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This definitive New York Times bestselling biography of Anna Wintour, now featuring a new afterword, follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in fashion and media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a...

She wasn’t just a spy. She was the face of a new era of espionage. In 2010, Anna Chapman was arrested as part of a secret Russian spy ring operating inside the United States. Young, attractive, and deeply embedded in American society, Chapman wasn’t the spy of Cold War films—she was...

Convertie à l'islam, Mélodie rencontre sur Facebook le chef français d'une brigade islamiste. En quarante-huit heures, il "tombe amoureux" d'elle, l'appelle nuit et jour, la presse de venir faire son djihad en Syrie et dans la foulée la demande en mariage, lui faisant miroiter une vie paradisiaque... De "chat" Facebook en conversation Skype, Mélodie se prend au jeu et commence à préparer secrètement son départ. Des jeunes Européennes comme Mélodie, chaque semaine plus nombreuses à se laisser embrigader via Internet, l'auteur de ce livre en connaît des dizaines : c'est elle, Anna Erelle, qui se cache en réalité derrière le profil de "Mélodie".

A partir de centenares de entrevistas con amigos, colaboradores y empleados próximos a Anna, Amy Odell despliega una inspiradora historia de poder y ambición en un universo, el de las revistas de moda, tan fértil en glamour como en mezquindades. De niña, Anna Wintour carecía de cualquier interés por la ropa, pero cuando en la adolescencia descubrió las minifaldas y los cortes de pelo bob, se obsesionó. Su padre, un influyente periodista británico y figura clave en su vida, vaticinó que terminaría siendo directora de Vogue. Ella no cejó en su empeño hasta lograrlo.

La Servante écarlate, publié en 1985, est un roman visionnaire devenu culte dont le nombre de lecteurs ne cesse de grandir et qui inspire et nourrit aujourd'hui les luttes pour le droit des femmes à disposer de leur corps partout dans le monde. Mais qui se cache derrière cette œuvre, qui est réellement Margaret Atwood ? C'est ce que nous allons découvrir dans Le Livre des vies – Mémoires écarlates.

This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and...

Brought to you by Penguin. A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember...

Award-winning investigative and true crime podcasts. The Trial of Russell Brand is season 14 of Times Investigates. From war zones to suburban homes, pursuing brutal criminals and cult leaders, our podcasts go further than any other to uncover the truth. In season one, war correspondent Anthony Loyd investigates the fate of his colleague John Cantlie, who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. In season two, crime correspondent John Simpson breaks down the wall of silence surrounding the killing of 14-year-old Corey Junior Davis In season three Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody uncovers the ...

Family Business: Gier, Geld, Geheimnisse erzählt die Geschichten großer Familien und schillernder Dynastien. Die Schwestern Anna Dushime und Amélia Umuhire geben Einblicke in das Innere von Familien, die über Jahrzehnte oder gar Jahrhunderte Unternehmen und Imperien gelenkt haben. Denn die ganz großen Dramen der Weltgeschichte um Macht, Geld und Einfluss spielen sich nicht selten in Familien ab.

Behind the Shine is the podcast for women who are building something real and keep finding reasons to wait. Hosted by Anna Laura Sommer — founder of Shine Studio in Charleston, SC — every episode pulls back the curtain on the real story behind the shine. Honest conversations with women doing remarkable things, solo episodes from the middle of the journey, and one weekly reminder that you don’t have to have it all figured out to show up.Ready or not, let’s shine.

He solved the problem of the missing planet in a few weeks, and told almost no one how. He worked out the geometry of curved space decades before anyone published it, and locked the pages in a drawer. He wrote his most explosive result about an asteroid as a coded cipher, so that he could claim...

Have you ever wanted to kayak down a gorge in New Zealand? Or run night-time marathons through the Californian desert? How about rollerblading 100 miles around Amsterdam? You have? Then pour yourself a cup of cocoa, get those jim-jams on, and prepare to escape into a world of adventure with this collection of life-affirming short stories from award-winning adventurer Anna McNuff.

A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place. Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand.

Inventando Anna é a espantosa história real de Anna Delvey, uma jovem vigarista que se diz ser a herdeira de uma fortuna para a alta sociedade de Nova York. Narrado por sua melhor amiga à época, e que também foi vítima do golpe, trata-se de um relato poderoso, que foi eleito pela revista...

Anna was never anything like those "real" runners on telly, but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometer-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder...perhaps being a "real" runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colorful, and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story that will lead you on a roller-coaster ride through fear, vulnerability, courage, and failure. 

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026 A Shortlist 'Must Read' non-fiction book A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second...

Anna Funder’s best-selling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, once declared by the authorities – to his face – ‘no longer to exist’. And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods.

Eine Frau vor ihrer Zeit – die berührende Suche nach dem Leben der eigenen Urgroßmutter Tief im Sauerland, 1887. Eine junge Frau kommt den Weg hinauf ins Dorf Cobbenrode. Dort soll Anna Kalthoff die neue Lehrerin werden. Doch sie wird es nicht bleiben. Denn Anna widersetzt sich bald den Erwartungen des Ortes und den Regeln ihrer Zeit. Sie entscheidet selbst, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat, wie sie leben und wen sie lieben will. Und es wird ihr nicht schaden. Zwei Jahrhunderte später ist diese inspirierende Frau schon fast gänzlich in der Vergangenheit versunken.

La storia di 5 imprenditrici, della loro vita tra famiglia e lavoro e del loro coraggio di non arrendersi mai. Le donne danneggiate sono felici perché hanno scoperto di essere vive. Eccoci qui: siamo cinque donne, cinque amiche, cinque imprenditrici e professioniste. Ci conosciamo da così tanti anni che abbiamo perso il conto e dobbiamo andare così indietro con la memoria, per ricordare il nostro primo incontro, che finiremmo col non riconoscerci.

Read by the author. For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life...