Titres dans Femmes

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever...

This gripping audiobook is a strong choice alongside books about high-demand religion, overcoming odds, and finding inner strength in impossible situations."—Booklist (Starred Review) This program is read by the author. “Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers “Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women...

Alors que la maladie frappe ses proches et que son désir d'enfant se trouve percuté par une fausse couche douloureuse, elle prend la plume pour s'attaquer aux croyances qui paralysent depuis toujours sa vie amoureuse et professionnelle. Quand on genre Dieu au féminin et qu'on mange du saucisson pour Kippour, peut-on encore croire au mauvais sort? Être à la fois féministe et jalouse de ses amies? Réussir à devenir mère alors qu'on est toujours la « fifille » de la sienne? Les peurs sont tenaces…

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.

The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.

Marilyn Monroe, born to deprivation and a series of foster homes, became an acting legend of the 20th century. She married famous men, Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, and her many lovers included President John F. Kennedy. Her death, at 36, is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Anthony Summers interviewed 600 people for this book, which reveals unknown truths, some funny, some very sad, about this brilliant but troubled woman. First to gain access to the files of Monroe's last psychiatrist, he throws light on Monroe's troubled psyche.

La rebelle devenue icône. Avec 14 Grammy Awards à son actif, Taylor Swift est passée en une décennie de princesse de la country à reine de la pop américaine. De ses débuts en tant que jeune prodige de la country, à son ascension fulgurante au sommet des charts mondiaux, chacun des succès de Taylor Swift révèle des histoires fascinantes. En plus de sa voix, de sa présence scénique, de ses mélodies, Taylor Swift doit aussi sa popularité à ses qualités uniques de parolière. Puisant son inspiration dans les déboires de sa vie personnelle et sa culture littéraire, elle est une autrice à part dans le paysage musical.

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...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From SNL breakout star Leslie Jones, a hilarious, poignant and ultimately inspiring memoir centered on all the things she wishes her younger self had known. Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the...

'This time they'd ****ed with the wrong person. Either way, I told myself, I would survive this horrific stage of my life and I was going to document it while I did and one day, when it was all over, I was going to show people what really happened. Who I really was. My truth. My story.' THE...

Mieux connue comme la fiancée d'Azincourt d'Henri V, de la pièce Henri V de Shakespeare, Catherine de Valois était une femme de foi, courage et conviction extraordinaire dans un âge de femmes puissantes politiquement. La plus jeune fille du roi Charles VI de France terrorisé par sa maladie mentale, Catherine de Valois survécut les ravages de sa schizophrénie, une guerre civile dans son pays, et la guerre d'Henri V contre la France pour devenir une des reines les plus courageuses et fascinantes de la Renaissance.

Goliarda Sapienza anche da bambina è una bambina che vive un suo mondo violento, senza nessuna concessione, che piange con lacrime di rabbia, che respira l’aspra bellezza siciliana, che vede i suoi genitori per quello che sono: una madre sindacalista, tenace nel distinguersi da tutte le altre «donnette», un padre siciliano dalla testa ai piedi. E per rimettere ordine tra le bugie dei ricordi, recupera dalla memoria frammenti di sé che a poco a poco si compongono nel percorso di una donna che vuole essere padrona della sua vita e della sua felicità.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors...

Christiane F. est le symbole d'une jeune génération qui a rompu avec la société normalisée pour atterrir dans la rue. En quoi ce monde parallèle, avec ses problèmes, ses bruits et ses lieux, était-il fascinant ? Pourquoi tant de jeunes gens ont-ils cherché un nouveau foyer dans les rues de la grande ville de Berlin ? Le documentaire audio suit la jeune Christiane F. depuis son déménagement à Berlin-Ouest jusqu'à sa dépendance à l'héroïne et la prostitution infantile.

*** Elizabeth Day’s new novel, One of Us, is available to pre-order now from Amazon. Out 25th September 2025. *** Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for...

Le 24 juillet 2002 restera à jamais gravé dans la tête et le cœur de Sylvie Bernier. Ce jour-là, son neveu Raphaël, cinq ans, s’est noyé sous ses yeux lors d’une randonnée en canot jusque-là très paisible sur la rivière Nouvelle, en Gaspésie. Un remous a fait chavirer l’embarcation dans laquelle prenait place l’enfant. Le petit Raphaël est resté coincé sous un embâcle.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography One of...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives...

As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, has been an international star since the age of 19. And yet there are sides of Mel that no one has ever seen, or really known. Brutally Honest is an exposé of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind the glamour and success. With deep personal insight, remarkable frankness and Melanie’s trademark Yorkshire humour, this audiobook removes the mask of fame and reveals the mother, wife and daughter behind the Spice Girl everyone thinks they know.