Ergebnis für "The Sisters" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler.

Serienmörderinnen, Betrügerinnen, brutale Feministinnen, kaltblütige Sexualstraftäterinnen: In diesem True-Crime-Podcast sprechen die Journalistinnen Karolin Kandler und Jule Gölsdorf über mörderische Frauen und beleuchten jede Woche einen neuen Fall. Was treibt die bösartigsten und heimtückischsten Täterinnen der Welt an? Wollen sie eine Rivalin beseitigen? Ist finanzielle Bereicherung ein Motiv? Steckt pures sadistisches Vergnügen dahinter? Sind diese Frauen gefährlicher als männliche Straftäter? Jule und Karo berichten über die spektakulärsten Fälle, diskutieren über die ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From TLC’s Sister Wives star Christine Brown Woolley, a groundbreaking and heartfelt memoir about living in a family like no other and finding the strength to leave polygamy—and the only life she’s known—behind. Christine Brown Woolley had always dreamed of...

Jasmin und Jessica sind zwei Schwestern mit großer Liebe für True Crime. In ihrem Podcast besprechen sie seit 2023 jeden Mittwoch und Sonntag um 15 Uhr Kriminalfälle aus aller Welt.

From the beloved film star and best-selling author of Then Again--a heartfelt memoir about Diane Keaton's relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings' lives can take. When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane...

Jasmin und Jessica sind zwei Schwestern mit großer Liebe für True Crime. In ihrem Podcast besprechen sie seit 2023 jeden Mittwoch und Sonntag um 15 Uhr Kriminalfälle aus aller Welt.

Tauche ein in die Welt der Forensik! Ich bin Dr. Katrin Koel – Professorin, forensische Anthropologin und ehemalige Todesermittlerin in Florida, USA. In diesem Podcast beleuchte ich die wissenschaftlichen Methoden hinter echten kriminalistischen Untersuchungen. Von Todesermittlungen über Rechtsmedizin bis hin zur Kriminalanalyse – hier erfährst du, wie Experten arbeiten und Fälle gelöst werden. Wenn dich Forensik und Ermittlungsarbeit faszinieren, bist du hier genau richtig. Nicht für Kinderohren geeignet!

Growing up, Joanne suffered at the hands of a violent boyfriend and controlling relatives, as her mother lapsed into a downward spiral following the break-up of her marriage. But the consequences of her mother's lifestyle turned out to be worse than Joanne could ever have imagined. She already knew about the baby buried in a shallow makeshift grave next to the family plot. But when Joanne came across a red plastic bin in her mother's wardrobe in 2009, she realised that the family home held an even more sinister secret.

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets eyes on them that four-year-old Bo and seven-year-old Billy have clearly been subjected to unimaginable neglect, and it takes all of Maggie's skills as a foster carer to try to connect with the volatile little girls, who seem far younger than their years.

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the...

Now in paperback, Christopher Ciccone’s “breathless tell-all” (Time) based on his fortyseven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding one of the most famous women of our time—Madonna. Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind the woman who...

Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas. This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . . 'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife...

In the early 20th century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters: Eling, Chingling, and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion.

In this "incendiary" memoir, a woman fights the criminal justice system to release her incarcerated sister after she kills her longtime abuser (Publishers Weekly). In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton’s life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is...

The heroic accounts of Australian Army Nursing Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Torney who survived the perilous evacuation of Singapore in 1942. The nursing profession is one historically filled with everyday heroes; men and women engaged in challenging work that can often prove the...

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for her...

On 29 August 2016, devastating news hit the headlines that an entire family was found dead in a rural community. For Jacqueline Connolly, this was a deeply personal and life-shattering tragedy, as she discovered her sister Clodagh, along with her nephews Liam, Niall and Ryan, were killed by their husband and father Alan Hawe. Here, Jacqueline discloses the circumstances leading up to these tragic events, including Hawe's manipulation and coercive control of her unsuspecting sister.

A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger...

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig...