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Timed to the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe, and with the full cooperation of the Monroe estate, comes 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 spotlights of...

Près de 10 ans après sa reconversion racontée dans son témoignage De flic à médium, Virginie Lefebvre se livre sur l'impact que son don a eu sur sa vie et celle de son entourage. Devenue médium à plein temps, elle doit gérer les âmes au quotidien en se portant comme lien entre les défunts et leurs proches, tout en laissant place aux interprétations. Sa réflexion sur le phénomène de la médiumnité se poursuit et s'étend à sa vie personnelle.

Kelly Foster Lundquist was nineteen when she met Devin at church camp in the late '90s. Immediately inseparable, the two bonded over bootleg Tori Amos recordings and a sense of disconnection from the spiritual fervor of their fellow camp counselors. Devin was classically handsome and Kelly on the plain side of pretty, but they matched. Their twinned search for God, acceptance, and love would profoundly shape the rest of their lives.

Part biography and part cultural history, this celebrated book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life as a writer, but also her literary legacy. Award-winning biographer Claire Harman traces the growth of Jane Austen's fame and the changing status of her work, a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect.

Blue House: Ten Years on the Way Home tells the struggles, traumas and tragedies of a family in the former USSR during Stalin's reign, pre-WWII. Dispossessed of the happy home and wealth they built through their own sweat and labor, they were forced to withstand horrors and hardships as their daily bread...when there was any bread.

It’s 1966 and unaware of the brewing counterculture tsunami, Lora arrives in Berkeley, California where she is introduced to egg tempera, a homemade paint that combines colorful pigments with egg yolk. She falls in love with the luminous medium but cannot find a teacher to unravel its mysteries. Art and love converge when Lora falls for a tender, charismatic artist. But after their eight-month immersion in the great museums of Europe, she follows him into a commune that she later realizes has become a cult.

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Calling themselves "The Sisterhood," the group would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.

From wartime nutrition science to modern food activism, Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat examines the pivotal roles six women played in rewriting the rules of American cuisine. Michelle Mart offers a rich and accessible narrative that connects dietary trends, food marketing, and public health movements to the voices of the women who helped drive them.

In this book, a fictionalized lecture and interview from 1904, you will hear firsthand how this inspirational teacher, on March 3rd 1887, met a six-year-old blind, deaf, and mute child named Helen Keller and found her purpose.

Tera Lynch is the author of The Orange Post-it Note, a raw, insightful, and unexpectedly funny memoir about discovering her husband's Ashley Madison account - and the emotional aftershocks that followed. Through heartbreak, therapy, and moments of unexpected clarity in the midst of chaos, Tera pieced her life back together with courage, vulnerability, and a stubborn sense of humor. She now shares her story to support others navigating betrayal, grief, and the long, often-messy path to self-reinvention.

Award-winning American author Bonnie J. Rough separates from her young family for a surprising journey into the difficult past and precarious present of Estonia, the former Soviet state of her heritage. Embarking on a journey to learn the fate of her great-great-grandmother Anna, she encounters World War II ghosts, Vikings, crones, recycled meat, a seven-ton prehistoric bull, gray hairs, and the ultimate librarian, but finds no bully bigger than Putin—or is it her own self-doubt?

Na een nare periode keerde Merel van Groningen op haar vijftiende terug naar het internaat waar zij eerder had gewoond. Ze was een getraumatiseerde tiener die zich alleen voelde en wanhopig op zoek was naar liefde. Die vond ze bij haar mentor. Hij gaf haar het gevoel dat ze mooi en bijzonder was, en dat ze op z'n minst bij hem een heel speciaal plaatsje in zijn hart had. Pas toen bleek dat Merel bepaald niet zijn enige liefje was, begreep ze dat hij misbruik had gemaakt van haar vertrouwen. Hij had meer dan wie ook beter moeten weten, en daarom werd hij op staande voet ontslagen.

Op een reis door Egypte ontmoet de Zuid-Hollandse Noor de knappe Omar. Met mooie woorden en veel aandacht weet hij haar te raken en ze worden verliefd. Door de beperkingen die in Egypte gelden om legaal samen te kunnen leven, trouwt Noor met haar grote liefde. Niets lijkt hun geluk in de weg te staan, maar eenmaal in Egypte verandert Omars gedrag. Noor verliest steeds meer van haar eigen identiteit: ze wordt Omars bezness, een verbastering van business.

Anna Chapman: The Glamorous Face of a Russian Spy Ring explores the real woman behind the legend. With expert insight and rich detail, historian David G. Stone unpacks how Chapman’s case reignited Cold War tensions, tested U.S. Russia diplomacy, and offered a chilling glimpse into the world of 21st-century espionage.

Merel is vijftien jaar als ze via een vriendinnetje de zesentwintigjarige Mike ontmoet. Als er thuis echter alleen maar ruzie is en de schoolresultaten van Merel steeds slechter worden, besluiten Merels moeder en stiefvader om haar in een internaat te plaatsen. De vriendschap tussen Mike en Merel wordt daardoor steeds hechter, en de twee worden verliefd.

Belonging: A Journey from Rejection to Identity is the powerful true story of Gofaone Pearl Khumoetsile—a woman who turned pain into purpose, rejection into identity, and survival into triumph. Born in Botswana and shaped by hardship, Gofaone’s life took a dramatic turn when she moved to Ireland with little more than faith and determination. With the unwavering support of her mentor, Mrs. Tebogo Mosale Ncube, and her beloved aunt, Lenah Baloi, she overcame daunting challenges—from working low-paying jobs on a visitor’s visa to fighting for the chance to build a better life for her son.

They called her Kizzy a name that carried mystery, sweetness, and prophecy. To the world, she was peculiar, too much, too fast, too different. But within her was a story that could not be silenced. In KIZZY, Shakitha Jamerson delivers a raw and soul-stirring memoir of survival, faith, and transformation. Through 35 unforgettable chapters, she peels back layers of silence, shame, and struggle to reveal resilience, redemption, and the power of a God who never let go.

Pocket of Pain is both heartbreaking and hopeful—a vital conversation piece for anyone who has endured gaslighting and abuse. It reminds us that we are not alone. It also reveals the resilience and optimism this young woman always held on to. Through her story, we experience her journey as she takes us through the euphoria of her quest to find happiness.

From an early age, Melanie M Johnson recognized she was different. She understood life for her would not be the same as others, however she had no idea what this difference would entail. Facing trauma after trauma, she found herself alone, surrounded by those she thought would love and protect her. But no one could protect her from the things she had to endure. Facing reality brought her to her breaking point, where she thought it would be better to not even exist.

What if your greatest gift feels like your greatest curse? Recently divorced and a newly single mother of three, Suzanne Leydecker had just begun to create a new life for herself and her children in Aspen, Colorado. Suddenly, after the death of both her parents, Suzanne inherited more money than she had ever imagined at the age of 47. All her problems were solved, right? Wrong. It was like winning the lottery. In some ways, life did get easier. But she didn’t anticipate how it would make her relationships with men a lot harder.