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Alison Connolly, 49, was stabbed to death by two sisters in May 2015 who were later jailed. Alison had been sexually abused throughout her childhood by her father, and she had never been able to speak out. He later abused and raped Alison’s daughter, Tara. After her mother was murdered, Tara...

Kiki is moulded and shaped by her employers' demands and those of her clients until she is forced to change who she is. At last, she gets her British passport and is able to initiate divorce proceedings. She enters survival mode, allowing herself to be receptive to new experiences and starting the healing process.

(W)hole: My Journey to W is a powerful, unflinching memoir of survival, healing, and reclaiming voice after childhood sexual abuse. Amber Washington shares her journey from silence and shame to self-love and purpose, offering a raw yet hopeful reflection on trauma, resilience, and transformation.

In this deeply moving spiritual memoir, Zimbabwean author Valentine Bango traces an intimate journey through longing, pregnancy, birth, sleepless nights, quiet miracles, and the sacred, heartbreaking work of learning to let go.

Not a Cinderella Story is a raw, deeply moving memoir that takes listeners on an emotional journey through the life-altering experience of love, unexpected loss, and the quest to regain faith and find healing. It is a story of how a vibrant young woman found herself living a love story straight out of a fairy tale, only to face the unimaginable when her husband becomes ill and passes away, leaving her to navigate the harsh realities of widowhood at a young age.

Barbara Marcus was born on Valentine's Day, 1948, a day symbolizing love, but her childhood was anything but. In this raw and beautifully written memoir, she chronicles a life shaped by abuse, neglect, and a mother's erratic affection. From early memories of heartbreak and hope in Brooklyn to navigating the emotional wreckage left by a string of father figures, Born on Valentine's is a courageous exploration of trauma, resilience, and ultimately, healing.

Intrecciando filologia, storia culturale e studi di genere, dalle loro ricerche è emersa una storia del Barocco diversa, inedita e tutta al femminile. Nei conventi retti da donne, infatti, le monache avevano sviluppato un complesso intreccio sociale, in cui c'era spazio per il lavoro e la creatività, la moda e la fama, l'amicizia e l'amore, la politica e l'economia, e uno stile di vita che offriva soluzioni innovative alle difficoltà della vita quotidiana.

What happens when a woman in midlife bets everything on love, a sailboat, and a dream — only to watch it all sink into the sea? Sailing Sweet Caroline is a powerful memoir of reinvention, resilience, new love, and the courage to begin again when life upends everything you thought defined you. After ending a thirty-year marriage, Carol steps away from the life she once knew and into an audacious Caribbean sailing adventure aboard a 45-foot catamaran named Sweet Caroline.

From the bestselling author of Thirst and Mud, Rocks, Blazes, this compelling memoir chronicles Heather Anderson's ambitious journey to thru-hike America’s Triple Crown—the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails—in a single calendar year. Between 2003 and 2017, Anderson...

Descubre el fascinante mundo del amor en la era digital con "El amor virtual sí existe"! En este cautivador libro, Rosa María Tejada Capellán nos sumerge en un viaje lleno de conexiones emocionales a través de la red. Desde noches estrelladas a kilómetros de distancia hasta desayunos compartidos en diferentes husos horarios, cada página te llevará a explorar las infinitas posibilidades del romance en el mundo digital.

What was it really like to grow up in the 1950s and 60s during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War protests, and the spread of drugs and easy birth control among white middle-class youth? What was it like to attend Woodstock, explore the influence of New Age mysticism, and experience the changes among families and relationships as second-wave feminism began to percolate through society in the 1970s?

In St. Helena: The Most Influential Woman in Human History, former judge, prosecutor, and investigator Steve Castlen presents a riveting blend of historical fact and imaginative storytelling to make the case for one astonishing truth: that the mother of Constantine the Great was the single most transformative woman in the history of the Western world.

Hülya wird mit einem Gendefekt geboren, ihre Hände und Beine sind nicht voll funktionsfähig. Trotzdem lässt diese starke Frau sich nicht unterkriegen und meistert ihr Leben mit all seinen Hindernissen. Hülyas Lebens- und Liebesgeschichte zeugt von ihrem unerschütterlichen Glauben an das Gute. Mit ihrer warmherzigen Art berührt sie die Menschen überall, wo sie hinkommt.

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.

From an unconventional upbringing in Baltimore, to an unconventional marriage to one of the most famous men in the world, adhering to the status quo has never been a familiar road for Jada Pinkett Smith. In Worthy, Smith strips herself of all the labels and stories crafted by others, and reclaims her narrative with radical self-love. Worthy teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most authentic loveable souls.

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.