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  Every Body Beloved - A Jewish...

  Minna Bromberg

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  Part memoir and part activist manifesto, this book offers Jewish text as an inspiration for all who care about body liberation. Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias by tracing her own journey from dieting at age seven to fat activism and the founding of her organization, Fat Torah. Her personal narrative highlights the restorative potential that Jewish tradition has for addressing fatphobia and inspires a culture of healing and acceptance of all bodies created in the Divine image. 
  “Rabbi Bromberg’s generosity of spirit and erudite insights into Jewish text give a grounded and deeply compassionate alternative to perfectionist body loathing in our Ozempic era. This book is a high-leverage ethical tool in the work of affirming the sacredness of every body.” 
  —Hanne Blank Boyd, author of Fat and Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality 
  About the author 
  Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg is the founder of Fat Torah, a project focused on smashing the idolatry of weight stigma and deploying Jewish tradition for the liberation of all bodies. She has a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College. Minna lives in Jerusalem with her family.

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  That's What She Said: From the...

  Jenette Jurczyk, Kerry Rossow,...

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  This book is a celebration of women's stories, and hopefully the first of many.  What started as a one-night event in Champaign-Urbana, IL, has grown into annual storytelling events in multiple cities, showcasing dozens of remarkable women who shape their communities. As we celebrate the first ten years of "That's What She Said," we wanted to take a moment to look back on all the voices raised, the stories shared, the lives impacted.  We wanted to get these stories out to even more women who can benefit from them. That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 features stories by 16 women, developed originally for a live storytelling performance. These women were invited back to share their stories in our first ever published collection by the She Said Press. Each story is read by the author, allowing the listener to experience their unique voice and their powerful, yet relatable journey. These are real women sharing their extraordinatory stories.

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  Positively Me - Daring to Live...

  Nozibele Mayaba, Sue Nyathi

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  My name is Nozibele Mayaba, and I am HIV-positive. 
    
  I am a devout Christian who did everything by the book: worked hard, got good marks, found a steady job and helped to make life better for my family. In our neighbourhood, I was the girl other parents pointed to as a role model. Until a few months before my diagnosis at age 22, I was a virgin. 
    
  Women like me don’t get HIV. But then I did. 
    
  It took me years to accept my new reality. Speaking out freed meand completely changed my life. Being HIV-positive wasn’t my first challenge and it won’t be my last, but it has been the hardest. It also taught me an important lesson: behind every statistic is a person with a name, a family, a story. This is my story. 
    
  My name is Nozibele Mayaba, I am HIV-positive, and I am still positively me. 
    
  An HIV-positive diagnosis may no longer be a death sentence, but it still changes everything. In this frank, vulnerable memoir, as told to acclaimed writer Sue Nyathi, activist and TV host Nozibele Mayaba talks about finding purpose when you think your life has come to an end. 

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  Harmed and dangerous - my brutal...

  Ray Hill, Matt Trollope, Shaun...

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  FIVE DECADES. A DOZEN STRETCHES BEHIND BARS. ONE SENTENCE WITH NO END DATE.  
  Bang Bang Ray Hill is a true crime legend in the making; a British gangster memoir from a man who lived every page of it. 
  Growing up hard on the wrong side of the tracks in 1950s London, Ray became a career criminal by his teens: an armed robber, a bare-knuckle prize-fighter, and an enforcer trusted by some of Britain's most feared criminal firms. 
  He crossed paths with the underworld's most notorious faces, rubbed shoulders with the era's most infamous names, and served time across five different decades of the UK prison system; watching crime, punishment, and the criminal underworld itself change beyond recognition. 
  Through it all, Ray lived by a code that even fellow villains respected: there were lines Ray Hill would not let anyone cross.But surviving the streets was only half the fight. Addiction, an indeterminate prison sentence with no fixed release date, and one final, desperate job pushed him to the very edge of his life. 
  This is a true crime memoir. 
  A prison memoir. 
  A story of violence, survival, and the long road out the other side. 
  Told entirely in Ray's own unfiltered voice.

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  The Pilgrim's Regress

  C. S. Lewis

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  The Pilgrim's Regress is a book of allegorical fiction by C. S. Lewis. This 1933 novel was Lewis's first published work of prose fiction, and his third piece of work to be published and first after he converted to Christianity. It charts the progress of a fictional character named John through a philosophical landscape in search of the Island of his desire. Lewis described the novel to his publisher as "a kind of Bunyan up to date," in reference to John Bunyan's 1678 novel The Pilgrim's Progress, recast with the politics, ideologies, philosophy, and aesthetic principles of the early 20th century. As such, the character struggles with the modern phoniness, hypocrisy, and intellectual vacancy of the Christian church, Communism, Fascism, and various philosophical and artistic movements.

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  Colorado Frontiersmen - Forts...

  Linda Wommack

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  Early Icons and Landmarks As western migration came to the Colorado frontier, forts were established to protect the settlers. These forts were intertwined with the lives of the frontiersmen. Scout Thomas Tate Tobin oversaw the workers who built the adobe fortress known as Fort Garland. Here, Tobin delivered the heads of the murderous Espinosas gang to Colonel Sam Tappan. Fort Sedgwick, originally known as Camp Rankin, was attacked by the Cheyenne Dog soldiers, including George Bent. Fort Lyon, an expanded fortress of William Bent's third fort, became the staging point for Colonel John M. Chivington's march to Sand Creek where peaceful Cheyenne were murdered. Later, Christopher "Kit" Carson died in the fort's chapel. Legendary Jim Beckwourth was associated with both Fort Vasquez and Fort Pueblo. Author Linda Wommack revisits the glory and the mistakes of the frontiersmen who defined Colorado and the forts that dotted the wild landscape.

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