09 May 2025
Quiet Reflections, Loud Truths: 6 Memoirs That Redefine Resilience
These aren’t just tales of hardship—they’re blueprints for survival. In these six gripping memoirs, individuals rise from trauma, loss, and adversity to rebuild with courage and grit. You’ll cry, cheer, and walk away changed.

Eclipse of the Mourning Star
by Robert Eujean Ogden
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Eclipse of the Mourning Star is a powerfully emotional coming-of-age memoir, equal parts gutting and humorous in its recounting of murder, racial healing, glamour, romance, and even black holes. Including chapter illustrations by thirty-three world-renowned artists.
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Karen: A Brother Remembers
by Kelsey Grammer
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Karen by Kelsey Grammer delves into the tragic story of the author’s sister, Karen, who was brutally murdered at the age of eighteen. Kelsey was just twenty years old when his younger sister, a recent high school graduate, moved to Colorado Springs, where she was kidnapped by several men who had intended to rob the Red Lobster where she worked. They instead kidnapped Karen, raped her, and ultimately stabbed her to death.
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The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football
by Bill Belichick
Release Date: May 6, 2025
No one embodies winning more than Bill Belichick, the greatest football coach of all time. Over the past fifty years, Belichick has been a man of notoriously few words, believing that a coach should keep a low profile. After he left the Patriots in 2024, he briefly became a coach without a team. He spent that year writing down the principles he learned from his father, Navy football, and from his forty-nine-year coaching career.
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This American Woman
by Zarna Garg
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Throughout Zarna’s whole childhood in India, everyone called her “so American” just for reading the newspaper, having deep thoughts, and talking back to anyone over the age of thirty. When Zarna’s dad tried to marry her off at age fourteen, Zarna fled—first to the streets of Mumbai and ultimately to the glittering paradise of Akron, Ohio, where she got to become American for real.
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The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
by Melinda Gates
Release Date: April 15, 2025
In this book, Melinda will reflect, for the first time in print, on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more.
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Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
by Amanda Hess
Release Date: May 6, 2025
As an internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess had built a reputation among readers as a sharp observer of the seductions and manipulations of online life. But when Hess discovered she was pregnant with her first child, she found herself unexpectedly rattled by a digital identity crisis of her own.
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