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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ONE OF THE BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE CENTURY* In this celebrated modern classic, a former teacher in revolutionary Iran tells the extraordinary true story of the women who risked their lives to study Western literature in...

In 1960, she was a 17-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections and certainly no money; her mother brought her soup to make sure she stayed fed as she took acting classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling female recording artist in America and the star of one of Broadway’s biggest hits. Now the acclaimed Hollywood biographer William Mann chronicles that dizzying ascent, telling the riveting behind-the-scenes story of how Streisand and her team transformed her from an unknown dreamer into a worldwide superstar.

INCLUDES A FOREWORD WRITTEN AND READ BY GILMORE GIRLS CREATOR, AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of...

En 1905, Margarete Böhme presentó al público una arriesgada y verosímil historia. Mediante el reflejo exacto del diario hallado de una joven, del que Böhme se presentaba como «editora», se daba noticia de una adolescente burguesa que se ve forzada, por las artimañas de un entorno hipócrita, a un episodio de prostitución. Considerada como «la narración autobiográfica más notoria de principios del siglo xx y la más exitosa comercialmente», Diario de una perdida vendió millones de ejemplares y varias versiones en la gran pantalla.

“Erica Garza has written a riveting, can’t-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore…In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse…Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read” (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed...

"Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j'y ai trouvé le mode d'emploi de la vie, un mode d'emploi auquel j'accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu'au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J'étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les livres, dans la littérature." Son enfance, sa mémoire, sont la matière même de ses livres.

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother's early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people,they believed it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter. Françoise de Beauvoir had finally found happiness in her life, and she truly believed she could find happiness in her own suffering.

Helen of Troy is one of the most evocative names in ancient history. For nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that it can wield. Held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring the enmity between East...

“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.” —Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor’s work has been...

Discover the inspiring story of how a nurse became the first international medical expedition in history. In a world where science was very much practiced solely by men, Isabel Zendal's tale brings out her contribution toward a great philanthropic cause - one of many women who contributed to the advancement of medicine in the world. But it's not just her story: Through Isabel, you're about to discover the history of smallpox and how one expedition brought mercy to those who suffered from it.

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice...

María Zambrano, allieva di José Ortega y Gasset e di Xavier Zubiri all'Universidad Central di Madrid, fu esiliata dopo la guerra civile e viaggiò, peregrinando e nascondendosi, dal Messico a Cuba, da Roma alla Svizzera. Con uno sguardo profondo e delicato, Luigina Mortari compone il ritratto di una vita in fuga e di un pensiero libero: "La filosofia di Zambrano spazia sui paesaggi dell'anima, apre all'immensità del cosmo, addolcisce il discorso con parole di poesia, e per queste sue qualità può sembrare una filosofia dell'intimo.

Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this audiobook Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological presence of 16 seaweeds and kelps that live in the thin region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent - a place of incomparable richness.

La sua esile figura, avvolta nel sari bianco bordato di celeste, percorreva le strade di Calcutta per chinarsi sulle sofferenze di persone morenti...

In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being “too much” and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves. This program is read by the author. It is never too late to...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES ‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES ‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER...

Daughters Need Their Dads, Too is a deeply personal, faithanchored memoir. It traces the lifelong impact of fatherlessness, the search for belonging, and the healing power of God’s voice and love. Born as the only living child of her mother, the author grew up watching other children experience the father and child bond she longed for. Her early years were marked by questions, loneliness, and a quiet ache for the dad who wasn’t there. As she navigated childhood, she encountered “tentative dads”, men who stepped in briefly, inconsistently, or sometimes harmfully.

Still Soft is a deeply personal memoir of survival, faith, and resilience. In this first installment, Amanda Nicole shares her story of growing up in environments shaped by trauma, instability, and the absence of consistent protection. As she learns to navigate the weight of experiences no child should carry, she discovers that survival is not just about endurance, but about holding onto something deeper. At its core, this memoir reveals a powerful truth: even in the darkest circumstances, softness can remain, and survival is where the story begins.

Wilma wurde 1940 in Hintertux geboren. Sie ist die älteste Tochter des Hohenhauser Bauern. Wilma wuchs früh in eine Rolle hinein, die traditionell einem Sohn vorbehalten gewesen wäre. Als innerhalb nur eines halben Jahres beide Eltern sterben, steht Wilma plötzlich allein da, verantwortlich für sich selbst, den Bergbauernhof, den Tourismusbetrieb – und mit drei halbwüchsigen Kindern. Die authentischen Erzählungen beginnen 1943 und enden 1978.

Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee. _______________ SEQUEL TO THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR Baek Sehee could never have predicted how many people I Want to Die but I...