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The Babe with the Power is an inspiring memoir about one woman’s genesis from fatherless, fat-shamed child to embodied engineer and triathlete. This book is for any woman who has ever felt worthless, powerless, or trapped in a cycle of body shame and victimhood. Joyel Marie grew up not knowing who her father was. A brown girl in a family of white faces, she stuffed her self-hatred down with each bite. Inspired by the Jim Henson film Labyrinth, Joyel recounts the traumas that caused her to build her own winding walls of shame and depression and how she tore them down block by block.

Who says being middle aged needs to be boring? Approaching a milestone birthday and following a major health scare, Debs decides to make her fiftieth year on the planet her best year yet. She sets about doing fifty different activities that she had never done as an adult, to prove that an old dog can learn new tricks. Follow her tales of adventure, mayhem and mishaps, and a few more sedate experiences as she discovers that age is just a number. Action packed with highs and lows, and plenty of laughs along the way, this book is a refreshing memoir about how to deal with advancing years.

Roxana Kia er 10 år, da hun sammen med sin bror må flygte fra revolutionen i Iran og mister alt – sin slægt, sit sprog, sit hjem, sit land. Årtier senere, tilsyneladende velintegreret i Danmark med karriere og familie, rystes hun af et voldsomt kvindeoprør i Iran og konfronteres med alt det, hun har vendt ryggen.

Surely Goodness and Mercy is a deeply personal memoir of love, loss, and the extraordinary healing power of animals. When Julie Dykes welcomed Johnny—a joyful, rough-and-tumble pup—into her life, she couldn’t have predicted how one dog would turn her world upside down. Then came Mercy, a gentle, soulful rescue with a past full of pain and a spirit that defied it. Together, these two dogs became more than pets: they were companions, teachers, and family.

I mange år fungerede Sprogø som et anbringelsessted for kvinder, man mente var vanskelige og "moralsk defekte". Selvom Cicerone er en fiktiv karakter, så er hendes livsfortælling inspireret af historisk fakta. Bogen er bygget op omkring virkelige hændelser, som forfatteren har hørt om fra mennesker, der selv opholdt sig på Sprogøs kvindehjem.

Have you ever questioned the truths behind a seemingly ordinary life? An Apparently Normal Person" takes you on a captivating journey through the depths of trauma, resilience and the power of the human spirit. In this inspiring memoir, Bonnie Armstrong unveils the uncharted territory of her dissociation, a survival mechanism that became a catalyst for healing. At the height of an accomplished professional career, an inexplicable illness hints at a connection to a forgotten suicide attempt decades earlier.

Vibrante icône dont l'anticonformisme délicieusement scandaleux et le mode de vie solaire ont incarné les rêves de plusieurs générations depuis l'après-guerre, Françoise Sagan habite notre imaginaire. Marie-Dominique Lelièvre l'a prise en filature et revisite son mythe. Menant une enquête littéraire à suspense, elle a eu accès à des archives confidentielles. Elle a rencontré les amis intimes de Sagan, Florence Malraux et Bernard Frank, mais aussi ses secrétaires, sa dernière compagne, son fils, sa banquière, ses médecins, ses éditeurs, sa gouvernante.

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary’s death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

Part Devil Wears Prada coming-of-age story, part career advice, and part memoir, Shards in My Hair captures the chaos and the sometimes unfair and challenging aspects of business, while pulling back the curtain on the level of persistence and resilience that it takes to make it. Counter to Lean In’s heavy-handed blame-game of what women “should do,” Shards explores what women (and men!) actually have to do to survive and thrive. But it’s not just about business. As a single mom, Cindie Jamison pulls back the curtain on the very real challenges of trying to juggle it all.

In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth's return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother's philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler.

Und so begibt sich Bettina Flitner auf eine Reise voller Überraschungen und Entdeckungen in den Luftkurort Wölfelsgrund im ehemaligen Niederschlesien, dem heutigen Miedzygorze, wo ihre Vorfahren bis zur dramatischen Flucht 1946 ein Sanatorium besessen und geleitet haben.

When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors. Inspired by the connection between the two writers, she returned to Austen's books with a new lens, picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired.

Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.” “Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write.

Waxing Pathetic is a sardonic, often hilarious, raging stream of consciousness from one mad American woman. From the pathetic to the political, the lunatic to the poetic, Clark's memoir is a masterwork of dry wit and piercing observation.

Elephant Mountain is the gripping tale of Debbie Ethell, a young woman whose fascination with an elephant skull in a bone museum leads her down an unexpected path. What begins as a curiosity about the tragic love story of Morgan Berry, the man who gave us Packy (the first baby elephant born in a U.S. zoo in forty-four years), and Eloise Berchtold, one of the world’s greatest animal trainers, soon becomes a chilling mystery.

Dating While Mommying isn't just another how-to dating book, it's a lifeline for women navigating the uncharted waters of midlife romance while packing lunches, attending parent-teacher conferences, and helping adult children find apartments.

There are many reasons a person might find themselves living as part of a cult, but one of the most defenseless members of these communities are the children who are raised in this traumatic lifestyle without a say in the matter. They don’t know anything different until the deeply rooted damage is done, forcing them to make the impossible decision to leave everything behind in order to heal — or choose to stay in the depths of what they’ve always known. The only way out is through.

In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop along the unpredictable route that was Victoria Woodhull’s life. Born dirt-poor in an obscure Ohio settlement, Woodhull was the daughter of an illiterate mother entranced by the fad of Mesmerism—a therapeutic pseudoscience—and a swindler father whose cons exploited his two daughters.

Broken by an abusive relationship, lifelong New Yorker Emily Weinstein impulsively tries rock climbing on a California road trip, following strangers into the vertical world. Soon, she is consumed by her addiction to the freedom she feels when she’s up on the wall. Holding on to the rocks, she is free from societal constraints and expectations, free from her own sorrows and longings.

Christine Brown Woolley had always dreamed of having a picture-perfect family—beautiful children, an adoring husband, and of course, a sisterhood of wives to share him with. Raised in Utah by practicing polygamists, Christine knew her life was less than normal, but that didn’t stop her from loving the full house of her childhood any less. Becoming Kody Brown’s third wife in 1994, Christine finally found the big, happy family she had hoped for.