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Biography and Memoir March 2026 |
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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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My Gardening Life
by Mary Berry
More than a memoir. A lifetime of gardening inspiration. Well-known and celebrated as a cookery writer and presenter, in My Gardening Life Mary Berry shares her second great love: gardening. From a passion that was sparked in her childhood as she helped her father in their vegetable patch, gardening has become a source of great joy to Mary. In this deeply personal account, she reveals all that she has learned through a lifetime of growing.
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| The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza GriffithsNovelist and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Promise) grapples with the twin tragedies of the highly publicized and near-fatal attack on her new husband Salman Rushdie and, less than a year earlier, the sudden death of her closest friend, poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who ironically passed away on Griffiths’ wedding day. For another emotional memoir about enduring wrenching loss, try Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River.
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
by Liza Minnelli
This is the autobiography of EGOT icon Liza Minnelli. This fascinating, untold story reveals the intimate truth of the only child born to Hollywood legends Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. For the first time, here is Liza up close: Raw, strong, sexy, hilarious and heartbreaking.
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Letter from Provence: Two Women, Two Centuries, and a Village House in France
by Sheryle Bagwell
After buying an ancient stone house in Provence, Australian journalist Sheryle Bagwell finds in her attic an old edition of selected letters by the seventeenth-century French noblewoman Madame de S vign , who died, she discovers, in the grand chateau down the road. So begins Sheryle's new life in southern France as she deals with an ageing house, a combative neighbor and a foreign language-all infused with her reading of the glittering yet doomed world of Louis XIV's France.
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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
by Antony Beevor
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history's most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world.
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Attention: Selected Essays
by Anne Enright
A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers. For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention- casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. Anne Enright has aways been alert to the places where public and private meet, where individual lives are caught by, or alter, the sweep of history. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras, and through voices, bodies and time. They delve into Enright's own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction.
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Famesick: A Memoir
by Lena Dunham
In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. What she finds is deeper than physical relief, and more lasting, as she learns to live with what she can't change and turn her regrets into wisdom that can carry her forward, as she reconnects to what, and who, she loves.
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