Biography and Memoir
March 2023
Recent Releases
Spare
by Harry

With its raw, unflinching honesty, Prince Harry's memoir in which he discusses the effect of his mother Princess Diana's death on his life is full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
We were dreamers : an immigrant superhero origin story
by Simu Liu

The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, in this candid, inspiring and relatable memoir, tells his own origin story and how he embarked on a journey that took him far outside of his comfort zone into the world of show business.
Lost & found : a memoir
by Kathryn Schulz

A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize brilliantly explores of the role that loss and discovering play in all of our lives, in this part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.
The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I
by Lindsey Fitzharris

This real-life wartime medical thriller, showing what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of horror, follows pioneering plastic surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies, who after the First World War, dedicated himself to restoring the broken and burned faces of the injured soldiers under his care.
Grace : President Obama and ten days in the battle for America
by Cody Keenan

The former chief speechwriter for President Obama provides an account of 10 days in his presidency in June 2015 in the shadow of a racist massacre in Charleston and two impending Supreme Court decisions.
If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen

In a shocking true-crime story, three sisters form an unbreakable bond to survive their sadistic mother’s abuse, degradation, torture and psychic terrors, finding the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that resulted in multiple murders.
The Last Days
by Ali Millar

Ali Millar is waiting for Armageddon. Born into the Jehovah's Witnesses in a town in the Scottish Borders, her childhood revolves around regular meetings in the Kingdom Hall, where she is haunted by vivid images of the Second Coming, her mind populated by the bodies that will litter the earth upon Jehovah's return. In this frightening, cloistered world Ali grows older. As she does, she starts to question the ways of the Witnesses, and their control over the most intimate aspects of her life. As she marries and has a daughter within the religion, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into its dark undertow, her mind tormented by one question: is it possible to escape the life you are born into? A tale of love and darkness, of faith and absolution, The Last Days is an unforgettable memoir of one woman's courageous journey to freedom.
I Was Never Here : My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffees, Code Names, and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism
by Andrew Kirsch

Dispelling myths along the way, an ex-covert special operations lead with Canada’s Security Intelligence Service reveals what life as a spy is really like, sharing his on-the-ground experience of becoming a CSIS member and how he rose up the ranks to leading missions.
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