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This book was written to remember August Ames as a person rather than simply as a public figure. Her story contains difficult subjects, including mental health, cyberbullying, and suicide. The purpose of telling her story is not to assign responsibility for her death to one individual or event. Rather, it is to remember August's life, acknowledge the struggles she faced, and encourage greater compassion toward people who may be hurting privately. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to a trusted person or a qualified mental-health professional.

Tammy Cooper Zimmerman has lived a life most people would call successful: NYSE IPOs, companies built and sold, boardrooms led, and barriers broken. But she'll be the first to tell you that none of it happened the way she planned. Eternal Scoreboard is the story of what happens when you stop measuring your life by the world's metrics. Drawing from decades of experience as an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and woman of faith, Tammy shares the real moments behind her life and remarkable career.

Neste romance baseado em um crime real e construído de forma circular — ele começa no ponto em que termina —, Estela está presa em uma sala de interrogatório policial para esclarecer a morte de uma menina a seus inquiridores. Anônimos, eles estão separados da protagonista por um vidro...

A unique blend of personal reflection, creative histories, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the lives of Buddhist women over 2,500 years. Of Mud and Lotuses illuminates the hardships, resilience, and creative ways in which Buddhist women have applied the Dharma to daily life—often in ways that history has ignored.

ExtraOrdinary: The ExtraOrdinary Life of Louise Blake tells the story of an ordinary Black American woman whose life became extraordinary through family, faith, sacrifice, resilience, humor, and love. Written by her son, Blake Roberts, the book preserves the life and legacy of Louise Blake and the values she passed from one generation to the next. Her story also reflects the experiences of a generation whose family histories are too often lost when elders pass away.

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La autobiografía de Isabel Preysler. Como nunca lo había hecho, Isabel Preysler escribe sus memorias para romper de una vez por todas con los falsos mitos que desde hace años circulan sobre ella. En Mi verdadera historia , Isabel nos descubre no solo su mundo, también una época sorprendente...

Cuando, en 1770, la archiduquesa María Antonieta de Habsburgo-Lorena, hija de la emperatriz María Teresa de Austria, deja Viena para unirse al futuro Luis XVI, es una de las princesas más afortunadas de Europa. Pero su innata gentileza se revela un arma de doble filo en la moralmente relajada...

Tra i 7 e i 14 anni la piccola Neige viene regolarmente violentata dal suo patrigno. Nel 2000 Neige sporge denuncia e l’uomo viene condannato. Vent’anni dopo, Neige trova la forza di raccontare ciò che le è capitato. Un libro, che usa la scrittura come un martello, attraversato da una domanda: colui che ha creato l’agnello ha creato anche la tigre? Candidato al Premio Strega Europeo 2024.

Calladita No More is a powerful collection of stories about the lived experiences of a Latina who dared to dream big-only to find that the world wasn't built for her ambitions. Through the lens of familiar Latinx cultural sayings, or refranes, Hady Méndez shares the lessons she learned navigating identity, leadership, and belonging in a world fueled by bias, discrimination, racism, and sexism.

En este libro, la mexicana Olivia Teroba recurre a la palabra como herramienta de autodescubrimiento, pero también como una forma de dialogar con el otro, crear lazos de afecto, tejer comunidad y aprender a cuidar de nosotras mismas en un entorno de violencia patriarcal. Un lugar seguro es un...

Esta es la historia de una mujer excepcional, cuyo atrevimiento al pisar esferas de poder reservadas a los hombres acabó costándole la vida. Una mujer a quien la historia y sus fuentes oficiales, escritas por y para hombres, han malinterpretado y vilipendiado sistemáticamente. Emma Southon rescata a Agripina la Menor, hermana, sobrina, esposa y madre de emperadores, y le devuelve el histórico papel central que efectivamente tuvo en cuatro generaciones de la política romana.

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.

Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as a duchess. Overlooked by historians and little known today, Catalina was nonetheless a key figure in sixteenth-century Europe.

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 brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in...

*2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner (Western Biographies)* Doc Holliday’s paramour Big Nose Kate could never get a publisher to give her the big bucks she demanded to tell the story of her life, but that didn’t mean she didn’t collect material she wanted to use in a biography. Over...

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, an empress, or a queen. But during the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, Fulvia was moving in the most powerful social circles...

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow. Alice Coltrane...

Segundo Humberto de Campos, pelo médium Chico Xavier, a última reencarnação de Judas Iscariotes na Terra, foi da conhecida heroína francesa Joana D'Arc, queimada nas fogueiras inquisitoriais do século XV, conforme mensagem apresentada no livro: Crô...