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The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself.

After her mother dies unexpectedly, Kat Chow, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief.

When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, she turns to creative nonfiction to recreate her great-grandparents' history, which was never officially documented by the state, in order

Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes listeners on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media, and the internet from the perspective of one southern

Part activist memoir, part climate change primer. Dr. Montano brings readers on an eye-opening journey studying some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened.

At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student and star athlete, but behind closed doors, undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc.

Journalist Julie K.

Dr.

Fabrice Midal teaches the power of trusting in our own thoughts and strengthening our connection to humanity, as he guides us through the inspirational ideas of forty writers, artists, thinkers, an

This book takes young readers on a journey from present to past and back again.

In time to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of woman suffrage in America, Susan Campbell Bartoletti presents the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913.

Preston chronicles Maxwell's all encompassing rivalry with Rupert Murdoch, a battle that ruined Maxwell financially, threatened his sanity and lead, indirectly, to his death.

Dr.

Marlon Peterson grew up in the 1980s amid routine violence of the crack epidemic. He spent his childhood preaching the good word alongside his father, a devout Jehovah's Witness.

As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects.