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Clementine

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“Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York TimesFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller A Woman of No Importance, a long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate dynamic of one of history’s most fateful marriages. Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been “impossible” without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Why, then, do we know so little about her? In this landmark biography, a finalist for the Plutarch prize, Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine Churchill her due. Born into impecunious aristocracy, the young Clementine Hozier was the target of cruel snobbery. Many wondered why Winston married her, when the prime minister’s daughter was desperate for his attention. Yet their marriage proved to be an exceptional partnership. "You know,"Winston confided to FDR, "I tell Clemmie everything." Through the ups and downs of his tumultuous career, in the tense days when he stood against Chamberlain and the many months when he helped inspire his fellow countrymen and women to keep strong and carry on, Clementine made her husband’s career her mission, at the expense of her family, her health and, fatefully, of her children. Any real consideration of Winston Churchill is incomplete without an understanding of their relationship. Clementine is both the first real biography of this remarkable woman and a fascinating look inside their private world. "Sonia Purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves. Sensitive yet clear-eyed, Clementine tells the fascinating story of a complex woman struggling to maintain her own identity while serving as the conscience and principal adviser to one of the most important figures in history. I was enthralled all the way through." –Lynne Olson, bestselling author of Citizens of London

Dani's Story

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The story that captivated a nation?how a horribly neglected little girl was rescued by her loving adoptive parentsIn July 2005, a six-year-old girl named Danielle was removed from her Florida home after authorities found her living in bug-ridden squalor, subjected to horrific neglect and so damaged by her own mother that recovery seemed hopeless. But hope was waiting for Dani?and help. In October 2007, Bernie and Diane Lierow, a hard-working couple with five boys of their own, adopted her and utterly transformed her life. This book tells the moving story of how the Lierows rescued Dani and helped her recover to the point where she can not only communicate, something once thought impossible, but can say of herself, "I pretty."Dani's story was featured on Oprah and the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article published by the St. Petersburg TimesThe Lierows describe their struggle to adopt Dani, how they bonded with her and made a home for her, how they satisfied her craving for contact and stimuli, how Dani began to overcome her severe learning disabilities, how she learned she no longer had to steal food, and how their son Willie may be the greatest brother everFor readers who enjoyed Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope; Hope's Boy; and Sickened: The True Story of a Lost ChildhoodCharting a perilous journey from hardship to hope, a new family, and a second chance at life, Dani's Story is a book you cannot put down and will never forget.

Herculine Barbin

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With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris.Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative, articulate, eerily prescient as she imagines her corpse under the probing instruments of scientists, Herculine brings a disturbing perspective to our own notions of sexuality. Michel Foucault, who discovered these memoirs in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene, presents them with the graphic medical descriptions of Herculine's body before and after her death. In a striking contrast, a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality.

Eva Braun

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In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer’s proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker paints a portrait of Hitler and Braun’s life together with unnerving quotidian detail—Braun chose the movies screened at their mountaintop retreat (propaganda, of course); he dreamed of retiring with her to Linz one day after relinquishing his leadership to a younger man—while weaving their personal relationship throughout the fabric of one of history’s most devastating regimes. Though Braun gradually gained an unrivaled power within Hitler’s inner circle, her identity was kept a secret during the Third Reich, until the final days of the war. Faithful to the end, Braun committed suicide with Hitler in 1945, two days after their marriage. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker has meticulously built a surprising portrait of Hitler’s bourgeois existence outside of the public eye. Though Eva Braun had no role in Hitler’s policies, she was never as banal as she was previously painted; she was privy to his thoughts, ruled life within his entourage, and held his trust. As horrifying as it is astonishing, Eva Braun will undoubtedly be referenced in all future accounts of this period.

Burnt

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Burnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting from California’s first—and only—female chief of fire protection, a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field. Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it’s an unexpected one. It’s about finding your home, even if you aren’t immediately welcomed. And it’s about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don’t look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was 17 years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn’t look like her peers, who sported an Adam’s apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she’d try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank’s inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. Mentors and mediocre managers, funerals and scandal, pickup basketball, car crashes, and always fire—no one has written about this world, from this perspective, like Clare Frank. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking readers inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility.Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire is an unforgettable memoir from an American original.

