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    More Than a Name: Biographies & Memoirs That Redefine Legacy

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    More Than a Name: Biographies & Memoirs That Redefine Legacy

    11 Jul 2025

    More Than a Name: Biographies & Memoirs That Redefine Legacy

    What we think we know isn’t the full story. These biographies go beyond headlines and highlight reels to explore the hidden truths, private struggles, and defining moments that shaped public lives. Through raw, revealing accounts, they challenge our assumptions about fame, power, and the legacies we leave behind.


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    The Days I Didn’t Break: How I Stayed Standing When Life Tried to Crush Me

    by John Walker

    Release Date: June 23, 2025

    Some stories shout. This one bleeds. The Days I Didn’t Break is for those who kept going with no applause, no rescue, just quiet strength. It’s not a comeback story. It’s a survival one. For every silent battle, every tear no one saw—if you’re still standing, this book is for you.

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    On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports

    by Christine Brennan

    Release Date: July 8, 2025

    A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history—by award-winning USA TODAY columnist and television commentator Christine Brennan.

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    The Jailhouse Lawyer

    by Calvin Duncan & Sophie Cull

    Release Date: July 8, 2025

    Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn’t commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense system and a badly compromised witness, Duncan was left to rot in the waking nightmare of confinement. Armed with little education, he took matters into his own hands.

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    The Road Less Worn

    by Erin Flynn

    Release Date: July 8, 2025

    In her debut memoir, The Road Less Worn, Flynn sorts through snapshots of her life—from her roots as an athlete in a small Midwest town to her career as an entrepreneur and author—discovering that much of what she held onto, both in her wardrobe and life, was never truly her own.

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    Because This Is Texas

    by Clara Sneed

    Release Date: June 17, 2025

    Written by a family descendant with exclusive access to private archives, Clara Sneed’s non-fiction account of the Sneed-Boyce feud—now published for the first time in book form—tells of a love affair so passionate it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns, of three families and a society consumed by the fallout, and of a marriage that ultimately survived adultery.

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    Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World

    by Gisele Barreto Fetterman

    Release Date: July 8, 2025

    An inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength—vulnerability—and how we can all harness it to effect meaningful change.

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