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Long before their blockbuster podcast, I’ve Had It, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan were simply two best friends, supporting each other through the ups and downs of life. Together they’ve celebrated family milestones and cheered on professional successes, but they’ve weathered the storms together too. When Jennifer’s husband battled alcoholism and drug addiction, she turned to Angie for support. When Angie’s own marriage began to crumble, she turned to Jennifer. And crucially, through it all they’ve kept one another laughing in stitches.

Gloria Swanson defined what it meant to be a movie star, but her unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed the true story of her life. Now Stephen Michael Shearer sets the record straight in the first in-depth biography of the film legend. Swanson was Hollywood's first successful glamour queen. Her stardom as an actress in the mid-1920s earned her millions of fans and millions of dollars.

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth. Here we meet Shalev's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family's biggest enemy in their new land: dirt.

From the bustling streets of Odesa to the vibrant cities of London, Montreal, New York, and San Francisco’s Jewish Fillmore District, Joan Moran’s captivating historical memoir of her mother weaves a vivid portrait of one woman’s quest for identity and freedom against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world.

For readers who were captivated by the raw emotion of It Ends With Us and the intensity of Seven Days in June, comes a poignant and unforgettable story about love, deception, and the painful beauty of letting go. Nahomi thought she had found her forever. From the moment she met Anthony, their connection was undeniable—intense, passionate, and seemingly unbreakable. He made her feel seen, wanted, and cherished in ways she had never known. But love, as she would soon learn, isn’t always what holds two people together.

"Unlocking Family Secrets: Journey of an Adoptee's Quest for Answers," tells the personal story of Sharon Henifin, who was adopted as a baby and spent much of her life searching for her birth parents. This captivating memoir takes readers on a journey through Sharon's emotional struggles and determination to uncover her true identity. As Sharon delves deeper into her search, she discovers that her adoption was shrouded in secrecy and that her birth parents' identities were carefully concealed. But with a combination of perseverance, luck, timing, and the help of DNA testing, Sharon can ...

A Woman’s Journey Of Love And Redemption Through The Horse Who Chose Her Through the winding paths of heartbreak, self-discovery, and redemption, Skywalker: The Horse Who Picked Me traces a journey of love found, lost, and ultimately understood. From the dream of breeding Lipizzans to the sacrifices made for passion, marriage, and motherhood, this deeply personal memoir reveals the triumphs and mistakes of a life shaped by longing and loss. At its heart stands Skywalker, a spirited paint horse who chose his rider before she ever chose him. His unwavering loyalty and quiet wisdom carried ...

In this cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. As a young girl, Didion was infatuated with John Wayne and his on-screen bravado, and was fascinated by her California pioneer ancestry and the infamous Donner Party. The mythos that preoccupied her early years continued to influence her work as a magazine writer and film critic in New York, offering glimmers of the many stories Didion told herself that would come to unravel over the course of her career. But out west, show business beckoned.

Shards of Time traces the steps of Mita Zara, a young girl whose father was captured and sent to prison during the Martial Law era in the Philippines. As Mita tries to glue the family together, she learns that life is uncertain and nothing will ever be the same. Unable to face her past demons, Mita runs away as far as possible only to discover that the past continues to haunt her. Shards of Time is a family saga that spells unconditional love, voices the sentiments of despair, and most of all unlocks the heart to forgive.

When the Window Closes is a profoundly personal and emotional narrative centered around the author's six-year journey as a caregiver for her mother who had Alzheimer's disease. The book weaves back and forth between past events and the present caregiving moments, illustrating her complicated and trying relationship with her mother and how the burden of caregiving evolved into a great gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

My 1974 Chevy Laguna took me on adventures worth telling. I purchased Crystal in 1975. In 2018, my brother found and restored a 1973 Laguna. I named her Pearl. The photos tell the story of a much needed restoration.

She did everything right. She lost her home, health and business anyway. Be a good person. Be a good worker. Success will follow. Those were the rules author Denise Kawaii lived by. After surviving a childhood fraught with family dysfunction and poverty, she’d finally found the success she’d always sought. She had a little blue suburban house, a baby on her hip, and a rapidly expanding business. Things were, in a word, perfect. But when her best friend died, starting a rapid-fire series of death, ill health and loss, nothing could stop the unravelling of her middle-class life. When ...

“The Spirit of Happiness” is a deeply personal and spirit-led journey through brokenness, healing, and divine transformation. Told through the eyes of a woman who has weathered, heartache, and loss, this memoir-devotional reflects the raw, unfiltered cries of a soul reaching for God in the shadows and finding Him closer than ever. From the fields of childhood isolation to the wilderness of a fractured marriage and the ache of a daughter's suffering, the author opens her heart to reveal how God's voice can still speak in dreams, whispers, and divine interruptions. She recounts moments ...

In 2019, Greta Morgan was on the rise. She had toured with Vampire Weekend, collaborated with Jenny Lewis, and garnered critical acclaim with her own musical projects. But in March 2020, after contracting COVID-19, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder with no known cure that left her unable to sing. Her once crystalline voice now reduced to a hush, she saw her career come to an abrupt standstill.

Karie Fugett’s story depicts an oft-overlooked reality of war: the experience of the many thousands of caregivers and spouses—mostly women, mostly young, mostly poor—whose lives have been shattered by battles fought against enemies abroad and against addiction at home. Tender, vivid, and laced with dark humor, Alive Day is at once an epic and engrossing love story, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a powerful indictment of the sins of a nation.

MacArthur “Genius” Cristina Jiménez writes and narrates her inspiring story from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement. Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who inspired the world and changed the lives of millions.

For years, Tommy Dorfman turned her back on her thoughts and emotions, hoping they’d simply go away. After a lifetime of confusion, she finally gained clarity around her gender and began to transition. But there were still parts of herself she’d locked away, elements of her story that she needed, for the first time, to fully confront. She sought guidance in a tarot deck. Maybe This Will Save Me is structured through the cards of that tarot pull.

When you speak English with barely an accent, it’s hard for most people to believe that you were born in France. But Elisabeth Bykoff spent the first twenty-two years of her life there, raised in the French culture on a diet of American pop movies, TV, and music. Elisabeth’s love for American movies led her to dream of making them herself in Hollywood, building her American dream full of romance, prosperity, and a fulfilling career.

In August 2021, Kabul fell under the control of the Taliban, a militant political and fundamentalist religious faction. For Khalida Popal, it signaled the beginning of the most important battle of an already extraordinary young life—to get female soccer players out of a city where they faced imminent threat of execution simply for playing sports. Khalida first began playing soccer in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her parents fled Taliban rule. Returning to Afghanistan, she fell deeper in love with the freedom and comradeship soccer provides.