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Caroline's story is revealed in raw and incredible detail. Her connections to her American Indian ancestry and history of the Arkansas land are interwoven throughout, revealing the ancient curses and the stones of time that have seen everything.

Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white. In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and untapped archival material to capture the life of an oft-forgotten talent.

In Unparalyzed: Shattering Limits While Finding Freedom, Katie shares her inspiring journey from a hopeless, resentful teenager who didn’t want to live, to a young woman who refuses to be limited by a broken body.

The Courage to Forgive is a heartfelt memoir by Katie M. Rischer, sharing her journey through childhood, trauma, and healing. Born in a large family in rural Texas, Katie reflects on her early years filled with both joy and struggle. As she grows, she faces the harsh realities of life, including a traumatic experience that leaves her feeling isolated and ashamed. Katie's story unfolds as she navigates the challenges of adolescence, discovering her passion for education and basketball. These passions provide her with a sense of purpose and community

The 12 Indigenous women featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships—racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty—only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism. Such determination and courage reflect the essence of the traditional Cheyenne saying: A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.

स्त्रियांचे उन्नयन घडवेल विश्वात परिवर्तन हा विश्वास बाळगून सतत कार्यरत राहणा-या मेलिंडा गेटसने लिहिलेले हे अनुभव नक्कीच ऐकण्याजोगे आहेत. हे पुस्तक म्हणजे समाजास पुढे नेण्यासाठी आणि त्या अनुषंगाने स्त्रियांच्या सक्षमीकरणासाठी काय केलं पाहिजे, या बद्दल सांगणारं एक सुंदर आणि संक्षिप्त असं ध्येयभाष्यच आहे. लिंगसमानता आणि समानुभूती मांडणा-या या कथा आपल्यातील माणसाला एका वेगळ्या उंचीवर नेतात.

Beautifully wrought and staggeringly urgent , Fragile Minds documents Bella Jackson's time as a trainee mental health nurse, and the devastation and hope she encountered in winding corridors and behind locked doors. With compassion and care Bella introduces us to a vivid cast of staff and patients, prompting us to look closer, ask questions and demand more for them.

Out of Marzahn - das wahre Leben von Ilka Bessin Pinkfarbener Jogginganzug, eine Blume in der blonden Perücke, dicke Schminke, Berliner Schnauze - und langzeitarbeitslos. Das war "Cindy aus Marzahn", die ab 2005 eine steile Karriere hinlegte. Im Laufe der Jahre wurde ihrer Erschafferin die Rolle jedoch zu eng; sie wollte viel mehr als "Cindy aus Marzahn" konnte. 2016 war deshalb Schluss, die Kunstfigur ist weg und hat Platz für ihre Erfinderin gemacht: Ilka Bessin.

Robyn Stecher was born outside of Boston and made in New York. She is a writer and an entertainment industry veteran. She is also the founder of Artemis Rising Enterprises- a coaching and consulting company. Her charitable endeavors have included serving as an advisory board member and volunteer for 21 years with The Dream Foundation, Benefit Chair and Co-chair of The Lowell School in NY, a non-public school for children with learning challenges, and as a participant in the Pajama Program, a reading program for at-risk children.

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret's grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why.

The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist— Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few fragments of feathers.

Bobbi Brown is a trailblazer in the beauty industry. A New York Times bestselling author of nine makeup tutorial books to date, she is the founder of both her namesake beauty brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and her four-year-old clean beauty brand, Jones Road. Recognized as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2021, included in Forbes’s “50 Over 50” list of Most Influential Women in 2022, and honored with the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, Bobbi’s career has been nothing short of groundbreaking. I

Catherine Tsalikis traces Chrystia Freeland's remarkable journey from the northwestern Alberta town of Peace River to Moscow, London, and New York, where she spent two decades as a journalist, to the halls of Parliament Hill as deputy prime minister and finance minister in Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.

Through exclusive interviews with current and former female CIA officers, many of whom have never spoken publicly, Agents of Change tells an enthralling and, at times, disturbing story set against the backdrop of the evolving women’s movement. It was the 1960s, a “secretarial” era, when women first gained a foothold and pushed against the one-dimensional, pop-culture trope of the sexy Cold War Bond Girl. Underestimated but undaunted, they fought their way, decade-by-decade, through adversity to the top of the spy game.

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

The night is a time of darkness and nightmares, fear and vulnerability, especially for women. And, yet, it is another world, full of beauty and possibility, too. After the sun goes down, insomnia and sleep paralysis do threaten. But some have always walked the nocturnal landscapes, with more or less confidence. Others have worked, night shifts and hidden night work: nurses, security guards, sex workers. And some have found solace in the darkness, from queer rave culture to religious pre-dawn traditions.

Greed & Grace is an empowering story of personal clarity—a memoir of a woman who discovers that her values and position in a complex family system have always been different from what she believed and with those she loved most.

Morlocks in the Basement is an irreverent, bittersweet, often outrageous chronicle of accidental motherhood in the age of fractured families. Love story, soap opera, play-by-play of a train wreck, Carolyn Colburn's debut memoir is not quite like anything you've listened to before. It's a treatise on housekeeping, a primer for roller skating on acid to Canada and back, a how-to for dodging calls from the county jail concerning “an incarcerated loved one,” your daughter.

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers.

Behind every no is a what if. What if you said yes instead of no? What if you took the leap instead of playing it safe? What if you went for the life you wanted instead of accepting the one you have? One Yes at a Time is one family’s origin story of taking risks together. By saying yes to two open adoptions, Susan Strong and her husband stepped into the unknown of adoptive parenting with eagerness but also absolutely blind to what came next. Over time, they learned to let go of control and trust the process, eventually building a beautiful life for themselves and their children.