These biographies and memoirs focus on the cost behind achievement. Through candid reflection and emotional honesty, they explore ambition, sacrifice, and the unseen labor of building a life. A compelling read for fans of grounded, revealing nonfiction.
Eagle 12
by Lamar D. Vine
Release Date: February 8, 2026
Inspired by true events, in 1991, a desperate twenty-one-year-old throws the ultimate Hail Mary: the shortest Army enlistment he can find, chasing benefits and escape from a crumbling life back home—divorce, fatherhood, endless money drains. He lands in steamy Panama on Military Police Investigator duty in the humid aftermath of Operation Just Cause.
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Traversal
by Maria Popova
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In Traversal, Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive—our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems—through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history.
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Remember the Times
by Teddy Riley
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Since the early ’80s, Teddy Riley has revolutionized the music industry, from his creation of New Jack Swing to his work in R&B, hip-hop, gospel, soul, and pop that forever changed the industry. His profound influence still resonates today, and he has been inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame, awarded the Soul Train Legend Award, and given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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We the Women
by Norah O’Donnell
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O’Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women’s stories. Now, in honor of America’s 250th birthday, O’Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.
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A World Appears
by Michael Pollan
Release Date: February 24, 2026
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.
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You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It
by Lisa Rinna
Release Date: February 24, 2026
For decades, Lisa Rinna has been captivating audiences—whether as a soap opera icon, reality TV powerhouse, fearless social media provocateur or slaying in haute couture down the catwalks of Paris. But even though she’s always said it like she means it, there’s still so much more to the woman whose lips launched a thousand memes.
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