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Hummingbird is a spiritual memoir about the connection between three generations of women—the author, her mother and maternal grandmother, who was her primary caretaker until she took her life when the author was ten. Her wisdoms taught the author how to exist in the world.

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for six decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming prodigy who...

Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org - the church's highest ministry - speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape.

“Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” — Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life [An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.” — New York Times Book Review Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it...

In Breaking Free from the Lies That Bind You, Lisa Michaels shares her raw, powerful journey from trauma and abandonment to self-worth and transformation. With striking honesty, she recounts decades of emotional struggle — a toxic marriage, addiction, childhood wounds, and the devastating loss of her son — and how she finally reclaimed her voice, her value, and her life.

In December of 2014, Lisa Ann shocked the adult world with the news of her retirement. The choice to leave the industry she loved wasn't an easy one, but a different kind of fantasy was calling her name: Fantasy sports. Now Lisa Ann is ready to reveal herself in a new way. From her youthful days as a rebellious teen and a dancer in Philadelphia to her arrival in Los Angeles and into the world of porn; from her years as a business owner to her return to the adult industry as the face of the MILF revolution.

Misadventures in My High Heels is a heartfelt collection of true stories that are meant to inspire others to find ways to move on from disappointment and tragedy. These are stories you’ll devour–funny, raw, deeply human, and striking relatable. From being a young widowed single parent, to the chaos of running a restaurant, to the tenderness of caring for her aging parents, and the lasting echo of teenage heartbreak–Lisa’s writing is filled with humor and gives the listener much to ponder and reflect upon.

Life of Lisa: Overcoming Adversity with Love and Laughter, is the vulnerably true story of a woman who's fought tirelessly to stand up for what she believes to be true, survived unimaginable struggles, and refuses to be silenced. By the grace of God, and her own refusal to give up or give in, Lisa continues to use her voice to speak out for herself and others who find themselves facing the seemingly impossible. All through the power of love and laughter.

The only woman in Forbes’ Greatest Business Stories of All Time and the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange, Mary Kay Ash has a life story that reads like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel Growing up in Depression-era Texas, Mary Kathlyn Wagner is a dutiful daughter and...

Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement.

The disappearance and subsequent murder of one of Western Australia's most infamous underworld crime figures, Frank La Rosa, is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a true account, the untold story of Frank's daughter Lisa Mahoney, told in intimate detail as only Lisa herself can tell it in this rollercoaster of a memoir. It is more than a story of life as a drug dealer's daughter, and Lisa opens up about how her life was thrown into chaos on more than one occasion, including the many months of dealing with a missing person, to the somewhat closure she had when all hope was lost.

On 22 May 2017, a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of young fans leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured. Saffie-Rose Roussos, aged eight, was the youngest victim to die in the attack. She had been at the concert with her mother, Lisa, and her elder sister, Ashlee.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rinnavation and The Big Fun Sexy Sex Book comes the first memoir from beloved actress, Housewife, and pop culture icon, Lisa Rinna. From her career, to her personal life, to spilling all the tea. If she’s experienced it... you better believe...

What We Wished For: An Adoption Story shares a woman’s quest to build a loving family. It is a tale of courage, perseverance, and what remains when things don’t go as imagined. This memoir speaks to anyone who has ever struggled with a life-altering decision, one from which there is no turning back.

In this stirring memoir, Lisa Printz Roday begins her narrative with the sudden death of her forty-seven-year-old father. Rather than crush the twenty-one-year-old Printz Roday, it is the pivotal moment that sustains her in each new crisis she faces, including two harrowing preterm births. With remarkable candor, a little dry humor, and plenty of heart, Printz Roday explores how the experiences that shake us to our core can make us stronger than we could ever imagine.

Bist du bereit für ein Abenteuer? Dann haben wir das perfekte Buch für dich! Unsere Heldin Lisa ist wie Pippi Langstrumpf - liebenswert, kratzbürstig und unglaublich mutig. Sie kämpft täglich gegen Selbstzweifel und Dämonen an, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen. Ihr größtes Ziel ist es, das bedeutendste Schlittenhunderennen in Europa zu bestreiten, das Finmarksløpet. Auf dem Weg dorthin hat sie mit 20 Schlittenhunden eine Reise voller Liebe, Mut und Entbehrungen unternommen - und ich haben alles dokumentiert! Dieses Buch bietet eine unglaubliche Erfahrung entlang der Straßen zwischen dem Nordkap und den Alpen.

Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens, with flashbacks into the author’s not-always-happy childhood, Sit, Cinderella, Sit is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith, look and hear beyond people’s differences, and dare to believe in yourself.

After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father’s death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with him, delving deeper into the stories she’s held about love, sexuality, and the family she comes from with a shimmering clarity that arises from her grief.

At 54, Lisa Stewart set out to regain the fearless girl she once had been, riding her horse, Chief, 500 miles home. Hot, homeless, and horseback, she snapped back into every original cell. On an extraordinary homegoing from Kansas City to Bates and Vernon Counties in Missouri, Lisa exhausted herself, faced her past, trusted strangers, and stayed in the middle of her frightened horse to document modern rural America, the people, animals, and land.

“Naeymi's mesmerizing narration takes listeners into the heart-stopping intrigue and action of nations at war and into the souls of women with cool demeanors and spines of steel.” —AudioFile The incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War...