Titoli in Donne

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee 'I am from a family of strong women.' Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she...

Through her books The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker is familiar to millions of readers. Who is this woman, who rose from the shadows of the segregated South to win the Pulitzer Prize? How did she find the courage to address with grace and...

This collection of fifty true disclosures by women around the world from all ages and walks of life reveals their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex.Author Lucy-Anne Holmes has spoken to women from around the globe, ranging in age from 19-75, as they reveal their innermost thoughts and...

A collection of sidesplitting personal essays, poems, and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. "Rachel is one of the funniest, bravest people of our generation and...

A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies. In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, California, a city that promised "Good...

From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton. Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler...

Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Girls’ and the award-winning movie ‘Tiny Furniture’, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. “If I could take what I’ve learned and make one menial...

Si chiama Inge, ha un padre di origini ebraiche, una madre ariana e non ha ancora tre anni quando nel 1933 Adolf Hitler presta giuramento come Cancelliere. Il carattere è quello forte di Trudel, la madre: testardo, esplosivo, a volte estremo (Inge dei vestiti buoni della domenica non ne vuole proprio sapere; meglio stivali da cavallerizza e pantaloni lunghi). Ingemaus – topolina, così la chiamano in famiglia – passa la sua infanzia a Gottinga, tra le mura amiche della caserma dove vive con il suo patrigno, dopo la fuga del padre in seguito alle persecuzioni razziali.

Cuando la gran autora chilena se encontraba en España con ocasión de la presentación de El plan infinito, su hija entró en estado de coma. Junto al lecho de Paula, mientras seguía con angustia la evolución de su enfermedad, Isabel Allende comenzó a redactar en un cuaderno una historia de su familia y de sí misma con el propósito de regalársela a su hija una vez superara el dramático trance.

With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard!

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street...

Nacida bajo el nombre de Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, cambia su nombre a Teresa cuando decide dedicarse a Dios. Biografía dramatizada de una de las mujeres que por más de 45 años atendió a pobres, enfermos, huérfanos y moribundos, al mismo tiempo que guiaba la expansión de su congregación, primeramente en la India y luego en otros países del mundo.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD “A heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life.”—USA Today One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a...

Una vida de cuento en el mundo real. Célebre por su estilizada y perturbadora belleza, esta actriz estadounidense, famosa por ser una de las favoritas de Alfred Hitchcock, cambió su vida para siempre cuando se casó con el Príncipe Raniero III de Mónaco, convirtiéndose en su Alteza Serenísima la Princesa Gracia de Mónaco.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court, written in 1870, vividly recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam, and translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, and languages of Siam's rich and poor.

When Lu Spinney's 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead.... " He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss - Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness - that unravels over the next five years.

En el piso de abajo son las memorias de una mujer sedienta de educación que no comprende por qué, cuando pedía un libro de la biblioteca de sus señores, éstos la miraran incrédulos y espantados. Con el tiempo, aprendió por su cuenta y en 1968 publicó este libro, que ha sido la fuente reconocida de inspiración de series como Arriba y abajo y Downton Abbey, pero mucho más incisiva e intencionada que ellas.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of TIME and Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. Natalie Portman's Book Club Pick for March. 'Amanda's story underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a movement, and never losing sight of your dreams' Melinda French Gates A...

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