relationships, and rivalries that shaped Brontë's rise to fame and her complex personal world. Illustrations.
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| Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-PelznerTheater and culture writer Daniel Pollak-Pelzner’s debut charts the startling rise of Lin-Manuel Miranda -- creator of the Broadway hits Hamilton and In the Heights -- from inner-city kid to worldwide phenomenon. Pollack-Pelzner interviewed Miranda and other intimate sources, and his background and expertise render him an “astute observer of the more human side of creating art” (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: How to Survive a Killer Musical by Douglas J. Cohen. |
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Paper Girl : A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by Beth Macy
The author, who grew up poor in Urbana, Ohio, in the 70s and 80s, faces the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like, and in facing the truth finds sparks of human dignity. Illustrations.
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| Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati RoyBooker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy shares vivid memories of growing up poor in India and her complicated relationship with her single mother, Mary. It is a raw account of living with a headstrong, volatile, and sometimes abusive parent, but one who also ignited the author’s dedication to Indian women’s rights, and whose death in 2022 left Arundhati overcome with grief. For fans of: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. |
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Storyteller : the life of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Leopold Damrosch
"In Storyteller, Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer's letters in his many voices and moods--playful, imaginative, at times tragic"
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