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Unravel the intriguing life of a woman who edited the literary greats of her day and forged a path to the golden age of mystery writing. Elizabeth Garver Jordan was renowned not only for her own writing but also for her influence in journalism and literature. Her love of intrigue started when...

From American heiress to Nazi resistance fighter, Muriel White's extraordinary journey reveals how one woman's privilege became her weapon against tyranny. "This compelling tale traces the intricately intertwined history of American high society with European nobility in the face of rising...

Uncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history—until now E.D.E.N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prolific and...

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean...

Largely created by immigrants, the film industry evolved over its first few decades thanks to the work of people outside the traditional ruling class— immigrants, people of color, women—partly as a result of elites denigrating the fledgling field. As the moving picture industry transitioned...

Schön, stolz, nervig – diese Attribute brachten Frauen wie Sidonia von Borcke einst auf den Scheiterhaufen. Juliane Schiemenz, eine Verwandte von Sidonia, folgt den Spuren ihrer legendär gewordenen Ahnin, die 1620 als Hexe verurteilt wurde. Weder heiratete sie, noch bekam sie Kinder, stattdessen stritt sie vor Gericht um ihr Erbe.

Falling Forward is a story of reclaiming identity, voice and power. In this deeply personal memoir, released alongside her documentary, Rachel Kolisi takes readers behind the public image and into the private moments that shaped her. With courage and clarity, she traces her journey through...

For the ones who wake to pain before memory, and who grieve in rooms no one sees. In Keep the Flowers, Ellie Williams recounts a life shaped by chronic illness and the slow-moving ache of loss. Diagnosed only after years of being dismissed and doubted, she learns to navigate a body that will not obey and a world that struggles to understand.

She spent decades shopping for God. Then she fell in love. Part spiritual adventure, part passionate love story, and razor-sharp memoir, To Be Here Is Immense follows one woman's fearless search for meaning through ambition, addiction, activism, ecstatic devotion, and devastating loss. Raised in the violence of a working-class existence, Clare Simons grows into a fiercely independent woman with an irrepressible sense of humor, a skeptical mind, and an unrelenting hunger for what is true.

A book about my life experiences.

Navigating the Wilderness Within is a call to those ready to rise-ready to shed what no longer fits and step into a life of deeper truth, freedom, and courage. Suzanne Hanna writes with the wisdom of someone who's walked the path-not perfectly, but faithfully-led by heart, spirit, and an unshakable belief in what's possible.

*2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner (Western Biographies)* Doc Holliday’s paramour Big Nose Kate could never get a publisher to give her the big bucks she demanded to tell the story of her life, but that didn’t mean she didn’t collect material she wanted to use in a biography. Over...

The Truth was Buried for Years. Now It Refuses to Stay Silent. As a young girl, Cindy Benezra endured years of abuse at the hands of her father, pain she buried deep to survive. The memories did not disappear. They stayed hidden for years, resurfacing later through nightmares, emotional turmoil, and the growing realization that her past was still shaping her life. An American teenager living in Spain, Cindy begins to experience vivid dreams that unravel everything she thought she knew about herself.

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in...

A compelling and enlightening book by our most celebrated journalist, Ita Buttrose. In her eighties she’s as passionate as ever about the many causes important to her, the future of Australia, and living meaningfully to the very end of our lives. Ita Buttrose has been a defining force in...

E-book com conteúdo exclusivo: dicas do que deve conter no plano de parto. "Virar mãe é entrar em guerra. Não pra conquistar, mas pra não perder quem e o que a gente ama." Ao engravidar aos 23 anos, a designer Thaiz Leão se alistou sem querer...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

Em 1886 a atriz francesa Sarah Bernhard, já então um mito no mundo inteiro, visitou São Paulo, à frente de sua companhia de teatro, apresentando peças de Shakespeare, Racine, Alexandre Dumas, entre outros. Os dias e noites que ela passou na capital paulista...

A jagged and luminous survivor's account and a defiant celebration of imperfection, Broken Girl is a powerful and poetic work of staggering loss and betrayal, love, and rage. Caroline Laner Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed. A year later, following...

Known as "Hitler's Filmmaker," Leni Riefenstahl directed two of the most innovative and effective propaganda documentaries ever made, Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), which glorified the Third Reich. In this definitive biography, Steven Bach illuminates the truths and lies...