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I Will Scream to the World: My Story. My Fight. My Hope for Girls Everywhere.

Jaha Marie Dukureh - Dafina
Format: Hardcover

This extraordinary memoir details the monumental journey of one young Gambian woman from survivor of FGM and forced child marriage, to global activist and political leader who became UN Women's first Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People,...
 
 
The Book Against Death

Elias Canetti - New Directions
Format: Paperback

The Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a "mortal enemy" of death -- and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subjectThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often...
 
 
Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape

Rémy Ngamije - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant and brilliant new collection of award-winning short fiction from the acclaimed author of the "charming, witty, and incredibly humane" (The Pittsburgh Gazette) debut The Eternal Audience of One.. Presented as a literary mixtape, Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space...
 
 
The Mourner's Bestiary

Eiren Caffall - Row House Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. "Caffall brilliantly parallels her family's suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a flicker of hope...
 
 
My Time to Stand: A Memoir

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard shares the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows.A victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's unique and controversial...
 
 
Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation―and Created a Legend

Joe Pappalardo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers -- and their violent adventures in Wild West America.. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three...
 
 
Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir (Machete)

Patricia Coral - Mad Creek Books
Format: Paperback

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined paths on an island that itself has never been free. At age twenty-five, she married her first...
 
 
Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022

Orhan Pamuk - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The journals of the Nobel Prize-winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings. For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks...
 
 
Inheriting Magic: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magical

Jennifer Love Hewitt - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

When she lost her mother to cancer, everything changed for Jennifer Love Hewitt.. In the pages of Inheriting Magic, she recounts her journey, sharing memories, photographs, recipes, and the magic-making ethos of a self-proclaimed "Holiday Junkie.". A heartfelt, candid chronicle...
 
 
Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries

Maureen Sullivan - Merrion Press
Format: Paperback

A compelling new memoir by one of the youngest-known survivors of Ireland' s infamous Magdalene laundries. Sullivan has been interviews extensively in the national media about her harrowing experiences. She discussed her ongoing fight for justice in RTÉ ' s 2022 documentary Ireland'...