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An international bestseller — One of Barnes & Noble's Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2022 — Selected by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2022 — Amazon's choice for one of the best book gifts of 2023. Madly, Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman — one of the most magnetic, beloved performers of our time. From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor.

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about a tragedy in their past.

Pulitzer Prize winner • National Book Award finalist • A New York Times notable book • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem). “Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza’s chronicle is both personal and political.”—The Washington Post. A best book of the year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Electric Lit October 18, 2019.

Un jour, ma mère m'a appris que j'avais une dette envers quelqu'un. Un type que ni elle ni moi n'aimions. Je ne savais pas quoi faire de cet aveu. Alors je l'ai enfoui dans ma « chambre des vérités embarrassantes ». À cinquante ans, j'ai décidé d'écrire une lettre à cet odieux personnage. Pour mieux comprendre et peut-être me libérer de cette dette. Je croyais en avoir pour quelques soirs, mais ça m'a pris des mois. Car ce n'est pas tous les jours qu'on écrit à... Nicolae Ceaușescu, tyran de la Roumanie pendant vingt-deux ans.

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.

Dans l'incipit de ses Confessions, Rousseau, philosophe modeste, affirme d'emblée que son entreprise est inédite: une peinture de soi vraie et sans détours. Les Confessions sont en effet une autobiographie dans lequel Rousseau parle de Jean-Jacques depuis son enfance.

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone). Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.

Il y a une douzaine d'années, un événement tragique et fondateur a bouleversé ma vie : je suis mort, puis revenu à la vie. Ce livre ne raconte pas cet épisode en détail. Ce n'est pas un récit sur la maladie, la douleur ou la mort, mais une célébration de la joie, de l'espoir et de la lumière. Bien que je ne veuille pas être perçu comme un illuminé romantique, il faut reconnaître que j'ai surtout écrit un livre sur l'amour.

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography—and an instant New York Times bestseller—Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap.) "I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time.

Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential. Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike.