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"The House That Match Built” by T.B. Barnes is a powerful memoir of survival, resilience, and hope, written to illuminate the path toward healing for those battling the shadows of mental health challenges. With raw honesty and profound vulnerability, Barnes recounts her journey from the depths of despair to the heights of empowerment, offering a testament to the indomitable human spirit.

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation now known as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the "wise gals" by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering—and insisting that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved.

It’s been a tumultuous journey for Diane Turton, she navigated a tough childhood marked by her parents’ bitter divorce and her dad’s early and tragic death. The oldest of seven kids, grew up painfully shy, overweight, and relentlessly bullied—until her dad enlisted her to help with his business transactions and taught her to negotiate. By the time she got through college, Diane had bargained with car dealers, store owners, policemen, and clients selling their homes.

In Unbreakable(ish), Ali Ingersoll takes you on a wild, hilarious, and deeply real ride through a life that broke multiple times—then got rebuilt stronger until one minute, she was traveling the world—the next, she was paralyzed from the chest down, directing her own emergency rescue and questioning everything she thought she knew.

‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times ‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’ Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year...

Maya had always dreamed of something more, but her life felt trapped between a stifling corporate job and a toxic relationship. It wasn’t until she discovered her talent for crafting homemade pickles that her world began to transform. From late-night experiments in a tiny kitchen to dazzling international food expos, Maya’s journey is one of grit, creativity, and resilience. Along the way, she faced setbacks, self-doubt, and the weight of balancing her growing business with an unsupportive environment.

From co-founder Elyse Oleksak, discover how Bantam Bagels, the company featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, the Today Show, and Oprah’s Favorite Things, was built! A gut-wrenching, relatable, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to start, market and grow a business in today’s America.

'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion . . . Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams “My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA—women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in...

Few lives are as dramatic as Lina Kennedy's, and few stories of survival and triumph are as satisfying as this inspirational autobiography. Professionally, Lina is the founder of a multimillion-dollar business based on her hard work, innovations, and discoveries. She speaks and teaches around the world. Yet behind the compelling story of how she built her company lies another drama, the tale of an abused child who could not be crushed. Raised in poverty and dysfunction, she was sustained by her inner strength and by a near-death experience at age seven.

The incredible story of Brownie Wise, the Southern single mother—and postwar #Girlboss—who built, and lost, a Tupperware home-party empire Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a...

‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington Post Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa. Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. ‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington Post Edna Adan Ismail endured it...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What It Takes written and read by Raegan Moya-Jones. When Raegan Moya-Jones was told by her overbearing male boss that she didn't have an 'entrepreneurial bone' in her whole body, she almost laughed in his face. What he didn't know was that the business...

“A gutsy success story” (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman’s journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loves The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a...