Women

Catherine Paiz grew up far from the spotlight, in the vibrant multicultural city of Montreal, Canada, where her dreams began. When her path led her to Los Angeles, she built a life that seemed like a fairy tale: love, children, and a pioneering YouTube career that influenced millions. As part of The ACE Family, she became a familiar face around the globe. But behind the scenes, Catherine was carrying heartbreak, facing betrayal, navigating intense public scrutiny, and slowly losing herself.

On 22 May 2017, a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of young fans leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured. Saffie-Rose Roussos, aged eight, was the youngest victim to die in the attack. She had been at the concert with her mother, Lisa, and her elder sister, Ashlee.

Caitlin Clark arrived as a sports and cultural icon a little more than fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the 1972 law that opened the floodgates for girls and women to play sports in America. On Her Game is a sports story, certainly, but it’s also the story of a nation falling in love with what it has created because of that law—millions of new athletes, led by the magical Caitlin Clark.

At twenty-five years old, Parvati Shallow was plunged into fame and fortune after becoming the million-dollar winner of the reality television series Survivor. But despite her success, the ghosts of her traumatic past, coupled with the harsh glare of the public eye, kept her locked in a survival cycle of fear and shame that sabotaged her self-confidence and eroded her self-trust.

Es un ejercicio de honestidad conmigo misma. Un volver la vista atrás para contemplar todo cuanto me ha sucedido. Al mirarme al espejo, puedo decir: he vivido. He superado los obstáculos que han aparecido en mi camino. Aún sigo superando otros muchos. He sido capaz de reinventarme muchas veces, de tirar para adelante. Soy positiva por naturaleza, y el mensaje que quiero transmitir es que casi todo merece la pena.

In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership—professional and soon otherwise—was born.

Raising a seven-year-old daughter and caring for a newborn, single mother Stephanie Land tries her best to persevere through fatigue, hunger, a depleted food stamp balance, and a bank account hovering around ten dollars. Not to mention postpartum hormones, anxiety over finding suitable housing, and the fear of defeat in the battle of fulfilling her children’s needs and forging her own identity as a writer. With the help of a community of friends and her own steely will, Stephanie is determined to find a way forward to a life that can afford her family hope and joy.

In Walking the Tideline, Caroline Kurtz solo hikes the rugged, beautiful Oregon Coast—an expedition of isolation, adventure, joy, and grief inside the emotional wilderness of finding one's identity after the death of a loved one.

Enter the parallel universe of the private jet industry where the rich, famous, and morally bankrupt show their true colors. Delve into a world devoid of limitations while your delightfully unhinged narrator relates her true stories as a private flight attendant—and tries to hold onto her sanity, her dignity, and her faith in mankind. Does money make you a good person? Hint: It doesn’t.

It’s never too late to start again—and these women prove it. This powerful collection of true stories celebrates women over 50 who chose reinvention. Whether starting businesses, embracing creativity, or taking courageous leaps into new lives, they rewrote the rules of what’s possible later in life. Or indeed midlife. You’ll meet women who changed direction not in spite of age, but because of it. They turned experience into strength. Loss into action. Longing into impact. Each story in It’s Not Too Late is a reminder: You are not invisible. You are not too late. And you are far from finished.

Through exclusive interviews with current and former female CIA officers, many of whom have never spoken publicly, Agents of Change tells an enthralling and, at times, disturbing story set against the backdrop of the evolving women’s movement. It was the 1960s, a “secretarial” era, when women first gained a foothold and pushed against the one-dimensional, pop-culture trope of the sexy Cold War Bond Girl. Underestimated but undaunted, they fought their way, decade-by-decade, through adversity to the top of the spy game.

Between 1950 and 1952, Peggy Iris Thomas and her Airedale dog, Matelot, travelled 14,000 miles through Canada, United States and Mexico on a 125cc BSA Bantam. Perhaps when rounding a corner on some highway between Nova Scotia and Key West you have chanced upon this incredible trio: Oppy the indomitable motorcycle, its 125 pound frame swaying under three times its weight; Matelot, the automotive Airedale, perched on his box, ears flying in the breeze; and our gasoline gypsy herself, Peggy Iris Thomas, who has bumped her way over more than 14,000 miles of the United States, Mexico and Canada.

One of Elisabeth’s most personal books as she shares her own perceptions, through the lens of God’s grace, within events that lead up to the early deaths of both her first and second husbands.

Staring at the 450 pieces of clothing littering her bedroom, Erin Flynn couldn’t help but wonder, “How did I end up here?” In her debut memoir The Road Less Worn, Flynn sorts through snapshots of her life—from her roots as an athlete in a small Midwest town to her career as an entrepreneur and author—discovering that much of what she held onto, both in her wardrobe and life, was never truly her own.

