The Long Road Home: Biographies & Memoirs That Tell the Whole Story

22 Aug 2025

The Long Road Home: Biographies & Memoirs That Tell the Whole Story

More than accomplishments, these biographies uncover the desires, doubts, and defining choices of their subjects, showing history through flesh as much as fact.

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Suck Less, Laugh More

by Brian Gray

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Written by a father, for fathers, Suck Less, Laugh More is a playbook for unlocking your full potential as a father, a man, and a leader in your own life. Because fatherhood isn’t just about your kids. It’s about the man you’re becoming.

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Impressionable

by Hellary Nicole and Helary Escobar

Release Date: August 6, 2025

Helen always thought love meant sacrifice. That being “good” meant being quiet. That enduring pain was just part of belonging. But after years of bending herself into someone else’s idea of worthiness, she’s left asking the question she was never allowed to voice: Who am I, when I’m no longer trying to be who they need?

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Back When Consequences Weren’t Optional

by Matt Harr

Release Date: August 1, 2025

From dusty backyards to championship sidelines, Matt Harr spent 35 years coaching, teaching, and parenting across four generations of kids—watching toughness, grit, and resilience slowly give way to comfort, convenience, and complaint emails. This brutally honest and often hilarious memoir takes readers on a journey through the good, the bad, and the unprintable moments of youth sports and growing up in a time when kids solved problems with scraped knees and pickup games, not participation trophies.

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The Novel of Maralyn and Maurice Bailey

by Donna E. Teller

Release Date: August 11, 2025

The ocean can be breathtaking… but it can also be merciless. For Maralyn and Maurice Bailey, what began as a dream voyage turned into an extraordinary fight for survival — a true story that will leave you breathless and inspired. They set sail across the vast Pacific, expecting days filled with freedom and wonder. Instead, an unexpected disaster left them stranded in the middle of nowhere, far from any hope of rescue. With only a small liferaft, scarce supplies, and each other, they faced the unthinkable: days turning into weeks, surrounded only by endless water and the will to live.

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After The Flame

by Abbey Alexander

Release Date: August 14, 2025

At just eighteen years old, Abbey was riding a moped with her best friend through the streets of Cambodia when the world exploded. In an instant, she was on fire. Burned over 30 percent of her body and stranded thousands of miles from home, she was thrown into a medical nightmare: makeshift clinics, language barriers, embassy red tape, and the long, excruciating wait for a medevac team to get her out alive.

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Walked with Empty Pockets, Returned with a Full Soul

by Dr Ashish Alok

Release Date: August 7, 2025

Walked with Empty Pockets, Returned with a Full Soul is not a travelogue—it is a journey of the soul wrapped in the realities of everyday life. It speaks to all those in the working years of their lives who are juggling careers, families, failures, pressures, and silent prayers. For everyone who is trying to move forward but keeps feeling stuck, this book is a quiet companion and a spiritual mirror.

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