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New Biographies, Memoirs & Nonfiction - Fall 2025
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items Step into the lives and minds behind the headlines with this collection of powerful new biographies and memoirs for Fall 2025. From intimate personal journeys and artistic awakenings to political histories and cultural reflections, these true stories...
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Biographies - Memoirs
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Biographies - Memoirs
Intimate life stories that reveal resilience, creativity, and the moments that shaped remarkable lives.
“Featuring a special collection of personal photographs throughout, We Did OK, Kid is a raw and passionate memoir from a complex, iconic man who has inspired audiences with remarkable performances for over sixty years.”
We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir
“Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny—and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself.”
Finding My Way: A Memoir
“In Future Boy, Fox tells the remarkable story of playing two landmark roles at the same time―a slice of entertainment history that’s never been told. Using new interviews with the cast and crew of both projects, the result is a vividly drawn and eye...
Future Boy: Back to the Future & Space-Time Journey
“A personal account of one family’s disintegration, Next of Kin is also a universal story of the emotional clarity that comes from scrutinizing our family mythologies and seeing through to the other side.”
Next of Kin: A Memoir
“Nobody’s Girl is an astonishing affirmation of Giuffre’s unshakable will—first, to claw her way out of victimhood, and then to shine light on wrongdoing and fight for a safer, fairer world. Equal parts intimate and fierce, it is a remarkable narrati...
Nobody's Girl: Memoir of Surviving Abuse
“The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold.”
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
“A unique blend of history and memoir, The First Eight is both a monument to the legacies of these eight trailblazing Americans, and also a clear-eyed appraisal of how far we've come, and how far we have left to go, in our nation's ongoing struggle f...
The First Eight: History of Black Congressmen
“In her most personal book yet, the iconic star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up opens up about the cultural traditions that have inspired her philosophy—and can ...
Letter from Japan
“Equal parts memoir, guidebook, and spiritual quest, Writing Creativity and Soul is a pilgrimage and a touchstone, a journey into the transformational force of the imagination and the creative genius that lies in the unconscious.”
Writing Creativity and Soul
“As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.”
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Nonfiction
Insightful reads that explore history, culture, and ideas shaping the world today.
“How did a group of brave, principled rebels, who had successfully defied Adolf Hitler for more than a decade, come to fall into such a lethal trap?”
The Traitors Circle: True Story of Nazi Spy
“This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that this time is different. It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be d...
1929: Inside the Greatest Wall Street Crash
“Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind―and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay.”
Here Comes the Sun: Last Chance for Climate
“The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have the answers.”
The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
“Paper Girl is a gift of courage, empathy, and insight. Beth Macy has turned to face the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like. And in facing the truth—in person, with res...
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family
“Both a testament to human ingenuity and resilience and a compelling drama told by the participants who lived it, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is a singular, profound, and searing book about the inception of our most powerful weapon and its haunt...
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: Oral History of the Atomic Bomb
“The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist—Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few fragment...
The Feather Detective: Mystery & Life of Roxie
“In this richly textured examination, Nasaw presents a complicated portrait of those who brought the war home with them, among whom were the period’s most influential political and cultural leaders, including John F. Kennedy, Robert Dole, and Henry K...
The Wounded Generation: Coming Home WWII
“A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders.”
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond Ancient Civilization
“Fatsis reveals the little-known story of how the brothers George and Charles Merriam acquired Noah Webster’s original American dictionary and reshaped the business of language forever. Merriam-Webster became America’s most successful and enduring co...
Unabridged: The Thrill & Threat to Modern Dictionary
“An astounding look at how America’s founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with...
The Great Contradiction: Tragic Side of American Founding
“The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy.”
Running Deep: Bravery & Survival WWII Submarine
“In this unique blend of memoir, courtroom drama, and travelogue, Philippe Sands gives us a front row seat to the Pinochet trial—where he acted as a barrister for Human Rights Watch—and teases out the dictator’s unexpected connection to a leading Naz...
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet & Nazi
“A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar®-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father...
We Survived the Night
“Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.”
The Gales of November: Untold Story Edmund Fitzgerald
“A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia”
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia