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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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Pope Leo XIV: The Biography by Elise Ann AllenA deeply personal biography of Pope Leo XIV, featuring his first-ever public interview as pope, from Elise Ann Allen, journalist and Rome correspondent for Crux. An extraordinary achievement . . . a masterful and amazingly intimate portrait of our new pope.--Austen Ivereigh, biographer of Pope Francis. On May 8, 2025, the whole world watched with great anticipation as white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, and the new pope who emerged to greet us from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica was a surprise to all. He was a man no one expected, a dark horse candidate, as the media came to call him, and the first-ever American to be elected--Robert Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV.
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| Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician by Dan ChiassonPoet, journalist, and Burlington, Vermont native Dan Chiasson remembers growing up in the small city that a young Brooklynite named Bernie Sanders adopted as his hometown. Chiasson recalls that Sanders was seen as a tad eccentric when he first ran for mayor, yet he was able to garner support on complex local issues while earning a reputation as a fearless underdog’s champion. For fans of: Pete Buttigieg’s Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future.
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Criminal and an Irishman: The Inside Story of the Boston Mob - IRA Connection by Patrick NeeA former rival and associate of Whitey Bulger tells all in this true crime memoir about the inner workings of life in the Irish mob Perfect for readers of Say Nothing, Black Mass, and Paddy Whacked Even as he chases someone with a rifle through South Boston, he's the sort of guy you want to root for. A Criminal and an Irishman is the story of Pat Nee's life as an Irish immigrant and Southie son, a combat marine in Vietnam and convicted IRA gun smuggler, and a former rival-turned-associate of James Whitey Bulger. His narrative transports readers into the criminal underworld, taking them inside preparation for armored car heists, gang wars, and revenge killings. Nee details his evolution from tough street kid to armed robber to dangerous potential killer, disclosing how he used his underworld connections as a secret operative for the Irish Republican Army.
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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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| Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood by William J. MannBiographer William J. Mann's (Bogie & Bacall) well-researched true crime account offers fresh insights on the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who posthumously came to be known by the moniker "Black Dahlia." Further reading: Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter by Eli Frankel.
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| The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution by Gregory E. O'MalleyHistorian Gregory E. O’Malley’s biography of freedom seeker David George is a tale that seems too incredible to be true. In an eventful, inspiring life that took him from the U.S. colonies to the Caribbean to Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, George would escape slavery multiple times and eventually become a family man and respected minister in a “story that reads like fiction” (Library Journal). For fans of: Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland by Scott Shane.
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