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At eight years old, Michelle Siegel's innocence was stolen. But the wounds that shaped her life began long before that. Raised in the Swiss welfare system and burdened by a childhood marked by neglect, instability, and trauma, Michelle spent years struggling with eating disorders, self-destructive choices, and a deep sense of unworthiness. For much of her life, she was surviving rather than truly living. Bent Not Broken is a powerful memoir of resilience, self-discovery, and healing.

What do you do when the pastor you married becomes the person you need protection from? At 4 AM, Dr. Bridget Trammell fled with a newborn, a toddler, and just $97. Raised in a strict religious environment where obedience was expected and appearances mattered more than truth, she learned how to survive. But survival came at a cost, unraveling into spiritual abuse, domestic violence, partner addiction, and coercive control. In Trigger Warning, Bridget blends raw, lived experience with clinical insight to reveal how trauma reshapes the brain, the body, and identity.

As a 26-year-old mother-to-be, Ashley had her life carefully arranged. Everything hummed along according to schedule until a Stage IV cancer diagnosis flipped her world upside down. With just weeks to live, she was advised to go home and record videos for her newborn son. Months later, her prognosis would shock her medical team, friends, family, and her entire community. Losing Control follows Ashley’s miraculous story of healing through the raw emotions of being a young wife and first-time mom with a terminal diagnosis.

Every Room Was a Lie is a deeply reflective memoir about coercive control, emotional erosion, survival, identity loss, and the slow process of reclaiming truth. Told through symbolic “rooms,” the author guides listeners through the hidden layers of psychological control, fear, isolation, financial dependence, confusion, numbness, and eventual awakening. What begins as a relationship that appears loving and safe slowly reveals patterns that reshape identity, silence instinct, and disconnect a person from themselves.

‘Grant whips up moments of intense emotion and life with the briefest of words and images. Throughout it all, food is the life source, comfort, energiser and inspiration bursting from the pages a la Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.’ Stylist ‘What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir...

ICE COLD is a true story of control, survival, the cost of silence, and a mother who refused to disappear. Written with restraint and clarity, this book documents what happens when a mother is erased by narrative, a child becomes leverage, and truth is delayed—but not denied.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An inspiring story of coming back from cancer and learning to cherish every moment.”—People “I have breast cancer.” When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America In the 1910s, as the birth control movement...

Lydia Slaby was thirty-three years old and had everything she believed would make her happy: three fancy private school degrees; a successful husband who was in the inner circles of Barack Obama's presidential campaign; a high-paying job as an attorney—even an enviable yoga practice. But under the surface Lydia's life was in free-fall. Her new marriage was one argument after another, she had a job she never wanted, and for some reason she had begun to rapidly lose weight and turn a strange shade of yellowish-green.

Carolyn Sherrow’s early life was marred by the darkness of ritual abuse and mind control. Yet, through the power of God’s relentless love, she found the strength to rise above her past. In My Personal Holocaust, Sherrow describes her profound journey of faith, healing, and redemption. In this deeply personal account, she shares how a dissociative disorder once bound her in fear but ultimately led her closer to God. With the support of compassionate counselors and divine guidance, she embarked on a path of spiritual and emotional restoration.