Biography and Memoir

Finding the Funny: My Mad Ride Thru Late-Night Comedy

Publication Date: 03/02/2027

Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator and original executive producer of The Daily Show, takes readers on a VIP backstage tour as she relives some of the most seminal moments in late-night comedy. For more than four decades, Madeleine Smithberg helped shape the world of late-night comedy from behind the scenes. A three-time…

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Too Bad About That: Caregiving—The Midlife Crisis No One Wants to Talk About

Publication Date: 02/23/2027

A darkly funny memoir about caregiving, grief, and everything life refuses to put on hold. Heartbreak and humor. Sometimes on the same page. When Elizabeth Humphreys’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, life doesn’t politely step aside. There are children to raise, a marriage to protect, dreams to pursue, impossible medical…

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Out of Focus: The Story of a “Good Girl” Who Fell—and the God Who Never Let Go

Publication Date: 02/23/2027

Hidden struggles and public failure shattered the image Shannon Stewart worked so hard to maintain and led her into an unexpected journey of grace, healing, and redemption. Shannon Stewart spent years building a life that looked beautiful from the outside. After rising to fame on America’s Next Top Model, she…

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Carnival Ghosts: A Memoir of Life, Loss, and Rebirth with Little Feat

Publication Date: 02/16/2027

Carnival Ghosts is the long-awaited memoir by keyboard legend and Little Feat co-founder Bill Payne, a musician’s musician whose extraordinary career spans six decades and counting. A grade school piano prodigy who would grow up to become one of the greatest rock and roll keyboardists in history, Bill Payne has…

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From Survival to Service: A Memoir of Resilience, Justice, and Advocacy

Publication Date: 02/16/2027

An unforgettable journey through trauma, resilience, and the search for meaning beyond survival. From the outside, Sayeh Rivazfar’s childhood looked ordinary enough. Shared birthday cakes. Apartment complexes filled with children playing under the Florida sun. Sisters whispering secrets after the lights went out. But behind closed doors lived instability, fear,…

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Loretta: The Finish Line Is Only the Beginning

Publication Date: 02/16/2027

This is the story of how Loretta Claiborne completed thirty marathons, and found her voice along the way to becoming a global advocate and inspirational leader for every generation. Born with intellectual disabilities and partial blindness, Loretta Claiborne was never expected to walk, let alone run. Yet she defied every…

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Numb, Party of One: A Memoir of Healing From Dissociation

Publication Date: 02/02/2027

Maria Cassano thought she was a sociopath—until a trauma therapist diagnosed her with a dissociative disorder and helped her feel again. On the bright side, Maria Cassano was always the calmest person in the room. On the not-so-bright side, she was pretty sure she’d die alone. All logic and no…

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Barons and Bros: Leadership Lessons from the Parallel Lives of the Great 19th and 21st Century Entrepreneurs

Publication Date: 02/02/2027

Lessons from the lives of the men who built the future, then and now. Have you ever wondered if great entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie and Elon Musk share traits or experiences that enabled their success? And if they do, what can you learn from their stories? In Barons and Bros,…

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How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family

Publication Date: 01/26/2027

A soulful blend of memoir and recipes, How to Cook Rice is a tender exploration of how food becomes the language of love and identity in a Taiwanese American immigrant family. In How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family, Grace Hwang Lynch takes readers…

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Aaron’s Revenge: A True Story

Publication Date: 01/26/2027

The extraordinary true story of Aaron Herskowitz—one of the only Jews who fought back against his Nazi tormentors and lived to reveal the long-suppressed secret of why so few others did. In the waning days of World War II, deep in the occupied Hungarian countryside, something almost unthinkable occurred: a…

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