Títulos em Biografias e Memórias

We all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed. Yet the single most important question about him has never been answered. The young, impulsive, egotistical genius was ousted in the mid-'80s from the company he founded, exiled from his own kingdom and cast into the wilderness. Yet he returned a decade later to transform the ailing Apple into the most successful company the world had ever seen.

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

Philip Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the definitive portrait of John Lennon. This biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint.

Da pequena Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, que trocava as bonecas pelo minigravador de plástico, ao grande mito da música pop da atualidade.

Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times and number one LA Times best seller Living With a Seal, now with two bonus sections. Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler will try almost anything. His life is about being bold and risky. So when Jesse felt himself drifting on autopilot, he hired a rather unconventional trainer to live with him for a month-an accomplished Navy SEAL widely considered to be "the toughest man on the planet"!

The billion-dollar Hollywood producer provides a master mentorship by sharing secrets to success honed from working with the biggest stars in the world. Whether you’re just starting out or ready to make a major move, Who Better Than You? is a wildly entertaining roadmap to being successful in an unpredictable world, featuring behind-the-scenes Hollywood lessons, empowering guidance, and indispensable encouragement.

Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her.

On the eve of Edafe Okporo’s twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years—that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived just days before the tumultuous 2016 Presidential Election.

When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale.

Garrard—filho de um pastor da igreja Batista, criado em uma cidadezinha conservadora no sul dos Estados Unidos—foi convencido pelos próprios pais a apagar uma parte de si. Em uma tentativa desesperada de agradá-los e de não ser expulso do convívio da família, ele quase se destruiu por completo, mas encontrou forças para buscar sua identidade e hoje é ativista contra as terapias de conversão.

What happens when one man decides to rely on prayer alone to meet every need? Sincere attempts to define George Müller as a preacher, evangelist, or a man who cared for the poor, fail to illustrate why you should read about him. The man who cared for over 10,000 orphans and established 120 schools is best remembered for the principles by which he lived his life — principles that are now within your reach.

Memórias de uma moça bem-comportada é uma esplêndida autobiografia de uma das maiores escritoras do século xx, Simone de Beauvoir. Dona de um espírito inconformado e autêntico, Simone nos mostra sua infância religiosa numa família de classe média parisiense, a adolescência rebelde e a posterior devoção à literatura. Ela evoca vividamente suas amizades, seus interesses amorosos, seus mentores e o início da duradoura relação com o escritor e filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre.

C.S. Lewis novamente comunica sabedoria profunda, desta vez por meio de vinte e duas cartas entre correspondentes fictícios nas quais compartilha sua compreensão do papel da oração em nossa vida e as maneiras pelas quais podemos imaginar melhor nosso relacionamento com Deus.

Tom Jobim mudou a história da música brasileira com a bossa nova e suas canções, que influenciaram pelo menos duas gerações de compositores. E levou essa música para o mundo. Mas disso os leitores provavelmente já sabem. O que Ruy Castro mostra em O ouvidor do Brasil é um Tom por vezes inesperado e desconhecido, que emerge sob diferentes ângulos em cada crônica. Em conjunto, os textos formam uma espécie de perfil biográfico fragmentado de um dos maiores artistas que o Brasil já teve.

In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.

É desconcertante a sinceridade com que Maura Lopes Cançado desfia suas lembranças. Sem nunca escorregar no sentimentalismo ou na autopiedade, este volume é um poderoso testemunho sobre a trajetória da autora, que viveu uma infância abastada no interior de Minas Gerais antes de passar por diversas internações em hospitais psiquiátricos em Belo Horizonte e no Rio de Janeiro.

Ao trazer a morte da mãe para o centro deste relato, Noemi Jaffe, uma das principais vozes da literatura brasileira, expõe de forma brutal as feridas do luto e o que é possível fazer para vivê-lo. Em fevereiro de 2020, aos 93 anos, falece Lili, sobrevivente do Holocausto, mãe de três filhas e viúva. Sua doença vinha se estendendo há tempos, mas isso não faz com que a dor de sua partida seja menor. A banalidade da causa, "uma infecção nos pés", é confrontada com um sentimento de descrença. Como é possível que aquela que sempre esteve presente não exista mais?

O amado astro de Friends nos conduz aos bastidores dessa série de sucesso e narra a luta que enfrentou contra o vício neste sincero audiolivro de memórias. Divertido e revelador, Amigos, Amores e Aquela Coisa Terrível traz uma poderosa mensagem de esperança e resiliência.

At just 22, on the cusp of adult life, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukaemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. For the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At 27, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realised that, having survived, she now had no idea how to live. And so she set out to meet some of the many strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life death, healing and recovery.

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."