Biographies & Memoirs Spring 2023
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Surrender
A Few Days Full of Trouble
Bono
Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson
HC: 978-0-525-52104-4 Knopf | 1,000,000 Available Now Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
Honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life Bono has lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. Click for more information.
HC: 978-0-593-13426-9 One World | 30,000 On Sale January 10, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
Rough Sleepers
Lamya H
HC: 978-1-9848-0143-2 Random House | 100,000 On Sale January 17, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-0-593-44876-2 The Dial Press | 30,000 On Sale February 7, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by The last surviving witness to the lynching helping to create a program to care for of Emmett Till tells his story, with Boston’s homeless community—by poignant recollections of Emmett as a the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York boy, critical insights into the recent Times bestselling author of investigation, and powerful lessons for Mountains Beyond Mountains. racial reckoning, both then and now. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and inspiration from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
The Body Liberation Project
Undercooked
Chrissy King
HC: 978-0-593-24079-3 Crown | 75,000 On Sale March 21, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
We Should Not Be Friends
The Other Family Doctor
Will Schwalbe
Karen Fine
HC: 978-0-525-65493-3 Knopf | 50,000 On Sale February 21, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-0-593-46689-6 Anchor | 75,000 On Sale March 14, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and lifechanging college friendship over the course of forty years—from the bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club.
All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian in a field dominated by men, and how, through her work both with her patients and their people, she comes to better understand the unique role animals play in our lives.
From Chrissy King, an exciting, genreredefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice, and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary.
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Hijab Butch Blues
Tracy Kidder
HC: 978-0-593-18704-3 Tiny Reparations Books | 30,000 On Sale March 14, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
Dan Ahdoot
A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule—and sometimes ruin—his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network's Raid the Fridge.
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Biographies & Memoirs Spring 2023
George VI and Elizabeth
I Can't Save You
The Dead are Gods
Sally Bedell Smith
Anthony Chin-Quee
Eirinie Carson
HC: 978-0-525-51163-2 Random House | 50,000 On Sale April 4, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-0-593-41888-8 Riverhead Books | 30,000 On Sale April 4, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-1-68589-045-2 Melville House | 75,000 On Sale April 11, 2023 Also Available in eBook Edition
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II.
The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward. Click for more information.
From an exciting new literary voice: a memoir that explores grief, Blackness, and recovery after the death of a dear friend. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
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I Swear
In Our Shoes Brianna Holt TR: 978-0-593-18639-8 Plume | 25,000 On Sale April 11, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Edition A memoir-in-essays about black millennial women and the stereotypes and preconceived notions they are expected to live up to, examined through the lens of Brianna’s lived experience and pop culture to help readers unlearn their biases and expand their worldviews.
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The Best Minds
Mott Street
Wild Dances
Jonathan Rosen
Ava Chin
William Lee Adams
HC: 978-0-593-44398-9 Crown | 75,000 On Sale April 11, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-1-59420-657-3 Penguin Press | 50,000 On Sale April 18, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-0-525-55737-1 Penguin Press | 50,000 On Sale April 25, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-1-66260-157-6 Astra House | 75,000 On Sale May 9, 2023 Also Available in eBook Edition
An honest, inspiring, and laugh-outloud funny memoir about reenergizing our politics and standing up to corporate America—while carting three kids around in a minivan.
Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.
From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow, comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family’s epic journey to lay down roots in America.
Katie Porter
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For fans of Crying in H Mart and Priestdaddy; How a misunderstood queer biracial kid in small-town Georgia became a Eurovision Song Contest commentator; A memoir combining race, glitz, glamour, geopolitics, and the power of pop music. Click for more information.