Résultats pour "Julie" dans Biographies et mémoires

Rien ne prédisposait Julie Ewa à vivre une telle expérience. Et pourtant. Un matin, un étrange phénomène se produit : elle sort de son corps. Cette expérience la bouleverse. Que signifie-t-elle ? Est-elle réelle ou le fruit de son imagination ? Loin d'être un épisode isolé, l'évènement se répète. Déterminée à ne pas fuir l'inexplicable, Julie Ewa décide de mener l'enquête. Son objectif : comprendre, tester, vérifier. Trouver la preuve qu'elle n'hallucine pas. Elle partage avec lucidité ses doutes, ses questionnements et ses recherches sur ce phénomène encore très méconnu.

The heroine of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom. Over the years Julie Andrews has been much interviewed in the press and on television, but she has never before revealed the true story of her childhood and upbringing. In Home she vividly re-creates the years before the movies. An idyllic early childhood in Surrey was cut short when her parents divorced and her mother remarried. The family moved to London, and there are vivid scenes of life during the Blitz. 

Brought to you by Penguin. 'A searing memoir ... I didn't know Julie, but in these pages I grew to love her.' Lucy Kalanithi Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with...

The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end...

Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.

My mom never got a chance to tell me about her 20s. Now that I'm 21, I wanted to know the stories she told me I was too young to hear. This is a compilation of memories from my mom's chaotic acting, college, and dating life before I was born.

When Rodgers came out to her family as a junior in high school, she still believed that God would sanctify her and eventually make her straight. Wanting so intensely to be good, she spent her adolescent and early adult years with an ex-gay ministry, praying for liberation from her homosexuality. In Outlove, Rodgers details her deeply personal journey from a life of self-denial in the name of faith to her role in leading the take-down of Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization in the world, to her marriage to a woman at the Washington National Cathedral. 

In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by the Korean War. Through a special act of Congress, they were authorized to adopt eight of these children - which marked the advent of international adoption. Since that time, there have been over 170,000 children adopted out of Korea to more than 30 countries. Korean adoptee Glenn Morey and his wife, Julie Morey, spent six years interviewing 100 Korean adoptees from around the world. This stunning Audible Original is comprised of 15 first-person accounts....

Bloomsbury presents Julie Hesmondalgh: A Working Diary, written and read by Julie Hesmondalgh. Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh's working diary begins in November 2016 at the end of a full and exciting year of theatre-making with her company, Take Back. The company is a northern-based collective...

In 'My Fair Lady', Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title role in 'Mary Poppins', she won an Academy Award. And 'The Sound of Music' made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three year later, 'Star!' almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen. Despite many setbacks - including the loss of her singing voice in 1997 - Julie Andrews is still a star.

Julie Walters has been described as the nation's most popular actress and comedienne. She has been delighting us on screen and on stage for over 25 years and - thanks to her undoubted talent, infectious spirit and self-deprecating humour - we have taken her to our hearts. Now she tells us her own story, in her own words. She was born in 50s Birmingham, daughter of an austere Irish Catholic mother.

The complete story of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who inspired the hit Netflix series The Serpent. Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great conmen, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father...

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home. Psychiatrists, therapists and family tried to intervene, but...

The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. "A brightly told story of the triumph of underdogs ... exuberant, well-researched ... tense, vivid, and inspiring." ―Kirkus Reviews In 1937, a schoolteacher on the...

A New York Times Bestseller A Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024'Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel' The Wall Street Journal 'Riveting' Financial Times The New York Times bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department stores, and the...

Live. Love. Sex.Two hilariously funny, worldly women talking about sex, life and love. May contain traces of potty mouth.Join us for our weekly romps.Follow us on IG @LiveLoveSexPodcast

This creative nonfiction literary perspective is based on actual events, situations, and incidents pulled from the authors' memory. Experience the incredible firsthand journey through author Julie Larson's recollection of her time during the infamous Cocaine Cowboys era that led her down a life path that tested the boundaries on just exactly how much a human being can endure and come out indestructible.

In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago's western suburbs between the 1960s and '80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie's parents continue adding children to the family, some painful and tragic experiences test family values, parental relationships, and sibling bonds.

She's the one who has it together. The calm voice in the meeting. The steady hand on the hard decision. The woman everyone assumes is fine because she never lets them see otherwise. That performance is quietly costing her everything. For nearly thirty years, Dr. Julie Basler climbed to the top of higher education, eventually serving as a college president while privately managing panic attacks, unprocessed grief, and relentless anxiety. From the outside she looked composed. Inside she was surviving. She's Strong Enough to Break is the book she almost didn't write.

Holocaust survivor and social media sensation Gidon Lev shares his extraordinary story and the wisdom he has cultivated throughout his life in a call for all of us to seek the good, no matter what. “To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek—where is the solution, where is the hope? We can...