Asesinato

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La mañana del 6 de octubre de 1978 fueron encontrados decapitados a machetazos los cuerpos de la escritora Asunción Izquierdo (Ana Mairena) y de su esposo, el político nayarita Gilberto Flores Muñoz, en su domicilio de las Lomas de Chapultepec, en la Ciudad de México. Este doble crimen conmocionó a la sociedad de la época por lo macabro y morboso de los sucesos: aparentemente el nieto de la pareja era el asesino. Movido por la necesidad de encontrar la verdad detrás de unos de los capítulos más oscuros de la historia de la procuración de justicia en México, Vicente Leñero mostró cómo los intereses de la clase política y la alta sociedad de su tiempo manejaban a su conveniencia los hilos del sistema judicial, más preocupados en señalar públicamente a un culpable que en encontrar al verdadero responsable. Pieza literaria de la mejor factura, Asesinato representa un claro ejemplo del llamado «método Leñero», en el que se integra la excelencia narrativa con la veracidad del documento: no hay fuentes secretas, ni versiones no confirmadas, sino hechos verificados que se entretejen a través de un ritmo narrativo vertiginoso; un método que ha servido de escuela para un gran número de periodistas y narradores y en el que el lector encontrará una muestra brillante del talento de Vicente Leñero.

Meu Abrigo, Minha Tempestade

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Nestas páginas, a minha mãe, a minha gângster, viverá. Ela era o meu abrigo e a minha tempestade. Destroçada pela morte da mãe em setembro de 2022, mas também intrigada e “bastante envergonhada” pela intensidade da sua reação, Arundhati Roy decidiu dar um sentido às suas emoções em relação à mulher de quem fugiu aos dezoito anos, “não por não a amar, mas para poder continuar a amá-la”. Assim começa este surpreendente, por vezes perturbador, mas também inesperadamente divertido relato da vida da autora desde a infância em Kerala, na Índia.

Le cirque du Père Lachaise

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

La Forza della Ragione

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“Stavolta non mi appello alla rabbia, all’orgoglio, alla passione. Mi appello alla Ragione.” La pubblicazione de La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio, dopo il crollo delle due Torri l’11 settembre 2001 a New York, genera un dibattito senza precedenti nel mondo intero. In risposta agli attacchi e alle minacce ricevuti per aver espresso il proprio punto di vista in assoluta libertà e senza condizionamenti, Oriana Fallaci decide di lavorare a un post-scriptum intitolato “Due anni dopo”. Pagine ricche di fatti, notizie, riferimenti, da cui nasce questo nuovo saggio, La Forza della Ragione, un’analisi rigorosa e serrata della storia dell’Europa in chiave filosofica, morale e politica, un approfondimento del rapporto tra Occidente e Islam. “Scriverlo era mio dovere.” Identificandosi in un tal Mastro Cecco che nel 1328 viene bruciato vivo dall’Inquisizione a causa di un libro, la Fallaci si presenta come una Mastra Cecca eretica, irriducibile e recidiva, decisa a battersi per difendere i valori in cui crede e in cui è cresciuta.

You Are Worth It

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The youngest living Medal of Honor recipient delivers an unforgettable memoir that "will inspire every reader” (Jim Mattis)NATIONAL BESTSELLER | A Marine Commandant's Reading List selectionOn November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward Kyle and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Kyle chose a path of selfless heroism that few can imagine. He jumped on the grenade, saving Nick but sacrificing his own body. Kyle Carpenter’s heart flatlined three times while being evacuated off the battlefield in Afghanistan. Yet his spirit was unbroken. Severely wounded from head to toe, Kyle lost his right eye as well as most of his jaw. It would take dozens of surgeries and almost three years in and out of the hospital to reconstruct his body. From there, he began the process of rebuilding his life. What he has accomplished in the last nine years is extraordinary: he’s come back a stronger, better, wiser person.In 2014, Kyle was awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his “singular act of courage” on that rooftop in Afghanistan, an action which had been reviewed exhaustively by the military. Kyle became the youngest living recipient of the award–and only the second living Marine so honored since Vietnam.Kyle’s remarkable memoir reveals a central truth that will inspire every reader: Life is worth everything we’ve got. It is the story of how one man became a so-called hero who willingly laid down his life for his brother-in-arms—and equally, it is a story of rebirth, of how Kyle battled back from the gravest challenge to forge a life of joyful purpose.You Are Worth It is a memoir about the war in Afghanistan and Kyle’s heroics, and it is also a manual for living. Organized around the credos that have guided Kyle’s life (from “Don’t Hide Your Scars” to “Call Your Mom”), the book encourages us to become our best selves in the time we’ve been given on earth. Above all, it’s about finding purpose, regardless of the hurdles that may block our way. Moving and unforgettable, You Are Worth It is an astonishing memoir from one of our most extraordinary young leaders.

