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DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Copilăroasă și matură, egoistă și iubitoare, anxioasă și uneori foarte relaxată, cerebrală, irațională, pasionată de literatură și de petreceri cu băutură și droguri – iată un sumar portret al lui Dolly, personajul principal al cărții. O sumă de contradicții. Dar există totuși ceva constant, un fir roșu care străbate, din copilărie până la maturitate, povestea zbuciumată, pe alocuri picantă, tristă sau extrem de amuzantă: prietenia. Fiindcă dacă iubiții vin și pleacă, prietenele din copilărie și din adolescență rămân ancorele ei sufletești pentru totdeauna.

Dear Listener, This is the story of my journey while slowly cleaning out the closet of my heart following the death of my beloved mother. I wasn’t prepared to lose her. I did the only thing I knew how to do. I kept busy, swallowing every feeling. Then I ended up in the hospital and was forced to stop. While recovering, I began to write these letters. My heart broke wide open; the flood of blocked emotions poured out. Finally, I was able to accept my mother’s death. It’s my deepest hope these letters will bring you, too, a sense of peace. Love, Helen

This biography of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, tells the wild and unlikely story of a British aristocrat who became an American Communist, bringing her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting, often hilarious, account of trading wealth and status for a life of radical activism.

Was hat unser Frausein mit Ost und West zu tun? "Ost*West*frau*. Wie wir wurden, wer wir sind" ist eine subjektive Erkundung, eine transgenerationale und feministische Momentaufnahme. Vor 35 Jahren scheiterte der erste Ost-West-Frauenkongress. Was hat sich seitdem bewegt? "Die Anthologie von Franziska Hauser und Maren Wurster ist somit eine vielstimmige und äußerst lesenswerte Momentaufnahme der aktuellen feministischen Debatte." MDR Kultur. Von Prägungen und Zuschreibungen handeln diese Texte, erzählt anhand der eigenen Biografie, der eigenen Intimität.

Join Annie Temple as she takes you on an uncensored journey. Intimacy & Connection Coach Annie Temple invites you to dive into a world more intriguing than you ever imagined. This touching, candid, and often hilarious memoir takes you from her beginnings as an exotic dancer and sex worker to her rise as a public figure and beloved entertainer.

What would you do if your mom put you in a mental institution because you believed in Care Bears? Where would you hide if the US government was after your family because you knew their darkest secrets? Would you sell everything you owned for a pancake? This is my story of surviving a not-so-normal childhood. A book that will make you laugh, cry, and be totally mental... you have been warned.

As VIBE’s founding fashion editor and a CNN correspondent, Michaela Angela Davis has been at the forefront of cultural shifts, working alongside figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Beyoncé. Her memoir is a celebration of Black media’s vibrant history and a critical examination of its challenges and erasure in mainstream narratives. In Tenderheaded, Davis journeys back through her career as both a celebration and an interrogation of Black media, exploring the difficult truth of how historically Black media titles and brands have had such mighty, culture-shifting starts, then disappeared.

In Bronzville Brooklyn, NY, a single mother with three children faces the relentless challenges of being an immigrant who cannot read. Despite her persistent efforts to secure a stable life through marriage, each attempt ends in failure, culminating in a devastating assault. Struggling to heal and recover, she must confront her hardships with unwavering resolve. "Unwritten Resilience" is a powerful tale of perseverance, illustrating a mother's unbreakable spirit as she fights to overcome adversity and build a brighter future for her family.

As the year turns, four women give birth. Four Mothers follows these women over the next twelve months, through their first year of parenting. Each finds wonder and delight in her baby, but each also struggles with the realities of motherhood, personal relationships bumping up against social challenges. Through immersive storytelling and deep reporting, Abigail Leonard brings to life the policies that shape the experiences of both parents and children: access to healthcare and parental leave, community and workplace support. Both intimate and international, we see what is and what could be.

There are women who ruled vast swathes of the African continent. They led, loved and fought for their kingdoms and people and their impact can still be felt today. However, beyond the lands they called home, so few of us have heard their names. From pre-colonial Nigeria to the rich plains of Rwanda, from Ancient Egypt to apartheid South Africa, historian Akpan writes the stories of these powerful queens and takes you on a spellbinding, enrapturing and immersive journey that is nothing short of revelatory.

Раиса Горбачева… Эта женщина стала знаковой фигурой не только перестройки, не только конца прошлого века, но и новейших времен в целом. Олицетворением родной страны, замечательным, талантливым полпредом ее в мире. Женщина, ломавшая закосневшие стереотипы и самоотверженно, по зову сердца, а не только по роли супруги Президента, первой Леди СССР, шедшая на помощь обездоленным, и особенно – детям. Горячо, щедро и бескорыстно поддерживала она ребятишек, страдающих заболеванием крови, – как будто предчувствуя и собственный уход от этой страшной болезни.

L. Annette Binder’s Child of Earth and Starry Heaven is a memoir of motherhood, memory and memory loss. It looks to mythology, science, poetry, history, and fiction to find beauty and meaning even as Annette’s mother succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. Sad and joyous, the book is a meditation on what makes us human.

When she was seventeen years old, Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland from Australia. She’d never seen snow before, didn’t speak a word of Icelandic. All she knew was that she wanted to have an experience – to soak up something of the world. Soon she found herself isolated in a remote part of Iceland in a dark winter. It was a gruelling experience, but she quickly fell in love with the country: with its brutally beautiful landscapes and with its people. On returning home, Hannah had found a story, and so she began to write.

The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife—instead she challenged the Roman patriarchy and sought to increase her influence in the face of determined opposition.

In The Succulent Kiss, Tina shares her true story of survival. She chronicles her harrowing escape from the grips of mental and physical abuse, to reclaim her identity and discover the juicy romance she longed for.

Caitlin Clark arrived as a sports and cultural icon a little more than fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the 1972 law that opened the floodgates for girls and women to play sports in America. On Her Game is a sports story, certainly, but it’s also the story of a nation falling in love with what it has created because of that law—millions of new athletes, led by the magical Caitlin Clark.

At the beginning of the year, Kitty Ruskin decided it was time to embrace her sexuality, taking advantage of all the joys that being young, free and single bring and having fun, easy, no-strings sex with whomsoever she desired. She got on the apps and started swiping. What followed was sometimes sexy, frequently funny, occasionally shocking and, sadly, all too often fraught with pain and danger. It was not the carefree adventure she had envisaged; it was something altogether darker.

Sometimes the darkest secrets need the power of friendship to set things right. As friends who had lost touch over the years, Barb and Gayle’s fateful reacquaintance one Halloween night revealed they had a lot more in common than either expected—including their deepest-kept secrets. The truth was, they each held romantic obsessions with married men alongside the damaging belief that they couldn't let go of one partner until they had found another man to hold on to.

In Walking the Tideline, Caroline Kurtz solo hikes the rugged, beautiful Oregon Coast—an expedition of isolation, adventure, joy, and grief inside the emotional wilderness of finding one's identity after the death of a loved one.

In the world of radical Black politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism, the founder of the modern reparations movement, and a mentor to some of America's most influential Black activists from her homes in North Philadelphia and Harlem.