No Filters: Bold Biography & Memoir Picks
24 Jan 2026
No Filters: Bold Biography & Memoir Picks
Discover Biography and Memoir books that tell the truth without polishing the edges. These raw, deeply personal stories explore identity, survival, and transformation. Ideal for readers who crave authenticity and emotional depth.
Baseball Imposters: The Dark Side of Fandom
by Rob Sheinkopf
Release Date: November 4, 2025
This is a non-fiction narrative of men falsely claiming to be former Major League Baseball players. BASEBALL IMPOSTERS describes real events with actual individuals, whose names have been changed, in a compelling, entertaining, and eye-opening view of a disturbing and persistent phenomenon that extends beyond baseball into the human experience.
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The Bookie
by Art Manteris
Release Date: January 13, 2026
More than fifty-million people in the U.S. now bet on sports, and the many apps now available have put the excitement of this world at fans’ fingertips. But before FanDuel and DraftKings, Las Vegas was where fortunes were won and lost. For more than forty years, Art Manteris was at the center of the action.
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Don’t Talk About Joe Mac
by Springs Toledo
Release Date: January 8, 2026
Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and its most ominous figure – his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him.
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Fallen Hollywood
by Keli Noury
Release Date: December 28, 2025
Fallen Hollywood reveals the true stories that studios worked desperately to conceal. From Betty Hutton’s devastating collapse after superstardom to Peter Duel’s shocking death at the height of fame. From the emotional scars left by Joan Crawford’s ruthless parenting, to Margaux Hemingway’s tragic final days, and Rock Hudson’s courageous battle with AIDS that shattered Hollywood’s carefully crafted illusions.
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Summer Under the Blue Moon
by Dale Cassady
Release Date: January 15, 2026
When Dale, a college sorority girl, falls in love with a handsome fraternity boy, her life is upended by an unplanned pregnancy. Shattered by additional tragedy, she’s supported by her friends. Her parents play a crucial role, helping her maneuver the strange world of Catholic maternity homes and adoption agencies in mid-century America.
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The Pain Brokers
by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Release Date: January 13, 2026
Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady doctors, and profit-hungry lawyers who turned fears surrounding a faulty medical device affecting millions of women into a goldmine.
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