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With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims. Spanning 30 years, in this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche.

Throughout history, countless women have boldly stepped out in faith and courage, leaving their indelible mark on those around them and on the kingdom of God. In lively prose, Michelle DeRusha tells their stories, bringing into focus 50 incredible heroines of the faith. From Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Anne Hutchison, to Susanna Wesley, Harriet Tubman, and Corrie ten Boom, women both famous and admirable live again under DeRusha's expert pen.

READ BY THE AUTHOR AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another...

Behind every woman who rises, there’s a chorus of others who once whispered, You can. This powerful memoir traces Mandy K. Crosby’s journey from a lost and uncertain teenager to a woman standing tall in her purpose thanks to the extraordinary ordinary women who believed in her when she couldn’t believe in herself. They were mentors, mothers, teachers, bosses, and friends each leaving an indelible mark. Some stayed for years; others appeared for moments. But all helped shape Mandy into the leader, mother, and woman she is today.

An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists - a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever.

Throughout her 40-year career in broadcast television, including 35 as a reporter and anchor on Channel 5 in Boston, Natalie Jacobson told the stories of countless lives. Now she tells her own. Every Life a Story takes listeners behind the scenes of the extraordinary career of a woman who rose from an immigrant childhood in Chicago to become the first woman to anchor the evening news in Boston. Natalie brings listeners on an uplifting journey possible only in America. When faced with "no girls need apply", she saw a challenge, not an obstacle.

A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises of masculinity, nothing went according to plan in the bedroom. Instead, Nellwyn had to learn to navigate the realities of sexual liberation, female empowerment, and masculinity all on her own.

Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs, and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight.

In "Everyday Warrior: Frontline to Freedom, one step at a time," Trudie takes you on an extraordinary adventure into the heart of healing and self-discovery. After surviving the darkest depths of post-traumatic stress, Trudie embarks on a soul-stirring solo hike along The Bibbulmun Track. With no medications, no distractions, and no camping experience, she courageously steps into the unknown, determined to reclaim her strength and rediscover her inner resilience.

In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed 40 percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her life.

Meet the women and female-identifying heroes who have defied death, flouted cultural norms, and risen above poverty to become CEOs, entrepreneurs, activists, role models, media moguls, and movement creators. This collection of stories, essays, and interviews celebrates their superpowers: love, determination, vision, and grit. These 50 women share their wisdom and advice in ways that will inspire you to discover your own superpower.

Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.

What would you do if you ran the world? If you knew you couldn't fail? Maybe it's time to stop wondering and start putting it into practice. Shelly Rachanow's daily words of encouragement will give you inspiration, hope, and words of courage to help you discover confidence in yourself. Your acts, both big and small, matter. Learn about a teenage girl and CNN hero, kids in Zimbabwe saving their part of the planet, and a busy mom who is not too busy to work every day to help impoverished families live better lives.

Charisse always felt like she was born into the wrong family and at 14 finds out that she has a different father than her four sisters. In order to break the dysfunctional cycle, Charisse needs to overcome the chaos caused by generations of family secrets, extreme poverty, fanatical religion, and sexual abuse, all of which leaves her ill equipped to make her own adult decisions. Can she overcome a legacy of lies?

It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Kelly Alexander, a lifelong athlete, rode her bike home from work. She had survived both a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery, had a fulfilling career, and was married at last to the love of her life. Everything was good as she coasted...

Renowned as a diversity and inclusion strategist, Michelle Gadsden-Williams held C-Suite positions at major organizations for many years and then took the off-ramp to probe a different career path, launching Ceiling Breakers LLC, with the primary goal to help women and professionals of color reach their full potential. As a woman of color and corporate executive who has worked and traveled the world for several Fortune 500 companies - all while managing a chronic illness - she provides insight into overcoming the barriers facing professionals in today's workplace.

Every day is a journey, and the journey never ends. We should always be present in the now. Reminding ourselves to enjoy each day and the beauty life brings. This beautifully vulnerable and raw memoir brings you to and through the challenges and hardships of our author's life. As we follow her on her journey to self-discovery. Wednesday is stepping outside of herself and writing this memoir to bring you the true realness of her life. She goes into great details about her suffering.

Broth from the Cauldron is a collection of "teaching stories", a literary Wiccan soup for the soul. It is a distillation of the wisdom Cerridwen Fallingstar has gathered from her journey through life, and from her 40 years as a Shamanic teacher and Wiccan priestess. At turns poignant and humorous, it chronicles her trajectory from a Republican Cold War upbringing to a Pagan priestess, offering a portrait of a cultural growing from denial to awareness.

Read by the author. Open yourself to the thrill of curiosity in every moment. In this audiobook, Mary Lawless Lee shares how her childhood in a small Texas town taught her to look deeper, reach farther, and love harder, whether she's baiting a fishing hook or choosing shoes for a fashion shoot...

Pat James is a self-described "honest-to-goodness old first grade teacher, never gets bored or lonely. She loves to laugh, and she gets excited and scared in all of life's changes. She would love to welcome you to her world of small, honest people who learn quickly and are very funny. Your own Monday mornings will be better by hearing her stories and recalling some of your own experiences in your classroom or in your home.