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Books in the National Media May 2025 |
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King of Envy
by Ana Huang
Supermodel Ayana Kidane is the object of scarred billionaire Vuk Markovic's obsession, and she increasingly finds herself drawn to him despite her engagement to his oldest friend—torn between loyalty and desire, he might just risk it all to have her. Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
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My Friends: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman
Jarrod has felt distanced from his daughter Liv since the death of Jarrod's partner Charlie, but when Liv finds boyfriend Zel murdered, Jarrod rushes to her aid and they comb for clues across the Coachella Valley while a killer's on the loose. Featured on All Things Considered.
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My Name is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
In 1800s San Francisco, young writer Emilia, daughter of an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat, journeys to South America with talented reporter Eric to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. Featured on The View.
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Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
by Tia Williams
In need of inspiration for her self-help book, sixteen-year-old straightlaced Audre hires seventeen-year-old easygoing Bash to be her fun consultant for a summer full of daring experiences and undeniable romance. Featured on Good Morning America.
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Karen: A Brother Remembers
by Kelsey Grammer
The author's sister was kidnapped and murdered at age eighteen, and he poignantly remembers her and the impact her loss had on his life and family, exploring with raw honesty the devastation after her death and the long and arduous journey toward healing. Featured on Good Morning America.
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
by Martha S. Jones
Explores the author's personal and ancestral history, tracing generations of her family as they navigated the shifting complexities of racial identity, belonging, and the color line from enslavement to contemporary America. Featured on Book TV.
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Matriarch: A Memoir
by Tina Knowles-Lawson
It's one brilliant woman's intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America—and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations. Featured on Tamron Hall.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth. Featured on Fresh Air.
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Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career
by Suzy Welch
Becoming You guides readers through the process of excavating their truest values, identifying their outstanding aptitudes, and finally, pinpointing their economically viable interests, that is, the kind of work that calls them emotionally and intellectually, and also makes sense financially. Ultimately, Becoming You, at turns warm, witty, pragmatic, and filled with tough-love, is your guide to discovering the life you were meant to live. Featured on CBS Mornings.
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Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
by Nate Bargatze
In his highly anticipated first book, Nate talks about life as a non-genius. From stories about his first car (named Old Blue, a clunky Mazda with a tennis ball stick shift) and his travels as a Southerner (Northerners like to ask if he believes in dinosaurs), to tales of his first apartment where he was almost devoured by rats and his many debates with his wife over his chores, his diet, and even his definition of "shopping." He also reflects on such heady topics as his irrational passion for Vandy football and the mysterious origins of sushi (how can a California roll come from old-time Japan?). BIG DUMB EYES is full of heart. It will make readers laugh out loud and nod in recognition, but it probably won't make them think too much" Featured on Today.
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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
by Suleika Jaouad
Explores the transformative power of journaling, blending the author's insights with essays and prompts from 100 writers, artists, and thinkers, offering guidance to navigate life's challenges, embrace creativity, and uncover deeper self-awareness through themes of beginnings, love, loss, and renewal. Featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
by Glennon Doyle
Explores twenty essential life questions, offering wisdom, personal insights, and transformative lessons designed to help readers confront challenges, find healing, and share inspiration through courage, solidarity, and meaningful conversations. Featured on The Daily Show.
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How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously
by Paige DeSorbo
Finding joy and laughter in the mundane can be challenging at times, but Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo have mastered the art of not taking life too seriously. Brought together under the bright lights of reality television, these best friends bonded in incredibly intense circumstances. They quickly came to realize that one of the bedrocks of their friendship is their shared experience with social anxiety. As their friendship deepened, they found themselves constantly devolving into laughter, earning them the nickname "The Giggly Squad," and with that, their superpower-laughing through life's hardest moments-was born. Their podcast, Giggly Squad, feels like calling your best friend for a long overdue catch-up. No topic is off limits. No subject too small. And, most importantly, nothing is so serious that you can't find a way to make it seem less scary by poking fun at it. Featured on CBS Mornings.
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Source Code: My Beginnings
by Bill Gates
The software giant explores his personal journey, recounting his early influences, friendships, family and first steps in computing that paved the way for his revolutionary career and later philanthropic focus, offering an intimate look at the experiences that shaped him. Featured on CBS Mornings.
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Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
by Amanda Hess
Second Life is a trenchant look at parenting in early 21st-century America, when humans stopped being raised by villages or even families but rather by a constant onslaught of information. It is a funny, heartbreaking, and surreal examination of fertility apps, the history of ultrasound technologies, prenatal genetic testing, rare disease Facebook groups, baby memes, cultural representations of parenting, gender reveal videos, trendy sleep gurus, "freebirth" influencers, mommy marketers, culminating in a polemic on how to conceive of a real life in the digital age. Page by page, Amanda reveals the unspoken ways that our lives are being fractured and reconstituted by technology, all through the exacting lens of her intensely personal story. Featured on Fresh Air.
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I'm Highly Percent Sure
by Caroline Wanga
In this rich, intelligent, and witty memoir, the President and CEO of Essence Ventures-a woman with a defiant intuition who rejects cultural expectations and outside influence-tells how she charted her own destiny, offering inspiration and advice to help everyone on their own journey to becoming everything they were born to be. That confidence took her from interning at Target to becoming the company's Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, and eventually to the top of Essence Ventures, where she has only magnified her reach. Oprah Winfrey once emotionally remarked that Wanga reminded her of the great Maya Angelou with the strength and clarity of her purpose and voice. But Wanga has faced challenges along the way, including losing her sense of identity and veering from living her purpose. Throughout the narrative, told in her raw, purposeful, yet humorous voice, she separates the person from the profession, to help us understand the sequence of all that transpired in her life and the lessons she discovered along the way. Featured on Today.
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Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for Today
by Franklin L. Lavin
What makes a good White House memoir? The right mix of personal stories, insight on the president, discussion of policy and historical events, and crazy, colorful anecdotes that capture the reader's attention. 'Inside the Reagan White House' has all this. Original insight on Ronald Reagan, as well as discussions of cabinet members and others, are interspersed with personal anecdotes, off-hand comments, and family details. Featured on Book TV.
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