"For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them,"--Amazon.com.

"Propulsive, touching, and darkly funny, All Signs Point to Paris is the story of one woman's search for a second chance at love. A surprising astrology reading sends Natasha Sizlo-divorced, broke, freshly heartbroken, and reeling from her father's death-on an unexpected but magical journey to France, in pursuit of a man born on a particular date in a particular place: November 2, 1968 in Paris. Divorced, broke, and heartsick, it seems like things...

Pulitzer Prize winning humanitarian Samantha Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" In this memoir, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. In 2005, her critiques of U.S. foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on...

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
As seen on Netflix with David Letterman
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost...

¿Entonces, qué? ¿Este libro no era más que eso? Esos seres a los que yo había dado más atención y ternura que a las personas reales, sin osar confesar hasta qué punto los amaba (...), esas personas por las que me había sofocado y lagrimeado no volverían a aparecer jamás, no sabría más nada de ellas." Proust revive en este breve pero notable ensayo de 1905 sus lecturas de infancia. La propuesta del autor, sin embargo, va mucho más allá...

People are living longer these days; maybe you will need to deal with aging in your family. "Frances 101" with the working title "Diary of Caring for Mother at 100+; all quiet on the western front" looks at one Brisbane family's experiences in caring for their mother at-home after she reached one hundred years of age. In this case, the primary care-giver is Bernard, the author of this story. As a sexagenarian, he cared for his centenarian mother,...

I arrived in Uganda in 2004, not knowing what to expect but amongst protests by friends and family who equated the country to what they saw happening in South Africa. At that time, we grew to expect the frequent loss of electricity in Uganda. We knew to bring flashlights after that first year. During my first visit, I was overwhelmed when I heard people talking outside the home we were staying at. Dogs barked which added to the mysterious sounds outside...

I was born in the year of our Lord 1958 in Duluth Minnesota, shortly after my birth the family moved hoping they could have a new start, from the life they were living there in Duluth I was so new to the world that they left when we got out of the hospital and headed to sunny California. Later, when I was 8 years old, I had my first drink of alcohol and then it would rule my life until my near-death experience when I was in my 30s, they said I wouldn't...

1969 was the first full year that Ken Toppell was a doctor. He was learning how to practice medicine while awaiting the birth of his first born and military orders. It was a year of change, delight, controversy, and disaster. There was a new president, with bravado and skullduggery, bombast and schemes. The streets were filled with demonstrators, protestors, and people just trying to make it through the day. Baseball was thrilling, football was consolidating,...

Alexander Macel Andre Sebastian Barker Bailiff 6:30pm 25th August 1970 chose to protect the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. "The sooner officials get the Australian Federal Police statement the sooner they can use it to call a Royal Commission into the negligence of the Chief Justice, so they can argue he was negligent in the Mabo judgement, which is a 4-3 decision." The Mabo judgement is the native title case. So, I have to sue 1788...