For fans of Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured and Tara Westover's Educated, one woman's gripping firsthand account of falling intoand eventually escapinga female guruled cult as she seeks her own personal awakening.
A fresh take on the loss memoir, Piece by Piece follows a middle-aged mother forced to reconcile the theft of precious keepsakes with the memories and people the items represent.
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER We've had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that storyfull of boundless joy, unexpected friendships, cherished memories, and wild theorieslives in this celebration of our fandom and the reason were all here: Taylor Swift.
From an author with a psychology background, a candid memoir about the interior of her own psychotic episode and its origins in guilt, lost purpose, conflict between mothering and career, and the ambiguity in her relationship with her therapist.
George Mason (172592) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, of the first order of greatness.
For readers in search of emotional and spiritual healing, a courageous, gripping memoir of one woman's journey of gradually healing her traumatized memory through poetry, swimming, and the intuited guidance of a spiritual presence named Voice.
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essaysmany published here for the first timePulitzer Prizewinning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.
In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase.
In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase.
From Beatrice Dixon, founder of The Honey Pot Company, comes an inspiring memoir about overcoming adversitypersonally and professionallyby trusting her intuition and following what she calls her ';soul instinct' to build the life of her dreams.
Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had murdered your mother and lied to you your whole life, telling you she left because she didn't love you anymore.
A Powerful Voice Brings Change to the Supreme CourtIn this second installment ofJamesRosen's masterful biographyhailed as ';monumental,' ';ground-breaking,' and ';definitive'Antonin Scalia brings his intellectual genius, literary gifts, and wit to the staid corridors of the Supreme Court.
From a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on Middle Eastern conflict comes a riveting biography of Meir Dagan, the legendary Mossad director who transformed Israel's intelligence service into a global powerhouse of espionage and counterterrorism';required reading for those wishing to understand the landscape of the modern Middle East' (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cry Havoc).
For fans of The Good Wife and Suits, the true story of a passionately principled young female judge in the man's world of the '60s and '70s who is forced to defend her judgeship against two male challengers in a grueling electionwhile pregnant with her second child.
George Mason (172592) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, of the first order of greatness.
Female body hatred and fear have been reinforced by religion and culture for centuries, but can be transformed with female agency driven by unearthing and living healthy narratives of female strength and sacredness that will change laws and lives.
The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European TheaterErnie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R.
The Butcher of Aberdeen explores the chilling true crime story of Katherine Knight, delving into a life shaped by childhood trauma, violent relationships, and a relentless descent into madness.
Quaker William Penn once described Charles Town as ';a hotbed of piracy,' full of wayward women ';who frequented a tap room on The Bay and infected a goodly number of the militia with the pox.
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way.
In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792.
Blending the sensual candor of Cheryl Strayed's Wild with the emotional honesty of Nora McInerny's It's Okay to Laugh, this bold memoir is a tale of love, grief, midlife reinvention, and the unapologetic reclaiming of desire after devastating loss.
One critical priority of the discipline of Africana studies is applied memory, specifically, how the record of the culture's survival and agency reveals usable and reproducible knowledge and behavior.
Quaker William Penn once described Charles Town as ';a hotbed of piracy,' full of wayward women ';who frequented a tap room on The Bay and infected a goodly number of the militia with the pox.
The bold investigators of Arkham Horror are humanity's best hope against monstrous terrors from beyond the void, in this second collection of extraordinary eldritch novellasTo Fight the Black Wind by Jennifer Brozek psychologist Carolyn Fern's treatment of a patient's terrifying nightmares tears open a doorway into the Dreamlands and the Elder Gods.
The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European TheaterErnie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon offers a profound autobiographical glimpse into the life and intellectual journey of one of the Enlightenment era's most renowned scholars.
Each volume in this series features fifteen to twenty short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given city, state, or region of the U.
