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Read by the author, Ruthie Henshall. From much-loved West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall, The Showgirl and the Prince is a funny, honest and touching real-life Cinderella story – if Cinders is a lycra-clad chorus girl from Bromley who drinks and smokes too much. In 1988, Ruthie was at...

Not a Cinderella Story is a raw, deeply moving memoir that takes listeners on an emotional journey through the life-altering experience of love, unexpected loss, and the quest to regain faith and find healing. It is a story of how a vibrant young woman found herself living a love story straight out of a fairy tale, only to face the unimaginable when her husband becomes ill and passes away, leaving her to navigate the harsh realities of widowhood at a young age.

Brought to you by Penguin. Lucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early...

Once upon a time in the beautiful land of Laguna Beach, California, lived a girl named Rachel. She was curious, clever, and like any hopeful heroine, committed to forging her own path in life. She yearned for more than an ordinary existence and a boring nine to five, so she joined the world of adult entertainment, where she finally felt fulfilled. However, her fairy tale began to crumble when at the mere age of twenty, her father passed away, leaving her evil step-mother in charge of his estate, and Rachel disowned.

Princess Masuma lived during the time when Afghanistan was ruled by kings. In this real-life Cinderella story, as relayed by her granddaughter Dr. Sherzai, Masuma is transformed from a simple Hazara orphan into a princess when she marries the son of Prince Regent Nasrullah Khan. Her fairy tale life is filled with both tragedy and triumph as political intrigue, rivalry, assassinations, and arrests directly affect her life, fortune, and family.

As daughters of the King, we have full access to the riches of our Father’s Kingdom to enjoy on this Earth. Satan tries to convince us we are nothing more than orphaned slave girls with a fairy-tale royal birthright in an imaginary kingdom. Enslaved by fear, we become Barefoot Cinderellas who live more like paupers than princesses. Susie Erickson sweeps away the crumbs from your lap at the orphan’s table and leads you to your seat of honor at the King’s table. As she pours you a cup of tea, she tells you a great secret to see you through the trials this life has to offer.

Angela’s Ashes comes home to the Bronx in Mary Higgins Clark’s brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet memoir of a childhood during the Depression. Mary Higgins Clark’s memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house—the Higgins Bar and Grill in the...

Follow the journey of a young woman who found herself trapped in a tumultuous marriage to an alcoholic. A woman who endured emotional abuse for over ten years while fighting tirelessly to hold her family together, only to confront betrayal in the end at the hands of a cheater. That woman was me.

The Cinderella Monologues Edition shares a collection of true stories from real-life Cinderellas to inspire, energize, encourage, and empower those who have had similar experiences. Most women have a version of a Cinderella tale to tell. Once these stories are told, the healing begins, along with the opportunity to help others.

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.