Women Storytelling

In this action-packed standalone fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling sensation Kerri Maniscalco, a book of dangerous magic draws two readers into a perilous quest to find it—and their own happy ending. “Beware of waking the gods, their dreams are often our nightmares...” A...

The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind. By carefully x-raying areas such as body image, marriage, mental illness, fashion, and politics, this audiobook examines what it was like to be a woman in the past versus what it’s like now, when women are constantly told equality between the sexes exists but reality proves otherwise.

Zeke Horn was born in the year 1918 in the mountains of east Tennessee. At the age of seven he lost his family and was forced out into an uncaring world with winter fast approaching. Thanks to the help of kind strangers, he was barely able to survive the bitterly cold weather. Out of desperation, but with little hope, a letter was sent to the only relative he knew. His uncle, Abel Horn, responded and Zeke was saved from what would have been a terrible death. Abel and Zeke set out on the long journey to Abel’s home in Kentucky. Along the way they were joined by a child who they found in ...

A warm stone path. Bare feet. Rosemary on your fingertips. There is nowhere to be but here. It is the last days of August in the hills of southern Tuscany. The sun is low and golden, the air perfectly still, and behind a stone farmhouse, a small herb garden is waiting — basil heavy with leaf, tomatoes warm on the vine, sage soft as felt beneath your hand. You pick what you need, slowly, without hurry. You carry it inside. You slice tomatoes onto a wooden board, pour olive oil from a dark glass bottle, tear bread with your hands, and eat alone at a table by the window while the sky turns ...

Your legs know before you do that the day is finished. And the mountain has been holding something warm for you. A long autumn walk is ending. The trail descends through old-growth pine, the air sharp with resin and cold. Your pack is heavy on your shoulders, your calves ache with the honest tiredness of distance, and the light is fading through the canopy in soft amber shafts. Then you see the steam — pale columns rising through the trees, catching the last pink light of the western sky. A natural hot spring, cradled between mossy boulders in a quiet fold of the forest, with water that ...

The fire is lit. The broth is warm. There is nothing you need to do. A small boat crosses open water in the fading light and leaves you on a dock at the edge of a quiet island. Up a grassy slope, through wild thyme and salt wind, a stone cottage is waiting — candles burning in the windows, woodsmoke curling from the chimney, and a note on the kitchen table in a friend's familiar handwriting: Everything is ready. There's nothing you need to do. Rest. Inside, the thick stone walls hold hours of stored warmth. A pot of golden broth simmers on the stove. A deep sofa faces a steady fire. And ...

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. Social media influencer and podcast host April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the Jim Bakker show, or...

Weaving a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and simple folktales, Anita Johnston, PhD, inspires women to free themselves from disordered eating by discovering the metaphors that are hidden in their own life stories.

Volume Four of the Dangerous Old Woman Series with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés "What makes talent bloom? Ask what makes a tree blossom. They are the same. It is not unfathomable. It only takes concentration. Concentration of energies is what makes a tree flower. Not bigger, not faster, not...

Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey​ puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis​. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a...

A murder on stage. Her father a prime suspect. Can an amateur sleuth step into the limelight and find the killer before the final curtain falls? Dotty Sayers and her cat, Earl Grey, are anxious about visiting her parents in Edinburgh, Scotland. When Dotty and her father accept a stranger’s VIP tickets to a Fringe Festival play, they discover more than the best seats in the house. On stage for the first act, Dotty hears a shot in the dark and presumes it’s part of the script. So she’s shocked when a spotlight illuminates a controversial politician’s dead body. Befriended by a local ...

Reroots Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule Rewilds the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied...

If you were raised in the backhills of Appalachia, you already know the region has a high ratio of screwballs and everyday garden-variety nutjobs…the kind you sometimes find at church potlucks and family reunions. I was blessed with more than a few eccentric kinfolks who made growing up in Appalachia an adventure. While some might beat you with a crowbar and quote scripture while doing it, others were just run-of- the-mill granny women, moonshiners, preachers, healers, or strong-willed women. Most, though, were laid back, quiet and…funny. This book is a collection of often-outrageous ...

A box has been waiting in your hallway for nine days. Tonight, you finally open it. Inside, folded with care and scented with lavender, is a quilt your grandmother made — not in her colors but in yours. Soft blues, warm greys, a dusty rose. Beneath it, a letter in her familiar handwriting. And in the letter, the words you didn't know you'd been waiting your whole life to hear: You don't need to try so hard. You are enough. You can rest now. Outside, the first snow of the season falls past the window in silence. The radiator clicks beneath the sill. A clock keeps its steady, unhurried time...

Now a USA TODAY bestseller! "The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds drips with lush Jazz Age detail, a vivid cast of characters, and a protagonist whose future literally depends on her ability to navigate the past." --Barbara Davis, bestselling author of The Echo of Old Books A captivating tale of...

“An astounding achievement.” —Megha Majumdar (bestselling author of A Burning) * “Her best book yet.” —Paul Yoon (award-winning author of Run Me to Earth) Set in midcentury America, At Last explores a rich family saga centered on two fierce and competitive matriarchs whose...

LOVE HUNTIN’ AND OTHER CRAZY HILLBILLY STORIES Volume 4 of MUSING APPALACHIA Hillbillies are peculiar critters, found only in the Appalachian Mountains…where real life often seems stranger than fiction. These stories weave mountain customs and folklore into the lives of whimsical characters who were mostly sane (give or take a little). I write about the more eccentric, humorous, and fun-loving folks I’ve run across…sprinkled with a few embellishments here and there. . The book features forty-two uproariously funny tales: The Jay Bird Boys Talk Trash The Snuggle Inn Half-Star Hotel ...

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one audiobook. This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on...

From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit. Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is...

A hazardous race to stop an extinction. A mysterious death linked to the past. Can a silver-haired sleuth navigate the clues in time to save a life? ‘Mama Rose’ Hardie has always fought to conserve Kenya’s precious wildlife. Officiating at an off-road fundraising race in the famous Maasai Mara game reserve, she’s shocked when a vehicle crash claims the life of a colleague. And worse still, this was no accident… When a good friend is accused of plotting a deadly sabotage, the clever amateur sleuth vows to clear his name. But with motives between teams reaching deep into an ...