Inspirational Authors

I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim—that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix—a work in progress. This is my story....

Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the...

This program includes an interview between the author and Lale Sokolov and a new introduction read by the author. From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others. In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a...

A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and nine essential daily practices—by the first female, Black senior minister at the historic Collegiate Churches of New York “Fierce Love teaches us that with spiritual faith we can transcend the...

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times -...

2024 Grammy Award Winner #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the...

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist...

Most of us want happiness in life, and most people desire success in one form or another. But maintaining the motivation you need in order to achieve your goals can be hard at times, and we all need a bit of help along the way. Now, with this audiobook, Inspirational: The Ultimate Guide to Motivate Yourself And Make Things Happen, you can find that success with tips and advice that will keep you going and see you through to the end.

Shelley Whizin's book What Do You Bring to the Table: A Savory, Sensory and Inspirational Guide to Living a Yummy Delicious Life demonstrates how being conscious/present is one of the most essential lessons in life. What Do You Bring to the Table is a "hybrid" cookbook. Using brief, happy, mindful meditations before cooking is a way to reacquaint and connect with an essence of yours that you discover in a mini “soul diving" journey, which you then carry over to your food preparation.

At three years of age Susan, who was very bright and quick, learned her letters and also some words, while on a visit at her grandmother’s. When she was a little older, she attended a district school, and then a private school conducted in the Anthony home. Susan was a very successful teacher, and often she grew indignant to see that men who did not do their work so well as she received four times as much pay. Equal pay for equal work was one of the rights that she began to demand for her fellow women from that time on.

Do you love being inspired by the words of others? Do you find that inspiration can often be found from those who have already been in your situation? This audiobook is packed full of brilliant quotes! Everyone needs a bit of motivation at times. Whether you play on a sports team and your coach inspires you, an instructor praises your work, or a boss is happy with your output, being motivated is what keeps us going and helps improves upon our performances every day.

This is a small book of poems about some of the difficulties we may face on our journey through life.