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Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.

Popular biographer Carolly Erickson creates intimate and richly detailed portraits of her historical subjects. In this book she offers a provocative new perspective on Josephine and her fabled marriage to Napoleon.

Lär känna en ny sida av Astrid Lindgren, en av våra mest älskade författare, och hennes liv i Stockholm. Från olika ställen i staden hämtade hon inspiration till berättelser som Mio min Mio, Bröderna Lejonhjärta och Karlsson på taket. Boken är en rikt illustrerad biografi, men också en guide till den som vill följa i Astrid Lindgrens fotspår. Anna-Karin Johansson föddes i Göteborg 1962. Hon är utbildad journalist vid Stockholms Universitet och har skrivit för Amnesty Press och Dagens Nyheter.

Finding Hope and Healing in Houston is a powerful account of a cancer patient who refused to succumb to the situation but instead confronted it with a sense of humor and a refusal to give up. This book is no dry as dust chronicle but takes us inside the always compelling head of a fighter with a strong survival instinct.

Discover the remarkable life of Josephine Earp... She was supposed to marry for security, settle down, and disappear into domesticity. Instead, Josephine Earp ran away to the Wild West, fell in love with a famous gunfighter, and spent almost haft a century chasing adventure across the American frontier. From the dusty streets of Tombstone to the frozen rivers of Alaska, Josephine Earp lived a life that defied every expectation of 19th-century womanhood.

The communal family table bears witness to our lives. The way we approach each meal speaks volumes about who we are and what we are going through in that very moment. It’s where the spirits of those who left too soon can be conjured back to mind through taste and smell. Still, we underestimate its pull and often miss the soulful nourishment and magic that happens at sobremesa—the time spent talking after a meal—due to our increasingly busy lives.

‘Getting lost to find yourself’ stories don’t often involve going to prison, unless you're award-winning comedian Angella Dravid. Love, Rock Bottom and other Triumphs is her story inspired by true events of a dorky teen who runs away from her dysfunctional family to marry her chat-room true love, almost 30 years her senior and living on the other side of the earth. BUT things get bad. Like, terrible. Yet, this is a surprisingly uplifting journey of finding yourself.

The book Dare to Dream is an inspirational piece crafted to develop intentional living. The book is a guard to visionary practice, building determination, acquiring courage and boldness, staying focused on a goal, and achieving it. It teaches the skill to write a vision and achieve it. The author uses her life story of being propelled from nothing to something.