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What could possibly be “lucky” about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her to her knees. As she puts it, she “kicked and screamed . . . wishing for something - anything - else” to be her issue. The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky. But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized that she was actually the lucky one. Lucky to feel her feelings, live honestly, really be with her daughter, change her legacy.

More: Because Sometimes Less Is Just Less is a powerful blend of memoir, reflection, and motivation that invites listeners to rise above silence, shame, and survival. Through deeply personal stories and hard-earned lessons, M.K. Mann reveals how pain can become purpose and how anyone can reclaim their strength, voice, and worth.

When her husband suffered a catastrophic fall at a gas station, Connie’s world unraveled. Surgeries, infections, months of hospital stays, and the threat of amputation became their new reality. As a full time caregiver and the family’s only provider, Connie was forced to walk away from a career she loved—trading banking for bandages, and retirement dreams for hospital prayers.

Dans Au cœur de l'Everest : la quête d'une femme au sommet, Orianne Aymard nous offre un récit captivant de son ascension sur le toit du monde.

Die geskenk is die bekende skrywer Riette Rust se ontstellende, diep menslike en soms selfs skreeusnaakse ware verhaal. Van haar kinderjare in die Paarl, en haar pa wat sy leë whiskey-bottels wegsteek, tot haar huwelik met JD en die oggend toe Riette haar man bebloed op die vloer aantref. JD het homself met sy haelgeweer geskiet.

In my memoir, I Choose Me, I explore the various myths women have been told since childhood about sex, marriage, abortion, love, and children. The story presents the notion to women, “What if you choose yourself?” Women are told to wait to be asked for marriage.

French Twist is a remarkable memoir of resilience, faith, and deep bonds that endure through time. It offers a revelatory glimpse of a life in all its complexity, challenge, and triumph. Janine Winters grew up with a father with a criminal history, a stalwart and inspiring mother, an intelligent and generous brother, and a strong and precocious sister.

Do you feel like everyone got the artificial intelligence memo except you? Wanjiku Kamau did too. Six months before recording this audiobook, she was sitting in the Sacramento airport, frantically searching “What is ChatGPT?” while her dog Champ sighed beside her. After twenty years in tech at Siemens, Intel, and Google, she suddenly realized the world had changed around her. Everyone was speaking a new language. And she was still the woman who clung to her BlackBerry until 2013.

When Valerie Maidment was a baby, doctors diagnosed her with hydrocephalus, a condition that causes excess fluid to build in the brain. After the second surgery at age 9, she was declared healthy; she lived a happy, normal life, graduating from high school and college, having children, and buying and managing her own convenience store. Until one day, when everything changed. Fluid began to build once again in Valerie’s brain, causing immense pressure that—due to misdiagnosis on the part of multiple doctors—caused her optic nerves to break down.

Virginia Hall was the spy the Nazis couldn’t catch. Operating behind enemy lines with a wooden leg she nicknamed “Cuthbert,” Hall organized sabotage missions, trained the French Resistance, and sent life-saving intelligence to the Allies. Despite being hunted by the Gestapo, she returned to France again and again—risking everything to liberate a country that wasn’t her own.

Butterfly Awakens depicts the story of the extraordinary transformation of a forty-something Italian American attorney as she moves through unimaginable grief and sadness watching her beloved mother lose her battle to breast cancer.

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this seventh book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a weird mishap at a bowling alley, a father’s strange comment, an odd experience looking for the opera, a shocking incident at a street fair, a bizarre encounter with a cannon, a humiliating coming-of-age story and other captivating, complicated anecdotes.

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this eighth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a disastrous boating incident, a bizarre business conversation, a job offer with shocking hidden expectations, a surprise visit to a sacred pool and other captivating, complicated anecdotes.

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this sixth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including an unsettling phone call, a complicated story about aging parents, an ultimatum made during coming-of-age, a strange visit by firefighters, and a life-changing deathbed promise.

Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women—a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Today, one of those women is primatologist Keriann McGoogan, who has traveled to the far corners of the earth in search of wild primates. In Sisters of the Jungle, McGoogan combines stories about her own studies of howler monkeys (the loudest living primate) and lemurs (the most endangered group of animals on the planet) with those of the women who paved the way.

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this collection of Books 1-8 in the Strangers on a Train series, including shocking incidents that happened in hotels, a bizarre childhood bullying incident, an unsettling incident with a pottery kiln, an unfortunate dinner, weird encounters while working in a psychiatric unit, the messy mothering of young twins, a cruel prediction from a loved one and other odd, uncomfortable moments.

Tra le pagine di questo libro si incontrano donne provenienti da ogni ambito della vita: scienziate che hanno sfidato i confini del sapere, donne di spettacolo che hanno lasciato un'impronta indelebile sul mondo dell'arte e dell'intrattenimento, artiste la cui creatività ha illuminato le menti di milioni di persone, giornaliste che hanno dato voce a chi non l'aveva e scrittrici che hanno tessuto storie di potenza e bellezza.

Here’s one thing college doesn’t teach you: Adulting is hard. Studies show that millennials and Gen Z-ers are two of the most anxious generations in history—approximately 50 percent of adults ages eighteen to twenty-four suffer from anxiety. Mindfire takes readers along on the emotional journey that is growing up, and offers insight on the anxiety that comes with it.

Nel suo mondo, come in quello di tutti noi, la Carrà c'è stata e i ricordi riaffiorano. Adriana era bambina quando per la prima volta vide in tv Raffaella che ballava il Tuca Tuca. Una rivoluzione anche per i suoi genitori e per tutti quei bambini che dagli anni '70 in poi sarebbero diventati i suoi fan e che avrebbero visto in Raffaella un'icona di libertà e di riscatto. Il cammino della giornalista si snoda quindi attraverso il recupero di quei frammenti di ricordi e soprattutto attraverso gli incontri con chi ha conosciuto, lavorato e vissuto con la Carrà.

An intellectual, personal, and ultimately ferocious reckoning with feminism, family, and motherhood from a celebrated critic “During one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of...