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The Broken Whistle: A Deep State Run Amok — Memoir of a CIA Whistleblower by Pedro Israel Orta

A fiery, unsettling insider account of whistleblowing, institutional power, and the steep price of dissent. Former CIA officer Orta delivers an impassioned memoir of his eighteen-and-a-half-year career in the intelligence community and the institutional battles that ultimately consumed it. Moving…
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PIZZA DOG ANNIE’S GUIDE TO WELLNESS FOR RELUCTANT HOMO SAPIENS by Alex Charns

An affecting and often hilarious ode to the healing power of dogs.  Charns’s compelling latest takes an unconventional approach to wellness, pairing candid reflections on mental health with the irreverent observations of Annie, his German shepherd–husky mix. Part memoir and…
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The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu

A razor-sharp, darkly funny reckoning with the price of winning. A psychiatrist and lifelong competitive fencer turns his most bruising victories and losses into a searching examination of ambition, identity, and the dangerous seductions of achievement in Radu’s candid memoir.…
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A Snake on the Heart: History, Mystery, and Truth: The Entangled Journeys of a Biographer and His Nazi Subject by Patrick S. Wolfe

A meticulously researched exploration of collaboration, memory, and the elusive nature of truth… Wolfe’s ambitious biography is a  searching and deeply researched portrait of a man who lived a double life. Jan Jürgen “John” Petersen was a respected Canadian social…
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Hydrangeas from Dad: His Gift from Beyond that Rescued My Soul: Healing and Thriving After the Loss of a Loved One by Mary Ellen Connett MacDonald MS

Mystical, moving, and quietly profound. Marriage and family therapist MacDonald confronts the death of her father, and the startling spiritual aftermath that reshapes her understanding of grief, identity, and the endurance of love. William “Bill” Basil Pukatch, the emotional center…
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And It Only Took 100 Years… by Alan Shayne

Reflective, humane, and beautifully observed. There are memoirs that recount achievement, and there are memoirs that illuminate the emotional history of an era. Shayne’s memoir does both with uncommon elegance. One might expect a Hollywood memoir full of glamorous anecdotes…
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40 Miles to Happy, the Love Story of a Rancher and his Wife by Vally Mulford

A heartfelt, lyrical, and deeply moving portrait of love, resilience, and ordinary lives… Mulford reflects on the quiet power of ordinary lives in this multigenerational memoir. “Even though the story that we each create will ultimately succumb to time… we…
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Confessions of a Problem Seeker: My Lifetime Journey From Busy Brain To Loving Heart by Howard Steinberg

An honest, searching, and finely observed memoir of reckoning and renewal… A life defined by discipline and control comes under scrutiny as its hidden tensions begin to emerge in Steinberg’s candid memoir. The author reflects on his journey that moves…
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My Diecast Life by Dan Vado

A restrained, penetrating memoir of childhood and inherited identity. Vado’s memoir offers a measured, unsentimental examination of how a child learns to survive within the overlapping pressures of family, culture, and unspoken rules. The book’s frame is deceptively simple. Now…
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Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell

A raw, and unsparing memoir that explores survival, family betrayal, systemic failure, and the fierce will to keep living when the world offers no safety. “Please, God, take the pain away,” Caldwell writes at the opening of the book, moments…
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Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality by Robert K Bosscha

Clear, restrained, and quietly courageous. Bosscha offers a rare and unsettling account of life inside a fractured mind in this powerful memoir. The author’s life before collapse is deliberately ordinary: an independent man renovating his condominium when seizures abruptly dismantle…
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Compulsory Figures by John Barton

A quietly devastating, deeply elegant poetry collection. A celebrated Canadian poet and former editor, John Barton turns to the terrain of his own past to examine how memory, loss, and lineage shape a life. Born in Edmonton during the early…
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All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly

A haunting, luminous poetry collection. Award-winning poet and essayist Streetly charts a life changed by loss, memory, and the magnetic pull of the Pacific Northwest in her compelling latest book. Six years after her adult stepsons vanished with their boat…
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Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery by Maura Casey

Genuine, unflinching, and quietly absorbing… In her debut, Casey delivers a steady, clear-eyed portrait of a childhood defined by poverty, alcoholism, and the relentless weight of chronic illness. The youngest of six in a working-class Irish Catholic family, Casey grows…
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FINDING GOD IN VEGAS: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening By Donald Harold Young

A candid, gracefully written memoir of faith, identity, and hard-won peace. Young’s debut is an intimate and deeply affecting memoir that follows one man’s fall into spiritual emptiness and his slow, hard-won rediscovery of love and faith. Young begins his…
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You Be The Light Bearer by Ronald Arle Chapman

A reflective, compassionate, and transformative work of spiritual wisdom. Chapman’s compelling book is a meditative call to awaken the light within and live with greater clarity and compassion. The book opens with a compelling insight: within each of us flows…
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Never Alone by Cheryl S. Hartmann

A tender, unflinching memoir of faith, shame, and the quiet power of grace. Hartmann offers a deeply personal reflection on finding God’s grace amid shame and despair in this compelling memoir. “I never liked the word ‘testimony’,” she admits early…
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Emus Fly North in Winter: A Memoir by Paul Drewitt

A stark, inspiring memoir of grit, quiet triumph, and the slow art of rebuilding a life. Drewitt delivers a gripping, unsentimental account of survival and self-reinvention, tracing his remarkable rise from drug-addled drifter to an accomplished teacher. Growing up amid…
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The Lie That Changed Everything: The Memoir of a Little Rascal (Confessions from the Silence Book 1) by Gary Trew

Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. In his compelling memoir, Trew delivers a blisteringly funny and unsettling portrait of a childhood forged from mischief, trauma, and a haunting lie. From the opening pages, when he describes his chaotic breech birth and…
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Just Play Like You Do in the Basement: Coming of Age as the Drummer for the Greatest Entertainer in the World by Rick Porrello

Candid, rhythmic, and deeply human… In this absorbing memoir, Porrello revisits his unlikely journey from a Cleveland basement drum room to touring with Sammy Davis Jr., one of the most electrifying entertainers of the 20th century. The youngest in a…