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Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's birth and with full cooperation of the Monroe estate, an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood. Far from the...

When a school contest promises a brand new 10 speed bicycle to the student who collects the most aluminum cans, one determined sixth grader throws her whole heart into the challenge. With the help of her dad’s coworkers, her uncle, and her family, the simple contest becomes a team effort filled with hope, excitement, and the kind of childhood determination that feels larger than life. As the competition tightens, she learns the meaning of effort, pride, and resilience.

On 27th June 2023, comedian and writer Abi Roberts was arrested outside the UK Covid Inquiry. She spent 17 hours in a police cell. Her crime: swearing when told not to. This is just one moment (well, 17 hours) in Abi’s vivid life. From tales of flattening grass in Swansea, and being baptized in Russia, to the world of stand-up comedy and fighting global medical tyranny. Music is Abi’s first love, and like an album, this exhilarating compilation of memoirs is divided into 12 'tracks’ rather than the standard ‘chapters’.

Canvas of Courage is a deeply moving collection of stories from young mothers navigating cancer, identity, healing, and survival. Written and narrated by artist and Therapeutic Arts Practitioner Nerissa Balland, the audiobook blends personal storytelling with reflections on creativity, resilience, gratitude, and emotional recovery after life-changing diagnoses. Through nineteen intimate journeys—including Nerissa's own experience being diagnosed with metastatic melanoma while pregnant—listeners are invited into the often unseen emotional landscape of survivorship.

The World Tour Book is a heartfelt childhood memoir about the school project that unexpectedly shaped a future writer. As a young girl, Susan Lorraine Kadera was given an assignment called “The World Tour Book” —a project that asked students to explore states, countries, and continents through tracings, facts, and imagination. What began as a simple homework assignment quickly grew into a onehundredpage labor of love created across the family kitchen table.

This memoir should be narrated with sincerity, emotional depth, and a natural, reflective tone. What do you do when life asks you to be strong before you feel ready? At sixteen years old, Janella Jackman became a mother while still trying to understand the world and her place in it. Without a father figure and facing challenges far beyond her years, she quickly learned that survival sometimes means carrying pain in silence. But silence does not bring healing.

In Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds, the ninth book in her bestselling Medicine Woman series, Lynn V. Andrews illuminates menopause as a transformative passage into wisdom, inner strength, and spiritual rebirth. In Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds, the late bestselling author Lynn V. Andrews illuminates the experience of menopause, offering a fresh perspective that transforms it from a source of discomfort into a time of empowerment, spiritual rebirth, and access to a new and beautiful way of life.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand?and to write about with...

‘This book is a gift for anyone ready to choose better, deeper connection’ - Jillian Turecki, author of It Begins With You From New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Elle comes a radical call to reflect on our friendships, take ownership of our energy and live in our truth. The Company...

In this gentle and nostalgic childhood memoir, Susan Lorraine Kadera invites listeners into the simple magic of her backyard — a place where imagination, sunlight, and a mother’s quiet love turned ordinary moments into lifelong memories. With nothing more than a tree, a white sheet, and a set of plastic dishes, a little girl creates her own tiny world beneath the branches. Each chapter explores the sweetness of those early years: her mother’s small acts of love, the joy of pretend play, and the peaceful afternoons spent “playing house” under the shade of a tree.

The Blue Bicycle: A Christmas Birthday Memory is a warm and nostalgic true story about a young girl whose birthday falls on Christmas Day. All she wants is a blue bicycle with a tall sissy bar — a dream she holds close to her heart. On one unforgettable Christmas morning, she discovers a mysterious shape hidden beneath a sheet in the garage. When the cover is lifted, her long-hoped-for bicycle is revealed, shining in the glow of family love and childhood wonder.

She left with sixty dollars, her pride, and nineteen years of pain at her back. What came next was neither quick nor easy—but it was hers. In Volume 3 of Tales of a Multifaceted Life, Haitian-born author Enice Toussaint pulls directly from her personal journals to bring listeners into the most turbulent and defining years of her life. From the streets of Montreal to the mountains of Haiti, she navigates abuse, recovery, single motherhood, financial survival, and an unrelenting search for inner peace—all while quietly becoming the woman she was always meant to be.

'Hayden Panettiere holds nothing back: From child stardom to crushing loss, this is her truth' US Weekly 'There's no easy way to share your story with the world, but I'm an optimist to the core and refuse to be defined by my tragedies. Life can shake you up and tear you down, but even when...

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...

You know that feeling of almost fitting in? You're close enough to be included, but you never quite belong. And so you tell yourself you're better off alone, because at least then, no one can leave you. In Eating Nails for Breakfast, Chrissy Liu traces the pattern she's carried since childhood. From the neighborhood pool where she was always the tag-along, through bad relationships, to the losses that just kept coming, Chrissy earned praise for never breaking.

Sie wählen rechts, sprechen nur russisch und unterstützen Putin? Solchen und anderen Vorurteilen sehen sich russlanddeutsche (Spät-)Aussiedler*innen ausgesetzt. An aufrichtigem Interesse und Wissen um die bewegte Historie der rund 2,5 Millionen in Deutschland lebenden Russlanddeutschen mangelt es in unserer Gesellschaft.

Based on her remarkable true story, All Rise: A Lawyer’s Evolution from Prison to Purpose traces Rashmi’s journey from a high-achieving lawyer, mother, and daughter to a series of choices that led to a federal prison sentence. Stripped of her titles, freedom, and sense of identity, she was forced to confront a painful truth: the prisons we build within ourselves can be harder to escape than any with walls.

When life gets your goat, bring in the herd Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn’t expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. She never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet off...

Nikki Nash tells the story of an obsession that starts with a young girl's movie-star fantasy. At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki fixates on superstar Warren Beatty. She's determined to find him and have him in her life forever. She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of eighteen when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents. A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst, Warren Beatty walks through the door and her plan comes to fruition.

A stirring account of how to gain—and own—your power. From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, and Nickelodeon, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like. In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've...