Novedades

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.

In "The Gift of With," Janelle McGuckin invites listeners on an intimate journey of faith, resilience, and profound transformation. Through deeply personal stories, Janelle shares how she discovered the treasures of living a "with-God" life, even in the midst of struggles, uncertainties, and heartache. From navigating the trials of a cancer diagnosis to uncovering unexpected moments of divine presence on an oceanfront bench, Janelle’s honest reflections remind us that God is always near, offering love and hope in every season of life.

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.

Meet Brooklyn. She’s a single mother of two, and although she’s taken hits in her life, she’s gotten through them all. Meet Paige. She’s a single mother too, and she’s so overwhelmed that she’s contemplating ending it all. But in a last-ditch effort to find help, she goes to a support group for single parents. That’s where she meets Brooklyn—and through Brooklyn’s story, she finds a second chance at life.

This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing. In this generous selection of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters to her biographer and friend Greg Johnson, listeners will discover a never-before-seen dimension of her phenomenal talent.

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.

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.

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.

With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and break-ups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness, this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women.

Vera Atkins is one of the many unsung heroes and heroines of World War II. She carried out her life with great care and due diligence, quietly becoming the perfect spy when no one was watching. Beneath her polished exterior was a mind built for strategy, secrecy, and survival. But Vera wasn’t just a spy—she was a Spymistress. That’s what her operatives in Britain’s military intelligence unit, the Special Operations Executive, called her.

Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In this revealing and revelatory memoir, Swan shares the key moments of her life.

Desde pequeña supe que mi vida no iba a ser como la de los demás. La creatividad, el optimismo, el amor por mi trabajo, por los animales, la libertad y la curiosidad por aprender, ver y conocer, han sido mi verdadero motor. Todos los días aparecen oportunidades y hay miles de cosas por hacer. Siempre he tenido clarísimo que dentro de una vida hay muchas vidas. Y en la mía, como en la de todo el mundo, ha habido momentos en los que me he dejado llevar, otros en los que me he reinventado y otros en los que he arrasado.

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.

There are women who ruled vast swathes of the African continent. They led, loved and fought for their kingdoms and people and their impact can still be felt today. However, beyond the lands they called home, so few of us have heard their names. From pre-colonial Nigeria to the rich plains of Rwanda, from Ancient Egypt to apartheid South Africa, historian Akpan writes the stories of these powerful queens and takes you on a spellbinding, enrapturing and immersive journey that is nothing short of revelatory.

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 ...

Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In this revealing and revelatory memoir, Swan shares the key moments of her life.

"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 ...

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.

“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 ...