Personal Memoirs Women

For more than two years, Donna Freitas’s graduate school mentor, a priest and celebrated scholar, stalked her, forever changing her life. In her 2019 account Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, she recreated, in novelistic detail, the story of being traumatized by her professor’s obsession with her, of how he used his power to try to rob her of her own.

You cannot undo this, one of the surgeons told me, you have to be sure. I was sure. My choices were frightening, grim, and daunting. I possess the rare breast cancer genetic mutation BRCA2 and I saw it as a death sentence. My choices were drastic, my actions were immediate. Complete hysterectomy followed by prophylactic double mastectomy with 2. I will never be the same. In so many ways. It was, and is, such a journey.

Trials Turned to Gold is a spiritual autobiography. In Trials Turned to Gold, Tope Songonuga describes how a series of fires, starting from when she was a teenager, transformed her life and gave her a new perspective on life and humanity. The events that follow over the next two decades tell of how she navigates one valley after another, trying to balance the turmoil in her spirit with the cheeriness on the surface.

After her fight against breast cancer, as a survivor, Mellie decided to tell her story. Through the discipline and focus she learned in the martial arts and regular meditation, she hopes to pass on some of the knowledge that helped during her fight, to those facing a battle of their own. Mellie takes you from her martial arts beginnings through the diagnosis of breast cancer, all the way to recovery.

Most fondly remembered for her starring role as “Cissy” in the long-running international TV hit Family Affair, Kathy Garver has also garnered critical acclaim in movies, stage, radio, voice-over animation and audio-book narration. For Rocking Horse, Kathy Garver adds her knowledge of voice over, the entertainment world and her many talents to make this biography of Betty Hutton a personal affair and cautionary tale.

Uniquely Me, is what every woman has been waiting on to answer the many questions in her head. She’s been waiting on the perfect companion for her inner self talk, to quiet her fears, dry her tears, and hold her hands. One’s woman struggles is another woman’s success, because she’s been there and done that. Enter the world of a woman whose bent on living intentionally.