Survivor at Law: A Lawyer’s Memoir of Trauma, Narcissistic Abuse, and Weaponized Divorce

Dovie King’s memoir, Survivor at Law (SOAR for Justice Publishing, 2025), tells the story of a lawyer who knew how to protect everyone in the courtroom except herself. Dovie spent her career defending others while privately enduring domestic abuse, recounting in the book how she came to understand that the very legal system she relied on could be weaponized against her. Dovie describes the book as “a memoir about trauma, power and the quiet rebellion of reclaiming your voice,” one that blends lived experience with legal critique to “reveal how abuse thrives behind closed doors — and how the law becomes its cruelest accomplice.”

Dovie’s story was featured on the cover of the American Bar Association Journal and has drawn praise from trauma researchers, law professors and fellow survivors. Endorsers have called it both a lifeline for survivors and a call for law reform. “My book is honest, sharp and unapologetically funny — because sometimes you either laugh or lose your mind,” says Dovie.

The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter

In his novel The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter (Little, Brown, 2025), award-winning writer Peter Orner brings to life Chicago writer and professor Jed Rosenthal — obsessed with the 1963 unsolved murder of Hollywood starlet Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet, daughter of legendary gossip columnist Irv Kupcinet and a close friend of Jed’s grandparents. As Jed investigates the decades-old case through family documents, crime reports and photographs, he seeks to understand both Cookie’s mysterious death and the subsequent rift between the families while confronting his own personal failures and stalled career.

Orner is the author of seven books, including Esther Stories, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and has been a finalist for many other top awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. A former Guggenheim fellow and Rome Prize recipient, Peter chairs the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

The New York Times says Peter has constructed a “moody and engrossing meditation on the ephemerality of memory, the persistence of family myths and a haunting ode to a bygone Chicago. A memorable novel of the stories and people everybody has already forgotten.”

HiTek JD: Memoir of a Silicon Valley Patent Lawyer

For over four decades, veteran patent lawyer Ken Allen of Palo Alto, Calif., represented and encountered pioneering technology companies, universities and inventors in Silicon Valley. His book, HiTek JD: Memoir of a Silicon Valley Patent Lawyer (published by the author, 2025), offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpses into the legal battles, breakthrough innovations and colorful personalities that shaped the digital age. As one reviewer put it, for those interested in intellectual property law or technology, this book is well worth reading from cover to cover.