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The new Lean In, from the multi-award-winning Founder and CEO of national non-profit Girls Who Code and New York Times bestselling author Reshma Saujani.

Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.

"Songwriter [and television personality] Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the ... story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars--Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner"--Dust jacket flap.

A provocative and heartfelt new memoir from the brain surgeon and bestselling author of DO NO HARM

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book

From the international bestselling auhor of Gomorrah, this searing expos of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.'The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to understand the modern world ... it is revolutionary' Ed Vulliamy, Observer 'A dense, dazzling, dizzying narrative about the terrifying violence of the cocaine trade, but also the vast, unassailable reach of it' Rose George, Independent 'A tremendously gripping work of reportage' Ian Thomson, Evening Standard'Italy's bravest investigative writer ... must-read nonfiction' GQ'Impassioned, remarkable' Misha Glenny, Financial Times'After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again' The New York Times

By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect 50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock n roll, motorbikes and the get down boys seen at gigs in and around Cleveland Mitch Ryder, the Jeff Beck Group, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie among the many.Wrapped up in the Kent State University riots and getting dangerously involved in the local biker and drug scenes, she escaped - to Mexico, Canada, Paris and finally London where she caught the embryonic punk scene just in time not only to witness it first-hand, but more importantly to seize the opportunity to form her own band, the Pretenders.Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Vivienne & Malcolm, Ray Davies on every page household names mingle with small town heroes as we shift from bedroom to biker HQ; from squat to practice room; from pub gig to Top Of The Pops the long and crooked path to stardom, and for the Pretenders, ultimately, tragedy.That Chrissie Hynde is alive to tell the tale is, by her own admission, something of a miracle. Throughout she is brutally honest, wryly humorous and always highly entertaining. She has written one of the most evocative and colourful music memoirs to be published in recent years.

Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow.In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head', the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Over a decade later, The Room is an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising and thousands of plastic spoons. In The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar, recounts the film's bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie's many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself. But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, The Disaster Artist is an honest and warm testament to friendship.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the hugely successful The Fry Chronicles, brilliantly read by Stephen Fry himself. Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Frys autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with a reading that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.

Now at last in a single, abridged volume the definitive life.When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw s biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure ever to hold power in modern Europe. In the face of considerable demand for such an edition, Kershaw has now created a single volume version. The result is a frightening, fascinating narrative of how a bitter provincial failure from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power; how the half-baked, contemptible ideas of a vagrant former art student coalesced into an ideology that for twelve horrific years shaped the fate of millions; and how both in his determination to impose his will militarily and to fend off his many enemies he unleashed a genocidal Armageddon. No one individual can stand in as the scapegoat for the vast social, technological, economic and military forces that shape our societies but if ever there was one man whose ideas and personality shaped and cowed those forces, as well as embodying them, it was Hitler. This is his story and Kershaw tells it with unique authority, and with moral anger.

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club Our Shared Shelf It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times'Greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year'A work of obvious genius' Literary Review'A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim' Evening Standard'Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art' The Times Literary Supplement 'I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis' Observer'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin, IndependentW . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work.Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.

Efter lange overvejelser valgte den unge Tove fra Aarhus i 1981 at flytte til DDR for at blive gift med sin østtyske kæreste. Hun tilbragte de næste otte år i landet, og historien om mødet mellem den ukuelige danske pige og det lukkede og stærkt overvågede system skildrede hun veloplagt og indsigtsfuldt i bogen "Kærlighed i kommunismens tid - et dansk liv i DDR", som udkom i 2017. Bogen fik en rosende modtagelse i pressen: "En særdeles læseværdig bog." (Jyllands-Posten) "Kærlighed i kommunismens tid er et fint og af og til morsomt indblik i et liv, der for mange af os naboer i årevis var et mysterium." (Politiken) "Forfatteren finder en fin balance mellem det private og det, der er af interesse for andre." (Kristelig Dagblad) "Dette er simpelthen en pragtfuld bog." (Historie Online)

Min oldefar (min morfars far), Jens Jacobsen, blev født i 1831 i Alken nær Skanderborg og døde i 1907, 76 år gammel. Han var landsoldat i krigen i 1864, og efter at være såret ved det skæbnesvangre slag ved Dybbøl den 18. april, kom han til København, hvor han tilbragte 4 måneder på et lazaret. Det er af denne grund, at der findes disse breve; for normalt skrev fattige folk på landet jo ikke breve til familien, men når man var så langt væk så længe, var det jo den mulighed for kontakt, man havde. De fleste af brevene er naturligt nok til hans kone, men her er også korrespondance til og fra andre i familien og flere af hans krigskammerater. Alle disse gamle breve - 34 ialt - er her transkriberet fra gotisk håndskrift, og de er skrevet nøjagtigt som de oprindeligt er skrevet med stavefejl, manglende tegnsætning osv. Nogle steder er brevene svære at læse. Brevene har givetvis været læst mange gange, og det er ofte i papirets folder, de har været umulige at tyde. Det er ikke kun interessant at læse beretningerne om landsoldaternes dagligdag og de egentlige krigshandlinger såvel i Fredericia i marts 1864 som ved Dybbøl i april, men vi får også en del at vide om livet hos den fattige landbefolkning.

