She writes press okt 2026 (7 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle, a raw and redemptive memoir of surviving generational trauma, caregiving, and spiritual awakening that chronicles one woman's journey from southern survival to West Coast freedom.When her elderly mother shoots her abusive husbandDeborah's fatherin their Arkansas home, Deborah is thrust into a storm of media frenzy, grief, and caregiving. As she fights for justice, supports her paralyzed wife, and battles personal demons, Deborah begins to unravel a deeper legacy of generational traumaand realizes the need to rescue herself. Told with gripping honesty, Grace Through Fire follows Deborah's odyssey through murder trials, chronic illness, financial collapse, and spiritual reckoning. From the chaos of the rural South to the stillness of yoga studios and the healing waters of Lake Powell and Crater Lake, Deborah rediscovers her strength, sobriety, and purpose. This is a narrative of transformation and fierce resiliencea memoir for anyone who has ever questioned their worth, carried the pain of their family, or longed for a fresh start. At the heart of it all is a bold love story, a leap of faith, and one woman's courageous choice to create a life of freedom, service, and light on the California coast.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Glennon Doyle's Love Warrior and Belle Burden's Strangers, a candid debut memoir about one woman's struggles with resentment and loss of identityand eventual journey back to selfafter leaving her dream job to focus on being a mom.Katie Trexler was at the top of her gamethriving in her high-profile job as a local television news anchor, raising healthy young twins, and a leading a nearly idyllic life with her husband in the suburbs of Denver. Then believing it was the right decision for her familyand unaware of the toll it would take on her well-beingshe gave up her dream career. Years later, unsatisfied with where her path has led, Katie wonders, What do I tell my daughter about the choices I've made as a woman and mother With raw honesty, What Do I Tell My Daughter delves into the real and sometimes hidden costs of sacrificing parts of ourselves for the people we lovea reality Katie confronts first as a young mom and then again almost a decade later when her seemingly ideal life unexpectedly shatters. Punctuated by hard-earned lessons about inner strength, self-love, and equality in relationships, this unflinchingly candid memoir is for any woman, any person, who has ever lost themselves while caring for othersand who is determined to reclaim their voice, redefine success, and model courage and awareness for the next generation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Gilmore Girls meets Oppenheimer in this dual-timeline family saga, set in a Manhattan Project town, about a granddaughter who uncovers her grandmother's nuclear-age secrets and her own toxic inheritance.What is the half-life of O'Toole family secrets In 2013, Saige is stuck living with her Granny Rosamond in her beige wasteland of a hometown. Desperate for a diagnosis and cure for her mysterious ailments, she uncovers more than she bargained fora hot rock that shouldn't exist and a past Rosamond refuses to explain. That past takes place in the 1940s, when 50,000 people move to an eastern Washington town that doesn't exist to build something they can't name. Rosamond is one of them, eager to do her bit for the war effortand find a husband. When she falls for a charming engineer, she envisions a perfect life. But as the hot war turns cold and her ever-expanding family becomes increasingly troubled, she discovers this nuclear town is no utopia, and she must decide whether to cling to the destructive facade of domestic bliss or face the truth that could save them all. When Rosamond's past collides with Saige's search for healing, half-buried secretsfrom the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere to the wounds within their own familycan no longer be ignored. Can Saige discover the truth and heal herself without destroying her grandmother's life. