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An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius...

Vanishing is a memoir about survival—and the quieter, more dangerous act of disappearing while still alive. Told through a series of intimate, unsparing reflections, the audiobook traces a life shaped by instability, silence, and endurance. From childhood memories marked by fractured family dynamics and unspoken rules, through adulthood spent functioning instead of living, the author charts how survival slowly became a substitute for selfhood.

Nikki Nash tells the story of an obsession that starts with a young girl's movie-star fantasy. At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki fixates on superstar Warren Beatty. She's determined to find him and have him in her life forever. She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of eighteen when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents. A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst, Warren Beatty walks through the door and her plan comes to fruition.

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.

Author Teresa Mull, herself a former college basketball player, goes to where it all started: West Des Moines, Iowa, where she chronicles the people and places that influenced Caitlin Clark’s rise from a regular Catholic Midwestern kid competing against her brothers in the backyard to a global sports superstar. Through interviews, research, and first-person accounts, Caitlin Clark also offers a deeper exploration of how Clark, celebrity-athlete-turned-social-lightning-rod, is shaping not just the public’s perception of women’s sports, but our entire culture.

A lush memoir from James Beard Award-winning food and travel writer Tarajia Morrell explores growing up in one of New York’s most renowned wine families, her wild road to self-discovery, and her search for love and success in all the right—and wrong—places.

Read by the author, Ruthie Henshall. From much-loved West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall, The Showgirl and the Prince is a funny, honest and touching real-life Cinderella story – if Cinders is a lycra-clad chorus girl from Bromley who drinks and smokes too much. In 1988, Ruthie was at...

Dr. Sharlay Thosen born and raised in the picturesque Lowcountry of South Carolina. Where she has developed a deep appreciation for the rich culture and coruscating spirit of the region. With a decade of entrepreneurial experience, she has navigated the challenges and rewards of building a business from the ground up. Dr. Sharlay Thosen pursued studies in healthcare and business administration, gaining valuable insights into both fields that would later inform her entrepreneurial journey.

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.

A impressionante história de Gisèle Pelicot, narrada por ela mesma, que comoveu o mundo ao revelar um dos casos mais chocantes de violência sexual e abuso conjugal da França. Em Um hino à vida, Gisèle transforma sua dor em força e oferece uma poderosa mensagem de esperança, cura e empoderamento feminino.

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence.

From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, and Nickelodeon, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like. In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've been taught about power. Through raw, behind-the-scenes stories from both her childhood and her trailblazing career, she reveals that real power isn't handed to you—it's forged through strategy, courage, and an unshakable belief in your own worth.

Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history, yet much of her story has been fragmented, misunderstood, or incomplete. While countless books recount her courage on the Underground Railroad, few explore the full scope of her strategic brilliance, military service, and lifelong leadership. Harriet Tubman sets out to correct the record. Drawing on research and rare family oral history, authors Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels—Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece—present the first biography to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.

When Katrina, a forty-six-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband suggests they open up their twenty+ year marriage, which appears to be a reasonable solution to their dilemma. But when Katrina and her husband have different ideas of what an open marriage should like, the cracks in their white-picket-fence life are hit with a hurricane-force fury.

After what was supposed to be a routine ovarian cyst removal, Chaun found herself fighting for survival, ignored, dismissed, and nearly lost to a medical error that should have never happened. Trust Your Gut is her powerful story of survival, healing, and awakening to the life-saving importance of self-advocacy in healthcare.

Hard Truth: Growing out of Adversity, tells the remarkable story of the author’s journey towards healing and resilience. Having lost her father during her childhood the author retraces her earliest memories of growing up in the idyllic setting of Barbados. While happy and securely attached to her parents she experienced poverty. Her mother’s decision to emigrate to England to find a new life for her family increased the sense of loss she suffered during her most formative years.

Carolyn Dawn Flynn thought she had the answer. As an author, magazine journalist, and single mother of twins, she was sure of her path. But with her twins eagerly casting their college choices to anywhere-but-here, and the newspaper industry in a death spiral, her life was on a collision course with an uncertain future. Clearly, it was time for a road trip.

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...

Forgive For You is a story about learning to live well with reality, even (and especially) when it doesn’t come with clarity, closure, or apology. Blending sharp insight and raw honesty, the author reflects on love, loss, kinship, trauma, marriage, divorce, and what it means to forgive it all–not for others, but for ourselves. This isn’t a tale of tidy resolution. It’s a winding, at times bewildering, emotional journey through secrets kept and truths uncovered. It’s the reckoning of a rage that could burn the world, and the forging of resilience from fury and surrender.

The acclaimed social historian provides an in-depth look at eight society women who shaped upper class culture from the Gilded Age to WWII. Linked by money, marriage, privilege, and power, these women formed a grand American matriarchy—and they ruled American society with a style and impact that make today's socialites seem pale reflections of their forbears. Stephen Birmingham takes us into the drawing rooms of these powerful women, providing keen insights into an American society that no longer exists.