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She grew up learning to survive what hurt her. Then she became a mother, and chose to build the safety she never had. In The Yellow Was a Lie, Cheyanna Fields tells the story she once promised herself she would never speak aloud. A story about childhood marked by secrets, silence, and the kind of betrayal that reshapes a life. But this is not a memoir about staying in the dark. It is about clawing toward the light.

“Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most of whom spent decades as rangers, scientists, interpreters, and entrepreneurs, shaping the Park’s physical and cultural landscape. This is a wonderful ‘hidden’...

Schwiegermütter haben literarisch betrachtet ein enormes Talent: Sie tauchen ungefragt auf, wissen vieles besser - manchmal zu Recht, das will aber niemand hören -, "meinen es nur gut" und hinterlassen dabei gelegentlich erhebliche seelische Krater. Vivien ist sechzehn, verliebt – und ahnt...

From international icon Jane Seymour, an inspiring, emotionally powerful memoir about resilience, reinvention, and living with purpose—proving it is never too late to begin again. In When You Least Expect It, beloved actress, artist, and entrepreneur Jane Seymour shares the remarkable story of...

O livro "Empoderadas: Mulheres eternas, corpo a corpo com a vida" do jornalista e escritor, Palmério Dória foi selecionado no "Clube de Leitura ODS em Língua Portuguesa". O processo de seleção dos livros foi realizado pela Câmara...

Essa sou eu: Lily Allen. Sou mulher. Sou mãe. Fui esposa. Eu bebo. Já usei drogas. Amei e fui decepcionada. Tive sucesso e fracasso. Componho músicas. Canto. Sou tudo isso e muito mais. Quando mulheres contam suas histórias, em alto e bom som, com franqueza...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A collection of women's sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large. Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a...

A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the...

'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman.' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and...

From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton. Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable...

It's five o'clock in the morning and still dark. Swimming outside the wave break off the Catalina coast, training for her next long-distance swim (she has already crossed the English Channel twice), 17-year-old Lynne Cox senses that something is following her. She worries that it might be a great white shark.

Tina Davidson is three-and-a-half when she is adopted from her foster home in Sweden by a visiting American professor. Soon she is the oldest of five children, living with her mother and stepfather in Turkey, Germany, and Israel. She studies music and becomes a prolific pianist and composer. But something about her birth remains unnamed and hidden. When she returns to Sweden, she contacts the Swedish adoption agency. “Come,” says the voice on the phone, “I have information for you.”

Born aboard her father’s sailboat, Virginia Tangvald investigates his extraordinary and troubling legacy: seven marriages, two wives lost at sea, a fatal shipwreck and a son who later vanished. In July 1991, on the wild eastern shore of Bonaire, a pale blue ruffled dress is found trapped in...

A fiercely brave Italian woman convinces a German soldier to work with the Resistance in this unforgettable World War II love story. Tuscany, 1940s. At 20 years old, Nada lives as the single mother of a toddler. Her husband has left to fight in Africa, her family is far away, and she knows...

Garden of Blu is a memoir about being lost in the dark, living with chronic illness, grief, and depression while discovering self-worth and growing through it all. There is a moment in life where we can make the decision to break generational patterns and bloom, despite our circumstances and roots. Misti Blu was born with multiple invisible illnesses, which went undiagnosed for most of her life. While struggling with major depressive disorder and PTSD, she was a young mother to her three children.

She hated the dishes. Not because she was lazy. Not because she didn't care. But because every pile of dirty dishes felt like proof. Proof that she was failing. Proof that she was broken. Proof that she wasn't enough. But the dishes were never really the problem. She Hated the Dishes is one woman's unfiltered journey through childhood trauma, marriage, motherhood, loss, and the stories she learned to believe about herself along the way. Stories about what it meant to be a good mother, a good wife, a productive person, and someone worthy of love.

The Shipyard Agent reveals the untold story of Augusta Clawson, the undercover investigator who helped shape the future for World War II’s women welders. From the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern seaboard, during World War II women welders worked at a fever pitch in the...

From the horrors of slavery to the battlefields of the Civil War, Lucy Higgs Nichols has become a symbol of resilience and a trailblazer for justice and equality. There are only two known images of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a Civil War nurse who escaped enslavement to join the Indiana 23rd Regiment...

"An essential contribution to women’s sports history and car racing collections." —Booklist, Starred Review On Fourth of July weekend in 1924, Marion Martins flies past some of the best race car drivers of her time and takes home two trophies from the famous North Shore racetrack in Chicago...