Iron Ambition

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From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father. “[Iron Ambition] spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion from scratch.” – Wall Street Journal When Cus D’Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.” D’Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.In Tyson’s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D’Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D’Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainer’s words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. The book also chronicles Cus’s courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we’ve ever known about this singular cultural figure.

Authentische Abenteuer: Lebenswege außergewöhnlicher Menschen

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In 'Authentische Abenteuer: Lebenswege außergewöhnlicher Menschen' entfaltet sich eine faszinierende Reise durch die Geschichte, erzählt von einigen der furchtlosesten und bemerkenswertesten Persönlichkeiten ihrer Zeit. Diese Sammlung bündelt eine beeindruckende Vielfalt literarischer Stile, von spannenden Abenteuern bis hin zu tiefgründigen, introspektiven Schilderungen. Die Geschichten umspannen Kontinente und Jahrhunderte und bieten dem Leser Einblicke in die bemerkenswerten Pfade, die von Abenteurern wie Marco Polo und Pionieren wie T. E. Lawrence geebnet wurden. Diese Werke offenbaren die Herausforderungen, Triumphe und Transformationen ihrer Protagonisten und bieten eine reiche Palette literarischer Erlebnisse. Die zusammengetragenen Beiträge stammen von einer Gruppe außergewöhnlicher Chronisten und Abenteurer, deren Leben und Werke tief in bedeutende historische und kulturelle Bewegungen eingebunden sind. Autobiografische Perspektiven von Persönlichkeiten wie Manfred von Richthofen und narrative Erzählungen von Figuren wie Fjodor Dostojewski illustrieren die Diversität und Tiefe der Themen. Diese Anthologie zeichnet nicht nur das Bild der individuellen Leistungen, sondern auch der kollektiven Motivation, unentdeckte Welten zu erforschen, sei es in der äußeren Welt oder im Innern des menschlichen Geistes. Für Leser, die echtes Abenteuer suchen und ein breites Spektrum von Erfahrungen durchleben möchten, bietet dieses Werk eine einmalige Gelegenheit. Es ist nicht nur ein Tor zu vergangenen Welten, sondern auch ein Werkzeug für das Verständnis der vielfältigen Aspekte menschlichen Strebens und Forschens. Tauchen Sie ein in eine vielseitige Sammlung von Narrativen, die nicht nur den Geist anregen, sondern auch den Dialog zwischen den Geschichten fördern und ein unschätzbares Bildungsniveau bereitstellen. Ein Band, der die Neugier weckt und die Vorstellungswelt bereichert, so dass jeder Leser inspiriert wird, seinen eigenen Weg der Entdeckung fortzusetzen.

Les Frères Karabatic (Tome 1)

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Trois titres olympiques, quatre de champion du monde, quatre de champion d’Europe, vingt et un de champion national, trois Ligues des champions, sans compter trois titres de meilleur joueur du monde, Nikola Karabatic est une légende. Alors qu’il mettra fin à sa carrière de handballeur après les Jeux Olympiques de Paris, ce diptyque, basé sur de nombreux entretiens avec les intéressés, est l’occasion de revenir sur son parcours hors norme, et de comprendre comment s’est construit celui pour qui gagner ne suffit pas, il faut être le meilleur. Un récit richement documenté qui mêle les exploits et l’intime, pour découvrir une face jusqu’alors secrète des frères Karabatic.

