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Restless Spirit—for me, a divorced fifty-something living in Canada, the lure of adventure unleashed my undying curiosity about the world and about people as I crisscrossed the world for over twenty years and visited 156 countries on all seven continents.

Elena Garro renace con la fuerza de una mirada feminista e inteligente, que resalta su peculiar forma de habitar el mundo y su capacidad de crearle nuevos sentidos a través de los diversos temas que la obsesionaron: el tiempo, la catástrofe, los gatos, la lucha campesina, las puestas en escena y los viajes.

Prepare to embark on an unforgettable journey through the pages of "My Mother Only Had Me for the Check." From a childhood marred by abuse and neglect to the challenges of adulthood grappling with dyslexia and mental illness, the author's story is a testament to the resilience and power of a woman's spirit.

Are sports good for kids? Does participation in athletics improve a persons life? Yes, says Betsy Mitchell 2x Olympian, 7x NCAA champion, and collegiate athletic director. But according to Mitchell, amateur sports are only beneficial when the focus remains on acquiring skills, developing sportsmanship, and having fun. In this inspirational memoir, Betsy writes a love letter to amateur athletes, revealing how the joy and challenges of sports shaped her life and sharing twelve pivotal lessons she learned along the way.

An intimate and compellingly honest memoir of a woman coming into her own after profound pain and grief. Grappling with neglect, eating disorders, domestic violence, single parenthood, and the contagiousness of trauma, The Wrong Calamity is a powerful story of calamity, discovery, and triumph. Marsha, a freshman lacking self-confidence, falls prey to a controlling man at college. Afraid to say no, she agrees to marry him and move to Japan, where she unexpectedly gets a job at Mattel Toys. As she becomes successful, her husband becomes more abusive.

When Holly learned she was having a girl, and long before she heard the words Asperger's syndrome or chronic disease, she was already committed to raising Britney to love God and seek His will in her life with integrity. Determined to follow her lead, support her decisions, provide her with unconditional love, and do whatever she could to help her succeed, Holly had no idea of the journey she and Britney were about to take together.

LM Penner is a lapsed Protestant. (Is that even a thing?) For better or worse, though, her thoughts on faith are informed by her Christian upbringing, and this book of creative non-fiction essays reflects that fact. Beer Drinking God Talking Girl starts with a death, and it ends with forgiveness -- not unlike the Christian tradition, itself. Perhaps LM Penner is not such a lapsed believer, after all. How about you?

Sarah Cart's On My Way Back to You is a firsthand account of the rollercoaster world of lifesaving transplants and the unimaginable challenges Sarah faced as she struggled to manage her husband's devastating illness and to save his life, their marriage, and her own sanity. This audiobook is a profoundly inspirational account of one couple's medical odyssey and the patience, determination, and love that ultimately helped them find their way back to one another.

I AM Free from Me is a deeper dive into living a brave and fearless lifestyle. Its one thing to say, I AM Brave and Fearless, but to live with the Brave and Fearless mentality on a daily basis takes a lot of work. I AM Free from Me is a timeline of journal entries during a dark moment of life experiences from police profiling, financial loss, and untimely deaths of friends and family within a short period of time.

Isabella Milan is a 20-year survivor who has experienced a breast cancer stage IV diagnosis and has come out shining. Bruised, battered, and emotionally and physically drained, she was still able to get through all the challenges.

An award-winning and best-selling memoir, An Impossible Life, tells the powerful true account of one woman's descent into depressive and manic episodes and how she found lifesaving therapy and medication to overcome and triumph.

What would you do if it happened to you? If you awoke one day when you were twelve years old to be informed that your life was suddenly over? Well . . . Here is what I did. If you became the wealthiest person you would ever know just three and a half years later? What would that be like? Well, this is what it was like when it happened to me.

This book is a short listen. You will be starting your sober business the minute it is done. Because you know what's good? Being a non-drinker. But you know what's great? Making money because of it, today. I strongly believe that it is time-phobia, which makes so many people turn back to alcohol. Which is why I am so keen that you start your sober business, today! It is such an effective and safe way to make use of this vast amount of time we suddenly find ourselves being present in.

In this frank and funny memoir, written for the thousands of women who have asked her to tell them 'how she did it', the doyenne of magazine publishing, Jane Raphaely, tells a great deal more than the her story of women's magazines. Jane's story is indeed stranger than fiction. Having lived through a war in England and grown up in a rough neighborhood, with a demon aunt and a difficult father, Jane Mullins learnt how to 'smile and wave', one of many survival tactics she passes on in this memoir.

Редкое обаяние сочеталось в ней с властностью, ораторское искусство — с волшебным голосом; она была прекрасно образованна и свободно говорила на многих языках. Жизнь Клеопатры, блистательной царицы Нила, рассказанная от первого лица, разворачивается на страницах дилогии Маргарет Джордж «Дневники Клеопатры» во всех подробностях — трагических и счастливых. В книге второй «Царица поверженная» героиня предстает человеком большой силы духа, умеющим с достоинством принимать неизбежное. После гибели Цезаря от рук заговорщиков Клеопатра возвращается в Александрию.

So often, women are taught to put others first. We are conditioned to focus on the needs of others rather than prioritizing ourselves and we become good at it. Choosing others becomes so central to our way of being that we can build big, busy lives without ever stopping to wonder: what if I chose me? In her mid-forties, Jeanie Duncan was a card-carrying member of the put others first club. Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend she was surrounded by people she loved and who loved her. From the outside, it was a perfect life.

La storia di 5 imprenditrici, della loro vita tra famiglia e lavoro e del loro coraggio di non arrendersi mai. Le donne danneggiate sono felici perché hanno scoperto di essere vive. Eccoci qui: siamo cinque donne, cinque amiche, cinque imprenditrici e professioniste. Ci conosciamo da così tanti anni che abbiamo perso il conto e dobbiamo andare così indietro con la memoria, per ricordare il nostro primo incontro, che finiremmo col non riconoscerci.

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Heidi Kabel, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Romy Schneider.

My Life in Your Hands is a deeply personal memoir of Susan Tesseneer-Pope's remarkable life - at once a story of child abuse, marital abuse, attempted suicide, three marriages and two divorces over a period of eight decades. She shares events that are both embarrassing and heartbreaking in hope that her story may help the reader become aware of the red flags that she, herself, ignored too many times.

If you're curious about what it would be like to work with a Hollywood spiritual guru to the stars, but you can't relocate to Los Angeles, or you don't have $50,000 and several years to devote to focusing on your personal growth, then this book is for you. Instead, live vicariously through the author in this accounting of her experience as a student of, and then assistant to, one of the top ten non-allopathic healers in North America.