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Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skilfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess – names synonymous with power and...

In August 2021 a women's creative writing group in Afghanistan shared news of political turmoil and the Fall of Kabul. These women were in the process of publishing a short-story collection when their world was turned upside down by the Taliban. In staying connected via WhatsApp messages, they established a lifeline; a vital space to keep their creativity alive, support each other and bear witness to the events unfolding around them.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You know the outline of the story. The explosion. The cover-up. The zone of silence. But what you have never heard is how a single young woman, armed with a notepad and a forged press pass, walked past KGB checkpoints into a radioactive hell and...

The stunning, untold story of how three nineteenth-century trailblazers built the women’s rights movement until their irreconcilable differences over race and gender split them apart—a legacy that still plagues American feminism today—from the award-winning author of Romantic Outlaws. I...

We Made the World: Five Centuries of Queens, Warriors, and Other Foremothers traces five centuries of history through twelve extraordinary women of African descent—from queens and warriors to artists and activists—weaving together collective memory, oral tradition, and personal grief into a...

In August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began. For sixty-three days, the Polish resistance fought against the heavily armed German occupiers in a desperate bid to reclaim their homeland. Among them was twenty-two-year-old Stefania Englehardt, a real woman who lived through it all--serving on the front lines as a medic, grenade maker, arms procurer, messenger, and saboteur. Through it all, she chronicled her experiences in a little red diary.

A unique blend of personal reflection, creative histories, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the lives of Buddhist women over 2,500 years. Of Mud and Lotuses illuminates the hardships, resilience, and creative ways in which Buddhist women have applied the Dharma to daily life—often in ways that history has ignored.

The story of how America’s garden clubs became an unexpected force for social change—powered by a diverse cast of extraordinary women with big personalities, fabulous hats, and dirt under their fingernails who fought for suffrage, civil rights, environmental justice, and more. During World...

In historical records, little was written about women. Most researchers back then were Western men, projecting a white male perspective on the past as well. One of the greatest blunders that these accounts made was with the Indian woman—she was thrown out of context, misunderstood, and misrepresented, leading women's history to be half-cooked, one-sided, and overpowered by his story.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Non-Fiction** When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad's completion from New York...

Women’s work is calling. Will you answer the phone? Throughout the mid-twentieth century, female telephone operators did far more than connect calls. Their voices soothed the anxieties of the modern age—charming infatuated suitors, informing curious residents, and providing life-saving...

'Hitler’s Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women’s studies and Holocaust studies' Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal...

Brooke at the Bar is a candid, lively, and sometimes humorous autobiography by Brooke Wunnicke, the first woman to be a trial and appellate attorney in Wyoming and who went on to become a legal legend in Colorado. In conversational writing, Brooke provides insights from a lawyer, mentor, and educator. Brooke shares vignettes of her early life—California in the Great Depression, college at Stanford, law school in Colorado during World War II, and the 1946 opening of her Cheyenne law office, a precedent for women in law.

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES In the year 1324, in the burgeoning town of Kilkenny, Ireland's second biggest town, there lived a wealthy, powerful woman named Dame Alicia Kyteler. After three of her husbands died suspiciously, and with the fourth...

Was wäre aus den berühmten Malern, Schriftstellern, Komponisten und Popstars geworden, wenn niemand da gewesen wäre, um sie zu inspirieren, zu trösten, zu korrigieren, zu managen, zu lieben? Von den antiken Musengöttinnen hin zu Christiane Vulpius, Anna Dostojewskaja, Gala Dalí, Véra Nabokov, Constanze Mozart, Uma Thurman und vielen anderen erzählt Elisa von Hof von den Frauen, die unsere Kunst und Kultur prägen, aber kaum anerkannt oder sichtbar gemacht werden.

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight? Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance was more complicated—and turbulent—than we remember, especially for women. Royals vied...

From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. 'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A royal smash. Kate Williams is at the top of her game' KATE LISTER 'A fascinating and excellent chronicle of female rulers' SIMON SEBAG...

Votes for Women! The Future Is Female! My Body, My Choice! Iconic rallying cries transformed women's rage into action in the struggle for equality, but without careful public relations campaigns, these slogans would have faded without impact. How did frustration become strategy and hope sustain...

‘Let it be remembered that insanity is still considered as more disgraceful than crime, and that it is therefore made the immediate interest of the family of the insane to bury her in oblivion . . .’ Today we are increasingly aware that poor mental health affects all of us, collectively if...

Embark on a riveting, real-life journey through history and mystery as two intrepid sleuths uncover secrets of their great-grandmother's enigmatic life. Set in the 1930's, the narrative of this tale weaves together threads of trauma and unexpected twists, immersing you in the resilient pursuit of a woman navigating the challenges of her era with unwavering grit.