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Cleopatra’s palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ.

In April 2009 a modest, middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain’s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to a live performance with an 80-piece orchestra in Japan’s legendary Budokan Arena, and a record-breaking debut album, Susan Boyle has become an international superstar.

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children. AN AUDIE AWARD...

Newly divorced and determined to reclaim her life, Leslie Morgan, bestselling author of Crazy Love and Mommy Wars, decided to spend a year searching for five new lovers in this “highly stimulating story of a midlife education” and “steamy, liberating tale of self-exploration and...

Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. 'She has a poet's gift for language, a playwright's sense of drama and a stand-up comic's talent for timing. But perhaps most remarkable is the generosity of...

A hilarious and heartwarming rampage through the world of self-care Marianne Power was a self-help junkie. For years she lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guide after definitive guide on how to live your best life. Yet one day she woke up to find that the life she dreamed...

An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home. Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away...

A soldier, former member of Congress, and a presidential candidate, Tulsi loves her country: "I answered the call of duty and took an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending those freedoms, both in uniform and in public office. I became a Democrat when I ran for office because I saw them as a party that stood up for the little guy and against the interests of big business and warmongers. I remained a Democrat for twenty years, albeit with an independent streak." Today that party is unrecognizable.

The bestselling author of Inheritance and Signal Fires delivers her most ambitious work yet: an intricately woven, luminous memoir about a sudden upheaval in late middle age—for readers of Patti Smith’s M Train and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. It was Christmastime in the...

Dercy Gonçalves foi taxada de pornográfica, imoral e imprópria para menores. Mas quem foi, de fato, a mulher que tanto trabalhou para conquistar fama, dinheiro e audiência? Mais do que uma biografia, este livro resgata a trajetória dessa artista inigualável sob uma nova perspectiva. Ao...

I am born on November 23, 1805. My name is Mary Jane Grant. Maybe in the future, I’ll have a different last name. My birthplace is Kingston, in the island of Jamaica. I wonder what my future will be?

ExtraOrdinary: The ExtraOrdinary Life of Louise Blake tells the story of an ordinary Black American woman whose life became extraordinary through family, faith, sacrifice, resilience, humor, and love. Written by her son, Blake Roberts, the book preserves the life and legacy of Louise Blake and the values she passed from one generation to the next. Her story also reflects the experiences of a generation whose family histories are too often lost when elders pass away.

How do you start over when your body tells you it's time to slow down? After decades of chronic knee pain, multiple surgeries, and believing her biggest adventures were behind her, Anita Elder took a chance on something she'd never imagined—an electric bicycle. What began as cautious rides close to home soon became an extraordinary journey of healing, friendship, and discovery.

She Touched the Hem of His Garment: Time to Stop Bleeding! is a profoundly moving, faith-filled memoir of resilience, deliverance, and divine restoration. Through raw transparency and spirit-led testimony, Wakisha Greene invites listeners into the most personal chapters of her life—chapters shaped by trauma, heartbreak, abuse, instability, loss, and seasons that nearly broke her. Yet every page reveals how God's hands carried her from pain to praise.

In The Mother-Baby Connection: Breastfeeding Stories, Laurie Clark-Grubbs, RN, IBCLC, shares inspiring real-life journeys of mothers navigating the joys and challenges of breastfeeding. With honesty and compassion, these stories celebrate every path from triumphs to tender moments of letting go—reminding us that love and connection take many forms. Laurie began her career as a registered nurse spending twenty years in Nursery, Neonatal Intensive Care, and Labor and Delivery before following her compassion as a Lactation Consultant which has defined her 51-year journey.

In the summer of 1936, twenty-three-year-old May Swenson boarded a bus heading east out of her Mormon hometown of Logan, Utah. Her destination was New York City, where she had a single goal: become a poet. Creature tells the story of how this small-town woman fought to achieve her dreams in the Depression-era big city, keeping a roof over her head and honing her craft as she pursued romantic relationships with both men and women. After decades of struggle, Swenson became one of mid-century America’s most beloved and prolific poets. What is it that makes her poetry so extraordinary?

Bestselling author Sanjay Gupta delivers an emotionally raw, deeply loving memoir about the wild history and the complex character who made him: a mother who survived the largest forced human migration in history to become the first female engineer hired at the Ford Motor Company. The Light...

Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, an electrifying account of living with and writing about trauma from a singular new voice in Canadian literature. Taking as its starting point a harrowing event in which the writer and her family were held hostage during the...

Deborah Lawrie didn't just break the glass ceiling - she flew right through it. They told her women couldn't fly commercial airliners. They told her women weren't welcome in the cockpit. They told her women couldn't work and have a family. She told them she'd see them in court. In an era when...

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home. Psychiatrists, therapists and family tried to intervene, but...