Warrior: My Path to Being Brave

“My bravery stems from pain,” writes Guerrero, an Inside Edition correspondent, in her affecting debut. As a child, Guerrero was devastated by her mother’s death from cancer; while attending community college in 1980s California, she was a Los Angeles Rams cheerleader but became disillusioned (“I saw myself—and my fellow performers—for what we really were: cheap labor with hot bodies designed to play into male fantasies”). After Guerrero quit, she became the entertainment director for the New England Patriots but was fired after refusing to remove music by Black artists from a performance playlist. In her 30s she worked as a sports reporter and faced relentless misogyny (as a cohost for Fox’s The Best Damn Sports Show Period, she was told to “wear clothes that showed lots of skin”), and was later fired from her spot on Monday Night Football after one season (executives said she was a “bad fit”), which led her to contemplate suicide and eventually seek therapy. Guerrero writes with a frank candidness (“I drank to forget how much I hated myself”), and her deep convictions are evident on every page. The author’s fans are in for a treat. Agent: Kirsten Neuhaus, Ultra Literary Agency. (Jan.)