Biographies Memoirs Of Women

forty Jahre nach Erscheinen von Maxie Wanders Bestseller "Guten Morgen, du Schöne" ist es Zeit für eine Neubefragung. Welches Selbstverständnis haben Frauen* heute, mit welchem Rollenbild werden sie erwachsen und used to be wollen sie verändern? 19 Frauen* zwischen Madrid und Berlin, zwischen sixteen und ninety two Jahren erzählen ungeschönt und mit viel Humor aus ihrem Leben, von ihren Ängsten und Sorgen, von falschen, richtigen und notwendigen Entscheidungen und davon, used to be es braucht, um glücklich zu sein.
Nadine Kegele hat in ihrem Buch höchst heterogene und spannende Lebenswelten vereint. Sie alle machen deutlich, dass sexuelle Übergriffe und Diskriminierung, Krieg und Flucht, Rassismus und soziale Ungleichheit auch heute noch die großen Lebensthemen sind.
"Später, als ich schon länger verheiratet warfare, habe ich Sexualität erlebt, wie wenn das etwas wäre, das ich tun müsste, um Ruhe zu haben." (Michaela, 48)

Escaping the onset of Detroit's recession, Mimi strikes to Las Vegas with 3 teenagers hustling her method out of poverty in desire of monetary balance. What she bumped into alongside the best way have been other forms of hustlers who have been trying to find an analogous factor in numerous Careers starting from Prostitution to theft to Stealing and Pimpin' who got here in to her deepest room Salon to get their hair performed. Mimi's Confessions are image money owed of uncooked studies she not just observed first hand but additionally the consumers that sought after her to appreciate how they acquired to the place they have been in existence. A tradition in Las Vegas few outsiders have noticeable or are conscious of. In her healing function as their Hair Therapist, Mimi attempts to dissect the numerous layers in their offerings, conditions, factors and results whereas studying how one can retain the traces drawn among Professionalism, Friendship and non secular Growth.

WINNER! most sensible Memoir from the guts & Soul booklet Awards by way of Holl and Lane journal and One notion Press!

It's powerful daydream gas: embody an intensive swap and happiness will persist with. no matter if we are fantasizing a couple of new task, a brand new urban or state, getting married, or having little ones, we dedicate lots of our lives attempting to plan a cheerful existence. however the fact is, those significant alterations would possibly not supply lasting pleasure in any respect -- and the entire making plans on the earth cannot warrantly happiness.

Chrissy Gruninger understands those fantasies good. From her 400-square foot jungle casita in Costa Rica, she must have been loving existence in paradise. yet she quickly discovered that even within the land of "pura vida", existence wasn't excellent. while dwelling the truth falls wanting the dream, how do you discover real and lasting contentment?

Lost and located within the Land of Mañana stocks Chrissy's so much laugh-out-loud moments and loopy stories of existence after moving to Costa Rica from California. There, she got here to gain that the conscientiously crafted "perfect" lifestyles does not promise happiness, little bit of duct tape and great glue is going far, and that typically the easiest solutions are usually not "out there" yet "in here." millions of miles clear of every thing she'd ever identified, Chrissy rediscovered herself, eventually discovering love, concord, and contentment within.

Through Chrissy's missteps and adventures, we see the hot methods she stumbled on to rejoice her wild spirit with no being reckless or sacrificing her sanity. via her reviews, we learn how to thrive inside of our personal lives, irrespective of the place we are.

Come alongside in this soulful event that might lead you to correct the place you belong -- deeply rooted within the middle of your individual wild, wholehearted life.

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"Lost and located within the Land of Mañana finds the ups and downs of what it particularly takes be absolutely alive. Chrissy's tales approximately relocating to Costa Rica and discovering herself in a really diverse international from what she had constantly identified exhibits us that with a bit attempt, braveness and an open brain, we will select happiness, even among the entire problems we are facing within the daily. whereas her tale is set residing in Costa Rica, what she stocks, the teachings she learns, might be utilized to someone, anyplace. Chrissy reminds us that adversity, failure and mishaps are all simply stepping stones to a functional, appealing life."
Colin Beavan, AKA No impression guy, writer, tips on how to Be Alive

"Chrissy displays the truth for we all: that existence is what we make of it. Her tales of feeling misplaced and harassed remind us that no matter if we are "living the dream life", now not every little thing will pass as deliberate and bring about the appropriate happily-ever-after finishing. misplaced and located within the Land of Mañana is a real, weak ebook that might have you ever giggling, crying or even considering how one can do extra, on your personal lifestyles and out on the planet. unquestionably, Chrissy is a SavvyChick, who not just has realized tips to reside an outstanding lifestyles on her personal phrases yet desires to percentage these classes with others."
Rosalie Nelson, Founder, SavvyChick.com

"Lost and located within the Land of Mañana is an eye-opening booklet on what it really is particularly prefer to stay overseas. whereas we may possibly dream of what residing in paradise is like...the superficial, sitting at the seashore, ingesting a cocktail and absorbing the sunshine...is particularly only a myth. The substance of really dwelling a wholehearted lifestyles within the daily chaos is what, via her tales and activities, Chrissy exhibits us the way to do. irrespective of the place we're, all of us face demanding situations and it really is how we appear and switch them into significant moments that make the entire difference."
Charlotte Watts, writer, The De-Stress Effect

Diary of a Seeker, half One is a synopsis of a woman's trip to discover her actual path.

