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“Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations.” —Amal Clooney In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of...

This international bestseller is the true story of a devoted book lover who finds connection in the vast sea of Tokyo by recommending to strangers the book that will change their lives. “I'm the manager of a very unusual bookshop. I have over ten thousand books in my vast memory bank, and I'll...

A thrilling memoir from the first American woman to race a sailboat solo, nonstop around the world. In 2024, Cole Brauer became the first American woman to race solo around the world, in a forty-foot sailboat named First Light. For 130 days, she navigated mechanical breakdowns, debilitating food...

Penniless virgins. Reckless dukes. Flappers. Airmen. Suffragettes. Barbara Cartland made them fall in love. She wrote 723 books without touching a typewriter: instead, she reclined on her sofa with a Pekinese on her lap - and romantic fiction billowed out of her. This dazzling biography reveals...

An illustrated biography of Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American Hollywood star, and her hardships, triumphs, successes, and scandals, by the leading Anna May Wong expert Leading Anna May Wong expert Shirley Jennifer Lim reveals the triumphs, setbacks, fame, and scandal of the first Chinese...

The extraordinary account of The New York Times's effort to save hundreds of lives during the 2019 Afghanistan evacuation, highlighting four exceptional young women who, having escaped the fate of their fellow countrywomen back home, now face the challenges of forging a new life in a new land, a...

An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic writer Daphne du Maurier and her famous ancestors, by her eldest grandson Born into a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne grew up in an atmosphere of carefree privilege. At a time when girls of her class were not expected to have a career, she...

Laurie Notaro can time travel. The portal is Scottsdale, Arizona. Once inside her elderly parents’ home, she’s a child again—who’s two years away from collecting Social Security. Caught between generations, Laurie is young enough to be thrust into the role of caregiver yet old enough to be grappling with her own creaking bones and analog life skills. It’s an awkward age.

In Notes from the Other Side of Night, Juliana Geran Pilon provides a beautiful memoir of a return to her native Romania in 1975, which she left with her family when she was just fourteen. Poetically weaving together hard-won adult insights with her childhood perceptions, Pilon tells the haunting stories of her parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. She recounts the chilling realities of anti-Semitism, political imprisonment, and judicial execution under Romania’s ruthless communist authorities.

Based on new archival research, this is a major new biography on Hannah Arendt, tracing for the first time the intellectual development of, arguably, the twentieth century’s most influential thinker. In this extraordinary biography, Thomas Meyer seeks to explain the fascination that the woman...

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...

Im März 2020 hatte Belle Burden mit ihren Kindern und ihrem Mann im Ferienhaus der Familie auf Martha's Vineyard Zuflucht vor der Pandemie gesucht. Dann, ohne Vorwarnung oder Erklärung, verkündete ihr Mann, mit dem sie seit zwanzig Jahren verheiratet war, dass er sie verlassen würde. Mit fünfzig steht plötzlich ihr ganzes Leben auf der Kippe. Auf schmerzhafte Weise lernt sie, sich zu behaupten und auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Nach und nach stellt sie fest, dass sie viel stärker ist, als sie es jemals erwartet hätte.

With Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women--wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors--who made a life for themselves in spite of everything. Everything that changed in the 20th century changed more dramatically for women. Her Own Voice tells the stories of eight...

For readers of Know My Name by Chanel Miller and fans of Broadway’s John Proctor Is the Villain, a stunning memoir in verse about sexual abuse, survival, and sisterhood from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood Water Paint. Joy McCullough’s earliest memories are of time spent in...

Von Müttern, Kindern, Erinnerungen und grünen Pantoffeln für den Großvater: Eine charmante Verbeugung vor den Heldinnen des Alltags »In meinem neuen Buch geht es darum, wie eine über Neunzigjährige mit Nebel im Kopf tapfer weiterlebt, Weltkrisen löst und die Katze erzieht.« Das zumindest sind ein paar der Dinge, um die sich Wladimir Kaminers eigene Mutter kümmert. Und sie ist in diesen Erzählungen in bester Gesellschaft. Denn wer sorgt dafür, dass die Welt sich halbwegs geordnet weiterdreht, wenn nicht unsere Mütter?

Embrace and learn to love your natural hair with this eye-opening guide from “hair whisperer” to the stars, Felicia Leatherwood. As a child there was nothing Felicia Leatherwood wanted more than long, flowy hair. But Felicia’s short afro grew up and out, not down. Her father who styled...

A bold and incisive personal manifesto on the ways sexism is used in capitalist systems to exploit women, using algorithms that pressure them into spending money on a distorted ideal of beauty, motherhood, and success. The age-old pressure to focus on either a career or building a family has...

The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family...

In 1987, when Sandy heard the bark of the first pistol shot right next to her ear, she bolted and ran for her life. After ducking behind desert scrub brush in the dim glow of the moonlight, she spotted eighteen-year-old Troy Kell and his buddy Billy Merritt standing over the dead body of James Cotton Kelly. Though only fifteen, this was the fourth murder Shaw witnessed in two years. She was convicted and sentenced to two life terms without parole and became the youngest female ever incarcerated in an adult Nevada prison.

"An absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America." —Naomi Fry, staff writer at The New Yorker A whip-smart, darkly funny, and timely memoir of one woman’s twelve years inside Google and her transformation from...