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Sheffield. 2019. Evie and her husband wait in a shopping centre coffee shop for a woman they have only ever spoken with online. When she arrives, they go to a motorway hotel together and have sex with the casual promise afterwards to meet again sometime. When they took their marriage vows, they had meant every word. So how had they drifted so far from the life they had imagined?

האישה שעליה דיברו היתה וירג'יניה הוֹל, אשת חברה אמריקאית מבולטימור שהצליחה בכוח השכנוע להתקבל לשורות "מנהלת המבצעים המיוחדים", ארגון הביון הבריטי שכונה "משרד הלוחמה הבלתי ג'נטלמנית" של צ'רצ'יל. היא היתה לאישה הראשונה שבעלות הברית שלחו אל מעבר לקווי האויב, ולמרות נכותה (רגל תותבת) עזרה להצית את אש הלהבה של הרזיסטנס הצרפתי וחוללה מהפכה בלוחמה החשאית כפי שאנו מכירים אותה.

30 kurze Biografien berühmter Frauen aus den Disziplinen Film, Musik und bildender Kunst erwarten die Hörerschaft, vom Jazz über den Film bis zur Musik! Mit dabei: Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Romy Schneider, Camille Claudel, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cher, Ella Fitzgerald, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Vivienne Westwood - und viele mehr!

In Unraveling, Marta Hobbs shares her powerful story of growing up under the oppressive shadow of the Cold War, navigating the challenges of immigration, and overcoming the trauma of feeling like an outsider.

Pedo, the central character of "The Headhunter's Granddaughter", grew up deep in the jungles of Borneo, Malaysia. Her parents gave her away to her father's brother, a cruel man who used her for child labor, tapping rubber trees to make money. Her parents had too many mouths to feed, twelve children in all. Pedo wouldn't be missed. Her grandfather, the "Headhunter", cared for her by recruiting village women to breastfeed her and their children. During WWII, the Japanese invaded Borneo and tried to take over their village, and Pedo's grandfather practiced his 'skills' with a vengeance.

The journey of an entrepreneurial Orthodox Jewish American-Israeli woman who founded an educational organization and ran an inner-city charter school. Nicki Salfer built a business working with special-needs children while overcoming personal struggle, and explains her amazing story in a fresh and relatable memoir.

In Letter from Japan, Marie Kondo responds to the myriad questions she received about her inspirations by examining the Japanese customs that she grew up with—minute details of tea ceremonies, the art of taking care of gardens, and the power of passing seasons—with her trademark gentle wisdom. But this isn’t only a response to her audience’s fervent desire to get to know the woman behind the show; it’s a manifesto for her three children, a documentation of the foundational elements of their culture that is essential to their understanding of the world around them.

On a chilly day in early spring, Belle Burden’s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her. Belle was shocked; he had always been a committed partner and a devoted father to their three children. She thought they were in love. She thought he—they—were living the life they'd always wanted: professional success, summers at their beloved beachside home, a vibrant social life. But overnight, her caring, steady husband became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume.

ദാരിദ്രൃത്തിന്റെ കുപ്പക്കുഴിയില് ജനിച്ച് അനാഥത്വത്തിന്റെ നീണ്ട പാതകള് താണ്ടേണ്ടിവന്ന ഒരു പെണ്കുട്ടിയുടെ ജീവിതകഥ. ആകുലതകളുടെ പെരും വെള്ളപ്പാച്ചിലിലും സ്വന്തം ജീവിതത്തെ നിര്മ്മമമായി നോക്കിക്കാണാനും കാരുണ്യത്തോടെ സമൂഹത്തെ കാണാനും ഷെമിക്ക് ഈ ആഖ്യാനത്തില് സാധിക്കുന്നു. വടക്കേ മലബാറിലെ മുസ്ലിംജീവിതാവസ്ഥയുടെ ഒരു നേര്ക്കാഴ്ച. തെരുവോരങ്ങളില് വളര്ന്ന് ആര്ക്കും വേണ്ടാതെ വിരിഞ്ഞുകൊഴിഞ്ഞുപോകുന്ന കുറെ പാഴ്ച്ചെടിപ്പൂക്കളുടെ കഥ.

Introducing Releasing Me: A Memoir" by Kimberly Y. Frederick-Griffin. In this powerful narrative, Kimberly shares the deeply personal story of her tumultuous childhood, marked by trauma and emotional turmoil that shaped her relationships and hindered her pursuit of happiness. Through candid reflections, she unveils the struggles she faced, from battling destructive patterns to grappling with feelings of isolation and unacceptance.

A touching memoir filled with food, friendships, and scenes of Italy, Pinch Me is ultimately a celebration of love, of learning to see the world, as well as oneself, through a different window, and of the powerful joy that comes from building a dream.

Tembi Locke has always been obsessed with family—making them, keeping them, thriving within them. As a child of divorce, a mother through adoption, a widow by cancer and now remarried to form a blended family, she is deeply familiar with change and upheaval. But in the summer of 2023, she felt overwhelmed and uneasy by another major shift: her only child, Zoela, was about to move across the country for college. Tembi needed to be in a place with the power to connect her to the past and prepare her for the future. So, she rented a house by the sea and booked flights to Sicily.

My dearest Mr Snippet… World War II has just begun, and newly-married John, a young cadet army officer from London, has been forced to leave behind his beloved wife Rita. As each of them desperately try to hold onto their joint hopes and dreams, will fate grant them the future they dream of, or will the unpredictabilities of a relentless war conspire against them?

In the shadow of a forgotten kingdom, there lives a woman whose kindness knows no bounds, but whose heart is hollowed by the weight of her own sacrifice. Lawanda, was born with the rare gift of giving—her hands offered solace, her words healed, her love endless. Yet, the world she serves is a cold and ungrateful place, where those she helps take and take without ever offering anything in return. Her family, once warm and full of promise, has turned into a cage of demand.

Ginger the Cat entered my life when I thought I would never have a cat, dog, fish, ferret, or bird again. Two of my beloved cats had recently crossed over the rainbow bridge. I was determined to live a pet-free life. I first met her coming home from a business trip and decided to stay at my favorite B&B in Emlenton, PA. She saw me and claimed me as her own. I had no choice in the matter. We were together for 17 years and had many fur-raising adventures. Ginger soon promoted herself to HRH, Her Royal Highness, and I was appointed to the position of dedicated servant to her royal self.

A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin - and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her - amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter - the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked - took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind, understanding, and safe adults in her life.

In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.

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.

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.