The Impostor

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MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud.Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative, which combines fiction and nonfiction, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco’s enigma. With both profound compassion and lacerating honesty, Cercas probes one man’s gigantic lie to explore the deepest, most flawed parts of our humanity.

Manage Your Problems - The Gopal Bhand Way

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The book offers tales of wise men and their battles of wit during the medieval royal Bengal; stories of knotty problems with ingenious solutions and mind fertilizing anecdotes which not only inform, advise, enthuse, inspire and amuse but impart specific and terse wise lessons appropriate to the issues at point to 'Manage the Problems' neatly.The presentation of the book is unique as it can be read from any chapter, but still it will stimulate the reader - like a pealed banana, which can be eaten from any side, thus enjoying its sweetness.

Jean Coulthard

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Jean Coulthard demonstrated that a Canadian woman could be a successful professional composer, whose music was, and still is, played extensively in concert halls across Canada and internationally. Through her seven-decade career she composed in every genre of traditional classical music: opera, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, keyboard, voice, and choir. Coulthard's story was more than that of artist and teacher. She made a place for herself in a male-dominated university and, as a westerner, she fought for the artists of her community. As a traditionalist she upheld aesthetic values she believed important for her and for her audience. This insightful biography shows that behind the productivity and the contented family life, there were intriguing personal and professional friendships, international travel, and cultural politics. She knew and learned from Bartók and Schoenberg, yet in the end, she went her own Canadian way. The Coulthard story is deeply interconnected with twentieth-century Canadian art, and with the rise of Vancouver from provincial outpost to Pacific Rim metropolis. The authors describe several compositions from each stage of Coulthard's life, giving context and assessments of harmonic idiom, form and overall style."Jean Coulthard's harmonies touched me personally and warmed my soul. She has her own musical language, partly West Coast, mostly from another golden universe. She was comfortable with herself, yet kept searching for a different shade of colour to start another canvas. She is a Canadian treasure."—Peter Togni, Composer and CBC Radio Host

Afrokultur

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»Afrokultur« bringt über die Biografien der Schwarzen Wissenschaftler*innen und Aktivist*innen W.E.B. Du Bois, Audre Lorde und May Ayim Schwarze deutsche Geschichte, ihre Gegenwart und Zukunft in einen globalen Zusammenhang und schreibt damit eine intellektuelle Tradition fort. Werden ihre Wissensre_produktionen in einen sozialpolitischen Kontext gebracht, so bedürfen sie keiner Über_Setzung, sondern können in laufende Konventionalisierungs-, Autorisierungs- und Normalisierungsprozesse eingebunden werden, um in der aktuellen politischen Debatte über »Rasse« den Weg zu einem racial turn in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Was aus postkolonialer Beobachtungsperspektive als Intervention in die bestehende vermeintlich »objektive« Ordnung des deutschen Wissen(schaft)ssystems verstanden werden könnte, veranschaulicht anhand kolonialer Ent_Wahrnehmungsgeschichten, inwieweit Kolonialität in Deutschland noch immer andauert, sich in Gesellschaft und Medien widerspiegelt, den Zugang von Schwarzem Wissen ins deutsche Wissensarchiv verhindert und eine Schwarze Perspektive auf die Welt unmöglich macht. Folgerichtig trennt sich die vorliegende Arbeit weitestgehend von rassifizierten Annahmen und sucht selbstbestimmtes Schwarzes Wissen zu akkreditieren und an die Kommunikation von Schwarzen Wissenschaftler*innen und Aktivist*innen weltweit anzuschließen, um »Afrokultur« als Wissenskultur auch in Deutschland kontingenzfähig zu machen.