Caterina II di Russia, nata principessa Sofia di Anhalt-Zerbst e andata in sposa a soli sedici anni all'erede al trono degli zar, è una delle più straordinarie e controverse figure femminili della storia europea. Con grande precisione storica e brillante stile narrativo, questa biografia ne delinea la forte personalità: una donna intelligente, amica e sostenitrice degli illuministi, caparbia e coraggiosa, che riuscì a imporsi in un mondo straniero e ostile superando i pregiudizi dei suoi contemporanei.

Eine Frau vor ihrer Zeit – die berührende Suche nach dem Leben der eigenen Urgroßmutter Tief im Sauerland, 1887. Eine junge Frau kommt den Weg hinauf ins Dorf Cobbenrode. Dort soll Anna Kalthoff die neue Lehrerin werden. Doch sie wird es nicht bleiben. Denn Anna widersetzt sich bald den Erwartungen des Ortes und den Regeln ihrer Zeit. Sie entscheidet selbst, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat, wie sie leben und wen sie lieben will. Und es wird ihr nicht schaden. Zwei Jahrhunderte später ist diese inspirierende Frau schon fast gänzlich in der Vergangenheit versunken.

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.

When her best friend Debbie loses her granddaughter to a sudden illness, author Cindy attempts to travel from Texas to North Carolina for the funeral, experiencing humorous roadblocks along the way. Stranded in Atlanta, she reminisces about the experiences that have made them the women they are today.

There are always many choices in listening material. I could say, listen to this book if you love dogs. Yes, It's a dog story. Several dogs. Mostly my dogs, but it's also about the adventure, the exciting emotional and totally satisfying experience of having a dog as your best friend. You could say it's God's gift to humans allowing us to be in that wonderful love a dog has to offer.

Embark on a poignant journey through a life marked by devotion, ambition, and fortitude. She grew up in a home where love flourished and a community where Catholic traditions were not just rituals but the fabric of her existence in the quaint town of Turlock, California. Her educational voyage began at Sacred Heart Catholic School, igniting a thirst for knowledge that would sculpt her worldview. The notion that suffering was not merely to be endured, but was a sacred avenue to heaven took root in her soul.

At age 20, Jenell Nyberg decided to drop out of college and move to a commune after everything in her life seemed to collapse in on itself. It is here that she acquires the name Bok Choy. Years later, after facing unspeakable trauma and finally finding herself homeless and with a serious mental health diagnosis, she decides, against all odds, to ride her bicycle halfway around the country with the goal of making it to a family wedding in the mountains on the East Coast.

When Covid lockdowns hit Melbourne, metropolitan midlife couple Kate and Chris decide to make a sea change and move to a small coastal town to ease financial pressures and live out the beach lifestyle many of us dream of. But they didn't give much thought to just how different it would be. With late night drinking sessions in Melbourne's coolest suburbs replaced by the disconcerting peace of a summer destination largely quiet for the rest of the year, they're suddenly rattling around in their beautiful new home without kids, friends or a real community.

JEANNE GUYON is Christianity's best-known and most influential woman in church history. Her autobiography has moved the hearts of believers for three centuries. Even today, in France, she is one of the greatest figures of French history. Guyon's influence reached the court of Louis XIV. Jealousy ensued, and she was imprisoned in the infamous Bastille. For most of her life she suffered persecution at the hands of the church, because she believed all Christians could have a rich prayer life. Perhaps John Wesley summed it up best: "Guyon is the greatest Christian to rise since the first century.

Mon histoire est simple, claire comme de l'eau de roche. À partir de 2013, j'ai pris 58 kilos. Vous avez bien lu. En quelques mois je suis devenue énorme. 126 kilos, ça pèse. Le 1er mars 2023, j'ai décidé de tout perdre parce que je n'avais pas envie de mourir. Et pour ça, je me suis sevrée du sucre. Je voulais avoir une vie que j'aime, danser, courir, m'habiller... Mais avant tout, je voulais être de nouveau heureuse. L'obésité est une île : j'y ai vécu décentrée du monde, mais surtout de moi-même. Pour moi, la quitter c'était me retrouver, et rejoindre le continent des gens qui vont bien.

What if choosing yourself first was the most powerful gift you could give to those you love? How you were raised has an immense impact on how you are as an adult—more than you can imagine. From self-worth to confidence to your ability to say no and set healthy boundaries. It's all influenced by those early years. In Michelle Bishop's memoir, Choose You First, the author opens her heart to share her deeply personal journey from chaos to self-love.