Ergebnis für "The She Book" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

In this compelling, eye-opening story of six women who exercised power against the odds-and one, Jane Grey, who never got the chance-acclaimed historian Helen Castor explores the provocative subject of women and power in England. “The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been...

From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement On October 5, 2017, the New York...

You’ll be taken on a journey through my eyes, from childhood to adulthood, where you’ll experience my biases and see how I justified my actions (whether right or wrong), and how I perceived the world. Experience my confusions and revelations as I learned to grow, but most of all, you’ll feel my pain and anguish as I am hurt and abused by those whom I loved. I have been beaten down, hated, abused, and stomped on physically and mentally, but I sit here today, unashamed and stronger than ever. I wear my scars like a badge of honor. These are my battle wounds, and I survived.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In hilarious and tender essays, Chelsea Handler shares her unforgettable story of becoming the woman she always wanted to be. “A raw and raucous exploration of Handler’s ongoing search for self . . . [She’s] disarming us with humor to get at our softest...

Narrated by the author with two afterwords: one written and read by Deirdre Finney Boylan, and one written and read by Richard Russo The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer...

Bloomsbury presents The Power Within: Record-breaking, ultrarunning and fighting for change, written and read by Sophie Power **This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between Sophie and sports journalist Lily Canter** 'Gripping, informative and inspiring... it's one of the most riveting...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives...

“Heart-pounding, illuminating, and ominously timeless” (Gina Frangello), this honest and poignant memoir reflects on a woman’s escape from a violent marriage and what it cost to protect her and her family’s safety. “Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s...

She hated the dishes. Not because she was lazy. Not because she didn't care. But because every pile of dirty dishes felt like proof. Proof that she was failing. Proof that she was broken. Proof that she wasn't enough. But the dishes were never really the problem. She Hated the Dishes is one woman's unfiltered journey through childhood trauma, marriage, motherhood, loss, and the stories she learned to believe about herself along the way. Stories about what it meant to be a good mother, a good wife, a productive person, and someone worthy of love.

For readers of Kate Zambreno, Maggie Nelson, and Nathalie Léger, She Was Wild Grass offers an unflinching exploration of art, history, and self-discovery. The Beat Generation—the postwar literary revolution that canonized Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs—has long been mythologized as a...

In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery.

Does your daughter dream of scoring the winning goal, making the team, or stepping onto the ice with confidence? She Shoots! She Scores! is an inspiring collection of women’s hockey stories designed to help young players believe they belong on the ice—and can help change the game. With the rise of women’s hockey, Olympic legends, global stars, and the launch of the PWHL, a new generation of girls is stepping onto the rink with bigger dreams than ever before.

She Loves You, book three in the John Lennon Series, lets you ride along with John Lennon and The Beatles on the whirlwind tour that was 1963 to early 1964. You'll accompany John and Brian on holiday in Spain, sit with The Beatles on the Roy Orbison Tour, and experience the wild emergence of Beatlemania as the boys tour England, Ireland, Wales, Sweden and Paris, France.

A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a...

In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by...

From Kate Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Be There in Five podcast, comes a candid and culturally observant exploration of millennial motherhood and womanhood. In She’s Let Herself Go: Notes from a Former Childless Millennial, Kennedy returns to the questions she...

Luna Verner is a native of Oklahoma and a descendant of a Black Wall Street Entrepreneur. She holds an Associate of Science in Microcomputer Applications and a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Life experience as a parent provided her the qualifications and wisdom to speak on parenting trials, errors, and corrections in her child-rearing years. As she learned, knowing what was done incorrectly and admitting it to her children was a significant milestone that must be crossed to begin healing broken relationships.

AS HEARD ON GIOVANNA FLETCHER’S HAPPY MUM PODCAST ‘‘She Seems Fine to Me reads like Nixon speaks – sparky, crackling with rage, but also, somehow, laugh-out-loud funny’ The Guardian Actress, check. Wife, check. Mother, check. In control of her own mind? Well... After a lifetime of...

Sam Plavins sat in a Toronto convention centre, surrounded by thousands of the most successful financial advisors in the world, pretending to be one of them. She had the title. The clients. The gold business cards. She had built exactly the life her father had envisioned for her. And she couldn't feel a thing. The math in her life didn’t make sense. The two kids plus the hot husband, even the semi-stoned sheepdog. Why wasn’t the formula adding up?

She was born into uncertainty—but destined for purpose. In "She Found It in the Clouds," Sharon Mae Jones shares a deeply personal journey that begins in the safety of her mother’s womb, quickly evolving into a story of separation, identity, and longing. Raised in Jamaica by her grandmother and aunt, then adopted and moved across continents, Sharon’s life unfolds as a tapestry of adventure, hidden pain, and relentless search for truth. Beneath her bright spirit was a secret too painful to speak—a violation that shattered her trust and sense of self.