Ergebnis für "Melissa" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Als Picasso 1947 den Friseur Eugénio Arias kennenlernt, entwickelt sich eine tiefe Beziehung zwischen ihnen. Vor allem ihre Überzeugung als Kommunisten verbindet die beiden Spanier im südfranzösischen Exil. Sie teilen aber auch ihre Liebe zum Stierkampf und einen spielerisch frechen Humor. "Picassos Friseur" erzählt von der ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft zweier außergewöhnlicher Männer und vom Menschen und treuen Kameraden hinter dem weltberühmten Maler.

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny...

Traudl Junge war 22 und träumte von einer Karriere als Tänzerin als sie die "Chance ihres Lebens" bekam: Adolf Hitler bat die junge Sekretärin zum Diktat. Von 1942 bis zu Hitlers Tod war sie stets an seiner Seite, tippte seine Reden, seine Briefe und sogar sein so genanntes "privates" und "politisches" Testament. Unmittelbar nach dem Krieg zeichnete Traudl Junge ihre Erlebnisse zwischen Führerbunker und Berghof auf.

Anne Frank war vier Jahre alt, als sie Deutschland verlassen musste und noch keine sechzehn, als sie im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen starb. Melissa Müller hat das Leben dieses Mädchens umfassend erforscht: Wie hat Anne Frank vor ihrer Flucht gelebt, und wie haben die Vorboten des Nationalsozialismus ihre frühe Kindheit geprägt? Was ging in dem jungen Mädchen vor, das in einer Zeit, als ihre Altersgenossen erste Liebesbande knüpften, mit seinen Träumen und Sehnsüchten in einem Hinterhaus gefangen war?

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. “Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the...

Bettina Görings Name ist ihr Schicksal. Als Großnichte von Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring wächst sie im Schatten seiner Verbrechen auf. Früh rebelliert sie und entflieht der bedrückenden Verbindung in die Welt der Hippies und Freigeister. Doch weder in der linken Kommune noch im Aschram in Poona kann sie ihrer Vergangenheit entkommen. Sie erkennt, dass auch sie falschen Führern hinterhergelaufen ist und dass allein die Auseinandersetzung mit der dunklen Seite ihrer Familie sie befreien kann.

He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars, and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury. But while he was flying around the world on his private jet and hosting lavish parties at his private island in the Caribbean, he also was secretly masterminding an international child sex ring-one that may have involved the richest and most influential men in the world.

A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can.

A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of...

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life. The...

Es gibt viele wichtige Bücher über Feminismus. Aber keine ihrer Autorinnen hat derart viele Leben gelebt wie Melissa Febos: glückliche Kindheit auf Cape Cod, mit zwanzig heroinabhängig, das Studium finanziert als Domina. Heute führt sie ein bürgerliches Leben und unterrichtet an der Universität. In "Girlhood" schließt Melissa Febos Memoir mit Theorie, Soziologie mit Poesie kurz und erkundet die Gemeinsamkeiten aller Lebensphasen. Sie findet beunruhigend eindrückliche Beispiele, wie Frauen von klein auf darauf konditioniert sind, an ihrer eigenen Herabwürdigung mitzuwirken.

When her body began to change at 11 years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defences she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations.

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s Alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the...

Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known...

In this inspiring book, best-selling author and "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan uses decades of experience to reveal the many ways that dogs and people can enrich each other's lives, sharing eight essential life lessons imparted by a group of very special dogs he's trained over the years. From his roster of celebrity clients to his reality television series, Cesar Millan is America's most sought-after dog behavior expert. In this affecting book, he shares eight heartwarming stories about the dogs that have inspired him the most.

In this unforgettable memoir, the daughter of the "Happy Face" serial killer shares her poignant message of hope and the power of finding your voice. Melissa has told her story on several national talk shows and as the host of the LMN television series Monster in My Family. She continues to share in this updated edition of Shattered Silence, which features two new chapters. Uplifting and emotional, this book will inspire you to trust your intuition and speak out for truth as you face your own challenges and conquer your own obstacles.

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In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery.

The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with...

Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, at the age of 18. Her memoir Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape captivates even the timid listener. Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known. She had no idea the emotional turmoil she'd inflict on her family and friends.