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As the nation came together to mourn, to support, and to rebuild in the aftermath of 9/11, Virginia Buckingham was singled out for blame. As the head of Boston’s Logan International Airport, the launching pad for the hijacked planes that destroyed the Twin Towers, she was scapegoated by the...

Bloomsbury presents Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale, read by Stephanie Racine. FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER 'Extraordinary' PHILIPPA GREGORY, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Grippingly suspenseful' SUNDAY TIMES When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing...

A impressionante história de Gisèle Pelicot, narrada por ela mesma, que comoveu o mundo ao revelar um dos casos mais chocantes de violência sexual e abuso conjugal da França. Em Um hino à vida, Gisèle transforma sua dor em força e oferece uma poderosa mensagem de esperança, cura e empoderamento feminino.

"How did you get this number?" Those were the first words Jill Biden spoke to US senator Joe Biden when he called her out of the blue to ask her on a date. Growing up, Jill had wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' - strong, loving, and full of laughter - and a career. An early heartbreak had left her uncertain about love until she met Joe. But as they grew closer, Jill faced difficult questions: How would politics shape her family and professional life? And was she ready to become a mother to Joe's two young sons?

America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson tells the story of America’s birth. She was the descendant of those who sailed the Mayflower, Myles Standish and William Bradford. Growing up in a destitute family in Plympton, Massachusetts, Deborah was inspired by her maternal grandmother, Bathsheba Bradford, abandoned by her father, neglected by her morose mother, separated from her starving siblings, and finally sold into indentured servitude. Her rise from her disastrous childhood, her decision to masquerade as a man, her fervor to fight for her liberty, is the story of America.

The Occasional Poet is a collection of odes written & performed by Angela for special people on special occasions.

Recetas de vida para mujeres con grandeza es una obra deliciosa coescrita por la chef Martha Ortiz y la periodista y editora Laura Raquel Manzo. En estas páginas encontrarás más de cuarenta mujeres notables en diversas disciplinas: activismo, negocios, política, actuación, arquitectura, escritura y diseño por nombrar algunas. Cada perfil revela los ingredientes vitales y las experiencias que han sazonado sus vidas, acompañados de recetas de cocina significativas para cada una de ellas.

Exposed is Kate Wedell's candid story of finding her way into and out of the commercial sex industry. After arriving in Hollywood to pursue her dream of breaking into the music business, Kate was soon trafficked by a man she believed was a friend. She escaped, but with no other means of survival, she went to work as an exotic dancer and sex worker. Kate tells the story of 3 different traffickers and the fragmentation of a life in the Industry leaves in. it wake. Kate's story takes you through the terror, desperation, and exhaustion of life in the sex industry.

Diary of an Epileptic is a deeply personal memoir that explores what it is really like to live with epilepsy from a young age. Diagnosed at just 13 years old, Madeline Bolton-Smith shares her journey through years of seizures, uncertainty, and life-changing medical decisions. From navigating school and friendships to undergoing complex procedures such as SEEG monitoring and LITT epilepsy surgery, this audiobook offers an honest and unfiltered account of living with a long-term neurological condition.

The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquity Herodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the...

In ihren eindrucksvollen, aufschlussreichen Memoiren geht Jordan in die Tiefe und erzählt von den Herausforderungen ihres Lebens – dem Rassismus, dem sie als begabtes schwarzes Mädchen in einer überwiegend weißen Elitesportart ausgesetzt war, den Kämpfen mit ihrem Körperbild und der daraus resultierenden ungesunden Beziehung zum Essen, den strapaziösen Trainingseinheiten, den Verletzungen und den Momenten, in denen sie fast aufgegeben hätte.

Jane Garnett was disappearing. She had the dream life—a rich Hollywood husband, a Santa Monica estate, two kids, and a job with Leonardo DiCaprio. But she was vanishing inside it, waking up to a perfect setup that she was performing, not living. So she left it all—not for another man or a new beginning with better lighting, but to deprogram from movie myths about love, root out internalized patriarchy, and reunite with the wild child she lost along the way.

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother’s recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father’s confusing attentions—her childhood is spent in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision.

This program is read by the author. "Kelly is so piercingly honest, you just want to reach out and give her a hug...It’s totally gripping: I couldn’t take my earbuds out." —Vulture "Kelly reads the book with grace, even when she gets to the tough moments, and you’ll walk away afterward...

This is the story of Carolyn’s mother, her dementia, and how they navigated her journey together. Your loved one may not force feed stuffed animals vanilla pudding or burn their neighbor’s mail like Fay did, but if you’re living through the sad realities of your loved one’s slow and tortuous farewell, this book will help you find solace as you deal with it realistically and with a heart at peace.

Alexandra Kollontai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and one of the most famous women in Russian history. She worked tirelessly all her life as a speaker, writer, and organizer for women's emancipation. This compelling biography recounts her life for an emerging generation of fighters for women's liberation.

Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most memorable books in the face of the holocaust that Nazi Germany and its collaborators unleashed on European Jews between 1941 and 1945 across German-occupied Europe. Anne Frank was a German-born Jew hiding in Amsterdam with her family in 1942 when Nazis occupied Holland. She started keeping a diary in hiding - a diary she’d received for her 13th birthday from her parents.

Anaïs Nin was an influential and acclaimed writer best known for her diaries that cover six decades from the 1910s to the 1970s. In addition to her famous journals, her works include novels, essays, poetry, studies, and erotica - many of which remain popular to this day. As one of the first prominent female authors of erotica, Nin led a controversial life that was subject to many rumors. Her fearlessness when it came to tackling taboo topics such as incest, sexual abuse, and extra-marital affairs would earn her both staunch supporters and zealous critics.

Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. But being reviled was not one of them. 

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of...