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Florence Nightingale is remembered the world over as the “Lady with the Lamp,” moving quietly through darkened hospital corridors during the Crimean War, bringing comfort and hope to wounded soldiers. Yet to leave her story at that glowing image is to miss the extraordinary breadth of her life’s work. Florence Nightingale was not only a nurse but also a visionary reformer, a relentless campaigner, and one of the first to use data and statistics as weapons for systemic change.

My life with Chad was rocky at best. His need for control extended to me and led to an abusive situation that ended in trauma and murder. This is the story of how I found courage and healing after being married to my abuser for several years.

In No One's Trash, Bella Williams courageously opens her heart to share her divorce's raw, unfiltered days—one filled with pain, self-reflection, and eventual healing. This candid memoir isn't just a recounting of heartbreak; it's a lifeline thrown to anyone adrift in the turbulent seas of separation. Bella transforms her darkest days into a beacon of hope for others, ensuring that no one has to navigate the initial chaos of divorce, feeling alone or insane.

Crime Buster Turned Evangelist is a true-life story and a riveting book about a courageous woman whose relentless pursuit of truth exposed corruption in her city. As a dedicated crime reporter, she navigated dangerous terrain, confronting human malfeasance and unsettling spiritual forces. Despite the cost of risking her life, she found inner strength and faith, transforming from a fierce investigator into a symbol of grace and hope as an Evangelist.

Sixty-five years ago, a middle-aged woman working with a small group of collaborators out of a converted shed on the outskirts of Cambridge predicted the future of Artificial Intelligence. As world powers raced to discover and exploit the capabilities of the first computers during the Cold War, Masterman emerged from obscurity to become an unlikely prophet of artificial intelligence.

Die Schauspielerin Angela Winkler führt mehr als ein Leben: für die Bühne, für den Film – und gleichermaßen für ihre Familie. In Mein blaues Zimmer erzählt sie von diesen Leben und nimmt uns mit hinter die Kulissen ihres geliebten Theaters. Sie erinnert sich an ihre Anfänge als Schauspielerin in Castrop-Rauxel und beim Neuen Deutschen Film, an die vielen fast verfallenen Häuser in Italien und Frankreich, die sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann umgebaut und zum Leben erweckt hat, und lässt uns an ihrer Liebe zur Natur teilhaben.

Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn't have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso's Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the "Kings of Beauty"—just as the 1970's counterculture movement began to take off.

In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb.

In The Owl and the Pony, Reggie Grecco paints a vivid portrait of her life’s journey—a narrative woven with resilience, passion, and profound self-discovery threads. The tale unfurls with Reggie’s early encounters with fame, where she navigates the glitzy realms of celebrity and entertainment. However, behind the dazzling façade lies a difficult battle with addiction, a struggle that propels Reggie into a turbulent odyssey.

Carolyn Sherrow’s early life was marred by the darkness of ritual abuse and mind control. Yet, through the power of God’s relentless love, she found the strength to rise above her past. In My Personal Holocaust, Sherrow describes her profound journey of faith, healing, and redemption. In this deeply personal account, she shares how a dissociative disorder once bound her in fear but ultimately led her closer to God. With the support of compassionate counselors and divine guidance, she embarked on a path of spiritual and emotional restoration.

A brasileira Caroline Breure levava uma vida quase perfeita na Austrália quando, em 2019, um terrível acidente mudou seu destino. Com apenas 5% de chance de sobreviver, o corpo destruído e a mente fragmentada por uma lesão cerebral, ela precisou reaprender cada detalhe sobre sua própria vida. Após um ano de uma dolorosa reabilitação, Caroline voltou para casa, mas tudo parecia fora do lugar. Seu namorado, seus amigos, seu trabalho, sua vida – nada era exatamente como ela se lembrava. Fragilizada e sem confiar nas próprias memórias, ela iniciou uma busca por pistas.

Kelsey Waghorn, a guide on the ill-fated tour of Whakaari White Island in December 2019, tells her story for the first time, from physical rehab for her life-threatening burns to her mental struggle with PTSD. By a brave and powerful woman with a wicked sense of humour, this is an uplifting story of acceptance, strength, perseverance and hope.

In dieser zutiefst bewegenden Erzählung schildert die Autorin den schleichenden Zerfall ihrer kleinen Familie. Die Authentizität dieser Geschichte wurzelt in den 1950er-Jahren, als der Vater aus der DDR in den Westen Deutschlands flieht. Für die zurückgelassene Familie beginnt eine Ära voller Entbehrungen. Die überforderte Mutter, konfrontiert mit den täglichen Herausforderungen der Kindererziehung, sucht Zuflucht in Alkohol und Tabletten. Diese Flucht vor der Realität hinterlässt verheerende Auswirkungen auf alle Familienmitglieder, insbesondere auf die Entwicklung der Kinder.

Tightrope is an emotionally charged autobiography fearlessly narrated by the author. Sandra explores the themes of parental abuse, mental illness, trauma, grief, love, and ultimately the process of healing with candor and the kind of self-assurance that comes from lived experience. She explores the process of finding one's balance in life. The story reveals the complexity of relationships in a dysfunctional family and the wounded spirit of those with mental illness. Her story speaks to the power of every person to find within themselves resilience, courage, and faith despite life's challenges.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

The Babe with the Power is an inspiring memoir about one woman’s genesis from fatherless, fat-shamed child to embodied engineer and triathlete. This book is for any woman who has ever felt worthless, powerless, or trapped in a cycle of body shame and victimhood. Joyel Marie grew up not knowing who her father was. A brown girl in a family of white faces, she stuffed her self-hatred down with each bite. Inspired by the Jim Henson film Labyrinth, Joyel recounts the traumas that caused her to build her own winding walls of shame and depression and how she tore them down block by block.

Who says being middle aged needs to be boring? Approaching a milestone birthday and following a major health scare, Debs decides to make her fiftieth year on the planet her best year yet. She sets about doing fifty different activities that she had never done as an adult, to prove that an old dog can learn new tricks. Follow her tales of adventure, mayhem and mishaps, and a few more sedate experiences as she discovers that age is just a number. Action packed with highs and lows, and plenty of laughs along the way, this book is a refreshing memoir about how to deal with advancing years.

Elizabeth Gilbert regresa con la historia del gran amor de su vida. La autora que inspiró a millones de lectores a vivir con autenticidad (Come, reza, ama) y creatividad (Libera tu magia) nos muestra cómo alcanzar la libertad. En 2000, Elizabeth conoció a Rayya. Se hicieron amigas, luego mejores amigas, luego inseparables. Cuando la tragedia irrumpió en sus vidas, la verdad quedó finalmente al descubierto: estaban enamoradas. También eran un par de adictas, abocadas inevitablemente a la catástrofe.

Have you ever questioned the truths behind a seemingly ordinary life? An Apparently Normal Person" takes you on a captivating journey through the depths of trauma, resilience and the power of the human spirit. In this inspiring memoir, Bonnie Armstrong unveils the uncharted territory of her dissociation, a survival mechanism that became a catalyst for healing. At the height of an accomplished professional career, an inexplicable illness hints at a connection to a forgotten suicide attempt decades earlier.

Surely Goodness and Mercy is a deeply personal memoir of love, loss, and the extraordinary healing power of animals. When Julie Dykes welcomed Johnny—a joyful, rough-and-tumble pup—into her life, she couldn’t have predicted how one dog would turn her world upside down. Then came Mercy, a gentle, soulful rescue with a past full of pain and a spirit that defied it. Together, these two dogs became more than pets: they were companions, teachers, and family.