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Biography and Memoir January 2026 |
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The running ground : a father, a son, and the simplest of sports
by Nicholas Thompson
A chance offer gave Nicholas Thompson the opportunity to train for the Chicago Marathon with elite coaches. Giving himself over to the sport more fully than ever before, he discovered that aging didn't necessarily put you on an unbroken trajectory of decline. For seven years after his father died, Thompson transforms his body to perform at its highest capacity, and the profound discipline and awareness he builds along the way changes every aspect of his life. Throughout the narrative, he weaves in stories of remarkable men and women who have used the sport to transcend some of the hardest moments in life. The Running Ground is a story about fathers, sons, and the most basic and most beautiful of sports.
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Governing bodies : a memoir, a confluence, a watershed
by Sangamithra Iyer
A beautifully rendered debut memoir of family, legacy, conservation, the natural world--and those who inhabit it.As a civil engineer, Sangamithra Iyer knows about resilience from studying soils and water. As an animal rights activist, she advocates for a revolution in how we value and relate to other species. And as the child of immigrants from India, she searches for submerged histories.Animated by a series of questions--How do we disentangle ourselves from systems of harm? Is it possible to grasp the scale of planetary sorrow and emerge with truth and love as our guides, rather than despair? What is the relationship between individual action and systemic change?--this memoir takes the form of three meandering rivers, each written as a letter.
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Star of the show : my life on stage
by Dolly Parton
A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside 350 full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive, and an 8-page gatefold listing her performances
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Getting lost on my way : self-discovery on Ireland's backroads
by Diane Hartman
For fans of McCarthy's Bar, a debut memoir about a woman's humorous and poignant solo adventures of self-discovery on Ireland's backroads following a painful divorce. When an introverted, divorced, middle-aged mother and school librarian from the Midwest decides to leave her comfort zone and travel alone to Ireland, her desire to fulfill her dream overcomes her fear as she immerses herself into what will become an adventure of courage and self-discovery. This heartfelt and humorous account of Diane's adventures--including hanging out with an Irish rock band, traveling remote roads in search of a hermit nun, and meeting her favorite Irish musician not once but twice--is sure to inspire readers to get outside their own comfort zones and take some rewarding risks of their own.
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Storyteller : the life of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Leo Damrosch
From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction. 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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Winning the earthquake : how Jeannette Rankin defied all odds to become the first woman in Congress
by Lorissa Rinehart
The first major biography of Jeannette Rankin, a groundbreaking suffragist, activist, and the first American woman to hold federal office. Despite overcoming the entrenched boys' club of oligarchic capitalists and career politicians to make enormous strides for women in politics, Rankin has been largely overlooked. In Winning the Earthquake, Lorissa Rinehart expertly recovers the compelling history behind this singular American hero, bringing her story back to life.
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Trying : a memoir
by Chloe Caldwell
From the author of the bestselling Women, a living document of disenfranchised grief and queer reawakening. Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby, or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. With the candor, irreverence, and heart that have made Caldwell's work beloved, Trying intimately captures a self in a continuous process of becoming-and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process.
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