Résultats pour "Angela" dans Biographies et mémoires

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER “God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life...

Why we think it’s a great listen: There’s no gentle way to put this – Frank McCourt’s performance of Angela’s Ashes is just better than the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Frank McCourt shares his sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking story of growing up poor, Irish, and Catholic in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes.

De la supériorité des femmes dans l'exercice du pouvoir. En raison de la loi salique, les femmes ont été écartées du trône sous l'Ancien-régime avant que la privation du suffrage universel ne les marginalise de la Révolution à la Libération. Mais la France n'est pas le monde et des dirigeantes d'exception n'ont cessé d'enrichir le riche livre d'heures de notre histoire de l'Antiquité à nos jours.

Née dans l'Amérique de la ségrégation raciale, Angela Davis fut très tôt confrontée à l'exclusion. Cette prise de conscience précoce favorisa son engagement dans les mouvements de défense des Noirs mais aussi dans les mouvements pacifistes des années 1960 et 1970.

Au début des années soixante, Thompson, alors journaliste à San Francisco, est fasciné par les Hell's Angels. Son article sur ces seigneurs de la route fait sensation, il se lance dans la version longue : un an passé à rouler et à écrire à leurs côtés. Mais l'équipée se termine sauvagement : parce qu'il refuse de partager ses royalties, les Angels abandonnent l'homme de lettres sur une route, à moitié mort et le crâne défoncé à coups de pierres.

Las radiantes memorias definitivas de uno de los más grandes iconos de nuestro tiempo, ganadora del National Book Award: un canto a la creación, el amor y la esperanza.

Le destin du plus puissant des gangs criminels canadiens actuels s’est joué dans le dernier quart du 20e siècle, de 1980 à 2000. En vingt ans à peine, une bande de jeunes délinquants jadis désargentés, brutaux et asociaux, liés par leur amour de la Harley-Davidson et par leur quête de sensations fortes, ont fini par conquérir les sommets du crime organisé québécois, voire canadien. Il s’agit d’un fait unique dans l’histoire des pègres occidentales.

In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list. Assata Shakur's trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations and police brutality in the USA. While Assata's detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign.

Read by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey with exclusive bonus material contributed by Rainn Wilson, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery and Jennifer Garner. An intimate, behind-the-scenes celebration of beloved The Office co-stars...

On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is the largest private employer in the city of L.A., and it casts a long shadow.

“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly...

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el oyente se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a través de su autor, Frank McCourt. Es una extraordinaria obra donde Frank McCourt nos muestra el amor, la dignidad, y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte, y el dolor.

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.

Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession, and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes. In this gripping account, listeners can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers.

In this follow-up to the hugely popular Angels in the ER, Dr. Robert D. Lesslie shares more of his life-changing emergency-room encounters with nurses, doctors, patients, friends, and strangers who’ve served as God’s hands in the direst of circumstances. You’ll be deeply moved by these tales of both triumph and tragedy from the ER front line, as well as by the profound faith that has sustained Dr. Lesslie for more than 30 years on the job.

What if the guidance you’ve been searching for has been beside you all along, quietly waiting for you to notice? If you’ve ever walked through pain that felt too heavy to carry, questioned why life can be so cruel, or longed for reassurance that you are not facing this world on your own, this book was written for you. Because no matter how strong you try to be, some moments break you open. Some seasons make you feel lost. And some wounds leave you wondering if the light will ever return.

Dans ce livre, Guy Ouellette et Normand Lester racontent le cheminement d'un petit criminel du quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve de Montréal, en quête de pouvoir et d'argent jusqu'à la tête de la filiale québécoise des Hells Angels, une des plus redoutables organisations criminelles de la planète.

From acclaimed artist and Instagram star Guadalupe Rosales comes a moonlit memoir of growing up in '90s Los Angeles, told in stories, snapshots and social media posts. Like Just Kids with better eyeliner. Guadalupe Rosales's East L.A. is full of delight and danger: backyard raves and boulevards...

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Angela Merkel ha avuto la responsabilità del governo della Germania per sedici anni, durante i quali, con il suo operato e il suo atteggiamento, ha segnato la politica tedesca, europea e internazionale. Nelle sue memorie, ripercorre la sua vita in due Stati tedeschi fino al 1990 nella DDR, dal 1990 nella Germania riunificata. Com'è riuscita, lei, donna dell'Est, ad arrivare al vertice della CDU e a diventare la prima cancelliera della Germania unita? Che cosa l'ha guidata? In Libertà Angela Merkel descrive la vita quotidiana nella cancelleria.