»Der er en revne, en revne i alting. Det er sådan lyset kommer ind« Leonard Cohen. Sårbarheden har kvaliteter i sig, som det menneskelige øje har svært ved at se. Gud ser det! Han bruger det uperfekte og skrøbelige, og sådan kommer den guddommelige herlighed til syne i verden. Del 1 indeholder en personlig fortælling om en barndom på landet, om vovemod i ungdommen og et voksenliv med mange udfordringer. Dilemmaer og personlig udvikling kommer bl.a. til udtrykt gennem breve og dagsbogsnotater. Del 2 blev skrevet under et ferieophold i byen Torrox i Andalusien, Spanien. Her udspilles en dramatisk virkelighed, krydret med detaljerede beskrivelser af tanker, drømme, og oplevelser. Del 3 er en personlig fortælling, om det der ramte familien, da vores ældste søn begik selvmord. Med udgivelsen af bogen håber jeg, at historien må være med til at åbne, så mennesker kan se hinanden i øjnene, og tale om alt det skrøbelige og tabubelagte. Det perfekte findes ikke, der er skår i alting. Men vores sammenbrud og skår er ikke meningsløse, de kan bruges i al sin ufuldkommenhed i kærlighedens tjeneste.

Grevinde Danner, født Louise Rasmussen, er en af danmarkshistoriens mest berømte kvinder. Hun brød samtidens strenge moral, da hun i 1840’erne indledte et kærlighedsforhold til og siden giftede sig med Frederik VII, som på det tidspunkt allerede havde to ægteskaber bag sig. Det vakte skandale, fordi Louise ikke alene var fra arbejderklassen, men tillige havde et barn uden for ægteskab med Carl Berling, som hun elskede og gennem hele livet bevarede en tæt forbindelse med.Bodil Wamberg går i sit portræt ind under huden på den kloge, sensible kvinde, hvis liv på var præget af drama. Vi ser hende blomstre og siden lide som elskerinde til en mand, der ikke turde gifte sig med hende, og vi følger hende i rollen som kongens store kærlighed, der i årevis var hans holdepunkt og forhindrede ham i at gå til grunde i druk.Grevinde Danner betalte en høj pris for at følge sit hjerte og have et selvstændigt liv, og hun kæmpede for både sin egen og det spirende demokratis fremtid.Forfatteren Bodil Wamberg (f. 1929) er uddannet cand.mag. i dansk og engelsk og arbejdede i en lang årrække som lektor på Danmarks Lærerhøjskole. Hun er særligt kendt for sine mange biografier om historiske personer, heriblandt Leonora Christine, H.C. Andersen, Grevinde Danner og Mathilde Fibiger."En smuk bog om et bevægende menneske." – Information"Endnu en gang lever Bodil Wamberg op til sit ry som "de store damers skildrer" ved at gå bag om storheden og ind i mennesket." – Jyllands-Posten

El Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a este, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizas, solo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de vidas rotas en una urdimbre firme, coherente, significativa y responsable es el objeto con que se enfrenta la logoterapia. En esta obra, Viktor E. Frankl explica la experiencia que le llevo al descubrimiento de la logoterapia. Prisionero, durante mucho tiempo, en los desalmados campos de concentracion, el mismo sintio en su propio ser lo que significaba una existencia desnuda. Como pudo el que todo lo había perdido, que habia visto destruir todo lo que valia la pena, que padecio hambre, frio, brutalidades sin fin, que tantas veces estuvo a punto del exterminio, como pudo aceptar que la vida fuera digna de vivirla? El psiquiatra que personalmente ha tenido que enfrentarse a tales rigores merece que se le escuche, pues nadie como el para juzgar nuestra condicion humana sabia y compasivamente. Las palabras del doctor Frankl alcanzan un temple sorprendentemente esperanzador sobre la capacidad humana de trascender sus dificultades y descubrir la verdad conveniente y orientadora.

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”––The Guardian Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death’s place in our lives. Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet, this book arranges Rilke’s letters into an uninterrupted sequence, showcasing the full range of the great author’s thoughts on death and dying, as well as his sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence.Presented with care and authority by master translator Ulrich Baer, The Dark Interval is a literary treasure, an indispensable resource for anyone searching for solace, comfort, and meaning in a time of grief.Praise for The Dark Interval “Even though each of these letters of condolence is personalized with intimate detail, together they hammer home Rilke’s remarkable truth about the death of another: that the pain of it can force us into a ‘deeper . . . level of life’ and render us more ‘vibrant.’ Here we have a great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins “As we live our lives, it is possible to feel not sadness or melancholy but a rush of power as the life of others passes into us. This rhapsodic volume teaches us that death is not a negation but a deepening experience in the onslaught of existence. What a wise and victorious book!”—Henri Cole

An illustrated account of the film and fashion icon whose legacy has endured long after her death.

"When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good!". The updated autobiography of the greatest frontman of the loudest rock band there has ever been. Accept no other story from journalists. This is Lemmy's story from his own mouth.

A graphic novel version of the dramatic life and untimely death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

How Hollywood's most powerful woman changed her life by learning to say yes and how it can change your life too

A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed. Kristin introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, sexy Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who helped her transform into "Kristin-Adjacent" on the road-a slower, softer, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling, candid reflection, and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is a compelling debut that will have readers rushing to renew their passports.

As a medical student, Dr Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine - so readily available in the developed world - to those who need them most. The author's account shows how, from achieving this modest dream, one person can make a difference in solving global problems.

Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.