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The True Women Influencers of the Past

The Inspiring Heroines in Real Life and Fiction

by Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Emma Goldman, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Rebecca Deming Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Sanger, Sinclair Lewis, Sarah H. Bradford, Kate Stephens ...

Translated by Alfred Edward Chamot ...

The anthology 'The True Women Influencers of the Past' presents an intricate tapestry of voices that define the evolving roles and perceptions of women across centuries. Engaging with key works from a pantheon of illustrious authors like Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf, the collection showcases a breathtaking range in literary style—from the incisive social realism of Elizabeth Gaskell to the ... Read more

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The anthology 'The True Women Influencers of the Past' presents an intricate tapestry of voices that define the evolving roles and perceptions of women across centuries. Engaging with key works from a pantheon of illustrious authors like Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf, the collection showcases a breathtaking range in literary style—from the incisive social realism of Elizabeth Gaskell to the
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ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs

Landmark Novels, Memoirs, and Reform Writings on Women's Rights, Freedom, and Modern Womanhood

by Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Emma Goldman, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Rebecca Deming Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Sanger, Sinclair Lewis, Sarah H. Bradford, Kate Stephens ...

Translated by Alfred Edward Chamot ...

ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs assembles a capacious transatlantic archive of women's lives, ambitions, constraints, and self-fashioning. Moving among realist and Gothic fiction, domestic narratives, social protest, political testimony, biography, and memoir, the volume charts changing conceptions of gender from the eighteenth century through modernity. Its selection brings canonical ... Read more

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ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs assembles a capacious transatlantic archive of women's lives, ambitions, constraints, and self-fashioning. Moving among realist and Gothic fiction, domestic narratives, social protest, political testimony, biography, and memoir, the volume charts changing conceptions of gender from the eighteenth century through modernity. Its selection brings canonical
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Stealing Democracy

Your choice was always an illusion

by A.J. Reed ...

Narrated by Bradford Sinclair, Adeline Harper, Samuel Cross, Grant Wyatt, Reginald Stone, Austin Volkov, Marcus Klein, Monika Pate, Hamid al-Rashid ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

EVER WONDERED HOW DONALD TRUMP REALLY MADE IT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE? WHAT IF YOUR STRONGEST BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ARE NOT YOUR OWN?In a digital age where every click is tracked, Stealing Democracy challenges the illusion that our choices are our own. The book uncovers a complex web of influence, likening it to Neo's journey in The Matrix, where deception is reality. It moves beyond heroic ... Read more

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EVER WONDERED HOW DONALD TRUMP REALLY MADE IT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE? WHAT IF YOUR STRONGEST BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ARE NOT YOUR OWN?In a digital age where every click is tracked, Stealing Democracy challenges the illusion that our choices are our own. The book uncovers a complex web of influence, likening it to Neo's journey in The Matrix, where deception is reality. It moves beyond heroic
... Read more
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Stealing Democracy

Your choice was always an illusion

by A.J. Reed ...

Narrated by AI Voice Austin Volkov, AI Voice Samuel Cross, AI Voice Reginald Stone, AI Voice Grant Wyatt, AI Voice Bradford Sinclair, AI Voice Adeline Harper ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. EVER WONDERED HOW DONALD TRUMP REALLY MADE IT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE?In a digital age where every click is tracked, Stealing Democracy challenges the illusion that our choices are our own. The book uncovers a complex web of influence, likening it to Neo's journey in The Matrix, where deception is reality. It moves beyond heroic narratives to face the ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. EVER WONDERED HOW DONALD TRUMP REALLY MADE IT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE?In a digital age where every click is tracked, Stealing Democracy challenges the illusion that our choices are our own. The book uncovers a complex web of influence, likening it to Neo's journey in The Matrix, where deception is reality. It moves beyond heroic narratives to face the
... Read more
Be the Compass, Not the Map

by A.J. Reed ...

Are You Powerless Against Digital Deception?Every day, your child navigates a digital world that moves faster than you can keep up with. New apps appear overnight. AI-generated content blurs the line between truth and fiction. Deepfakes fool even experts. And that carefully curated list of banned apps? It's obsolete before you finish typing it. ... Read more

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Are You Powerless Against Digital Deception?Every day, your child navigates a digital world that moves faster than you can keep up with. New apps appear overnight. AI-generated content blurs the line between truth and fiction. Deepfakes fool even experts. And that carefully curated list of banned apps? It's obsolete before you finish typing it.
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My Crazy Century

by Ivan Klíma ...

Translated by Craig Cravens ...

An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author " of enormous power and originality" explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review).In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of ... Read more

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An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author " of enormous power and originality" explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review).In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of
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Her Again

Becoming Meryl Streep

by Michael Schulman ...

" [A] rolllicking history of Streep's early years . . . a love letter to a great actress and a behind-the-scenes study of iconic movies like Kramer vs. Kramer." — PeopleIn 1975 Meryl Streep was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and ambition, she was like dozens of aspiring actors of the time—a twenty-something beauty who rode her bike everywhere, napped before ... Read more

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" [A] rolllicking history of Streep's early years . . . a love letter to a great actress and a behind-the-scenes study of iconic movies like Kramer vs. Kramer." — PeopleIn 1975 Meryl Streep was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and ambition, she was like dozens of aspiring actors of the time—a twenty-something beauty who rode her bike everywhere, napped before
... Read more

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Because We Are Bad

OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

by Lily Bailey ...

Journalist Lily Bailey's memoir Because We Are Bad reveals her childhood battle with obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBy the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of ... Read more

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Journalist Lily Bailey's memoir Because We Are Bad reveals her childhood battle with obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBy the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of
... Read more

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The Fixed Stars

A Memoir

by Molly Wizenberg ...

The New York Times–bestselling author's thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships.At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but ... Read more

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The New York Times–bestselling author's thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships.At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but
... Read more
Self-Inflicted Wounds

Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

by Aisha Tyler ...

Emmy Award–winner Aisha Tyler shares her Self-Inflicted Wounds of epic mistakes through hilarious stories—and the life lessons she gained along the way.Refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, the essays in this collection from comedian and actress Aisha Tyler vividly translate the brand of humor she has cultivated through her successful standup career, as ... Read more

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Emmy Award–winner Aisha Tyler shares her Self-Inflicted Wounds of epic mistakes through hilarious stories—and the life lessons she gained along the way.Refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, the essays in this collection from comedian and actress Aisha Tyler vividly translate the brand of humor she has cultivated through her successful standup career, as
... Read more

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Let Me Tell You a Story

A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

by Renata Calverley ...

A Holocaust survivor's moving memoir of a childhood spent in the grips of war and the miracles of chance that kept her safe.Przemysl, Poland, 1939. No one has explained to two-year-old Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university anymore. She notices that their frequent visitors—among them Great Aunt Zuzia ... Read more

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A Holocaust survivor's moving memoir of a childhood spent in the grips of war and the miracles of chance that kept her safe.Przemysl, Poland, 1939. No one has explained to two-year-old Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university anymore. She notices that their frequent visitors—among them Great Aunt Zuzia
... Read more
Incidental Inventions

by Elena Ferrante ...

Translated by Ann Goldstein ...

"Fifty-one columns, short in length but long on wisdom" from the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, an HBO original series ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The ... Read more

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"Fifty-one columns, short in length but long on wisdom" from the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, an HBO original series ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook