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Melissa's life took a shocking turn when love led her to an idyllic mountain community—only to discover it was a nightmare in disguise. Entrapped by a seemingly kind and welcoming family, she slowly unraveled the truth: she was living in a manipulative and oppressive cult. For six harrowing years, she endured unspeakable torment, enduring physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse that tested the very limits of her humanity. Through it all, Melissa clung to a flicker of hope—her faith.

Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six-year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson...

A powerful, inspirational true story for anyone who has ever fought to rise, recover, and begin again. In the shadowed hollows of 1950s and '60s Appalachia, a young girl learned to survive long before she ever learned there was life outside of fear. In "Hey Vic," Phyllis E. Pyles shares her remarkable true story through the voice of autobiographical "Victoria," an unforgettable heroine shaped by cruelty, courage, and a fierce will to rise above a life she never deserved.

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday Express 'The twentieth century shook the world: it sobers me to...

Real-life stories of mothers and daughters – of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say – by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer. You Won’t Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Aviv...

A brave survivor tells the harrowing story of her and her sons' journey through abuse-and how she survived and then thrived after her trauma. RISING ABOVE †¢ The Trauma of Abuse by June Sheehan Berlinger is a powerful memoir that offers deep insight into the complexity of abuse and the path to healing. Through unflinching honesty, Berlinger shares her personal experiences with childhood trauma, incest, rape, and domestic violence-both as a survivor and as a mother fighting to protect her sons from the same horrors. Yet through the extreme pain came life-changing transformation.

Enough, As I Am is a collection of daily journal entries written in real time during a season of deep self-reckoning. These pages do not offer answers or instructions; they simply tell the truth as it unfolded. This book is about sitting with uncertainty, learning to listen inward, and slowly discovering what it means to be enough without proving, fixing, or becoming anything else. It is offered as companionship for anyone finding their way back to themselves. This book is a collection of verbatim journal entries written during a period of profound self-examination and change.

Ultra Women is a gripping, behind-the-scenes journey into the high-stakes world of female endurance, where athletes race across deserts, over mountains, and through the night for 50, 100, even 200 miles at a time. Blending intimate profiles with cutting-edge science, it reveals how women runners, swimmers and cyclists are smashing records, shattering stereotypes, and redefining what "strong" looks like at every age and stage of life.

Verdadeira celebração do poder das memórias, livro de estreia de Genevieve Kingston conta sua experiência de luto pela mãe. Dez dias antes de Gwen Kingston completar doze anos, sua mãe faleceu após uma árdua batalha contra o câncer. Ela deixou dois baús cheios de presentes e cartas embrulhados com cuidado, que representavam os marcos que perderia na vida dos dois filhos: o momento em que tirariam a carteira de motorista, as formaturas, todos os aniversários até os trinta anos.

The hardest conflict to face is the one within. MyLinh Shattan is no stranger to conflict, from evacuating during the fall of Saigon to reporting to West Point shortly after it accepts women. But when her daughter, Cara, becomes a West Point cadet, she confronts memories she would rather leave...

"A winning narrative...guided by a road map for joy. A poignant portrait of a woman stepping into her power in middle age.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review A memoir of jumping feet first into a new life, reclaiming long-forgotten joys, and discovering a renewed sense of self after divorce A...

"Maybe it's not the daiquiri that's broken."Sam Plavins sat in a Toronto convention centre, surrounded by thousands of the most successful financial advisors in the world, pretending to be one of them. She had the title. The clients. The gold business cards. She had built exactly the life her father had envisioned for her. And she couldn't feel a thing. The math in her life didn’t make sense. The two kids plus the hot husband, even the semi-stoned sheepdog. Why wasn’t the formula adding up?

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.

On a quiet summer day in Bend, Oregon, a single phone call shattered a family’s world. Tiare — radiant, adventurous, and beloved — was gone. Named for the fragrant jasmine flower, she had been a bright presence wherever life took her: Hawaii, New England, the West Coast. She cheered, she laughed, she protected, she dreamed. She filled her room with posters and pink, and her family with joy.

"After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s WWII as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path toward international adoption.

What if adulthood didn’t come with answers, only better questions? This book is a collection of questions, not conclusions.organized around the core areas we’re told adulthood should have “figured out,” it explores the growing realization that age does not automatically bring clarity. At 44, the author reflects on how many of the answers once held with certainty have softened, fractured, or evolved giving rise to even deeper, more intricate questions than those asked in childhood.

A deeply personal memoir about the quiet strength it takes to live in harmony beside extraordinary ambition. As her husband rises from top real estate advisor to CEO, she learns to thrive in the background—steadying the rhythm, holding the balance, and carrying the unseen weight that keeps their world in tune.

A true story of survival, faith, and the radical act of rising again. Behind closed doors, Caddie Phoenix endured the quiet, devastating violence of coercive control. Behind prison walls, she found her voice. Journey to the Rainbow is her powerful memoir — a raw, hope-filled account of escaping domestic abuse, surviving incarceration, and discovering purpose on the other side of pain.

From childhood hospital beds to a stroke at thirty-two, she faced pain, loss, and transformation yet chose to rise. Breath of Grace is her powerful story of Breath of Grace is her powerful story of faith, resilience, and healing through God, therapy, and yoga. This memoir offers hope to anyone navigating illness, trauma, or unexpected change. It reminds us that as long as we still have reminds us that as long as we still have breath, there is still grace and the strength to keep going

Not knowing why or from where, Frykholm felt called by this ancient woman's story. Thus begins the story of her decades-long search to uncover the truth about the woman who, by her own devices, figured out how to acquire what she most wanted—and when she did, discovered that it wasn't enough. With a scholar's eye and a mystic's heart, Frykholm offers a look at an elusive and dynamic figure from history while offering insights into our own inner—and potentially rewilded—lives.