In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being âtoo muchâ and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves.
It is never too late to build the life youâre seeking.
Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing those same lyrics would change her life. Now she has performed those songs on the world stage, showing us there is always time to keep discovering ourselves. And to illustrate that itâs often the parts of ourselves we are told to bury that make us shine.
In a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia reflects on the ways she has grown as an actor and human and the practices sheâs learned over years of performing and reminds us all we are capable of so much more than we think.
We all have hopes and dreams that we want to bring across the finish line. We all falter and take missteps. In this book, Cynthia draws from her experiences running marathons, both real and metaphorical, onstage and onscreen, to show how each challenge can help us. She urges readers to lean into the wisdom of their bodies, to understand and strive for a physical and mental balance. Because when we chase our deepest desires, each small step leads us closer to where we want to go.
The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned.
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cryâand relate.)
Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rockyâs widowed father, has moved in.
It all couldnât be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects themâand with a medical condition that, she hopes, wonât affect them at all.
With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that peopleâno matter how much you love themâare not always exactly who you want them to be.
In this vulnerable exploration of personal identity, the New York Times bestselling author of Iâm Still Here chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society that wants womenâand Black women in particularâto do anything but that.
At the height of her success as an antiracism educator and writer, Austin Channing Brown reached a crossroads. âI love my work,â she writes, âand I am tired. Tired of protesting. Tired of âsaving democracy.' Tired of expending all the energy it takes to bust out of Americaâs tiny boxes.â She began to ask, âWhat do I deserve, not just as a citizen but as a human?â
Full of Myself is her answer to that question. Weaving personal narrative with perceptive social commentary, she offers a look at the mechanisms that limit who Black women are allowed to beâat work, at home, in communityâand the defining moments when she decided that all the women within her should be free. From skinny dipping in the ocean to becoming a mom, she delves into the drama of life and invites women to begin defining themselves not by the tiny boxes handed to us, but as a people born freeâfree in spirit, free in hope, free in joy.
For women seeking to understand the true roots of their burnout, or anyone wondering what it means to live joyfully in a hostile world, Full of Myself is a breath of fresh air and an invitation to full humanity.
The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.
The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.
Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. Itâs the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. Itâs the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.
Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, itâs a fascinating portrait of an American life.