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Part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual, Challenge Accepted! is Celeste at her best, revealing her secrets to love, friendship, family and marriage (oh hai, #hothusband) and how to deal with life's many challenges: why she checks the bath for sharks, how Nutella quite literally shaped who she is as a woman and why being famous on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly. Its real, like totally, really real.

From the early lessons she learned growing up in South London, to the moment she gave up the 9 to 5 to do what she loved, Patricia Bright’s story will revolutionise how you think about work, life, and what it means to succeed.

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.

Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the orders of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At 19, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next 24 years, he would rule her life. Eventually, when her youngest daughter, Miriam, started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run or ride a bike, Julia reached her breaking point.

Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, reveals for the first time her life both on and off the field. Guided by her personal journey into social justice, brimming with humor, humanity, and joy, she urges all of us to ask ourselves, What will you do with your one life?

In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In became a massive cultural phenomenon and its title became an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of best seller lists both nationally and internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Now, this enhanced edition provides the entire text of the original book updated with more recent statistics and features a passionate letter from Sandberg encouraging graduates to find and commit to work they love.

A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta. As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their town....

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.

Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and front woman of The Pretenders in its various incarnations, has for 35 years been one of the most admired and adored and imitated figures in rock. This long-awaited memoir tells her life story in full and utterly fascinating detail, from her all-American Ohio '50s childhood to her classic baby-boomer seduction by the rock of the '60s to her sojourn in the crucible of punk that was '70s London to her instant emergence with her band, The Pretenders, in 1980 into stardom as a frontwoman and songwriter.

Six-time New York Times best-selling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world’s most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one’s career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir.

Cher: The Memoir, Part One promises to be an engaging and exciting audiobook experience, befitting this incredible book. Read in part by Cher herself, the book is introduced, and each chapter launched, by the author. Rounding out each chapter as she continues the narrative is celebrated stage actor Stephanie J. Block. Stephanie starred on Broadway in The Cher Show for which she won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award.

With evocative text, Cecilia shares the joys and challenges of adapting to an inhospitable climate along with advice and insight for anyone seeking to thrive in unusual living conditions. Whatever your location, Life on Svalbard will give you a deeper understanding of why people choose to live in extreme environments, and perhaps help you find the hidden magic of where you live, too.

Compelled by deep instinct and the curious mind of a retired nurse, scientist, midwife, and nascent naturalist, the author retrieves a too-late-to-migrate monarch caterpillar from a December ice storm. She decides to learn all she can to care for the butterfly that soon emerges in her home while the second winter of COVID-19 rages outdoors. Each day of its longer-than-expected life brings new observations, challenges, and rewards, which the author shares with the listener as journal entries.

In Boobs Are Overrated: Breast Reconstruction, Cancer Scars, and the Unfiltered Truth, one woman shares her raw, unfiltered journey through breast cancer, multiple surgeries, and the emotional aftermath of breast reconstruction. With biting humor and raw vulnerability, she exposes the myths of achieving the "perfect" post-cancer body and instead celebrates resilience, faith, and self-acceptance.

De bijzonderste, meest hilarische reisverhalen van Who Els, die in B&B Vol Liefde de harten van heel Nederland veroverde – geschreven en ingesproken door Els zelf. Afgelopen zomer keek heel Nederland naar het tv-programma B&B Vol Liefde. En als er één deelnemer uit sprong, dan was het wel voormalig stewardess Els. Door haar innemendheid, scherpe humor en talent als gastvrouw sloot iedereen Els in het hart. Het was dan ook een schok voor veel kijkers toen Els in Schotland door de B&B-eigenaar werd weggestuurd. Maar terug in Nederland zit Els niet bij de pakken neer.

ענת לויט – ילידת תל אביב 1958, סופרת ומשוררת. פרסמה אחד עשר ספרי פרוזה ושירה, ביניהם יומנה של אישה מודרנית, ניקול ופייר (פרוזה), עירומה על גב סוס במונגוליה ותפילת יחידה (שירה). זכתה בפרס ורטהיים לשירה, בפרס ברנשטיין לביקורת ובפרס ראש הממשלה.

Embárcate en un viaje inolvidable con “Corre, linda”, una obra cautivadora que te atrapa desde las primeras líneas. Cada página vibra con distintas emociones: desde el dolor hasta la liberación, revelando la profunda necesidad de encontrar y compartir el amor en un mundo violento. Marisol Rivas, la menor de catorce hermanos, comparte su impactante historia de resistencia y redención. Desde sus primeros años bajo el control estricto de su padre hasta su renacimiento después de un matrimonio abusivo, experimentará pérdidas desgarradoras y descubrimientos transformadores.

Lola Lafon hat eine Nacht allein im ehemaligen Versteck der Familie Frank in Amsterdam verbracht. Sie geht von Raum zu Raum, lauscht dem Echo derer, die dort ausharren mussten, und spürt der Dunkelheit nach. Was sie findet, ist nicht nur die Geschichte Anne Franks, sondern auch die Geschichte ihrer eigenen Familie. Selbst zum verbindenden Element geworden, tastet sich Lola Lafon immer weiter vor. Ein beeindruckender dokumentarischer Roman, der gegen das Vergessen anschreibt und etwas Neues erschafft.

Rosie is facing the ultimate ‘empty mansion syndrome’ in her 22-roomed Italian villa. With both her kids now living in different countries and the funds to finish renovations going AWOL, Rosie is starting to suspect that the Sighing House might be a tad too big for just her and hubby Ronan. To make matters worse, with Ronan’s pending criminal court case—following his encounters with a toupee rat pack and the anti-Mafia special police squad—Rosie may soon be the only resident in the house.

The story of modern dance is known to be one of subversion. But it's less widely acknowledged how often its schisms concerned social attitudes towards women and feminist politics. From the late 1800s to the late 1950s, a diverse group of trailblazing women changed the face of dance, and in the process, contributed to shifting attitudes about women's bodies and rights. In Wild Grace, Sara Veale focuses predominantly on nine women, each of whom were instructive in the development of modern dance.