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In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she'd been craving—along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed—until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for.

'Jenny Tough writes with the same talent, imagination, and sheer courage that she displays in her athletic endeavours. This book will broaden the horizons of all who venture between its covers.' - Emily Chappell, author of Where There's a Will 'I love that SOLO is part-self help and part...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a...

"Being a refugee is not a choice. Our choice is to die at home or risk death trying to escape." - Yusra Mardini Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it...

#1 New York Times Bestseller An Oprah Book Club Selection "Riveting…a worthy investment…this book has real wisdom."—New York Times Book Review "Provocative... I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too."—Oprah Winfrey The highly...

Dorit Kemsley has spent years cultivating a persona that exudes elegance, ambition, and confidence. But behind the designer labels and otherwise picture-perfect image lies a story of resilience, transformation, and self-discovery. Now, for the first time, she's telling this story in full. Before the cameras started rolling, Dorit was raised in a Jewish home in Connecticut, shaped by her family's international roots.

Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about femininity and sexuality on stage and screen, but now she has a book to talk about it all for a bit longer.

‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham ‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy ‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able to say that – it has taken a lot of...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was...

Der dritte Band der weltweit erfolgreichen Rebel-Girls-Stories versammelt Biografien von 100 Migrantinnen, die die Welt verändert haben. 100 außergewöhnliche Frauen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart, die ihre Heimat verließen, um in einem anderen Land ein neues Leben zu beginnen. 100 Frauen, die eine Zuflucht suchten, um ihre Träume zu verwirklichen und ihre Ideen mit der Welt zu teilen. Die Ex-US-Außenministerin Madeleine Albright, die Modeschöpferin Diane von Fürstenberg und die Publizistin Hannah Arendt gehören ebenso dazu wie Popstar Rihanna und die mexikanische Klimaaktivistin Xiye Bastida-Patrick.

Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place”. From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations....

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States. The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was raised in a California community...

Raised in the extreme religious cult called the Children of God, Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed by a crocodile, her world went dark. To escape paralyzing grief, Buhring set herself a goal. Never having seriously ridden a bike, she set out to ride one around the world.

A serious illness destroyed Helen Keller's sight and hearing before she reached the age of two. At seven, she was introduced to Ann Sullivan, the beloved teacher and friend who helped Helen to make contact with her world. Through sheer determination and resolve, Helen learned to speak, read, and write, and prepared herself for entry into prep school by the age of 16. She later enrolled at Radcliffe and graduated with honors. Her motto: "There are no handicaps, only challenges."

The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday). Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century...

The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of a life lived on the frontline of the world's worst disasters. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring . . . Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She...

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir...

Schon als kleines Mädchen verliebt sich Ulla Lohmann in die Vulkane der Welt und nimmt sich vor, sie alle zu sehen, zu erforschen, zu fotografieren, zu verstehen. Bis dorthin ist es ein weiter Weg, doch Rückschläge und persönliche Niederlagen können sie nicht daran hindern, ihr Ziel zu erreichen. Ein Hörbuch über die ganz großen Träume und darüber, dass es manchmal nur einen Gedanken braucht, um sie wahrzumachen: "Ich mach das jetzt!"

Da steht doch tatsächlich eine Frau mit langen Haaren und einer Pistole an Deck und erteilt Männern Befehle! Grace O'Malley, die einzige weibliche Piratin ihrer Zeit, hat die Gewässer vor Irlands Küste fest im Griff. Kein Abenteuer ist ihr zu gewagt, nichts scheint ihr unmöglich. So kämpft sie unerschrocken für ihre Freiheit, ihren Clan und ihr Land. Selbst als ihre Erzfeindin Königin Elisabeth I. ihren Sohn Tibbot gefangennimmt, gibt die Piratin nicht auf. Erhobenen Hauptes steht Grace 1591 vor dem englischen Thron.

In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. Using instinct to guide her, she copied everything they did and soon learned to fend for herself. At around 10 years old, a completely feral Marina was returned to civilisation by hunters, who sold her as a slave to a brothel. Beaten daily and groomed to be a prostitute, she escaped - to live the perilous existence of a Colombian city street kid.