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A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s Alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the...

Shadows of the Moon 🌙Every mystery has a story. Every story deserves to be heard.Welcome to Shadows of the Moon, where the unexplained isn't brushed aside, the strange deserves a closer look, and curiosity leads us into the unknown.I'm Missi, your host and fellow explorer of life's greatest mysteries. I've been fascinated by the paranormal since I was sixteen, and that curiosity has never stopped growing. From encounters that defy explanation to mysteries that refuse to stay buried, there's always another story waiting in the shadows.Here, we explore the world beyond the ordinary. We're ...

Ce soir-là, Fernande m’a regardée longuement. Elle a posé sur moi ses yeux clairs, fatigués mais incroyablement présents, et elle a dit, comme on dépose une vérité sur la table, sans pathos, sans peur : « Tant que je peux parler, je suis là. » Elle avait presque cent ans. Moi, j’en avais vingt. Entre nous, il n’y avait pas seulement huit décennies d’écart. Il y avait des silences, des habitudes, une distance que le temps avait installée sans qu’on s’en rende compte. Et pourtant, il y avait la même urgence : ne pas disparaître l’une pour l’autre. Fernande a toute sa tête.

Le destin hors du commun de Sonia Pierre, fille de coupeurs de canne, qui fit de sa vie un combat pour les droits humains. République dominicaine, 1963. Sonia Pierre voit le jour à Lechería, dans un batey, un campement de coupeurs de canne à sucre. Consciente du traitement inhumain réservé à ces travailleurs, elle organise, à treize ans seulement, une grève pour faire valoir leurs droits. Une des rares habitantes du batey à suivre des études, elle devient avocate et consacrera sa vie tout entière à combattre l'injustice jusqu'à sa mort tragique.

Shortlisted for the 2026 Indiana Authors AwardSilver Medal for the 2026 IPPY AwardLike many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embracing their...

From age 11, in 1974, until she left the show, in 1981, Melissa Anderson literally grew up before the viewers of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as the blind sister - and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes listeners onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash.

Tu te sens perdue, en décalage, comme si ta vie ne te ressemblait pas vraiment ? Safe Club, je l'ai créé pour les femmes qui traversent une période de grands questionnements, de solitude intérieure et de perte de sens et qui ne veulent plus faire semblant que tout va bien. Ici, je désacralise la santé mentale sans discours culpabilisant ni recettes miracles. Je parle de ce qui bloque, de ce qui fait peur, de ce qui empêche de passer à l’action… mais aussi de ce qui libère. À travers mes épisodes solo, The Life of Mel, je te partage mes propres prises de conscience, mes doutes ...

Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known...

In October 1958 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest mine on the planet collapsed, killing hundreds of coal miners. Long after hope was gone, diggers found a dozen men walled-in, alive, and, two days later, six more. The fantastic rescue received global coverage, the first of the television...

Bloomsbury presents Girlhood written and read by Melissa Febos. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The...

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. “Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the...

'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'So full of wisdom and pleasure that you don’t want it to end' MAGGIE NELSON 'Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence' KATHERINE MAY A TIME 'must-read' book of 2025 A Vogue, TIME and Vulture 'most anticipated’ book of 2025...

Follow this family of six on their passage - extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreakingly poignant-from Bright Lights (of New York City) to the Northern Lights (of Norway) to the City of Light (Paris) to the speed-of-light of the Autobahn (in Munich). Continue deep into the tropics of Southeast Asia (Singapore) and end your voyage in the heights of the Swiss Alps (Geneva).

Mad Mel’s MicFinding your voice through the chaos.Welcome to Mad Mel’s Mic—a podcast built on honest conversations, real stories and the belief that no one should face life’s challenges alone.I’m Mel, a former NSW Police officer who served for 18 years before being medically retired with PTSD. Like many people living with mental health challenges, I spent a long time feeling isolated and wondering if anyone truly understood what I was going through. It was through hearing other people’s lived experiences that I realised I wasn’t alone—and that’s why I created this ...

Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She’s also opinionated - especially when it comes to people she hates. Like people who think giving birth is a unique achievement. Or well-adjusted - a.k.a. boring - ex-child stars who don’t even have a decent addiction. With all of her diverse experiences, it stands to reason that Joan has seen, done, said, and heard a lot of hateful things. Thank god, she took notes.

A feat of reporting and writing by an award-winning journalist, What’s Done in the Dark tells the story of a shocking pattern of police misconduct in Chicago and the group of working-class women who fought for two decades to expose it In April 1999, the mothers, sisters, and aunts of men...

‘I don’t know if I was born with it, caught it or bought it; I just know that, at some point in my life,a line was crossed: I needed a drink to get through life, to calm the nerves and quiet the head, andvI became reliant on alcohol to change how I felt.’ Sobering is the story of an...

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa...

Bettina Göring's name is her legacy. As the great-niece of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, she grew up in the shadow of his crimes. Early on, she rebelled against her own family's history and escaped the connection to her uncle and into the world of hippies and free spirits of America. Only through confronting her family's dark side could she set herself free.

Thousands of young people consider Melissa Joan Hart an integral part of their childhoods. She played the title roles in the trailblazing Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains It All and the wildly popular Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, but she never let fame go to her head.