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Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left-their lives, and those of their unborn babies.

For anyone who has loved-and lost-deeply, My Heart Still Talks to Heaven is a hope-filled companion for exploring sorrow, searching for healing, and rediscovering joy. When Dr. Kathy L. Baker lost her son, she discovered that grief isn't about "moving on"-it's about moving through. With more than 40 years of counseling and lived experience, she offers: Heartfelt reflections from someone who understands; Journaling prompts for processing complex emotions; Prayer declarations rooted in hope and timeless wisdom; and permission to grieve at your own pace.

This is the story of an entire generation of women who grew up exactly like that. The Key Under the Mat is a funny, honest, and deeply relatable celebration of the Gen X female experience, from the latchkey childhoods of the 1970s and 80s all the way to the wide-open freedom of life in our late forties and fifties. It is the book for every woman who came home to an empty house after school, ate cereal for dinner more nights than she can count, spent entire summers outside without a single scheduled activity, and somehow turned out to be one of the most capable, self-sufficient, and quietly ...

Patricia L. Walsh grew up the eighth of fifteen children in a poor Minnesota farm family, working her way through nursing school and anesthesia training. In 1967, she volunteered to go to Vietnam to care for civilians caught in the crossfire. She injured her back in the Tet Offensive and returned home in denial of the severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) she had developed. Paramount Pictures optioned her story for Cher the year she won Best Actress, but the project went into turnaround when they couldn't get a good script. RIVER CITY chronicles the dedication, self sacrifice, trials...

This is the second part of my self-written autobiography, my true story, starting out as a young educated cosmopolitan woman from Athens Greece when life was opening up before me, full of promise. With dreams of living in Paris, the City of Light that I loved so much… However, love beckoned me in the form of a charming Arab with promises of paradise and I decided to leave everything behind, including my dreams. Merciless Struggle is my story after I escaped from the nightmare in Saudi Arabia desert, returning home to Greece. Little did I know that a new nightmare was just beginning...

From the quiet rhythms of farm life to the distant echoes of European classrooms, The Wedding That Almost Wasn't graces one life's journey across seasons, struggles, and horizons.

Deemed “the most important campaign effort ever undertaken by the wife of an American president,” the Lady Bird Special was a whistle-stop tour of the South undertaken by Lady Bird Johnson, in a bid for her husband’s reelection in 1964. Never before had a president’s spouse taken to the campaign trail so ambitiously.

When a home burglary strips Kim Danielson of heirlooms and other special keepsakes, she loses more than the items themselves. She is also robbed of tangible connections to her history, and physical reminders of loved ones who have died—igniting grief both old and new. Feeling the weight of disappointment for future generations who cannot inherit a piece of her family’s legacy, Kim creates a new and lasting heirloom, one that can never be stolen.

Follow the remarkable lives of the Schenone family of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Track their amazing journey through the eyes of Nilda and her three sisters-in-law. The lives of these four strong women wove together over eight decades as the Schenone’s elevated from poverty to a blossoming extended family. Four best friends born during the Great Depression supported each other through love, life, and loss.

An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collection gathers essential tales about growing up in the South, the pitfalls of date night, and why no one should ever tell a Black girl how to Black Girl. Black women always find a place to meet: in the natural hair aisle, at...

Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles. Read by Angela Davis herself, this autobiography, told with warmth, brilliance, humor, and conviction, is a classic account of a life in struggle, with echoes in our own time.

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An...

In the quiet of the night, under the light of moon and stars, long ago, women began a story. The Power of Women shares a glimpse of that story and of the power still alive in the daughters of those first women long ago. This audiobook on instinctual birth is both educational and inspirational. It is not about how women should birth. It is about how some women do birth. Filled with mystery, the simplest, most straightforward birth is amazing, powerful and dramatic.

New York Times Bestseller Natan Notable Book Award Winner Rabbi Sacks Book Prize Finalist 75th National Jewish Book Awards Winner Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2025, Religion Honorable Mention, Religion News Service 10 Top Religion & Spirituality Books of 2025 An urgent exploration of how...

Isabel Preysler escribe sus memorias para romper de una vez por todas con los falsos mitos que desde hace años circulan sobre ella. Con la elegancia que le caracteriza, recorre con sinceridad los diferentes capítulos de su pasado, desde su infancia en Filipinas hasta los grandes amores que marcaron su destino. Valiente, autocrítica, tolerante, divertida y, sobre todo, defensora a ultranza de la libertad individual, expone su manera de ser y de vivir, y relata los momentos decisivos de su vida que la han convertido en la mujer que es hoy.

This program is read by the author. "Kelly is so piercingly honest, you just want to reach out and give her a hug...It’s totally gripping: I couldn’t take my earbuds out." —Vulture "Kelly reads the book with grace, even when she gets to the tough moments, and you’ll walk away afterward...

The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees. Priscilla Presley’s divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the...

Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.

Golda Meir began her career as a grassroots activist whose tireless efforts helped ensure the creation of a Jewish homeland. As a diplomat and negotiator, she played a pivotal role in securing the recognition and funding that made the founding of Israel possible in 1948. She would go on to serve as the new nation’s foreign minister and, ultimately, as its prime minister—one of the first women in the world to hold such an office.

Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power. Following a terrifying air raid in the blitz, her father revealed the family secret - that her great-great grandmother Emilie was married to a Prussian prince. He then showed her the treasured leather-bound notebook inscribed to Emilie by the prince.