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Mary Murray Bosrock's heartfelt stories of growing up a baby boomer in Sandusky, Ohio will make you wish you could blink your eyes and join the Murray family at the dinner table of 124 East Madison Street. This Catholic tale recalls an era where innocence reigned and nuns ruled. The cast includes a hard-of-hearing mother, fond-of-shouting father, six rowdy brothers, a drama queen sister, unforgettable aunts and uncles, eccentric neighbors, and utterly naïve classmates, all living in perpetual fear of eternal damnation.

A bold new portrait of Livia, ancient Rome’s first First Lady, who shaped the empire from behind the throne Livia was no ordinary Roman woman. As wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius―the first and second Roman emperors―she stood at the heart of the first imperial dynasty, wielding...

‘Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?’ Glamour Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young...

"Considerad si esta es una mujer | quien no tiene cabellos ni nombre | ni fuerzas para recordarlo | vacía la mirada y frío el regazo | como una rana en invierno". Con estos descarnados versos Primo Levi, en el célebre comienzo de Si esto es un hombre, se dirige a los lectores evocando la imagen de una mujer despojada de su identidad, expoliada de su propio cuerpo, de su regazo en cuanto lugar donde se origina la relación con el otro.

«Si no me definiera a mí misma por mí misma, me meterían en las fantasías de los demás y me comerían viva». Una niña negra abre los ojos en el Harlem de los años treinta. A su alrededor, un embriagador remolino de transeúntes, bocinas de coches, lámparas de queroseno, la caída de la bolsa, plátanos fritos, historias de la Granada natal de sus padres. Caminando a la escuela pública por las aceras nevadas, se da cuenta de que tiene la lengua trabada, que es legalmente ciega y que sus hermanas mayores la han dejado atrás.

Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

A raw, honest and moving memoir of caring for a baby with a rare and life-threatening illness. When Vida is born to Mina and husband Freddie, it is love at first sight. She is perfect. But it is also clear from early on that something is not right. This is the story of how Vida came to be...

A “lively, wide-ranging” (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the...

‘Grant whips up moments of intense emotion and life with the briefest of words and images. Throughout it all, food is the life source, comfort, energiser and inspiration bursting from the pages a la Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.’ Stylist ‘What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir...

From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. Rose Pastor arrived in New...

The sensational true story behind the major TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, performed by Sophie Cookson In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest...

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women - the "three graces", as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them - were nearly inseparable.

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and...

n this unforgettable meet-cute, Samantha Allen traces her story of self-discovery during gender transition and the life-altering partnership that began with a simple hello in an elevator. Feeling “unfinished” at the liminal age of twenty-six, the author had already accumulated decades of emotional baggage growing up in a Mormon family and living with gender dysphoria. When she met Corey midtransition, she felt even more like an awkward shape-shifter. Now Samantha shares how taking a chance on that fortuitous encounter meant having the courage to be herself.

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers “Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women...