14 Mar 2025
6 New Memoirs to Pick You Back Up Off of Your Feet
Life can knock us down, but the right story can lift us back up. These six new memoirs are filled with resilience, wisdom, and inspiration—perfect for when you need a reminder that you’re not alone. From powerful personal journeys to lessons learned through struggle, these reads will leave you feeling motivated, understood, and ready to take on whatever comes next.
I Was Born Poor, I Was Born Black, And I Was Born in Mississippi
by Ron Anderson
Release Date: November 3 2024
This is an unsparing portrait of a black American athlete’s life in the Mississippi Delta and the greater landscape of the African American experience in the Deep South. It depicts the weight of reality in fighting against a system marked with poverty, racism, and social injustice, and highlights post-Jackie Robinson’s period of non-acceptance.
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Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
by Peter Wolf
Release Date: March 11 2025
In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood’s I Am a Camera and Truman Capote’s The Dogs Bark, Waiting on the Moon is a treasure trove of vignettes from a legendary musical figure whose career spans more than six decades and is still going strong.
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Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
by Sarah L. Blum
Release Date: March 6 2025
People and veterans with PTSD need to know someone has been through it and come out whole on the other side. They need to believe they can heal and be better than they are when in the throes of their symptoms. They need hope and guidance. Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing gives them both.
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Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
by Dylan Mulvaney
Release Date: March 11 2025
In Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, Dylan pulls back the curtain of her “It Girl” lifestyle with a witty and intimate reflection of her life pre- and post-transition. She covers everything from her first big break in theater to the first time her dad recognized her as a girl to how she handled scandals, cancellations, and . . . tucking.
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Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People
by Dalai Lama
Release Date: March 11 2025
In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections—some never shared before—His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.
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Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy
by Michael Kosta
Release Date: March 11 2025
From a host of The Daily Show and stand-up comic, Michael Kosta, comes a wildly funny and insightful memoir about his unlikely journey from professional tennis player (#864 in the world) to professional comedian (there’s no ranking system in comedy but he’s probably . . . top 50?).
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