Real Women

Through personal essays and interviews, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the listener's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.

It has been said that life is 10 percent about what happens to you and 90 percent about how you react to it. Brenda Fontaine is a living example of that. She tells us the story in her new book, The Limitless Real Estate Leader. Raised by an alcoholic mother and an overachieving father, Fontaine was able to extract important lessons from her upbringing. She has applied them both to her business career and to her personal life. The Limitless Real Estate Leader is a heartwarming motivational business book.

Ty never expected to fall in love with the person who saved him the night he was shot; however, one can never stop fate. Once he and Michelle established the relationship that Ty never expected to want, his past comes back, causing chaos and strife. Michelle takes her role as the woman in Ty’s life, but unbeknownst to Michelle, the father of her child still has some unresolved feelings toward her. Ty and Michelle both are blindsided by the danger lurking around them and threatening their well-being, all in the name of love.

This Business Won’t Build Itself… But You’ve Got This A Real One’s Guide to Building a Business While Juggling Kids, Chaos & Confidence This isn’t your typical “how to start a business” manual — this is the real talk you didn’t know you needed. Whether you're a busy parent balancing clients with school runs, or just someone who's tired of Googling “how to be your own boss” at midnight, this book is for you. In this book, you’ll find practical guidance, honest advice, and real-life prompts that don’t just talk at you — they talk to you.

Daisy McDare is back and better than ever. Just as things are finally coming together for Daisy's life, another murder strikes the small, coastal town of Cozy Creek. This time a greedy real estate developer is the victim. At first, Daisy is content to leave this case to the police. She'd rather focus on her interior decorating and her blossoming relationship with her new boyfriend. When Detective Crumple arrests the wrong suspect who also happens to be a friend of Daisy's, she realizes it's up to her to find the real killer before it's too late.

As an awkward high schooler, Wednesday struggled to find her place in Grand Rapids. Until a handsome senior encouraged her to believe how talented, smart, and wonderfully different she was. Naturally, Wednesday fell for him...He was falling, too. For another boy. Yet this one-sided crush proved life altering, paving the way for a string of “boyfriends” who offered Wednesday something deeper than physical connection.

With the majority of mompreneurs failing to make their home-based businesses work, we need a new blueprint to model. We need to know how the successful mamas are making it happen, without sacrificing their marriage or their role as mom. I have been able to “have it all”, but not by maintaining the elusive balance that is about as real as moms sleeping in on weekends.

Dive deep inside the real diary of a teenage girl. Isabel shares her deception in her relationships, abuse that engulfs her and how she overcomes her struggle from rape, abuse, drugs/alcohol, anxiety, depression, and multiple suicide attempts. As you wrap yourself into her twisted journal entries, erotic poetry and lustful letters from her many boyfriends, she inspires you on how to survive it all.

Simone Biles was raised by a single mother with addiction issues, forcing her grandparents to intervene. But Simone soon discovered balance beams and gymnastics mats, setting her on a path toward Olympic greatness. Carli Lloyd, meanwhile, believed her youth soccer career was really starting to take off, only to be cut from her team. Instead of quitting the sport she loved, Carli rebuilt her confidence, ultimately becoming one of the leaders on the World Cup Champion US Women's Soccer team. The athletes featured in this book met earth-shaking challenges head on, and went on to conquer the sports world.

In Brave Mom, Sherry Surratt, president and CEO of MOPS International, shares honestly and openly about the fears every mom struggles with. From worry about your child's safety and health to wondering if you are a good parent, to fears about your marriage and loss of self-identity, Sherry comes alongside every mom with practical, real, and hopeful help for these common fears that we're all afraid to talk about.

Malala Yousafzai was born and raised in northwest Pakistan where the Taliban forbade girls like her from the basic human right of an education. An activist from a young age, she spoke up against the oppression of her people. In fact, she became such a voice for change that consequently she was shot by the Taliban at the age of 14 for speaking up for what is right and seeking change for her nation. Malala was forced to leave her childhood home and settle in Europe but, even after her near-death experience, she never stopped her activism....

How much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives? As a nine-year old, Elizabeth Farnsworth struggled to understand the loss of her mother. On a cross-country trip with her father, the heartsick child searches for her mother at train stations along the way. Even more, she confronts mysteries: death, time, and a mysteriously locked compartment on the train. Weaving a child's experiences with memories from reporting in danger zones like Cambodia and Iraq, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster.