In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women to rediscover their joy, reject toxic wellness culture, and redefine feminism for themselves. Women Living Deliciously wants us to fall in love with our lives. It will help women uncover the sense of awe and wonder that has been buried by the layers of shame, perfectionism and self-objectification that get piled on us by the patriarchy. For too long we have internalized the belief that our bodies are things to be looked at—instead of lived in. That it’s embarrassing to fully express ourselves. That we cannot trust the parts of ourselves that are so full of desire. This book will unpack the many barriers women face when trying to access joy so that they can discover the delicious life that’s theirs for the taking. International-bestselling author Florence Given wants to restore your lust for life and your sense of agency, giving you the courage and permission to inch closer to the wildly expansive life that you FULLY deserve—not in the future, not when you’re perfect, not when you’re prettier—but right now.

Die beliebte Entertainerin Parshad Esmaeili über das universelle Gefühl einer ganzen Einsamkeit Der tonnenschwere Scout-Schulranzen liegt in einer dunklen Ecke der Küche, auf MTV trällern die Backstreet Boys "Show me the meaning of being lonely", Parshad singt mit und wartet. Allein. An ihrem Küchentisch werden keine Kastanienmännchen gebastelt, sondern unbezahlte Rechnungen sortiert, und niemand erinnert sich mehr daran, wann der Fernseher zum Erziehungsberechtigten wurde.   Während die Nachbarsmädchen alle 330 Pferderassen kennen, sind die Frauen in Parshads Familie Expertinnen der Einsamkeit. Sie sind es, die die Familie zusammenhalten, während die Männer ständig für Ärger sorgen. Schnell lernt Parshad, die Probleme der Erwachsenen mit guten Noten, noch besserer Laune und viel Dugh herunterzuspülen. Die Lyrics der Single Charts kennt sie auswendig, doch über Gefühle reden kann sie mit niemandem. Heute sieht die Entertainerin es als ihren Lebenssinn, Menschen zum Lachen zu bringen und damit die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen. Durch ihre Fähigkeit, aus jeder Tragödie eine Komödie zu machen, schafft sie es im einsamen, knallharten Show-Business bis ganz nach oben. Ihr lauter und feministischer Humor – das Pflaster gegen die Einsamkeit. Als Papa-Kind ohne Papa nimmt uns Parshad mit durch ihr rasantes Leben und erzählt, was ihre Sehnsucht nach männlicher Validierung mit Safranreis und Frankfurt am Main zu tun hat.

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits - in the absence of a cure - of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills; and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

Sexuelle Lust gilt als Maßstab für Intimität, Beziehungsqualität und persönliche Erfüllung. Doch was passiert, wenn sie ausbleibt? Wenn wir keinen Bock auf Sex haben, obwohl »eigentlich alles stimmt«? Wenn »Ich bin müde« nur eine Umschreibung für etwas ist, das wir selbst kaum benennen können? Schon in ihrer Jugend hatte Maria Popov nie richtig Bock auf Sex mit Männern und stößt auf ein Wort, das ihr Gefühl zum ersten Mal beschreibt: Asexualität. Aber was heißt das eigentlich genau? In »Kein Bock Club« erzählt die Moderatorin von ihrer ersten Periode, missglückten Flirtversuchen, aufregenden Ohrmassagen – und von der Erleichterung, wenn man merkt: Ich bin mit all diesen Gefühlen nicht allein. Dieses Buch ist für dich, wenn du dich fragst: - Warum wird sexuelle Unlust oft als Problem gesehen? - Wie beeinflussen gesellschaftliche Erwartungen unser Sexleben? - Wieso fühlen sich viele Menschen gezwungen, bestimmten Normen zu entsprechen? - Müssen wir wirklich alle feministische Sexgöttinnen sein? Mit Scharfsinn und Humor deckt Maria Popov Mythen rund um Libido, Beziehungen und Sexualität auf. Sie erklärt, wie Lust funktioniert, warum sexuelle Vielfalt mehr ist als nur eine Identitätsfrage ist und was passiert, wenn wir aufhören, Lustlosigkeit als Defizit zu betrachten. »Kein Bock Club« ist eine Einladung, Begehren neu zu denken – zärtlicher, ehrlicher, mutiger.

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

A family confronts a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran they were somebodies. In America they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. Her daughters, Shirin and Seema, left for America in 1979. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone—except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law–breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose yet somehow manages to survive. The other granddaughter, Bita, is a self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle status quo cracks open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name—but what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story?

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.