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"A hopeful, unifying memoir." – People – "[Simone] Gorrindo's prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir." – The New York Times Book Review. This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman's experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job. When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia.

Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Library Journal. A Kirkus Best of 2024 Nonfiction Pick — A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection — An Apple Books Best Book of March — A 2024 NPR "Book We Love" Pick — A SheReads and ELLE Most Anticipated Book of 2024 — An Esquire Best Memoir of 2024 — A USA Today Bestseller — Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction — A Great Group Reads of 2024 from the Women's National Book Association. Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams—"a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit)—"piercing, intimate" (Time Magazine). Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices—a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag—acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose.

#1 National Bestseller – New York Times Bestseller – Oprah's Book Club Pick – A People Best Book of the Year. Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

«Je rêvais d'être ma propre cause et ma propre fin ; je pensais à présent que la littérature me permettrait de réaliser ce vœu. Elle m'assurerait une immortalité qui compenserait l'éternité perdue ; il n'y avait plus de Dieu pour m'aimer, mais je brûlerais dans des millions de cœurs. En écrivant une œuvre nourrie de mon histoire, je me créerais moi-même à neuf et je justifierais mon existence. En même temps, je servirais l'humanité : quel plus beau cadeau lui faire que des livres ?

La femme en moi est un témoignage poignant et courageux, une histoire de liberté, de célébrité, de maternité, de survie, de foi et d'espoir. En juin 2021, le monde entier a pu entendre Britney Spears s'exprimer sur sa mise sous tutelle lors de son audience publique. Son intervention a fait bouger les lignes. En faisant entendre sa voix - et sa vérité -, elle a non seulement changé sa vie mais aussi celle de nombreuses personnes.

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment. "Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner, emotional-labor abstainer, non-wiper of kitchen counters.

Instant New York Times Bestseller. In this intimate and open account – nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read – Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music, and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen's love letter to his younger brother, Edward (maybe "Ed," but never "Eddie"), written while still mourning his untimely death.

With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the twenty-seven-year-long search for her son Jacob — and its astonishing conclusion. On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty.

Le livre qui a inspiré le film de Clint Eastwood. La formidable histoire du « héros de l'Hudson » et du vol 1549 de l'US Airways adapté au cinéma par Clint Eastwood, avec Tom Hanks dans le rôle de Sully. Janvier 2009. Le monde assiste à l'un des plus spectaculaires amerrissages en urgence de l'histoire de l'aviation de ligne: le commandant Sullenberger pose son Airbus A320, privé de réacteurs, sur la rivière Hudson, sauvant ainsi la vie de 155 passagers et membres d'équipage.