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In this powerful volume, 17 high-achieving women from Phoenix share their personal journeys to earning six figures and beyond while redefining success on their own terms. These are stories of resilience, reinvention, and rising above doubt to create thriving careers and businesses. Six-Figure Chicks is more than a book—it’s a movement. Each chapter is a blend of truth-telling and practical advice, offering real strategies to help you build your own six-figure path with purpose, balance, and confidence.

Susan Sontag, Coco Chanel, Emma Watson, Michelle Obama, Toni Morrison, Beyoncé, Simone de Beauvoir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ... Egal, ob sie Schriftstellerinnen, Politikerinnen, Schauspielerinnen oder Musikerinnen sind, sie alle verbindet ihr leidenschaftliches Engagement für Frauenrechte, Gleichberechtigung, Mut. Sie alle haben ihre Stimme erhoben, auch wenn Gegenwind drohte. Und sie wurden gehört. Bis heute. Die norwegische Journalistin Marta Breen hat die stärksten, beeindruckendsten und schlagkräftigsten Zitate kluger Frauen zusammengestellt.

What does the end of life teach us about living well now? How can significant threshold moments in our own lives catapult us into richer, more meaningful livs? The key to moving with ease and grace through life’s thresholds is knowing how deeply loved and supported we are by the Source of our being. This love is so great that its one constant invitation is to BeLoved. When we know ourselves as resting in perfect Love, all things are made new.

Facing abject poverty, rampant crime, and formidable challenges, she believes against all hope that she will somehow survive. Her mother teaches her how to pray—and pray she does—even when all hope of a better life seems fleeting and perhaps impossible. As time passes, Wendy struggles to not give up, and fervently asks God to perform a miracle and deliver her from the projects to the world she hopes and dreams of.

Wilde zwanen geeft een panoramische visie van drie vrouwen op een complexe samenleving in de vorm van prachtige memoires, intieme portretten en een meeslepende kroniek van het twintigste-eeuwse China. Het beschrijft het leven van Jung Changs grootmoeder, concubine van een generaal in het feodale China; van haar moeder, een hoge partijfunctionaris tijdens het communistische bewind, en ten slotte het indrukwekkende verhaal over hoe zijzelf opgroeide in het China van haar voorouders.

In the six lectures of Who Was Jane Austen? Sorting Fact from Fiction, you’ll join literary scholar Stephanie Insley Hershinow to explore some of the most enduring myths surrounding Austen and her work. As you dive into the Regency period and the details of Austen’s life, you’ll hear her debunk many longstanding assumptions and misrepresentations that have shaped her image in the popular imagination.

In this inspirational memoir, Kate shares the up-close and personal stories of her life lived as ‘the good girl’, ‘the perfect wife’ and the ‘perfect mum’. Kate came to see that ordinary was no longer enough. And in her quest to break free from the expectations of others, she found herself smack bang in the middle of the shit storm that had replaced her perfect life. Kate embarked on a journey of growth that would ultimately lead to great things. Yet great things don’t come without loss. Kate lost everything she had always known and believed.

Rock Bottom, Higher Ground is Denise St. Charles' unapologetic memoir of hitting bottom, confronting the deepest parts of herself, and building a life that fits on her own terms. With candor, humor, and unflinching honesty, she shares her fears, her quirks, her triumphs, and the work it takes to live authentically every day. Rock Bottom, Higher Ground is a powerful memoir about living with mental illness and finding the courage to rise above it.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Town & Country Harper’s Bazaar W Magazine Bustle LitHub Women’s Wear Daily The first comprehensive biography of Jane Birkin—actress, singer, and legendary style icon—and her profound cultural impact, from the...

In this candid and thought-provoking memoir, a millennial woman of Black and Chinese heritage reflects on the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity in the American South and beyond. From childhood memories to college experiences and a burgeoning career, Blackinese explores the nuances of race, culture, and belonging, tackling everything from food and music to dating, politics, and religion. With vulnerable honesty, author Patricia Bradby Moore takes listeners on a journey through her ever-evolving sense of self, which has been shaped by her diverse upbringing and global travels.

After a near-death experience, Bridget Harris found herself searching for purpose, expecting an immediate, big revelation. Instead, she remained in the same job, the same relationship, stuck in old patterns. As she approached 40, she realized change was no longer optional… it was essential. Her transformation began not with a grand plan, but with surrender—letting go of expectations of how she thought her life should be and embracing the unpredictable life unfolding before her. What followed was a series of profound, unexpected changes that reshaped her world.

Mary is about the mother of Jesus and the arc of her development from a peasant teenager to an icon in the church, to a bold witness of the Gospel who journeys from Jerusalem to Samaria, to the mostly Gentile church in Antioch of Syria, and finally to Ephesus, a major metropolitan city of Asia Minor. This book tells the story of Mary in the style of a memoir while still being faithful to the canon of scripture in the hopes that women who seek to have their voices heard in a male-dominated society will find inspiration and strength.

Inspired by the illumination of Bipolar Type II diagnosis at age 46, and the subsequent process of healing, Donelle McKinley’s memoir offers hope of clinical recovery from ‘incurable’ illness and lights the way for others.

The disappearance and subsequent murder of one of Western Australia's most infamous underworld crime figures, Frank La Rosa, is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a true account, the untold story of Frank's daughter Lisa Mahoney, told in intimate detail as only Lisa herself can tell it in this rollercoaster of a memoir. It is more than a story of life as a drug dealer's daughter, and Lisa opens up about how her life was thrown into chaos on more than one occasion, including the many months of dealing with a missing person, to the somewhat closure she had when all hope was lost.

Lotta Dann's journey with extreme dieting and drastic weight loss led to endless praise for her skinny body. But no one knew what she had to do to maintain it. When the weight came back on, Lotta started asking fundamental questions that she'd never considered before. Why do we believe that to be healthy you must be skinny? Why do we think any measure of fat on our body is bad? Why do so many of us hate our bodies? And why do we spend so much time, money and energy trying to shrink ourselves?

Named One of the Best Ten Books of 2025 by The Washington Post Book World Named a Best Book of the Year by Artforum Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her...

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.

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.

Sparent, by Jyl Barlow, is filled with the true tales of life in a blended family. Through laughter and tears, Sparent offers insight and wisdom that is easily applied to all types of families. Jyl is best known for giggling at inappropriate times, something she carries into her writing. As a humorist, Jyl’s writing has been compared to Erma Bombeck's. As a stepmother, she’s been compared to . . . well, that’s not important.

Emily Lyons survived a bomb detonated by Eric Robert Rudolph in Birmingham, Alabama on Jan 29th, 1998. Rudolph was on the FBI's Top Ten for over five years with a reward of one million dollars. The manhunt cost $30 million. Emily sustained extensive injuries, including the loss of her eye. This book is about the attack, but there is so much more – love and hate, life and death, joy and sorrow. Most of all, it is about survival. Tragic events do not make a person special. Life knocks everybody down. What counts is how you stand up afterwards.