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Must-Read Biography Books | May 2022

Must-Read Biography Books | May 2022

In the mood for a new biography or memoir? Check out these instant bestsellers by Tammy Tyree, Laurel Slyck, and more. Enjoy your new non-fiction picks!


Dead Men Still Snore

by Tammy Tyree

Release Date: February 25, 2022

“This book was truly a team effort between myself and my late husband, Michael, after his death. Through the sharing of our beautiful love story, tragic ending and subsequent communication with Michael on the ‘other side’, I could heal, inspire and comfort others who have loved and lost by sharing Michael’s message of what life is like after death.”

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Did Anyone Tell You This Was Going to Be Easy?

by Laurel Slyck

Release Date: March 15, 2022

Post-pandemic blahs got you looking for something you can’t quite define? Are ready to read an inspirational book about overcoming the feeling of being stuck? Check out ‘Did Anyone Tell You This Was Going to Be Easy?’ and travel with the author as she experiences and overcomes heartache, loss, and pain using running as a place she can go to gather strength until it becomes a part of her.

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Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

by Melissa Gilbert

Release Date: May 10, 2022

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Murder in the Neighborhood: The true story of America’s first recorded mass shooting

by Ellen J. Green

Release Date: April 28, 2022

On 6 September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has never been told, until now.

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Ali’s Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration

by Ali Wentworth

Release Date: May 10, 2022

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.

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A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

by Mark T. Esper

Release Date: May 10, 2022

Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration.

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