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Obra mais conhecida da escritora mineira Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo reúne entradas dos diários que a autora manteve enquanto vivia na favela do Canindé, em São Paulo. Publicado em 1960, o livro narra o cotidiano de Carolina, a criação de seus filhos, seu trabalho como catadora de papel e escritora, suas preocupações literárias, afetos e a vida com outros moradores do Canindé. Quarto de despejo serve como porta de entrada para a escrita de uma autora fundamental, traduzida para inúmeros idiomas, que arrebata leitores de todo o mundo por sua precisão e força literária.

Il diario shock di una prostituta minorenne. Un romanzo verità. Il diario inquietante e distaccato di una quattordicenne e delle sue esperienze estreme Non per denaro ma per noia: la sconcertante autobiografia di una quattordicenne Veronica ha un passato immorale. A soli quattordici anni, sconvolgendo all’improvviso la sua vita, entra a far parte di un mondo estremo, fatto di sesso sfrenato, fiumi di alcol, montagne di cocaina e di soldi. In brevissimo tempo, ribalta completamente tutte le regole che aveva seguito fino a quel momento.

When Barbara Bracht's mother disappears, no one tells the young girl that her mother has died - not even her father. She is left a confused child wondering when her mother will return. When her father remarries, she's told to call her stepmother "mother" and to keep the secret of their biological mother's existence from her younger brother, Eddie, and from the neighbors.

In the 1940s, Veronica Lake stirred a nation of filmgoers into a frenzy with her memorable screen performances and famous hairdo draped over one eye. The sultry blonde bombshell rocketed to stardom for Paramount Pictures only for it all to spiral out of control and be over in a flash. By age twenty-nine, Veronica was washed up with her career on the ash heap of movie history.

Blue House: Ten Years on the Way Home tells the struggles, traumas and tragedies of a family in the former USSR during Stalin's reign, pre-WWII. Dispossessed of the happy home and wealth they built through their own sweat and labor, they were forced to withstand horrors and hardships as their daily bread...when there was any bread.

This is the story of Veronica Walker. A second generation white African. This is the story of how one woman learnt to accept loss and rebuild her life time and again and how she learnt to fight for herself against a society where women were deemed as second class citizens and the possession of their husbands or fathers. Fighting for her children's safety, Veronica learns to demand her voice be heard and she be accepted for the independent woman she was.

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud. Despite being placed in care – somewhere Gaia should feel safe – she is left even more vulnerable, and...

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics is filled with personal stories that bring to life heroic figures we all know and introduce listeners to some of those who’ve worked behind the scenes but are still hidden. Whatever their perch, the Colored Girls, which is what Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore call themselves - are always focused on the larger goal of “hurrying history” so that every American - regardless of race, gender or religious background - can have a seat at the table. This audiobook tells their story.

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's new memoir in which she...

L’astronoma Ipazia, vissuta ad Alessandria nel V secolo d.C., teorizzò in modo inaudito per l’epoca che la Terra non è il centro dell’universo ma un pianeta che gira intorno al Sole. E divenne ben presto vittima dei fanatici cristiani. «Oggi» scrive Dacia Maraini «a quasi duemila anni di distanza ci sono ancora donne che soffrono come lei per la semplice ragione che hanno pensato con la propria testa, che hanno voluto studiare, indagare e opporsi al totalitarismo.» Sono donne maltrattate, insultate, minacciate, che spesso hanno denunciato la violenza domestica, ma non sono state credute.

Il diario di una vita divisa in quattro lati, come un quadrato perfetto. Ogni lato influenza gli altri, con cesure inevitabili. Lina, arrivata all’ultimo quarto, racconta i suoi anni con irresistibile ironia: è impicciona, libera, disobbediente anche agli acciacchi della vecchiaia. Il rapporto complicato con la figlia, l’amore per i nipoti che vuole far crescere liberi, la passione per il giornalismo, le nuove tecnologie sempre più complicate, i disastri, le dimenticanze.