Títulos em Mulheres

When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Fresh from the neon-lit publishing offices of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of the rural community, and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting.

When award-winning journalist Justine van der Leun first reported on the issue of criminalized survival, she was astonished to see how women were being imprisoned for protecting themselves against abuse. She wondered how often survivors are targeted for prosecution. To find out, she began an intensive, years-long investigation—traveling coast to coast and collecting more than a thousand personal accounts from women’s prisons.

Andreea, giovane universitaria, arriva ad Alessandria dalla Romania per proseguire gli studi. Inaspettatamente, dopo pochi mesi, a Genova conosce Paolo, si innamora e di lì a un anno nasce Elena. A poco più di un anno di età la bambina inizia ad accusare sintomi di cui non si conosce l'origine. Per i genitori comincia un viaggio pieno di incertezze, ricoveri e preoccupazioni fino alla diagnosi di una rarissima malattia genetica.

"Ich war bei der Geburt meiner Tochter nicht dabei." Lange quält Frieda Lewin dieser Gedanke, denn die Geburt ihres Kindes endet mit einem Notkaiserschnitt, beide überleben nur knapp. Danach leidet Frieda unter dem traumatischen Erlebnis und dem Gefühl, als Mutter versagt zu haben. Erst eine Traumatherapie hilft ihr - und die Erkenntnis, nicht allein zu sein. In ihrem Hörbuch bricht sie darum mit dem Tabu um traumatische Geburten und ruft mit viel Humor zu mehr Milde mit sich selbst auf.

Las chicas malas de la República fueron, en general, muy buenas, porque fueron muy libres, o cuando menos porque lo intentaron, pero cuando España devino en una inmensa prisión aquella época quedó congelada y olvidada. Rafael Torres narra con maestría y emoción una galería extraordinaria de mujeres feministas y no feministas, audaces y conservadoras, lesbianas y heterosexuales, sensatas y vehementes, ateas y religiosas, pobres y ricas, aviadoras y misses, desfallecidas e irreductibles, nudistas y amantes de la moda.

Part Devil Wears Prada coming-of-age story, part career advice, and part memoir, Shards in My Hair captures the chaos and the sometimes unfair and challenging aspects of business, while pulling back the curtain on the level of persistence and resilience that it takes to make it. Counter to Lean In’s heavy-handed blame-game of what women “should do,” Shards explores what women (and men!) actually have to do to survive and thrive. But it’s not just about business. As a single mom, Cindie Jamison pulls back the curtain on the very real challenges of trying to juggle it all.

From Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley comes a candid memoir in which she peels back the layers of her life and shares the unscripted moments that shaped who she is.

Dating While Mommying isn't just another how-to dating book, it's a lifeline for women navigating the uncharted waters of midlife romance while packing lunches, attending parent-teacher conferences, and helping adult children find apartments.

Waxing Pathetic is a sardonic, often hilarious, raging stream of consciousness from one mad American woman. From the pathetic to the political, the lunatic to the poetic, Clark's memoir is a masterwork of dry wit and piercing observation.

Elephant Mountain is the gripping tale of Debbie Ethell, a young woman whose fascination with an elephant skull in a bone museum leads her down an unexpected path. What begins as a curiosity about the tragic love story of Morgan Berry, the man who gave us Packy (the first baby elephant born in a U.S. zoo in forty-four years), and Eloise Berchtold, one of the world’s greatest animal trainers, soon becomes a chilling mystery.

There are many reasons a person might find themselves living as part of a cult, but one of the most defenseless members of these communities are the children who are raised in this traumatic lifestyle without a say in the matter. They don’t know anything different until the deeply rooted damage is done, forcing them to make the impossible decision to leave everything behind in order to heal — or choose to stay in the depths of what they’ve always known. The only way out is through.

She stood at his service wearing red. Not in defiance, not in denial – but in love. Because grief is not just sorrow; it is the bold echo of a love that never fades. And red is not just a color – it is the flame of the Holy Spirit and the fire that refuses to be extinguished.” When Rachel Kerr Schneider lost her husband, the world expected her to mourn in black – to withdraw, to disappear into sorrow. But she made a different choice. She wore red. Not because she wasn’t grieving, but because love – real love – is too vibrant, too deep, too enduring to be cloaked in darkness.

A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts is a raw, arresting dive beneath the glossy surface of American evangelicalism, exposing the often-invisible damage of spiritual abuse. Drawing on her upbringing in the Christian Patriarchy Movement, her former role as a ministry leader, and her work founding the nonprofit Tears of Eden, Katherine Spearing offers an unflinching look at the wounds that religious institutions cause, which are impossible to ignore, and helps you name and understand them.

Un récit motivant et plein de bienveillance qui aidera les mamans à croire en elles, en leurs projets et à trouver la parfaite harmonie entre vie familiale, accomplissement professionnel et personnel.

A story about a little girl separated from her family at age four.

A Bible study dropout with her own family to care for, Nikki was tired of being the spiritual problem child at the top of her pious mother's prayer list. What would it take to earn back her salvation and secure her mother's blessing once and for all? The answer eludes her until a sudden diagnosis challenges Nikki to embrace her mother's faith to find her own, leading them on a perilous five-day journey together that ends with an unexpected miracle.

A Nurse's Transformative Journey from Victim and Violence to Compassion and Confidence. Not One More Day is Candice Morrow’s gripping story of surviving family and spousal abuse, breaking destructive generational cycles & claiming personal power. Raised in an abusive, violent home, Candice later married a man who broke her bones, bruised her body, berated her, and even had her placed behind bars. She lived in constant fear, trying to survive while raising her two young sons. For years, Candice’s family had told her she was too stupid to attend college.

Alter ist kein Ende, sondern ein Neubeginn. Das zeigen Frauen wie Vivian Gornick, Jane Campbell, Carmen Herrera, Lucinda Childs oder Ulrike Edschmid. Manche haben sich neu erfunden, andere haben immer weitergemacht und schaffen im hohen Alter dann den internationalen Durchbruch als Künstlerinnen und Schriftstellerinnen. Sie sind mutig, fordern nichts ein, aber nehmen sich, was sie brauchen. Ein Hörbuch über Freiheit im Alter jenseits gesellschaftlicher Klischees.

How does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created "the worst hoarder house ever seen?" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades. Moving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to recollecting her past and long buried family secrets, Kossmann seeks to untangle a web of complicated familial relationships.

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this second book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a frightening incident in a dorm, a bizarre story about missing polyester pants, weird work situations with a bikini and an explosion, the agony of coming-of-age, and an unsettling truth about a deceptive friend.