16 May 2025
Unscripted & Unforgettable: 6 New Biographies & Memoirs That Hit Deep
These six memoirs cut through the noise with raw honesty and unforgettable storytelling. From quiet revelations to public reckonings, each life on this list proves that truth is more powerful than fiction. Craving something real? Start reading now.
Past the Oath: Darkness to Deliverance
by Lee R. Roberts
Release Date: April 28, 2025
Darkness surrounded me long before I knew its name. From a childhood marked by fear, confusion, and unseen battles, I grew up searching for meaning, power, and peace, but always in the wrong places. Culture, entertainment, and empty promises of belonging offered quick answers, but each step only led me deeper into spiritual deception. When I entered Freemasonry, I thought I had finally found the truth I was desperate for. Instead, I discovered another layer of the trap, hidden chains that bound my heart & soul even tighter.
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
The Pit: The True Crime Story of Six Women, One Monster, and the Nightmare Below
by Ryan Green
Release Date: May 11, 2025
He called it salvation. They called it hell. By day, Gary Heidnik was a man of God with money, charisma, and a growing congregation. But behind closed doors, he was building a torture chamber by hand and filling it with women. His victims were some of society’s most vulnerable. He lured them with promises of food, safety, and salvation. Instead, they were shackled in the basement, starved, raped, and beaten into silence. Heidnik controlled everything: their pain, their survival, their very breath.
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
by Becky Aikman
Release Date: May 6, 2025
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they were denied the opportunity to fly for their country when the United States entered the Second World War. But Great Britain, desperately fighting for survival, would let anyone-even Americans, even women-transport warplanes. Thus, twenty-five daring young aviators bolted for England in 1942, becoming the first American women to command military aircraft.
A Second Shot: The Pursuit of Justice in Maryland’s Oldest Cold Case Murder
by Michael F. Weisberg
Release Date: April 25, 2025
In 1971, Montgomery County Deputy Sheriff James Tappen Hall was gunned down outside a Maryland country club. The case went cold—no suspect, no answers, no closure. Fifty years later, cold case detectives reopened the investigation and identified a suspect whose shocking confession revealed a detail never released to the public: Hall was shot twice. A Second Shot by Dr. Michael Weisberg is a gripping true crime story of justice delayed but not denied—and a deeply personal tale of second chances for both a grieving family and the author himself.
Accidentally on Purpose
by Kristen Kish
Release Date: April 22, 2025
Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name—not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even when she finally found her true calling as a chef. In those early days, becoming a chef meant tethering oneself to a restaurant and working in the back of a kitchen, not a television set. But working in the spotlight happened naturally, even if the attention was totally unanticipated. And like most things in Kristen’s life, the road was so much more winding and complicated than it may have appeared from the outside.
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