Resultados para "Families" en Mujeres

The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are less well known, and the fascinating personalities of her daughters-in-law have been almost entirely overlooked, as have those of the daughters she bore Louis VII of France. The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine redresses this balance and showcases the lives, travels, and careers of these ten very different women, who formed a great international network of political alliances that linked their parents, siblings, husbands, and children all across Europe and the Holy Land.

Wie so viele Mütter befürchtet auch Susanne Veit, dass ihre Kinder vor lauter Social Media und Online-Games irgendwann nicht mehr wissen, wie Schneeflocken schmecken und Lavendel duftet. Allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz wagt sie den Schritt aufs Land, kauft Hasen und Hühner und legt einen Gemüsegarten an. Eine Reise beginnt, die die fünfköpfige Familie grundlegend verändert. Der Bericht einer Mutter, deren Kinder heute Holz hacken, Weidenzäune spannen und für die Hühner Würmer suchen.

Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her family, to add flesh to the name-bones and the few precious stories she possessed. What she discovered would shatter everything she thought she knew about her family and her past. She had been aware of her father's five siblings, some of whom had died before she could come to know them, but there were always whispers and gaps and silences.

This story doesn’t begin in a clinic—it begins in a West African village, where Ama, once deemed infertile, defied silence to raise seven children on her own. One of them was me. From Côte d’Ivoire to the global stage, I built more than a clinic—I built a promise: that no woman would be left behind.

Yasmines Leben ist stellvertretend für so viele andere Frauen in radikal-islamischen Familien: Sie lebt in Kanada, einer westlichen Gesellschaft, doch zu Hause erlebt die intelligente, selbstbewusste junge Frau Entrechtung, Gewalt und religiösen Terror, vor allem durch ihren Stiefvater, einen hochrangigen Al-Quaida-Funktionär. Als er noch dazu übergriffig wird, klagt Yasmine ihn an, doch das Unfassbare geschieht: die Richterin lehnt die Klage wegen "kultureller Unterschiede" ab. Was muss passieren, damit Frauen wie Yasmine beschützt werden?

The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatments—and eventually a home—for a young Iraqi girl severely burned in a roadside terror attack. This is a story of the astonishing power of self-sacrificial love. On a typical Sunday morning in 2006...

This is for the Other Child invites listeners into the often-silenced world of siblings who grew up in the shadow of child sexual assault. With raw authenticity and a deeply personal lens, the author—herself a sibling survivor—exposes the hidden emotional terrain that brothers and sisters navigate, torn between loyalty, silence, and their own unspoken pain. But this book is more than a memoir. It’s written by someone who not only lived the reality she describes but who has also spent a decade guiding survivors and professionals through transformative healing.

In Outside the Box, you will listen to chapters written by nine contributing authors, each of whom is a female entrepreneur, mom, and world traveler. Authors have committed to sharing their families journeys in the hopes of educating and inspiring other travel-loving moms.

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but...

“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. The Liars’ Club took the...

This audiobook is read by the author. New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are...

A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection “[T]his book is so much more than a memoir . . . . Her prose has the power to undo deep-set cultural biases about poverty and parenthood.”—New York Times Book Review An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on...

Louise Jacobs entstammt einer Familie, deren Name im 20. Jahrhundert durch Kaffeehandel berühmt wurde: "Jacobs Kaffee... wunderbar" lautete der Werbespruch ihres erfolgreichen Bremer Großvaters Walther. Die junge Frau macht sich auf die Suche nach Zeugen der Familiengeschichte und entdeckt dabei auch ihre jüdischen Vorfahren mütterlicherseits, die Hamburger Jessuruns. Es entsteht ein spannendes Panorama des 20. Jahrhunderts.

"[Sarah Zaske] reads her fascinating book on contemporary German parenting with friendly confidence and a delightful curiosity about her discoveries while raising two young children in Berlin...Zaske's gift for narrative and her keen observations about German and American parenting make this a...