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Vibrante icône dont l'anticonformisme délicieusement scandaleux et le mode de vie solaire ont incarné les rêves de plusieurs générations depuis l'après-guerre, Françoise Sagan habite notre imaginaire. Marie-Dominique Lelièvre l'a prise en filature et revisite son mythe. Menant une enquête littéraire à suspense, elle a eu accès à des archives confidentielles. Elle a rencontré les amis intimes de Sagan, Florence Malraux et Bernard Frank, mais aussi ses secrétaires, sa dernière compagne, son fils, sa banquière, ses médecins, ses éditeurs, sa gouvernante.

Part Devil Wears Prada coming-of-age story, part career advice, and part memoir, Shards in My Hair captures the chaos and the sometimes unfair and challenging aspects of business, while pulling back the curtain on the level of persistence and resilience that it takes to make it. Counter to Lean In’s heavy-handed blame-game of what women “should do,” Shards explores what women (and men!) actually have to do to survive and thrive. But it’s not just about business. As a single mom, Cindie Jamison pulls back the curtain on the very real challenges of trying to juggle it all.

Und so begibt sich Bettina Flitner auf eine Reise voller Überraschungen und Entdeckungen in den Luftkurort Wölfelsgrund im ehemaligen Niederschlesien, dem heutigen Miedzygorze, wo ihre Vorfahren bis zur dramatischen Flucht 1946 ein Sanatorium besessen und geleitet haben.

In 2003 Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her four babies. Her trial relied on her husband's accusations and diary entries expressing her guilt over her children's deaths. She was sentenced to forty years in prison. In Inside Out Kathleen takes us back to her traumatic childhood, her...

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a...

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my...

Waxing Pathetic is a sardonic, often hilarious, raging stream of consciousness from one mad American woman. From the pathetic to the political, the lunatic to the poetic, Clark's memoir is a masterwork of dry wit and piercing observation.

Elephant Mountain is the gripping tale of Debbie Ethell, a young woman whose fascination with an elephant skull in a bone museum leads her down an unexpected path. What begins as a curiosity about the tragic love story of Morgan Berry, the man who gave us Packy (the first baby elephant born in a U.S. zoo in forty-four years), and Eloise Berchtold, one of the world’s greatest animal trainers, soon becomes a chilling mystery.

Dating While Mommying isn't just another how-to dating book, it's a lifeline for women navigating the uncharted waters of midlife romance while packing lunches, attending parent-teacher conferences, and helping adult children find apartments.

There are many reasons a person might find themselves living as part of a cult, but one of the most defenseless members of these communities are the children who are raised in this traumatic lifestyle without a say in the matter. They don’t know anything different until the deeply rooted damage is done, forcing them to make the impossible decision to leave everything behind in order to heal — or choose to stay in the depths of what they’ve always known. The only way out is through.

A memoir of sex, angst, and rocks, Turn to Stone chronicles one woman’s ascent—on walls of stone and within herself—as she faces her demons and finds freedom and power in the raw and wild adventure of rock climbing. Down on the ground, it was hard to connect, hard to attach, hard to...

#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...

From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for women’s suffrage and labor reforms. In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with...

From the author of the critically-acclaimed true crime account, A Killer By Design (the inspiration behind Hulu's original docuseries, Mastermind), a groundbreaking look into the crucial role played by expert witnesses in the most high-profile criminal cases, based on Dr. Ann Burgess’ personal...

In der afrikanischen Wüste kracht ein entgegenkommendes Auto in ihren Wagen und verletzt sie schwer. Im Krankenhaus kämpft Jil um ihre Zukunft. Mit unglaublichem Mut stellt sie sich schmerzhaften Therapien und einem neuen Alltag. Jil gibt alles für ihr großes Ziel, eines Tages wieder gehen und die Welt bereisen zu können.

The memoir, Clearly Lies Are True, is a compelling and powerful first-hand narrative account of the childhood and sexual abuse of Pamela Nickel Williams, the daughter of early cult followers of Scientology during the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s. Written from her perspective as a young child and teenager, and told through vivid, detailed memories and experiences, Pamela’s story captures a unique period of time within the Church of Scientology. By finally speaking her truth, she courageously confronts her past, revealing how Scientology powerfully and forcefully influenced her family.

She stood at his service wearing red. Not in defiance, not in denial – but in love. Because grief is not just sorrow; it is the bold echo of a love that never fades. And red is not just a color – it is the flame of the Holy Spirit and the fire that refuses to be extinguished.” When Rachel Kerr Schneider lost her husband, the world expected her to mourn in black – to withdraw, to disappear into sorrow. But she made a different choice. She wore red. Not because she wasn’t grieving, but because love – real love – is too vibrant, too deep, too enduring to be cloaked in darkness.

Coco Chanel hat wie keine Zweite das Leben der Frauen ihres Jahrhunderts geprägt - über die Mode hinaus. Ihr Aufstieg vom armen Waisenkind in die glitzernde Welt der Mode waren von harter Arbeit und revolutionären Ideen geprägt. Coco Chanel befreite die Frauen vom Korsett, kürzte Röcke auf skandalöse Länge, erfand das "Kleine Schwarze".

Professeure de chant de la Star Academy, Adeline Toniutti est LA révélation, sur TF1, de l'émission culte. Chaque semaine, sa flamboyance, son énergie, son expertise ont touché des millions de téléspectateurs. Derrière les feux des projecteurs, celle qu'on surnomme la « fille du facteur » ou la « soprano rock'n'roll » a réalisé un véritable parcours du combattant pour traverser les épreuves que la vie lui a infligées et pour retrouver le bonheur.

A story about a little girl separated from her family at age four.