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This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life. In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human...

America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.

La maggioranza delle persone cerca all'esterno la felicità. La realtà è che la felicità non è ritrovabile da nessuna parte se non in noi stessi. In questo audiolibro l'autrice passa in rassegna 9 argomenti in 9 capitoli, attraverso la descrizione della propria esperienza personale e strumenti scientifi ci utili per raggiungere il proprio "brillio interiore". Impreziosiscono il volume le interviste a personaggi di spicco: dagli autori di best seller Paolo Borzacchiello e Simone Tempia, ad uno dei maggiori esperti di mindfulness e presidente della Unione Buddhista italiana Filippo Scianna.

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and...

Set in New York at the turn of the century, the story centers on a young couple that sacrifices their dearest possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts.

In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life - the majesty of the forest, the dazzling grandeur of its night as a Christmas tree - while they were happening...