Titres dans Femmes

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry...

Named one of Time Magazine International's 30 most important people of 2005, Maud Fontenoy presents us with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she challenges the Pacific Ocean - a feat no woman before her ever accomplished. Already the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic, Maud raised the bar to defy the elements, the daunting solitude, and the circling sharks of the South Pacific on her second solo voyage.

From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in Los Angeles as a porn star named Karmen Karma, overcoming her relationship with her abusive mother, and her struggle to maintain a clean and sober lifestyle - van de Bunt's life has been a roller coaster. With humor, alacrity, and profound insight, she reveals her deepest, darkest secrets and pulls no punches - least of all with herself.

A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets. Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms.

Isabelle Tronquet est hôtesse de l'air. En vingt ans de carrière, elle en a vu des vertes et des pas mûres. L'alcool, la claustrophobie ou encore la peur de l'avion révèlent, parfois, nos plus bas instincts... Pour chacune des 110 histoires, vous allez (enfin) savoir ce que pensent vraiment hôtesses et stewards quand les passagers dépassent les bornes ! Installez-vous confortablement pour déguster ce cocktail céleste mélangeant crises de nerfs, sexe, règlements de compte et belles histoires...

Emmanuelle, jeune femme libérée et parisienne. Qu'est ce qu'être une femme aujourd'hui ? Il n'y a pas une réponse, pas de statistiques, mais des paroles, du vécu, des expériences, des anecdotes, des récits de vie, des confessions. Découvrez notre nouvelle collection sonore qui donne la parole aux femmes. Ces femmes nous parlent comme elles n'ont encore jamais parlé à personne.

"My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?" Being an introvert in a world that glorifies cool isn't easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, is that introvert--whether she's navigating love, work, friendships, or rapping--it sure is entertaining.

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many...

Une épopée féministe, portée par un duo complémentaire de comédiennes ! Avant d'être portée disparue avec son biplan en 1950, Marian Graves aura passé sa vie à se jouer des règles imposées au " sexe faible ". Son lien indéfectible avec l'aventure et le danger s'établit dès ses premiers mois, quand elle est sauvée d'un paquebot en flammes. Puis, confiée à la garde d'un oncle fantasque dans le Montana, elle comprend à 12 ans qu'elle ne veut qu'une chose : piloter. Un rêve audacieux, mais si irrésistible qu'il la conduira à tenter un tour du globe par les deux pôles.

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cultural life in the 19th century, as well as someone who confronted with unusual determination and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.

Comment peut-on quitter l'homme que toutes les femmes désirent ? Vue de l'extérieur, la vie de Priscilla avait tout d'un conte de fées. Mais derrière les grilles de Graceland se cachait une réalité plus compliquée. Après dix ans de vie commune, Priscilla comprit qu'elle devait quitter l'univers d'Elvis pour se retrouver elle-même.

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age...

The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and...

It's never too late to chase your dreams: Before she discovered running, Nita Sweeney was 49-years-old, chronically depressed, occasionally manic, and unable to jog for more than 60 seconds at a time. Using exercise, Nita discovered an inner strength she didn't know she possessed, and with the help of her canine companion, she found herself on the way to completing her first marathon. In her memoir, Sweeney shares how she overcame emotional and physical challenges to finish the race and come back from the brink.

Lauren Bastide reçoit dans une chambre d'hôtel une femme inspirante, artiste, activiste, politique pour une conversation intime et profonde sur son enfance, sa carrière et ses combats. Comment les femmes qui font le 21ème siècle ont-elles été façonnées par l'éducation qu'elles ont reçue, les invectives de la société, leur rapport à leur corps ? Un nouvel épisode, un jeudi sur deux.

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.

Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that to have it all, they must do it all, Dufu began to feel that achieving her career and personal goals was an impossibility. Eventually, she discovered the solution: letting go. In Drop the Ball, Dufu recounts how she learned to reevaluate expectations, shrink her to-do list, and meaningfully engage the assistance of others.

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military...

"Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound. Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you." —Oprah “Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and love.” —Brené Brown One of BookPage's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2021...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan’s new standup special, Unspeakable Things, and her hit sitcom, Leanne, both available on Netflix. The beloved...