Lives Behind the Headlines: 6 Biographies & Memoirs to Read
30 May 2025
Lives Behind the Headlines: 6 Biographies & Memoirs to Read
These six biographies and memoirs break barriers and defy stereotypes, offering stories that challenge norms and celebrate the complexity of human experience.
It Worked For Me: My Life Seizing Opportunity and Building Success
by Jeff Burgess
Release Date: April 3, 2025
What if one conversation could change your entire life? If you’ve ever felt stuck, uncertain, or like success was just out of reach, this book will show you how to seize your own turning point. Are you ready to take charge of your future? Pick up a copy today! 100% of It Worked for Me proceeds go directly to the Wounded Warrior Project!
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Let’s Choose Less: A Young Family’s Guide to Simply Living
by Jenna Michael
Release Date: April 13, 2025
Let’s Choose Less is a practical and encouraging lifestyle manual for moms who want to simplify family life. Written by Jenna Michael, a stay-at-home mom of four, it chronicles her family’s journey toward reducing clutter and commitments in favor of a more intentional, peaceful way of living.
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Yet Here I Am
by Jonathan Capehart
Release Date: May 20, 2025
Yet Here I Am takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton College, where he learns to embrace his identity as a gay Black man surrounded by a likeminded community; to his decision to come out to his family, risking rejection; and finally to his move to New York City, where time and again he stumbles and picks himself up as he blazes a path to become the familiar face in news we know today.
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Uncommon Favor
by Dawn Staley
Release Date: May 20, 2025
A three-time Olympic gold medalist, six-time WNBA All-Star, and the first person to win the Naismith College Player of the Year award as both a player and coach, Staley has shattered expectations at every level of the game. While her name resonates with both longtime WNBA fans and newcomers, she has kept her personal life private.
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Class Clown: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
by Dave Barry
Release Date: May 13, 2025
In Class Clown, Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious ride, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment—there was no internet—and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. After literally getting elected class clown in high school, he went to college, where, as an English major, he read snippets of great literature when he was not busy playing in a rock band (it was the sixties).
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Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce
Release Date: May 13, 2025
An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.
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