Biographies and Memoirs that Inspire, Challenge, and Empower

11 Oct 2025

Biographies and Memoirs that Inspire, Challenge, and Empower

Discover the stories of innovators, artists, and changemakers who reshaped history. These biographies prove that greatness often begins with ordinary people daring to dream big.

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Sober! A Life Beyond Pain

by Symon Cope

Release Date: October 3, 2025

The third memoir details the author’s challenging first 90 days of recovery from mental ill-health and addiction. With AA support, the author confronts destructive behaviour, recounting stories that highlight the need for change. Through sobriety, the author discovers resilience, showing that recovery and mental health can be managed by everyone.

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Seth Klarman: Margin of safety

by Thomas Bradley

Release Date: September 11, 2025

Seth Klarman is a legendary yet enigmatic figure in modern finance. As the founder of The Baupost Group, he transformed a modest partnership into one of the world’s most respected investment firms, stewarding tens of billions with uncommon discipline. His out-of-print 1991 classic, Margin of Safety, has become one of the most sought-after investment books of all time, a reflection of the timelessness of his philosophy.

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Six-Figure Chicks, Scottsdale

by Mel Carr

Release Date: September 28, 2025

In this powerful edition, 18 high-achieving women from Scottsdale share their personal journeys to earning six figures and beyond while redefining success on their own terms. These are stories of resilience, reinvention, and rising above doubt to create thriving careers and businesses. Six-Figure Chicks is more than a book—it’s a movement.

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Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender

by James Romm

Release Date: September 30, 2025

In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a town in central Greece, a base from which he could march on Athens. In the fierce debates about how to respond to the rising threat in the north, Demosthenes, the greatest orator of his day, convinced the Athenian Assembly to confront Philip on the field of battle. Though that effort failed and Athens fell into the grip of Alexander the Great, Philip’s son and successor, Demosthenes had established himself as one of history’s most eloquent defenders of democracy.

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Last Ship to Freedom

by Tamara Buzyna Adams

Release Date: September 17, 2025

As the Russian Civil War reached its final, tumultuous stages, 11-year-old Lydia Komarkoff and her parents had already spent 11 months living aboard the steamship Kherson adrift in the Black Sea, seeking refuge from the chaos engulfing their homeland. But on November 14, 1920, their fate took a drastic turn. Swept up in a mass exodus, they joined 150,000 desperate refugees fleeing Crimea, crammed onto 126 vessels in a frantic bid for survival.

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The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey through the Middle East

by Amjad Tadros

Release Date: October 1, 2025

Dive into the heart of the Middle East with The Fixer, Amjad M. Tadros’s gripping memoir of life as a CBS News “fixer.” A Jordanian son of Palestinian refugees, Tadros survived a U.S. missile strike in Baghdad, only to be visited by Saddam Hussein in his hospital bed. From tracking 9/11 hijackers’ origins to witnessing the Arab Spring’s broken dreams, he navigated wars, dictators, and hope with a front-row seat to history.

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