Fame, Freedom & the Fight to Be Seen: Must-Read Biographies & Memoirs

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17 Oct 2025

These new releases trace the cost of visibility from global stages to small-town battles for equality. Every page hums with grit, grace, and the quiet courage it takes to stay true. Not celebrity fluff, just real lives, raw and luminous.

Searching for Bowlby: The Life of John Bowlby

by C. V. Wooster

Release Date: October 2, 2025

Searching for Bowlby is a historical narrative of John Bowlby, the father of attachment theory. Tracing his childhood, career, and collaborations reveals how his personal struggles shaped the ideas that transformed psychology, parenting, and our understanding of human connection.

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Still Bobbi: A Master Class in Resilience and Reinvention

by Bobbi Brown

Release Date: September 23, 2025

In Still Bobbi, she reveals how a young girl from suburban Chicago who was bored at school but had a budding entrepreneurial spirit that she inherited from her Papa Sam, grew up to become a makeup artist to the stars and a beauty industry icon who built two juggernaut brands.

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Misunderstood

by Allen Iverson

Release Date: October 7, 2025

In Misunderstood, Allen Iverson shares in searing clarity and touching candor his meteoric rise from impoverished child in the Virginia projects to high school champion to Georgetown University protégé of legendary coach John Thompson, and finally to NBA All-Star and Reebok’s Vice President of Basketball.

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The Fair Way: The True Story of a Landmark Case for Equality

by B. Birgit Koebke & Kendall French

Release Date: October 1, 2025

The Fair Way is the gripping true story of Birgit Koebke and Kendall French—two women who refused to be sidelined by discrimination. When their country club denied Kendall the same rights given to other spouses, they didn’t walk away quietly. They fought back.

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Freedom, Unfiltered

by Zane “Elliot Finn” Robinson

Release Date: October 5, 2025

From surviving family dysfunction and being charged as an adult at 17, to losing custody of his daughter and building a new life in the adult industry — this book doesn’t hold back. It’s about the moments no one saw. The kind of freedom that doesn’t come easy, doesn’t come pretty, but comes from choosing yourself after everyone else counted you out.

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Unlocked

by Eben Etzebeth

Release Date: October 2, 2025

Eben Etzebeth is the most-capped player in South African Rugby history. A towering lock, whose intelligence, energy, and aggression on the pitch are feared, respected, and often imitated but never matched, he is the heart and soul of the Springbok team, a key part of their astonishingly successful run that encompasses two consecutive World Cups and a current two-year stint at the top of the world rankings.

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