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For anyone who has loved-and lost-deeply, My Heart Still Talks to Heaven is a hope-filled companion for exploring sorrow, searching for healing, and rediscovering joy. When Dr. Kathy L. Baker lost her son, she discovered that grief isn't about "moving on"-it's about moving through. With more than 40 years of counseling and lived experience, she offers: Heartfelt reflections from someone who understands; Journaling prompts for processing complex emotions; Prayer declarations rooted in hope and timeless wisdom; and permission to grieve at your own pace.

Patricia L. Walsh grew up the eighth of fifteen children in a poor Minnesota farm family, working her way through nursing school and anesthesia training. In 1967, she volunteered to go to Vietnam to care for civilians caught in the crossfire. She injured her back in the Tet Offensive and returned home in denial of the severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) she had developed. Paramount Pictures optioned her story for Cher the year she won Best Actress, but the project went into turnaround when they couldn't get a good script. RIVER CITY chronicles the dedication, self sacrifice, trials...

This is the second part of my self-written autobiography, my true story, starting out as a young educated cosmopolitan woman from Athens Greece when life was opening up before me, full of promise. With dreams of living in Paris, the City of Light that I loved so much… However, love beckoned me in the form of a charming Arab with promises of paradise and I decided to leave everything behind, including my dreams. Merciless Struggle is my story after I escaped from the nightmare in Saudi Arabia desert, returning home to Greece. Little did I know that a new nightmare was just beginning...

From the quiet rhythms of farm life to the distant echoes of European classrooms, The Wedding That Almost Wasn't graces one life's journey across seasons, struggles, and horizons.

Catch the marvelous imagery in the reading of South Toward Home. Find yourself carried into bygone eras. You will actually encounter stories that span more than eight decades. Experience those remembrances if you have lived through some of these times! Travel with author Alice Joyner Irby in her journey during periods of turbulent cultural and societal change. She reports her attempts to shatter glass ceilings confronting women in the workplace…her role in integrating a university…her participation in the creation of the Job Corps in LBJ’s War on Poverty. Yet, Alice’s roots remain ...

Cuidó a los hijos de otras familias, compartiendo su intimidad, su confianza y su amor, mientras aprendía a no abandonar sus propios sueños. Entre rutinas intensas y despedidas inevitables, Verónica encontró en la escritura una forma de salvarse y, en Eliot —un perrito rescatado de la calle—, el impulso definitivo para cambiar su destino. Cuando Verónica se atrevió a contar la historia de ese perrito, descubrió que su voz tenía valor y que sus palabras podían tocar corazones. Entendió que creer en sí misma no era un acto de orgullo, sino de valentía. Esa experiencia le dio ...

"Pinnacles: Visible and Invisible” is a riveting memoir that charts an extraordinary journey from modest beginnings to the commanding heights of personal and professional achievement. With honesty and emotional depth, it explores the complex relationship between ambition and adversity, revealing how triumph often emerges not from perfection, but from perseverance.

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday Express 'The twentieth century shook the world: it sobers me to...

"I am a mum of two beautiful daughters, Larose and Lorena." "My eldest, Larose, is the light of my life. She is so like I was as a child and with her big brown eyes, the double of her father too. And she loves to be the centre of attention... just like me." "But my youngest, Lorena, is harder to...

Sabina Baral opowiada o nagłym wyrwaniu z domu, o utracie poczucia przynależności i o bolesnym doświadczeniu bycia „niechcianą" we własnym kraju. To historia wygnania widziana od środka – intymna, wyważona, pełna emocji, a jednocześnie pozbawiona patosu. Autorka z niezwykłą wrażliwością rekonstruuje drogę swojej rodziny: od upokorzeń i poczucia zagrożenia po mozolne budowanie życia na emigracji. Jej relacja przypomina, jak głęboko polityczne decyzje potrafią naznaczyć zwykłych ludzi oraz jak długo trwa powrót do wewnętrznego spokoju.

"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist...

We moved to Maine for a fresh start. That’s what my husband said. We had two little girls, a good life in California, and a marriage I never questioned... and yet he wanted to move. I told myself it was stress. Ambition. The need for something new. I was okay with that. But then, in our quiet new town, I began to notice things... Long hours and vague explanations, for starters. Then there were the neighbors. They seemed far too attentive... too concerned about me. I told myself that it had been a big move. Lots of couples struggle a bit after a big move... right? Maybe part of the problem...

The untold story of 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America’s first rock guitar diva Long before “women in rock” became a media catchphrase, African American guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton...

Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.

When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep-school friends. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.

Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives. It is a treat for CSI junkies, murder mystery and thriller fans, and anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all.

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours The hardcover debut from the New York Times– bestselling author of Such a Pretty Fat...

Library Journal Best Books of 2025 * New York Public Library Best Books of 2025 * Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Biography * Hyperallergic Favorite Art Books of 2025 * Publishers Weekly Best Books of Summer 2025 * BookBub Best Non-Fiction Release of the Season * Newsday’s Top...

Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender—and her wooden leg—kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced across Europe, she put her gift for languages to use with the British Special Operations Executive, a secret espionage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France, where she located drop zones, helped prisoners of war flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents.

For listeners of I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a candid and heart-wrenching memoir about child abuse, family secrets, and the healing that begins once the truth is revealed and the past is confronted. Andrea is four and a half the first time her father, David, gives her a bath. Although she is young, she knows there is something strange about the way he is touching her. When her mother, Marlene, walks in to check on them, she howls and crumples to the floor—and when she opens her eyes, she is blind.