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Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.

Tyra Banks’s America’s Next Top Model was a cultural phenomenon with more than six million weekly viewers at its peak. Over its fifteen-year run, the show captured the glitz of the early aughts as well as its most toxic attitudes—from the glamorous but often questionable photo shoots to the cutting feedback from its highly respected if out-of-touch judges. Watching ANTM now, it feels impossible to imagine a show like this airing today, and as its fans have grown up, they’ve also begun to reckon with the enduring ways that the show has affected their body image and self-esteem.

Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three-bedroom blonde brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids' on her street. Except for this one glaring, inescapably obvious thing. From one of Australia's most exciting writers and the author of the multiaward-winning Foreign Soil comes The Hate Race: a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.

Sophie Cachia had her white picket fence life. By the age of 25, she was a mother and happily married, and had also built a very successful business by documenting her every move online. But Sophie and her comfortable existence were thrown a curveball when she met a woman who prompted her to ask herself the questions: What more can I do? What more can I learn? What more can I be?

We Might Just Make It After All brings us on the rollercoaster of adventures (and misadventures) that the best friends embarked on, from transferring colleges on a whim, to falling in and out of love with suitors, cramming into roach-infested Hell’s Kitchen apartments, and eventually designing the chic, simple bag that would launch the pair to global fame. Through it all, Katy and Elyce’s friendship remained unshakeable.

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.

When Sandra Leigh was seven years old, she fell into the role of protector of her mother and three younger siblings. One winter night, she ushered her mother out of the house during one of her father’s tirades, and then snuck her back into the dark home through a window. Sandra was used to events like these; what she wasn’t used to were the mountains and nature surrounding her new home in West Virginia.

Imagine if you lived without the fear of failure, without the fear of not measuring up. If you no longer felt the need to stifle your thoughts and swallow what you really want to say in order to please and appease others. If you could stop berating yourself mercilessly for human mistakes, let go of the guilt and the strangling pressure to be perfect, and just breathe. What if, in every decision you faced, you made the brave choice or took the bolder path. Would you be happier? Would you impact the world in the ways you dream you can? I believe the answer to both is yes.

In the early 1980s, when Erna Walraven decided to follow her dreams and become one of the first female zookeepers in Australia, she thought her biggest challenges would be feeding big cats and subduing irate gorillas. In fact, it was her male colleagues who made work miserable, harassing and humiliating her for doing a 'man's job'. So, she looked to the animals under her care to prove them wrong.

FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.

The six wives of Henry VIII have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Inevitably there was great rivalry and jealously between them. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling.

From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. In this hilarious memoir, Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little; a soap star in to a housewife turned road warrior in Thelma & Louise; a baseball phenomenon in A League of Their Own; and more.

Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Preaching fire and brimstone, her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the immoral, corrupting influence of the Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: no friends but this family and no future but this path.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

I mange år fungerede Sprogø som et anbringelsessted for kvinder, man mente var vanskelige og "moralsk defekte". Selvom Cicerone er en fiktiv karakter, så er hendes livsfortælling inspireret af historisk fakta. Bogen er bygget op omkring virkelige hændelser, som forfatteren har hørt om fra mennesker, der selv opholdt sig på Sprogøs kvindehjem.

Roxana Kia er 10 år, da hun sammen med sin bror må flygte fra revolutionen i Iran og mister alt – sin slægt, sit sprog, sit hjem, sit land. Årtier senere, tilsyneladende velintegreret i Danmark med karriere og familie, rystes hun af et voldsomt kvindeoprør i Iran og konfronteres med alt det, hun har vendt ryggen.

Surely Goodness and Mercy is a deeply personal memoir of love, loss, and the extraordinary healing power of animals. When Julie Dykes welcomed Johnny—a joyful, rough-and-tumble pup—into her life, she couldn’t have predicted how one dog would turn her world upside down. Then came Mercy, a gentle, soulful rescue with a past full of pain and a spirit that defied it. Together, these two dogs became more than pets: they were companions, teachers, and family.

Have you ever questioned the truths behind a seemingly ordinary life? An Apparently Normal Person" takes you on a captivating journey through the depths of trauma, resilience and the power of the human spirit. In this inspiring memoir, Bonnie Armstrong unveils the uncharted territory of her dissociation, a survival mechanism that became a catalyst for healing. At the height of an accomplished professional career, an inexplicable illness hints at a connection to a forgotten suicide attempt decades earlier.

"Ich war bei der Geburt meiner Tochter nicht dabei." Lange quält Frieda Lewin dieser Gedanke, denn die Geburt ihres Kindes endet mit einem Notkaiserschnitt, beide überleben nur knapp. Danach leidet Frieda unter dem traumatischen Erlebnis und dem Gefühl, als Mutter versagt zu haben. Erst eine Traumatherapie hilft ihr - und die Erkenntnis, nicht allein zu sein. In ihrem Hörbuch bricht sie darum mit dem Tabu um traumatische Geburten und ruft mit viel Humor zu mehr Milde mit sich selbst auf.

Part Devil Wears Prada coming-of-age story, part career advice, and part memoir, Shards in My Hair captures the chaos and the sometimes unfair and challenging aspects of business, while pulling back the curtain on the level of persistence and resilience that it takes to make it. Counter to Lean In’s heavy-handed blame-game of what women “should do,” Shards explores what women (and men!) actually have to do to survive and thrive. But it’s not just about business. As a single mom, Cindie Jamison pulls back the curtain on the very real challenges of trying to juggle it all.