Resultados para "Captive" en Biografías y memorias

“Ma petite fée a bien dormi ?” “Comment va ma petite fée ce soir ?” Après la mort de son mari, Muriel pensait ne plus jamais être aimée. Mais ça y est, par la grâce d'un site de rencontre, elle a trouvé l'amour. L'homme s'appelle Charles Leroux, il y a des yeux bleu glacier et...

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of her years in captivity. A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots in...

Dans ce tome­ 2, les créatrices du populaire balado québécois Captives, Annie Laurin et Michèle Ouellette, racontent douze nouvelles histoires inédites de crimes réels et disparitions mystérieuses au Québec.

Les créatrices du balado québecois '' Captives'', Annie Laurin et Michèle Ouellette, racontent treize histoires inédites de crimes réels et disparitions mystérieuses au Québec.

In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom. Of incredible support from strangers around the world who fought for the women’s release. And of bringing God’s light into one of the world’s darkest places - giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.

Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to autoimmune basal ganglia encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had...

Now a stirring movie from Paramount Pictures—starring Kate Mara (House of Cards and Fantastic Four) and David Oyelowo (Selma)—this inspirational, news-making life story of the young female hostage who in 2005 single-handedly talked the infamous Atlanta courthouse killer, Brian Nichols, into...

Including a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the inner workings of the secretive NXIVM cult that shocked the world. I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone. In 2011, former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg...

As a child, into adulthood, Jerry Lee Burkert experienced several types of trauma that cast a shadow over his life until his breaking point. As a teenager he used drugs and alcohol as coping skills, including sexual relationships. After being in and out of prisons, addiction treatment centers and waking up in a hospital due to an accident where his friend could’ve died. This was his breaking point of addictions, he knew he had to expose his fear of the first sex act when he was fourteen that occurred with a man to his counselor, who brought him into the light of God.

Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.

The trial that divided America. Was Patty Hearst guilty? A 90-minute standalone full-cast audiobook. Releasing: Women’s Equality Day — 26 August 2026Fifty years ago, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst entered a San Francisco courtroom accused of armed bank robbery, two years after her dramatic kidnapping by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. By then, America had already watched one of the strangest public transformations of the decade unfold: a young woman seized by political extremists who later appeared in bank security photographs carrying a rifle alongside them.

To all God’s children who have been the victims of abuse in silence: Christ has regarded your helpless estate; like the woman in the bible with the infirmity that could in no wise lift herself. I want you to know it is well. And I’ve dedicated this song to all the women and children who are the victims of rape: sexual, physical, verbal, emotional, and mental abuse. I want you to know that I am a survivor of all of the above. I would also like to share a fraction of my story with you, which I called: Silent Captivity.

The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.1944: Norm Bussel, an introspective and happy-go-lucky teen from Memphis, finds himself bailing out of a burning B-17 bomber just months after his 19th birthday. Touching-down in a field outside Berlin, Norm was immediately seized by local farmhands, who were in the process of lynching him when a passing German soldier put a stop to the execution.

At the age of 8, Urmi was married and divorced. Her mother had her married behind her father's back, who immediately made sure she got divorced. Urmi was taught by her loving father how to be a devout follower of Islam. Her mother, on the other hand, was much less interested in religion but wanted her to marry well. Urmi loved her father, wanted to please him, and agreed that following Allah was most important. But at the age of 17, her mother again had her way.

The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death...

From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement” (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. In Lucas Mann's...

A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—together—come to a new view of our shared past “A vulnerable, honest look at a life...

Excerpt from the book: I know how it feels to be behind a door that can be opened only from the outside, for I have been a prisoner in three different prisons. I learned a great deal in prison as this was a very difficult class in the schoolroom of life. When you are in a difficult class with a good teacher, you learn much—and my teacher was very good. It was Jesus Himself! “I wish I could share with you what I learned during my imprisonment, but I am old and I cannot travel much now. Since we cannot speak personally together, I have decided to visit you through this little book.

A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia—among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France—tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal ambition in a time of revolutionary cataclysm “Others make war; you, happy Austria, marry...