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A debut memoirist's hopeful and brave coming-of-age story of surviving a turbulent youthneglected first by her father, then as a teen in foster careand going on to find a sense of belonging and a new lease on life in a semi-nomadic Kenyan community.Eager to leave her life as a foster child behind, Robin Rosenbluth travels to a remote village in northern Kenya called Songa in 1973. As a white college student, she arrives in a desert-like environment to teach elementary school to Samburu and Rendille children. While befriending the residents, she learns to live in a mud hut, survive without modern conveniences, skin a cow, and kill a chicken for dinner. Robin weaves stories about the challenges she faced growing upher mother's early death, her father's abandonment, and her years in foster carewith her account of her time in Songa. As the only Jewish resident in a village influenced by Christian missionaries, she strives to fit in: adapting to the intense heat, endless insects, and close encounters with wild animals. Over time, she develops close friendships with a local teacher and a woman who becomes her surrogate mother, participates in local customs, and makes a place for herself in Songa. Offering vivid insight into why a love-starved nineteen-year-old from New York City would choose to relocate to the other side of the world, Living with Strangers is a poignant chronicle of one young woman's search for a place to belong.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For readers of Cheryl Strayed and Anthony Doerr, a lyrical adventure memoir tracing one woman's Seven Summits quest while caring for her mother through ALSa story of endurance, love, and the cost of coming home changed."An incredible work of art."Alison Levine, New York Times best-selling author of On the Edge When Nicole LoBiondo set out to climb the Seven Summitsthe highest mountain on every continentshe never imagined that her hardest climb would be the one waiting at home. As Nicole pushes through extreme expeditionsfrom Antarctica's frozen plateau to the thin air of Everestshe returns home between climbs to care for her mother through a devastating illness. These parallel journeys reveal a story of grit, love, and the emotional cost of choosing strength when life demands everything at once. With clear-eyed honesty and vivid, cinematic detail, LoBiondo captures the reality of high-altitude mountaineering, the toll of long-term caregiving, and the universal struggle to survive what breaks us. Ultimately, she discovers that endurance is not just the ability to keep going up a mountain but also the courage to face loss, reshape identity, and rise again. A gripping blend of adventure story and intimate family memoir, Where the Air Grows Thin is a powerful story of adventure, caregiving, ALS, and the journey of a daughter fighting to hold on to her mother while learning how to let go.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Cormac McCarthy, a novel-in-stories that chronicles, with compelling accuracy and violence and through shape-shifting prose and rococo, one girl's passage from childhood to motherhood in a small midwestern town.A clear-eyed and necessary account of how violence insinuates itself into characters living liminal lives in the purgatorial world of Ontario, Illinois, Learning to Hit My Mother is a collection of connected stories that all possess a unity of placeand characters so compellingly human that they promise, with an almost unflappable certainty, to possess the reader. Pit, a girl at the onset, is savaged by her mother, who goes at her with her hands, heart, and even a baseball bat because her husbandPit's fatherhas had her. This demented triangulation forms Pit. Throughout her life she is drawn to misfitslike her friend Bean, who ultimately steps in front of a train. From these inauspicious beginnings ensues a whole delectable slew of stories; stories full of meaty, fragmented soulsLou, Edgar, Twink, Leesa, and Pit's son, Sam; stories whose quiet intensity will capture fans of Sherwood Anderson and Clarice Lispector. Championed by language that is jarringly precise, Learning to Hit My Mother soars in its visceral portrait of the monstrous as located in what might be called the sublimity of the ordinary. Haunting, unputdownable, and gripping, each story galvanizes with thought- provoking prose that hits each and every cell.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Kimberly Belle and Apple TV+'s Bad Sisters, a domestic suspense exploring the lengths a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage by an ironclad trust fund clause will go to in order to escape her greedy, gaslighting husband.She married for love. He married for trust. Specifically, her trust fundthe one with the iron-clad "no divorce, no matter the circumstances" clause her mother insisted on. Sterling (not as good as gold) has always come second to her family's wealthbut unlike her mother, she'll do anything to protect her three children. For years, she's kept up the perfect family illusion to shield them from their manipulative, gaslighting father. But now her husband is becoming more reckless, and her children more exposed. And when her daughter's fiancé says he wants a marriage just like hers, Sterling knows her charade has gone too far. To free herself, she must outwit her husband and the legal ties meant to trap herbefore it's too late. Because in this family, there's only one way out: One of them must die.…