Looking for something different from your usual fiction? These Biographies & Memoirs bring together personal accounts and portraits of lives worth discovering. Their stories explore the experiences, decisions, and moments that help define a person’s journey. Keep these books in mind when you want your next read to be rooted in real life.
Keep Calm & Bollocks On
by Liezl Stylo
Release Date: July 6, 2026
Motherhood: beautiful, chaotic, and occasionally batshit. Keep Calm & Bollocks On is your funny, brutally honest survival guide for the sleepless nights, rage, guilt, identity crises, and WTF moments. No perfect-mum nonsense. No bullshit. Just humour, honesty, and a reminder that you’re not failing—you’re human. Laugh, breathe, bollocks on.
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The Milk Can: When The Test Came Back Positive
by Mary Johnston
Release Date: July 26, 2026
Some marriages don’t survive infidelity. Some do—but only barely, and never the same. And then there are the ones that become something no one could have scripted. Mary’s marriage should not have survived. The affairs. The lies. The HIV scare that shook everything to its foundation. The slow, painful work of rebuilding trust—not once, but twice. By every human measure, it was over. But God.
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‘Round the Bend
by Valorie Stafford Lurry
Release Date: August 17, 2026
What began as an ordinary Saturday morning became a life-altering fight for survival. In 1999, fourteen-year-old Val was abducted at gunpoint from her own home and endured unimaginable trauma. But ‘Round the Bend is more than the story of a horrific crime. It is the story of what came after.
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Legends, Laws, Legacy: Where Did I Leave Off? (Attorney to the Stars Book 2)
by Clair Burrill
Release Date: August 6, 2026
Step inside the world of Clair Burrill—where John Candy throws pizza parties for film crews, Conan O’Brien smashes plates in a Harvard ritual, and legal showdowns with rock stars unfold behind closed doors. Legends, Laws, Legacy takes readers beyond the red carpet and into the personal, professional, and unpredictable journey of an entertainment attorney.
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The 24/7 CEO
by David J. Moore
Release Date: September 1, 2026
David J. Moore’s company went from a $1.8 billion market cap to penny stock territory in months. With 400 employees laid off, a stock price under a dollar, and auditors issuing a “going concern” opinion that signaled imminent failure, even his own leadership team wanted to discuss bankruptcy.
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Notes of Deception
by Merryl Goldberg
Release Date: August 25, 2026
In 1985, while the United States engaged in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, four Americans landed in Moscow on a mission to smuggle secret information in and out using music as their cipher. Under the watchful eye of the KGB, the group faced countless challenges and risks—because they weren’t trained in espionage.
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