From the halls of the White House Office of Management and Budget to becoming America's most beloved culinary teacher, Ina Garten has built an empire on the simple philosophy that good food brings people together.

Al Pacino is the author of *Sonny Boy* (2024), a memoir whose title draws from the Al Jolson song that gave him his nickname. The book opens in 1943, when Pacino was three years old and his mother Rose, a factory worker, began sneaking him into local picture houses. It chronicles a postwar South Bronx childhood and his lifelong relationship with acting.

Leo Weston is the author of *Finding Him, Finding Me*, a memoir exploring love, self-acceptance, and survival set against London's gay pub scene during the height of HIV stigma. The book captures themes of chosen family, laughter, and personal transformation. Weston's writing has been described as authentic, relatable, and uplifting.

Rachel Friedman is the author of The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure (Bantam, 2011), a Target Breakout Book and one of Goodreads' best travel books of 2011. She also wrote And Then We Grew Up, exploring how she and her childhood friends navigated disillusionment and fulfillment. A former serious violist, she is based in New York as a freelance writer.

Books about and authored by Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States (1977–1981)..

Glennon Doyle is an American author and queer activist known for her books Untamed, Love Warrior, We Can Do Hard Things and Carry On, Warrior.