Titoli in Donne

A impressionante história de Gisèle Pelicot, narrada por ela mesma, que comoveu o mundo ao revelar um dos casos mais chocantes de violência sexual e abuso conjugal da França. Em Um hino à vida, Gisèle transforma sua dor em força e oferece uma poderosa mensagem de esperança, cura e empoderamento feminino.

Por primera vez, su historia en sus propias palabras. Las esperadas memorias de un icono del feminismo actual, la heroína que ha abanderado el combate público para que la vergüenza frente a la violencia sexual cambie de bando. La persona más destacada del año en 2024 en Francia, una de las 100 personas más influyentes del 2025 según Time y la mujer más importante del año según The Independent.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand?and to write about with...

Amaka Ethel Nwokorie ci trasporta nel suo viaggio dalla Nigeria all'Italia, un percorso segnato dall'inganno della tratta di esseri umani e dallo sfruttamento della prostituzione. Ma questa non è una storia di disperazione. È il racconto di una giovane donna che, aggrappandosi al ricordo delle ultime parole paterne, cambia il suo destino da vittima a protagonista del cambiamento. L'autrice ci mostra come la determinazione possa abbattere ogni barriera. Una testimonianza cruda e luminosa che ci ricorda come anche le esperienze più buie possano trasformarsi in fari di speranza per gli altri.

In her most personal book yet, the iconic star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up opens up about the cultural traditions that have inspired her philosophy—and can make our lives better today. “This book...

No puede perderse este trabajo en base a la vida de la célebre Margarita Porete, o Marguerite Porrette, o la Porette, una mística francesa de la corriente de las beguinas nacida hacia 1250 y quemada en 1310 por herejía, por negarse a retirar de la circulación su libro El Espejo de las Almas Simples.

Janice Page hails from Braintree, Massachusetts and a large Catholic brood. Her parents had a complicated marriage. Her five siblings each have their own sagas, and there is a destructive genetic force within the family’s blood lines that over generations has caused much heartbreak. And then there is the large Chinese family of Janice’s husband, James, equally cinematic and sweeping with a rich, complicated history of its own. There is a daring escape from war zones, a lost child, immigration to a new world, and a bittersweet reunion after decades of separation.

«Dio, aiutami. Farò tutto quello che mi mostrerai nella tua infinita generosità, te lo prometto, ma ora salvami, ti prego. Ho solo sedici anni e non posso morire così.» Una preghiera. C'è spazio solo per questo nella testa di Loveth mentre tenta disperatamente di salire sul gommone che dovrebbe portarla dall'altra parte del mare, verso una destinazione sconosciuta, verso la falsa promessa di un futuro migliore. In Nigeria, Loveth aveva una famiglia, amici, una vita ordinaria e già scritta: presto avrebbe dovuto smettere di andare a scuola, sposarsi, diventare madre.

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pat...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY “Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building.” —The...

From marketing maven to angel of the garbage district—the inspiring authorized biography of Maggie Gobran, the “Mother Teresa of Egypt.” Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen’s Children have been changing lives in Cairo’s notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her...

Mani che impastano argilla, impugnano pennelli, che con la loro arte danno vita alla Storia. Mani femminili che carezzano uomini che le tradiscono, dimenticano, zittiscono, violentano, perché non si sappia che levatrice del mondo è la loro libertà. Con un ritmo intimo e deciso Frida, Camille, Artemisia e anche la madre più irragionevolmente sconosciuta, quella di Hitler, parlano finalmente in prima persona narrando, con voce nuova, storie di vittorie e di dolori, di amori e tradimenti.

She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a movie star chooses roles, going from musicals to dramas to comedies, from period fare to ultra-modern tales, from Funny Girl to The Way We Were to Yentl.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and...

As a young girl, Fran Tunno yearned for that picture-perfect, 1960s American mom in a spotless apron, waiting at the door with warm cookies. What Fran got was an Italian American force of nature, shoving plates of salami and cheese in front of friends and family then eyeing them suspiciously until they ate an amount she found sufficient.

The Rebecca Notebook provides an unparalleled insight into the mastery of a writer's craft and the inner vision that made du Maurier a household name. One of the great international bestsellers, Rebecca also inspired a film, a play, and television dramas. This perfect companion volume, The Rebecca Notebook, outlines just how Rebecca came to be written, tracing its origins, developments and the directions it might have taken.

A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats...

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and...

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite...

This “smartly written…stunning” (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers “a penetrating analysis…of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the...