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Carrie Fisher reflects on her teenage years, early fame, and the impact of her love for science‑fiction, captured in unpublished journals that reveal her humor, vulnerability, and personal struggles.

Amanda Lindhout’s memoir chronicles her daring travels across the globe, her fifteen‑month captivity in Somalia, and her transformation into a force for hope and education in the Horn of Africa.

Shane Dawson’s new essay collection chronicles a mix of personal moments—both extraordinary and mortifying—filled with humor, heart, and sharp observations of millennial life.

Barbara Ehrenreich revisits her teenage journals to trace a personal journey from scientific curiosity to mystical encounters, blending memoir with philosophical inquiry.

A humorous memoir by a hotel employee that shows what happens behind the scenes

A practical guide that equips readers with conversational techniques for professional networking, social events, and everyday interactions.

Jessi Klein’s witty memoir follows her coming‑of‑age journey as a tomboy, late-blooming comedian, and woman navigating modern femininity, sexuality, and the quirks of everyday life.

Commander Mark Bishop leads the ballistic‑missile submarine USS Nevada while a scientist’s breakthrough threatens to change submarine warfare.

Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir traces her journey from a Bronx housing project to becoming the first Hispanic woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, revealing the grit, mentorship, and self‑belief that propelled her success.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

After a severe head injury at twenty-two, Su Meck loses all memory of herself and her life, rebuilding her identity from observation and routine as she struggles to live as a wife and mother while revisiting the losses of her new existence years later.

"Drawing on extensive social psychology research, and the author's training and clinical experience in Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, The Anxiety Toolkit offers actionable strategies that anyone can use to manage their anxiety--both personal and professional. Anxious people often think a great deal about why they think and behave the way they do. They seek self-improvement information yet often get stuck in applying it. They read popular self-help books for anxiety, but these books are highly simplified, to the extent readers can't make the leap from the examples in the books to their more complex real world problems. They turn to business books because they're motivated to achieve greater success, but since these books don't address the reasons anxious people get stuck, they're not especially helpful. The Anxiety Toolkit provides the information anxious people look for but can't find. It draws on extensive social psychology research, and the author's training and clinical experience in Cognitive-Behavioral psychology, addressing the core problems that impede people who are anxious--inhibition, biased thinking, rumination, intolerance of uncertainty, excessive responsibility taking, self-criticism, perfectionism, and avoidance coping--and providing readers with the tools to manage these tendencies"--

Robin Rinaldi, a 44‑year‑old San Francisco magazine journalist, spends a year living in an open marriage—juggling weekend family life with weekday explorations of sexuality and intimacy—before confronting the limits of her own desires.

Debbie Reynolds shares her life story in this definitive memoir, offering an intimate look at her journey from child star to Hollywood icon.

Dana Perino, former Bush administration press secretary, shares the life lessons that guided her through adversity and her rise to the White House, offering practical tips on communication and civility.