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A mulher mais importante do cangaço brasileiro, que inspirou gerações de mulheres, ganha agora sua biografia mais completa e com uma perspectiva feminista. Embora a mitificação da imagem de Maria Bonita tenha escondido situações de constante violência, ela em nada diminui o caráter transgressor da Rainha do Sertão. Desde os anos 1990, a data de nascimento de Maria Bonita passou a ser celebrada no Dia Internacional da Mulher. Com o tempo, ela transformou-se em uma marca poderosa, emprestando seu nome a centenas de pousadas e restaurantes espalhados pelo Nordeste...

In this powerful second edition, 18 accomplished women from Scottsdale share their personal journeys to earning six figures and beyond while expanding their influence, impact, and legacy. These are stories of bold decisions, resilience, reinvention, and building success on their own terms. Six-Figure Chicks is more than a book. It is a Global Movement. Each chapter blends honest storytelling with real-world wisdom, giving you both inspiration and practical strategies to elevate your career, business, and life with clarity, confidence, and courage.

In I Love Horses: My Forever Horses Josef and Ranger, Dr. Christine Charyton, Ph.D., shares her deeply personal journey of healing, hope, and unwavering love for her two horses. From childhood dreams to Olympic aspirations and a career in equine-assisted therapy, this heartfelt memoir celebrates the power of animals to transform lives. With faith, resilience, and a little horse magic, Christine’s story inspires anyone who believes in second chances and lifelong bonds.

Despite the enmity towards Carthage held by the Greeks and Romans, they nevertheless spent centuries romanticizing and mythologizing its legendary founder, Queen Dido. It’s an established fact that the Phoenicians established a maritime empire with Tyre at the forefront in the early 1st millennium BCE, and from that, the ancients believed that a Phoenician princess named Elisa fled Tyre to North Africa after her brother killed her husband, where she managed to negotiate with local leaders for land and secure the site of Carthage, becoming Queen Dido in the process.

Tina Packer was an internationally renowned expert on Shakespeare and whose influence on actors worldwide reshaped how the Bard's work is performed and understood. Recorded just three weeks before she died, this final, fascinating interview is candid, far reaching and often deliciously funny, revealing Packer at her unfiltered best.

Expand from Within—No Reinvention Required. You've built a good life—family, work, routines that make sense—but beneath the surface, something whispers: There's more. You've followed all the "should," and you're where you are supposed to be in life. So why this quiet hum of longing? And why does it feel so unsettling? You've listened to the inspiring stories of women who've reinvented themselves, but when it comes to your own life, change feels risky, selfish, or impossible without losing everything. What if you didn't have to choose between your life and the person you're meant to be?

The remarkable, true story of an unusual childhood, complete with gangsters, guns, diamonds, drug smuggling, and fraud—just like any other little girl’s life. At twelve years old, Leslie Bradford-Scott watched police cars swarm her family’s suburban home in Ontario. Hours later, she, her...

We talk about romance as life's greatest love stories, but sometimes the rarest thing we'll ever find is a soulmate in a friend. In the first week of their drama undergrad degree, Grace Rouvray and Katie Lees become best friends, bonding through a timeless tradition: bitching. Over the next 13...

During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover's stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Lake, published in popular magazines and several bestselling books, found millions of fans and earned her accolades. Hoover's own unlikely history of...

Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's birth and with full cooperation of the Monroe estate, an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood. Far from the...

Bloomsbury presents Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev, read by Daphne Kouma. If I were to write the story of my life it would shock the world', Caterina Sforza, 1463-1509. As action packed as as a Game of Thrones novel, the complete life of one of Italy's most fearless women. Between her birth...

Bloomsbury presents Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a...

Bloomsbury presents Life in a Cold Climate by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday Times Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body...

When a school contest promises a brand new 10 speed bicycle to the student who collects the most aluminum cans, one determined sixth grader throws her whole heart into the challenge. With the help of her dad’s coworkers, her uncle, and her family, the simple contest becomes a team effort filled with hope, excitement, and the kind of childhood determination that feels larger than life. As the competition tightens, she learns the meaning of effort, pride, and resilience.

On 27th June 2023, comedian and writer Abi Roberts was arrested outside the UK Covid Inquiry. She spent 17 hours in a police cell. Her crime: swearing when told not to. This is just one moment (well, 17 hours) in Abi’s vivid life. From tales of flattening grass in Swansea, and being baptized in Russia, to the world of stand-up comedy and fighting global medical tyranny. Music is Abi’s first love, and like an album, this exhilarating compilation of memoirs is divided into 12 'tracks’ rather than the standard ‘chapters’.

Canvas of Courage is a deeply moving collection of stories from young mothers navigating cancer, identity, healing, and survival. Written and narrated by artist and Therapeutic Arts Practitioner Nerissa Balland, the audiobook blends personal storytelling with reflections on creativity, resilience, gratitude, and emotional recovery after life-changing diagnoses. Through nineteen intimate journeys—including Nerissa's own experience being diagnosed with metastatic melanoma while pregnant—listeners are invited into the often unseen emotional landscape of survivorship.

The World Tour Book is a heartfelt childhood memoir about the school project that unexpectedly shaped a future writer. As a young girl, Susan Lorraine Kadera was given an assignment called “The World Tour Book” —a project that asked students to explore states, countries, and continents through tracings, facts, and imagination. What began as a simple homework assignment quickly grew into a onehundredpage labor of love created across the family kitchen table.

This memoir should be narrated with sincerity, emotional depth, and a natural, reflective tone. What do you do when life asks you to be strong before you feel ready? At sixteen years old, Janella Jackman became a mother while still trying to understand the world and her place in it. Without a father figure and facing challenges far beyond her years, she quickly learned that survival sometimes means carrying pain in silence. But silence does not bring healing.

In Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds, the ninth book in her bestselling Medicine Woman series, Lynn V. Andrews illuminates menopause as a transformative passage into wisdom, inner strength, and spiritual rebirth. In Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds, the late bestselling author Lynn V. Andrews illuminates the experience of menopause, offering a fresh perspective that transforms it from a source of discomfort into a time of empowerment, spiritual rebirth, and access to a new and beautiful way of life.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand?and to write about with...