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ますます猛威を振るうコロナウイルスを跳ね返すべく、いち早くワクチンを打ったマリコ。春には娘が大学を卒業し、子育てもひと段落し、介護問題を描いた『小説８０５０』も大ヒット

Upon the release of her second best-selling book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, former First Lady Michelle Obama set out on a very special highly anticipated, six-city U.S. book tour. Inside intimate venues and in front of small audiences, Mrs. Obama held inspiring conversations with esteemed friends like Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, Conan O’Brien, Oprah Winfrey, and more.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.

In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.

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震災を契機に自衛官を夢見た少女は、入隊後、絶望を味わった。訓練中の性暴力を報告するも自衛隊は黙殺。そして彼女は実名・顔出しでメディアに訴えることを決意したが…

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

Tiffany Graham Charkosky was eleven years old when her mother, Julie, died. Eighteen years later, she discovers that the genetic mutation that took her mother has been passed down to Tiffany herself. But with this devastating news, Tiffany finds a certain strength in hope, resilience, and knowledge. She will fight for her family’s future.

The inspiration for this novel came to Lesley-Anne when she realised at her Father's funeral that although she'd known him her whole life, she'd never taken the time to ask him more about his life before she was born. She resolved not to let the same thing happen to her children, and that she would therefore tell the story of how she was born in Brazil and grew up in Nigeria, Switzerland, boarding school, Kenya, nursing, up to her marriage in 1979 and the birth of her two children.

Against all odds, just barely one month after Jessica Buchanan had been rescued by SEAL Team Six by order of President Obama, she found out she was pregnant. After spending ninety-three days at the hands of Somali pirates who had demanded a 45-million-dollar ransom in exchange for her freedom, Jessica could not imagine a reality in which her traumatized mind and malnourished body could grow, birth, and nurture this new life. But he grew, and as a result, so did she; in her capacity to trust her heart, her therapist, and the wise plan of the Universe.

Vera Huff Alderson’s memoir detailing her life homesteading in southeastern Colorado. A first-hand account of a families’ struggle to survive during the Great Depression and The Dust Bowl that devastated their world. Throughout the hardships and loss, the community of Baca County demonstrated their resilience and strength to weather the ravaging storms. From youth to adulthood, Vera writes of her experiences living on the prairie, navigating rural education, and coming of age through countless adversities.

Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the foremost nation of the world, and New York City was its beating heart. There, the richest and most influential—Thomas Edison, J. P. Morgan, Edith Wharton, the Vanderbilts, Andrew Carnegie, and more—became icons, whose comings and goings were breathlessly reported in the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. It was a time of abundance, but also bitter rivalries.

Décimo y último episodio de la serie documental Mujeres en pie de guerra. Maria Mikhailovna Shabrova, Klavdia Alekseevna, Uskova, Claudia Nikolaevna Shavina … mujeres relevantes para la historia soviética. Un episodio con testimonios reales y que cierra un podcast donde el valor de la mujer fue igual de importante en ambos frentes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Primer episodio de la serie documental Mujeres en pie de guerra. Todos conocemos el famoso cartel de We can do it, pero ¿sabemos realmente quién es su verdadera protagonista? Arrancamos el podcast de Mujeres en pie de guerra con la historia de Rosie, la remachadora.

Al borde la muerte. Así estuvo Denisse Fuentes en varias oportunidades debido a una enfermedad que la acosa desde que era poco más que una niña: la anorexia. A lo largo de más de diez años se ha sometido a dietas para adelgazar y para engordar, tratamientos psiquiátricos y hospitalizaciones, en un proceso que ha puesto a prueba tanto la resistencia del vínculo familiar como su voluntad de continuar viviendo. La salida de ese verdadero infierno es muy difícil, pero comenzó cuando entregó su testimonio a un programa de televisión, y logró sensibilizar a todo el país.

Fueron muchas, muchísimas, las mujeres que lucharon mano a manos con los hombres en las guerras de liberación, muchas las que sacrificaron sus vidas e, incluso, sus familias, pero solo de unas pocas hemos conservado su nombre en nuestro imaginario y es esa "invisibilización" la que, como me sucede en casi todos los libros que escribo, hizo que yo me fijara en todas y cada una de ellas.

En 1932 cuando su esposo asumía la presidencia de los EE. UU, Eleanor Roosevelt entró en una claustrofóbica existencia de obligaciones como primera dama. Pero de forma inesperada, le llegó un salvavidas en forma de una luchadora reportera de prensa: Lorena Hickok. Ambas mujeres no podrían haber sido más diferentes, pero enseguida se enamoraron.

After depression, alopecia, and endometriosis, Janice decided she would save up for a year to quit her job and move somewhere new. She discovered self care and self love during this journey and subsequently stumbled into the sexual wellness industry upon her return to Singapore. First, the brand made it to Watsons. Last year, it made it to Don Don Donki. Now, Janice is working on getting it on Amazon. Getting the toys out of sex shops and into regular spaces will encourage people to think of sexuality as a part of our everyday life.

When Bridget Hustwaite blew out her thirtieth birthday candles, she had no idea of the profound changes that awaited her in this new decade. Instead of ticking off the traditional expectations (buy a house, get married, start a family), Bridget's list of early thirties life moments looked wildly different to what she anticipated. Her long-term relationship of five years had just ended, she said goodbye to her dream job, was diagnosed with ADHD and became a lockdown dog mum. And that was just the beginning . . .