Incisible Women

Marked by honesty, humility, and grace, rendered in the most elegant of prose, A Life of My Own is a portrait of a life, replete with joy and heartbreak. With quiet insight and unsparing clarity, Claire Tomalin writes autobiography at its most luminous, delivering an astonishing and emotionally taut masterpiece.

Mona Gray was 10 when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the difficult and wonderful facts of life keep intruding. She finds herself drawn to the new science teacher, who has an unnerving way of seeing through her intricately built façade.

In "Inside the Invisible Box–My Journey from Mars to a Rising Phoenix," Zan, a deeply private Black woman, bravely steps into the spotlight to share her powerful story. Through a blend of personal narrative and poetry, she explores the darkest moments of her life—trauma, sexual assault, an alcoholic father, and childhood pain. Yet, as she reveals these long-buried secrets, Zan embarks on a journey of healing, empowerment, and self-discovery.

Nothing says true love like battling government agents, Amish family drama, and failing superpowers on the way to “I do.” Mira Verborgen didn’t plan to get superpowers from a Large Hadron Collider meltdown. She really didn’t plan to tell her conservative Mennonite parents she’s invisible, immortal, and wanted by Homeland Security. And she absolutely didn’t plan on getting married while on the run from government agents in Amish country. But love doesn’t wait for perfect timing. Especially when your powers are mysteriously vanishing, you’re living in barns and buggies, and ...

Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, then come along for an exploration of how we can change women's lives for the better.

Why me? As a fatherless child, your interpretation of society is a little different. You constantly feel incomplete when you see fathers on television, in the grocery store, and on social media. Join Candice as she takes you on her journey of coming face-to-face with being a fatherless daughter, to living an amazing life filled with healing and wholeness. Candice's life-changing path will help you come to terms with who you truly are.

For Ellen Homes, not only does she wish it - she actually lives it. She spends her days quietly observing but unobserved, watching and recording in her notebooks the lives of her neighbors, coworkers, and total strangers. Overweight, socially stunted, and utterly alone, one night Ellen saves a blind young woman from being mugged. Then everything changes.

This story is about a man named Horace Koons who is working with the military on a Top Secret project. Horace convinced the military that he could develop a cloaking method that would make all of the US enemies tremble. Horace is a genius who is good at killing two bats with one bullet. Teenagers Gabriel and Debbie become involved when they sneak into the old Koon's mansion. Horace is a very devious man. Gabriel and Debbie embark on a journey that takes them to be part of the Military plans. However an extremely special child. later woman named Cassie has her own plans.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy.

Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why—and how—was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London.

Lots of people feel invisible in the world, but with Edward Mann it’s quite literal. Be careful what you wish for... Having hit rock bottom and desperate for relief, Mann signed up for a secret government experiment. A stupid decision, maybe, but at least his family would live comfortably. Who knew he would be signing his life away? The experiment is radical and works a little too well. So well, in fact, that Edward Mann ceases to exist in the physical world. Or so it would seem to the naked eye. Indeed, Edward Mann would be turned invisible. With his every move monitored, Mann is forced ...

In this feverishly anticipated follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed The Boy in the Suitcase, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg doesn’t realize she is putting life and family on the line when she tries to treat a group of sick Hungarian gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. Nina has unwittingly thrown herself into a deadly nest of the unscrupulous and the desperate, and what is at stake is much more terrifying than anyone had realized.

An acute injury. Chronic pain. A shocking discovery. Maria Socolof, a former collegiate athlete, at age forty, ruptured a disc in her neck when she rolled over in bed. Time and conventional medicine failed to heal her. Years of debilitating pain followed. She sincerely questioned whether life in such pain was worth living. Then, through mindbody approaches and bewildering revelations, true healing finally began. Her raw chronicle attests to the impact emotional trauma can have on the body and how we can set ourselves free from the limitations of our subconscious.

When it's your job to save the day—where do you start? Librarian spy Irene has standards to maintain, especially while on probation. And absconding from a mission via a besieged building doesn't look good. But when her escape route home goes up in flames, what's a spy to do? However, it seems gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across dozens of worlds. Worse still, her nemesis Alberich is responsible—and he plans to annihilate the Library itself.

Behind the Glare: Unpacking the Media’s Sexualization of Women This book is a bold exploration of image, identity, and resistance. Why does the media constantly reduce women to their bodies? Why are girls taught to be pretty before they’re taught to be powerful? And what does it cost us—all of us—when worth is measured in skin and likes? In Behind the Glare, we pull back the curtain on a culture that profits from the sexualization of women and girls. Through history, storytelling, media analysis, and personal reflection, this book exposes the systems that shaped how we see women—...

ADHD in women is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or entirely overlooked, leaving millions silently fighting an internal, invisible battle. Outwardly, they can be labeled flaky, intense, dramatic, or unreliable, while inwardly they’re juggling severe overwhelm, emotional chaos, chronic stress, catastrophic thinking, and the unshakable feeling of being misunderstood—by everyone. In Invisible ADHD, Shanna Pearson—founder and director of the world’s largest one-on-one ADHD coaching company, shares what actually works for women in real life.

killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley, a detective to rival Sarah Lund, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling - the Spanish best seller that has taken Europe by storm. The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of the Invisible Guardian, the Basajaun, a creature of Basque mythology?

Invisible Black Woman illustrates the tiresome experience of a Black woman having to continuously announce herself and her accolades.

ADHD in women is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or entirely overlooked, leaving millions silently fighting an internal, invisible battle. Outwardly, they can be labeled flaky, intense, dramatic, or unreliable, while inwardly they’re juggling severe overwhelm, emotional chaos, chronic stress, catastrophic thinking, and the unshakable feeling of being misunderstood—by everyone. In Invisible ADHD, Shanna Pearson, founder and director of the world’s largest one-on-one ADHD-coaching company, shares what actually works for women in real life.

Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments - though just barely - Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon, to start over. There, a chance encounter with an exhausted African mother and her daughters transformed her life again.