Résultats pour "Helena" dans Biographies et mémoires

Helen Keller – इंद्रमुक्त जीवन चरित्र Life Beyond Limitations जब आँखें देख न सकें और कान सुन न सकें, तब क्या मनुष्य अपने सपनों को देख और अपनी आवाज़ को दुनिया तक पहुँचा सकता है?

An “intimate, intensely resonant memoir about workaholism, unresolved trauma, and the ‘addictive nature of ambition’” (Harper’s Bazaar), this is an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley. After years of relentlessly racing up the...

O diário de uma menina esperta descortina um painel sobre as transformações que aconteceram no Brasil na passagem para o século XX. Uma prosa deliciosa e cativante. Leitura obrigatória do vestibular da Fuvest. Aclamado por escritores como Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Guimarães Rosa...

From nationally bestselling author, YouTube star, and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays that paint “an honest, complicated portrait of how your life can change” (SheKnows). Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with...

Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister. When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told.

In St. Helena: The Most Influential Woman in Human History, former judge, prosecutor, and investigator Steve Castlen presents a riveting blend of historical fact and imaginative storytelling to make the case for one astonishing truth: that the mother of Constantine the Great was the single most transformative woman in the history of the Western world.

Helen Castor brings us afresh a riveting life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring girl fighting the English and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing apart fifteenth-century France. Here is a portrait of a nineteen-year-old...

A 2020 Audie Award Finalist From nationally bestselling author, YouTube star, and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays that paint “an honest, complicated portrait of how your life can change” (SheKnows). Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate...

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. WINNER of the National Biography Award...

When Helen's partner of fifteen years announced without warning that she 'needed to grow', and left in the Toyota, Helen remained in her pyjamas, ordering barbecue chicken, and crying on her cat. After disclosing her foulest thoughts on an XXX app, quitting her job, and receiving bad advice from...

This is a biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and neighbor of Hanff and had access to her books, letters and relatives and friends.

Welcome to the official podcast series featuring Helen Glanville, author of A Second Chance. Here you’ll find Helen’s guest interviews and media appearances as she shares the remarkable true story behind her husband Richard “Geoff” Glanville, a former white-collar criminal extradited from Brazil to Australia, and the journey that shaped her belief in forgiveness, faith and second chances. Each conversation is honest and deeply human. Helen talks about love, loss and resilience, exploring how we can rebuild our lives after crisis and find hope again. Her words inspire listeners to think...

In My Life with Helen, listeners learn for the first time what was going on behind the scenes after Helen’s fall from grace and how Diane struggled to come to terms with the media frenzy that followed. Maybe, things do happen for a reason. That’s for the listener to decide. There’s no denying that Helen was a force to be reckoned with, but more importantly, she was human, flaws and all.

From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star.

Helen’s Log is a weekly audio diary from Helen Bauer - a 30-something-year-old Londoner trying (and often failing) to make sense of life. It’s a space to catch up, ramble, overshare, and document the weird little things that make up her week.From deep dives into Ancient Greece to holidays in Alicante. From Helen’s latest obsession with essential oils to rewatching My Big Fat Greek Wedding for the hundredth time. Think of it as a diary without the hand cramps or spelling stress. Don’t be surprised if friend, family or foe decide to drop in to keep Helen on her toes, or just laugh at ...

BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen...

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood. Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in...

Was für eine Entdeckung – es braucht ein ganzes Leben, um einen solchen Text zu schreiben. "Die Geschichte erschien mir viele Jahre lang gänzlich unerheblich." Von diesem Satz aus erzählt die heute siebzigjährige Helene Bracht von einer über Jahrzehnte verschütteten Erfahrung, die sie mit sehr vielen Frauen und vielen Männern teilt: der, dass es auf dem Lebensweg mit der Liebe und der Sexualität nicht nur gut und einvernehmlich zuging. Wie liebt und begehrt man, wenn Verletzendes verborgen hinter einem liegt? Wie lebt und liebt man immer weiter?

Helena Paz Garro, escritora e hija de dos destacadas figuras de la literatura mexicana, Elena Garro y Octavio Paz, comparte aquí el relato detallado de su vida familiar y cultural, marcada por episodios tan definitivos como polémicos.

Der Funke, der die Gegenwart abfackelt. Helene Hegemann trifft Patti Smith zum ersten Mal in einer Mehrzweckhalle in Wien, die als Probebühne für Christoph Schlingensiefs "Area 7" dient. Eine Begegnung, die der damals Dreizehnjährigen im weitesten Sinne das Leben rettet. Patti Smith sprengt in ihrer Kunst alle Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Regeln, die in der Ruhrpotttristesse, in der Helene Hegemann aufgewachsen ist, als unumstößlich gelten.