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A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026
From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.
A Memoir
Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026
From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.
Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: May 2026
The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.
A Memoir
Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.
Driving Myself Sane
Hardcover: Mar 2026
In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West's ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.
A Memoir
Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Love Stories from the Front Lines of America's Caregiving Crisis
Hardcover: Feb 2026
An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners.
My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Feb 2026
"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me."
An African Childhood
Hardcover: Jan 2026
An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa―complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.
A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
Hardcover: Jan 2026
A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss.
Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
Hardcover: Dec 2025
The definitive biography of overlooked queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, whose fight to publish James Joyce's Ulysses led to her arrest and trial for obscenity. Perfect for fans of The Editor and The Book-Makers.
A Life Reimagined
Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Nov 2026
The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.
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