Discover Inspiring True Stories With These Biographies & Memoirs!

07 Dec 2022

Discover Inspiring True Stories With These Biographies & Memoirs!

Looking for a new biography or memoir book to get invested in this December? Then look no further! Check out our picks for this week’s must-read biography and memoir books. Happy Reading!

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A Nice Place Full of Good People

by Andrew Rivas

Release Date: December 6, 2022

A Nice Place Full of Good People is the story about the seventeen days I spent being illegally held in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, what drove me there, and the friends I made along the way. I hope you find peace, healing, and even laughter in this insightful and candidly open memoir about one man’s journey to the edge and back.

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Just Smile

by Abby Hegewald

Release Date: December 5, 2022

“When cancer swooped in to try to kill my husband, I couldn’t believe that I was finally in a stage of my marriage that I no longer wanted to kill him myself.” Laced with humor and hope, Just Smile weaves together the complexity of a life that ended too soon with threads of faith, family, and community. Ultimately it’s a reminder that sometimes the way to handle hard things is to smile through them.

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Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

by Nick Hornby

Release Date: November 15, 2022

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity,and Fever Pitch,a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince

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Anxiously Ever After

by Clint Edwards

Release Date: November 8, 2022

In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father’s battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother’s undiagnosed mental illness.

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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

by Brigitta Olubas

Release Date: November 15, 2022

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard’s authorized biographer, has drawn, with great subtlety and understanding, on her fiction (itself largely based on Hazzard’s own experience); on an extensive archive of letters, diaries, and notebooks; and on the memories of surviving friends and colleagues to create this resonant portrait of an exceptional woman.

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Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

by Jenni Quilter

Release Date: December 6, 2022

With nuance, empathy, and a fierce intellect, Quilter asks urgent questions about what it means to desire a child and how much freedom reproductive technologies actually offer. Her writing embraces the complexities of motherhood and the humanity of IVF: the waiting rooms, the message boards, and the genetic permutations of what a thoroughly modern family might mean.

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