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Biography and Memoir May 2026 |
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
From the bestselling, prizewinning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.
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The Flower Bearers
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Novelist 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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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Matthew Pinsker
An eye-opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory.
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If I Don't Return: A Father's Wartime Journal
by Lieutenant General (Ret ). Mar Hertling
Part battlefield memoir, part father's journal, part meditation on the challenges of leadership, If I Don't Return is the story of a soldier who faced death, returned home, and continued to live a life of service.
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You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk about It
by Lisa Rinna
From the New York Times bestselling author and breakout star of The Traitors comes the first memoir from beloved actress, Housewife, and pop culture icon, Lisa Rinna. From her career, to her personal life, she's spilling ALL the tea If she's experienced it... you better believe she's gonna talk about it.
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Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
by Jr. Lawson, James
The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.
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Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen...
by Ann Foster
Caroline of Brunswick, niece of Britain’s King George III, was chosen as queen-to-be for his profligate heir, George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales. Never mind that she was treated cruelly by George’s family and thoughtlessly cast aside soon after his coronation: the Regency royals were so detested by the British populace that Caroline quickly became a heroine of the emerging tabloid press. History podcaster Ann Foster dishes all the dirt. Try this next: The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London by Catherine Ostler.
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| Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir by Jayne Anne PhillipsNovelist Jayne Anne Phillips’ Small Town Girls is not strictly a memoir. Yet this collection of previously published essays includes many fragments from the author’s memories of growing up in her troubled, enchanted homeland of West Virginia. Whether pondering the Hatfield-McCoy feud or revisiting sense memories of her hometown’s beauty shop, Phillips’ incisive and lyrical observations give life to a time gone by. For more autobiographical snippets set in the Mountain State, try Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan. |
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| Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David StreitfeldNovelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry is perhaps best remembered for his western novel Lonesome Dove and his screenplay adaptation of Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain, as well as for making his home state of Texas a minor character in most of his writing. Before his death in 2021, McMurtry entrusted his friend and Pulitzer-winning journalist David Streitfeld with writing this biography, a “revealing portrait” (Kirkus Reviews) of a complicated man who remained an enigma to all but his closest associates. |
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Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie
by Alexander Larman
The compelling story of the second half of Bowie's life, exploring the untold story of these latter years when Bowie moved from commercial failure to his final masterpiece.
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