Padroni del destino

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La lotta armata contro il sistema spietato e disumano dell'apartheid, i quasi trent'anni di carcere, il trionfo politico e la costruzione di un Sudafrica per tutti, fondato sul dialogo e la riconciliazione razziale: la straordinaria vicenda politica e umana di Nelson Mandela ha ispirato migliaia di uomini e leader in tutto il mondo. Richard Stengel, che ha compiuto insieme a lui una parte importante di questo lungo cammino, ha imparato a conoscerlo nelle sue infinite sfumature e contraddizioni: sereno e imperturbabile in apparenza, ma mai immune a dubbi e paure. Oggi, in questo appassionato e commovente ricordo, ci presenta l'eredità di Mandela attraverso la rievocazione di alcuni episodi fondamentali della sua vita, mettendone in luce gli aspetti più privati e meno appariscenti, e raccogliendo il patrimonio inesauribile dei principi che lo hanno guidato nei momenti più drammatici: sul coraggio, che è più dell'assenza di paura; sul valore della squadra e della fiducia, perché quando ci si aspetta il bene dagli altri si aumenta la loro lealtà nei nostri confronti; sulla calma e la lucidità necessarie a fare la scelta giusta: "perché è meglio essere lenti e prudenti piuttosto che veloci solo per dare l'impressione di essere decisi"; sull'importanza non secondaria di farsi da parte al momento giusto: "perché anche deporre le armi può essere una vittoria". "A chi afferma che tutto accade per una ragione precisa, Mandela avrebbe risposto che la ragione siamo noi e che le cose succedono perché siamo noi a volerle" scrive Stengel, catturando nel profondo lo spirito di un combattente straordinario; offrendoci una prospettiva diversa da cui guardare la nostra vita e il mondo che diamo per scontato; spronandoci a riflettere sulle tracce che lasciamo dietro di noi. "Un giorno i miei figli capiranno. Sapranno chi è e cosa è riuscito a fare, di quali valori è stato il campione assoluto. Spero che questo li possa rendere uomini migliori e che sappiano ripagare in qualche modo il dono che hanno ricevuto."

Born to run -Version française-

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« Se raconter est une drôle d'affaire . . . Dans un projet comme celui-ci, l'auteur fait une promesse : laisser le lecteur entrer dans sa tête. C'est ce que j'ai essayé de faire au fil de ces pages. »BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN dans les pages de Born to Run En 2009, Bruce Springsteen et le E Street Band jouent à la mi-temps du Super Bowl. L'expérience est tellement grisante que Bruce décide d'écrire à ce sujet. C'est ainsi qu'a commencé cette extraordinaire autobiographie. Au cours des sept années écoulées, Bruce Springsteen s'est, en secret, consacré à l'écriture de l'histoire de sa vie, apportant à ces pages l'honnêteté, l'humour et l'originalité qu'on retrouve dans ses chansons. Il décrit son enfance, dans l'atmosphère catholique de Freehold, New Jersey, la poésie, le danger et les forces sombres qui alimentaient son imagination, jusqu'au moment qu'il appelle Le Big Bang : la première fois qu'Elvis Presley passe à la télévision, au Ed Sullivan Show. Il raconte d'une manière saisissante l'énergie implacable qu'il a déployée pour devenir musicien, ses débuts dans des groupes de bar à Asbury Park et la naissance du E Street Band. Avec une sincérité désarmante, il raconte aussi pour la première fois les luttes personnelles qui ont inspiré le meilleur de son oeuvre et nous montre que la chanson Born to Run révèle bien plus que ce qu'on croyait. Born to Run sera une révélation pour quiconque apprécie Bruce Springsteen, mais c'est bien plus que le témoignage d'une rock star légendaire. C'est un livre pour les travailleurs et les rêveurs, les parents et les enfants, les amoureux et les solitaires, les artistes, les dingues et quiconque ayant un jour voulu être baptisé dans les eaux bénies du rock'n'roll. Rarement un artiste avait raconté son histoire avec une telle force et un tel souffle. Comme nombre de ses chansons (Thunder Road, 'Badlands, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the USA, The Rising, The Ghost of Tom Joad, pour n'en citer que quelques-unes), l'autobiographie de Bruce Springsteen est écrite avec le lyrisme d'un auteur/compositeur singulier et la sagesse d'un homme qui a profondément réfléchi à ses expériences.

I, Fellini

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Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with director Federico Fellini over the course of fourteen years, and featuring a forward by Billy Wilder, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words. In the book, Fellini recounts the stories behind his classic films La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, La Strada, and others, describing the inspirations from which they arose and the struggles to get them filmed. He also speaks at length on actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, and Anna Magnani, and on directors Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

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