'The nation-state Diary of a twenty first Century girl' provides a fantastically illustrated account of nature’s cycle throughout the 12 months saw in the course of the author’s eyes in and round her domestic city of Usk within the center of the agricultural county of Monmouthshire in South Wales. The diary sprung to lifestyles initially as a web publication stored via the writer as a reside narration of the yr because it opened up, that includes vintage poems and the author’s personal full-colour paintings and images of the animals, flora, and the altering panorama she saw throughout the seasons. This booklet is written from the point of view of a twenty first century girl utilizing sleek media yet is electrified and can pay homage to the well known 1906 nation diary of Edith Holden. the writer hopes that the outcome can have a few similarities, in taking pictures day-to-day, month by way of month the regular rhythm of nature in the course of the 12 months, recognising that even supposing our twenty first century lives are stressful, chaotic, noisy and deafened through electronics, the beat of the flora and fauna, that's the backdrop to all our lives, no matter if we discover it or now not, continues to be ever an analogous. The publication is a sedate, mild and steady-paced trip during the 12 months, watching the flora and fauna. the way of living can have replaced nearly past reputation seeing that 1906, yet nature is doing what it usually has performed, the cycle of nature is still consistent and reassuringly predictable. In that admire, not anything has changed.

"It was once challenging times," French chippie Clark remembers, a sentiment unanimously echoed via the 16 different ladies who speak about their lives in kingdom girls deal with tough occasions. Born among 1890 and 1940 in jap Tennessee and western South Carolina, those ladies grew up on farms, in hard work camps, and in distant cities in the course of an period whilst the region's agricultural approach replaced dramatically. As daughters and other halves, they milked cows, raised farm animals, planted and harvested plants, labored in cloth generators, offered butter and eggs, preserved meals, made textile, sewed outfits, and practiced amazing resourcefulness. Their memories paint a shiny photograph of rural lifestyles within the first half the 20th century for a category of girls underrepresented in historic accounts.

Through her edited interviews with those girls, Melissa Walker offers firsthand descriptions of the impression of modernization on traditional humans suffering in the course of the agricultural melancholy of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties and its aftermath. Their oral histories make simple the demanding situations such girls confronted and the self-sacrificing methods they discovered to confront difficulty. whereas the ladies element the problems in their existence—the drought years, early freezes, low crop costs, and tenant farming—they additionally remember the great occasions and the neighborly information of well-developed mutual relief networks, of which girls have been the first participants.

'I used to be simply twenty-seven years previous whilst I went to Burma. It used to be an event that modified my lifestyles for ever. Up till that point I had probably not travelled wherever in any respect, except one traveling stopover at to Holland with a band i used to be making a song with ahead of the conflict, and that i had definitely by no means been in an aeroplane. yet i wished to make a distinction, to do my bit.'

And she did.

Written along with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this can be a robust and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. dependent, partially on a diary she stored, along unpublished own letters and pictures from surviving veterans and their households, it is going to discover why it used to be this kind of life-defining occasion for her and convey how her presence helped the warriors, airmen and others who heard her sing.

within the depths of a suicidal melancholy as a tender grownup, writer Kristi Bowman searches to discover healing... and herself. Her trip takes her to a few of the main unforeseen locations ̶ from the therapist's sofa, to the traditional pyramids in Mexico, to the yoga mat.

This memoir follows Kristi as she recovers from a historical past of abuse, and leaves relations, fiancée and the faith of her adolescence. learning supportive humans alongside the best way and new views on existence, love and spirituality, she starts to include her presents as a author and instructor with a view to aid others.

Journey to One is informed in components: Exhale and Inhale. it's a tale of liberating what weighs us down and inhaling chance. Journey to One speaks to the superb ability of human capability and is a strong testomony that we will be able to triumph over adversity and dwell our dreams.

Johana Harris used to be a musical prodigy who started her schooling in her local Canada, then moved to manhattan on the age of 12. The youngest scholar ever admitted to the Juilliard Graduate college of track, Harris used to be destined for greatness at the global level. even if, exploitation via her mom after which through her husband Roy Harris, coupled with the unfairness proven ladies in the course of the mid-20th century saved her from attaining that pinnacle.

Johana Harris: A Biography brings to mild the lifetime of an unheralded musical genius, in addition to offering new info on her husband Roy Harris, approximately whom little or no is understood. This revealing examine the lives of 2 vital musicians—who have been mentioned within the heart years of the final century as "Mr. and Mrs. American Music"—is the 1st e-book released approximately those people.