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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER ‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience...

Inge Jens erzählt erstmals aus ihrem eigenen Leben. Die Literaturwissenschaftlerin berichtet in dieser Autorenlesung über Kindheit und Jugend in Hamburg, die Studienzeit in Tübingen und die Familiengründung mit dem berühmten Schriftsteller und Gelehrten Walter Jens. Sie beschreibt ihren Weg von der Rolle als "Frau an seiner Seite" zu einer erfolgreichen Autorin. Begegnungen mit Zeitgenossen wie Katia und Golo Mann oder Johannes Rau kommen zur Sprache. Mit großer Offenheit erzählt Inge Jens auch von der Demenzerkrankung ihres Mannes: "Ich sehe seinem Entschwinden zu."

Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true story, that of a small town girl getting tangled up in her own dreams.

Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the orders of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At 19, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next 24 years, he would rule her life. Eventually, when her youngest daughter, Miriam, started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run or ride a bike, Julia reached her breaking point. 

COMING IN 2027 The next audiobook from the Audio, New York Times and Sunday Times Bestselling author of Free Ride and the creator of the YouTube channel Itchy Boots with over 3 million subscribers worldwide. Noraly Schoenmaker is the creator of Itchy Boots, a YouTube channel with more than three...

Auf intensive, liebevolle und poetische Weise beschreibt die Soziologin Tanja Bogusz ihr Aufwachsen auf St. Pauli. Sie erzählt von ihrer Großmutter Klasina, die aus den Niederlanden nach Deutschland kam und Damenringkämpferin in der Großen Freiheit in Hamburg wurde. Und von ihrer Mutter Barbara, die aus dem Kinderheim vor den gewalttätigen Aufseherinnen zu Klasina auf den Kiez flüchtete und in den 70er-Jahren begann, als Barfrau im Hotel Luxor zu arbeiten.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines “Katalin Karikó’s story is an inspiration.”—Bill Gates “Riveting . . . a true story of a brilliant...

Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life.

Brought to you by Penguin. Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life. * Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. * If the shoe...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos. Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little...

In Lessico famigliare, il riaffiorare alla memoria di parole, espressioni, frasi e modi di dire sentiti tante volte in casa da Natalia Ginzburg, scandisce, con ironia e tenerezza, la storia della sua famiglia - i Levi - ebrei e antifascisti, nell'Italia tra gli anni Venti e gli anni Cinquanta del Novecento.

A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's 3 frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. All But My Life stands as the ultimate lesson in humanity, hope, and friendship.

Award-winning author of Wasted, Marya Hornbacher's astonishing New York Times best-selling memoir from the belly of bipolar disorder. Marya Hornbacher tells the story that until recently she had no idea was hers to tell: that of her life with Type I ultra-rapid-cycle bipolar disorder, the most...

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and...

"Ich habe nach Jahrzehnten endlich zu mir und meinem Körper gefunden - und zum besten Sex meines Lebens." "Ich will noch einmal wirklich guten Sex haben", sagt eine Frau in der Mitte ihres Lebens. Und beginnt sich zu erinnern: Sex gab es reichlich, nur den richtigen nicht - obwohl sie ihn bei vielen suchte, zu vielen. Und sie fragt sich: Warum habe ich mir das angetan? Warum hat es fast nie gepasst? Wonach habe ich gesucht?

Read by the author. Stop just thinking about earning more money and start making it happen! In We Should All Be Millionaires, Rachel Rodgers—Black woman, mother of four kids, and self-made millionaire—shared her personal story. How she climbed from crushing debt and financial stress to...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography One of...

Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first...

A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe. Born to a poor...