Brilliant Women

🏁 A Thrilling Summer Adventure About Friendship, Courage, and Chasing Your Dreams! 🏁 Kayla Thompson is bold, brave, and determined to make history as the first girl to place in Timber Ridge’s annual Gravity Games! But there’s one big problem—she doesn’t even have a go-kart. The 4th of July derby is the highlight of the summer in her small Pacific Northwest town, and Kayla is ready to prove she has what it takes to race with the best. When her older brother leaves town, and the local kids refuse to help, Kayla’s dream seems out of reach. But everything changes when Lenny, a ...

Jezabelle Jingle and her neighbors in the Penderghast section of Brilliant, Minnesota, have a mystery on their hands. Someone is stealing sections of hardwood floors in their homes, and the thefts may be connected to a long-hidden treasure left by the founders of Brilliant. Not only that but there's a dead body in a basement to add to the mix. Can Jezzie and her quirky friends figure out the puzzle and find the treasure before some other, unknown person - maybe the murderer - beats them to the punch?

Her Voice is a powerful collection of personal accounts of resilience, courage, and wisdom, offering a glimpse into the lives of women who are doing extraordinary things in their everyday lives. This book is for women of all ages and backgrounds. Women striving to balance careers, family, and societal expectations. Whether you're navigating the complexities of modern life or seeking to connect with others who understand your journey, this collection offers comfort, insight, and a sense of belonging.

As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. Incredibly, when she gave testimony about the Holocaust decades later, Mira said that it was during this time that she learned about 'the goodness of people'.

In her apron and rubber gloves, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. But what if there was another side to the story? In Her Brilliant Career, Rachel Cooke tells the story of ten extraordinary women whose pioneering professional lives - and complicated private lives - paved the way for future generations.

In the heart of Victorian London, brilliant but socially awkward inventor Constance Fairleigh toils away in quiet obscurity. That changes when Sebastian Holloway, a charming and roguish adventurer, bursts into her life with plans to steal her groundbreaking designs. But as sparks fly and contraptions misfire, Sebastian finds himself drawn into Constance’s eccentric world instead of robbing it. Their unlikely bond deepens amid scandalous soirées, clockwork chaos, and a city teetering on the edge of discovery. Together, they stumble upon a secret society that believes her inventions are ...

Stella Miles Franklin’s autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career launched one of the most famous names in Australian letters. Funny, bold, often biting about its characters, the novel and its young author had a lot in common. Miles went on to live a large, fiercely independent and bohemian life of travel, art and freedom. Not so her beloved sister Linda. Quiet, contained, conventional, Linda was an inversion of Stella. A family peacemaker who married the man Stella would not, bore a son and died of pneumonia at 25. In this reflective, witty and revealing novel, Amy Brown rescues Linda.

Book 1 in the Calendar Moonstone mystery series Meet Calendar Moonstone, acclaimed creator of jewelry for the rich, the royals and the famous. And compulsive part-time cat burglar whenever there are rare diamonds whispering her name. It was planned as a routine Thanksgiving part-time job: get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. Instead Calendar finds the dead body of a night watchman and by sheer chance becomes involved to find the murderer and the stolen jewels. She gets teamed up with a cute police detective and a not so cute insurance investigator who sees Calendar behind almost ...

Negative, broken, lie-filled sentences fill your head as you work, play, and go about your life. These scripts are sidelining you, maligning you, harming you. What if there were another way? What if your life didn't have to be defined by what others say? Or even by what you say to yourself over and over? What if you knew that beauty and life are yours to be found and you finally danced in the freedom that awaits you? There is more for you, friend—so much more.

One hundred fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world. In the final debate of the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump leaned into the microphone as Hillary Clinton spoke about Social Security and called his opponent 'such a nasty woman'. The phrase has stuck around and has since become something of a badge of honour for women around the world. What better time than now, then, for us to look back and learn a thing or two from the 'nasty' women of the past?

Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Told with wit, verve and heart, Queen Bees is the story of a form of societal revolution and the extraordinary women who helped it happen.

Acțiunea tetralogiei începe în anii 1950, într-un cartier sărac, dar plin de viață, din mahalalele oraşului Napoli, şi acoperă aproape şaizeci de ani, pe măsură ce protagonistele—Lila, cea impulsivă şi întreprinzătoare, şi Elena, povestitoarea îndrăgostită de romane—devin femei, soții, mame şi apoi stăpânele propriilor vieți, legate în tot acest timp de o prietenie profundă şi deseori conflictuală.

Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and intellectual, animated by the ferment of the women’s movement. Friendships like these sustained the generation of women whose entrance into male-dominated professions is still reshaping American society. The stories of their intertwined lives and books embody feminism’s belief in the political importance of personal experience.

It’s Christmas in Brilliant, Minnesota, and Brilliant is known for its glitzy Christmas traditions. A world-renowned Christmas pageant, the town square decked out with Santa’s Village, and a live nativity scene bring visitors to Brilliant each year. Just as the tourists arrive, Jezabelle Jingle and her mystery writer friend, Miranda, find the body of Ernest the elf dead and wrapped in a bundle of Christmas lights in the town square.