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Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate

by Jane Juska

“Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.” This inspired personal ad from Jane Juska drew tremendous response and swept the retired teacher into a whirlwind existence she barely...


Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile

by Nuha Al-Radi

In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on...


Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

by Jessica Queller

Faced with the BRCA mutation—the so-called “breast cancer gene”—one woman must answer the question: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide to live?

 

Eleven months after her...


Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History

by Helene Stapinski

On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time. Beansie (so nicknamed because he had stolen a crate...


I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival

by Hilda Twongyeirwe

Featuring the real-life experiences of contemporary African women who tell of atrocities, pain, motherhood, marriage, love, and courage in their daily life, this gripping collection brings greater awareness...


No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Noam Chomsky & Rev. Walter E. E. Fauntroy

Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her...


Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death

by Josephe Marie Marie Flynn & Helen Prejean

A decade after fleeing the Congo for the United States, having endured rape, imprisonment, and torture in her homeland, Regina Bakala found herself locked in a U.S. prison facing deportation to almost certain...


Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.

by Anne Thomas Thomas Soffee

This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail—a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los...


The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal

by Vicki Croke

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that...


The Lost Woman: A Memoir

by Sydney Smith

The Lost Woman is a brave and elegantly written memoir. When Sydney Smith was nine, she thought about killing herself because of her mother's cruelty. By the time Sydney was twenty, she believed there were cameras...


Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

by Rita Golden Gelman

“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the Preface

Tales of a Female Nomad is the story...


African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus

by Rachel Holmes

Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed...


Letters of Love, Light and Laughter

by Gena Alston

In 'Letters of Love, Light and Laughter', Gena Alston brings to you her experience of receiving and believing. Channelling started many years ago for Gena, firstly in meditation groups - having visualisations...


The Music of the Soul

by Stephen Chong

This is a life-changing book. 'The Music of the Soul' is a journey of change to realise your highest potential in this lifetime. Through the use of a compelling narrative story between a generation of ducks,...


Memoirs of a Suburban Medium (ePub)

by Kerrie Jean Erwin

A child discovers she is psychic! Kerrie Erwin's experiences give us insight into another world - a world that has always been a mystery to most of us. When only a child, Kerrie discovers she is different and...


A Strong West Wind: A Memoir

by Gail Caldwell

In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind...


Olga's Story: Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

by Stephanie Williams

When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of...


My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

by Sissy Spacek & Maryanne Vollers

In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended...


Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

by Anna Quindlen

INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN

“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does...


Mixed: My Life in Black and White

by Angela Nissel

“Tell anyone who asks that you’re half-black and half-white, just like David Hasselhoff from Knight Rider.”–Angela’s mother

“Love has no color,” insist Angela Nissel’s parents, but does it have...