After surviving a kidnapping and violent sexual assault, academic and entrepreneur Jenni Reavis packed one suitcase and left everything behind to embark on a 3-year radical adventure backpacking through 6 countries, where she finished her master's degree abroad and found a hidden path that led to forgiveness, joy, hundreds of talks with strangers under foreign stars, and an erotic, romantic relationship with her own self, living the life of her happiest dreams.
WINNER OF THE LYMAN BOOK AWARD FOR MARITIME AND NAVAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENT Argues that the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this funny and honest feel-good memoir, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad.
'I adored it' JULIE HAWORTH'Witty, well-observed and utterly charming' SOPHIE COUSENS'Funny, tender and insightful' ERICKA WALLERTwo sisters, one absent father and a grand inheritance .
Shaunie Hendersonwife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wivesopens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today's world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by your own terms in this inspirational memoir.
In her own words, the story of a remarkable woman who built an international fashion empire, survived the sinking of the Titanic, and invented the catwalk show.
A "e;captivating"e; account of an Italian immigrant's journey from World War II orphan in Italy to celebrity tailor for Hollywood's finest (Italian America, magazine of the Sons and Daughters of Italy).
In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy.
William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic.
In this courageous memoir, Elizabeth Heineman illuminates the complex emotional landscape of stillbirthputting into frank and poetic words the unspeakable experience of simultaneously grieving and mothering a baby who has died (Deborah L.
"Strafgefangener Achtundzwanzig" - als solcher musste Matthias Storck 14 Monate lang die bittere Realität als Gefangener des ehemaligen DDR-Staates ertragen.
Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivneys quest to investigate the victims life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis.
Wenn ein Grieche seine Heimat mit ihrem strahlenden Licht, dem nach Thymian duftenden Wind und den wilden Bergen, umgeben von tiefblauem Meer verlässt, muss er einen triftigen Grund dafür haben.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick 'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.
In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.