Résultats pour "Angels" dans Femmes

Standing at the podium at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, Becca Moore is about to address a group of predominantly male football fans who know her only as the wife of the coach of the most famous high school football team in the nation: the Massillon Tigers. But more than being a coach’s wife, she is a girls flag football coach, an administrator for special needs students, and a two-time ironman finisher.

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.

No matter the intensity or vastness of any challenge, Favorite's raw depictions of her nearly 50 year journey with her Buddhist practice unfailingly proves the proof for turning poison into medicine is in the pudding. And, she happily divulges the ingredients needed to become your own champions!

An incisive, lyrical exploration of one family’s history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. Asale Angel-Ajani and her twin, the only Black children in a working-class white family, were shuffled between relatives, coming of age in a country that...

Figura emblemática de la política alemana y europea durante los últimos tres lustros, desde que en 2005 tomó las riendas de su país como canciller, Angela Merkel ha sabido superar con firmeza y serenidad momentos difíciles para su país y para el continente europeo. Los discursos pronunciados en diversas ocasiones oficiales dan fe del liderazgo de una mujer que se formó como científica en el mundo comunista en la antigua Alemania del Este.

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white...

When she was fifteen years old, Leslie King ran away from an abusive home, looking for a better life and longing for real love. What she found instead was a man who wooed her just long enough to trap her in a life of prostitution. She became one of the many thousands of trafficked individuals in the United States, a number that continues to rise.

Magie Dominic’s first memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Women’s Studies Award, ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic’s experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn’t finished.

Imagine everything you have ever known fading away, all around you. In this gripping memoir and powerful workbook, Angel Lyn recounts her upbringing as a devout member of the Mormon church, a dedicated housewife and loving mother of five sons in southern Utah. As challenges within her marriage unfold, she discovers a warrant for her husband's arrest that causes her to undergo an epic spiritual transformation, moving away from a deeply religious mindset to a more profound and spiritual approach to life.

Longing to return to beer halls and boys, a teenager gives birth to a daughter during the Great Depression but shows the ultimate lack of maternal instinct when her baby is discovered to be missing. Though she claims that a nurse abducted the newborn, the infant, and the anonymous nurse are never seen again. In Minneapolis, Lorene Hermanson is raised on discipline and Christian morality.

In Angels Do Always Knock, I share a tender, honest memoir rooted in love, loss, and the quiet ways grace finds us. Through childhood memories, caregiving moments, and spiritual reflections, I trace the final chapters of my parents’ lives—and the presence that gently accompanied them.

Publicada en 1974 y escrita cuando tenía 28 años, la autobiografía de Angela Davis es una radiografía fundamental de las luchas sociales en Estados Unidos durante los años sesenta y setenta, periodo en el que se convirtió en un icono del Movimiento de Liberación Negro.

The inspiring true story of Angela Williams, daughter of a wealthy British lord, who exchanged ballgowns for boots to help women of the red-light district discover beauty beyond labels as she journeys from extravagant life to extravagant love. Entering the red-light areas of England's most violent cities is not somewhere people usually dream of venturing. However, for Angela, this became her reality. In confronting her own Hollywood, glamorized portrayal of prostitution, Angela discovered a desperate world with many hidden faces.

This “indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from the author of the...