Showing results for "Good Girl" in Biographies & Memoirs

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric...

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Good for a Girl is a joyful love letter to the running life, a raw personal narrative of growth and change, and gives voice to the often-silent experience of the...

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa...

The instant New York Times bestselling author of the “raw and revealing” (Interview magazine) Bad Mormon, and star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City anddocumentary series Surviving Mormonism, returns with a hilarious and candid national bestseller about life and love as a former...

Bloomsbury presents The Good Girls written and read by Sonia Faleiro. ‘Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary’ Fatima Bhutto 'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line A masterly and...

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a “riveting” (The New York Times) memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I...

* A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award * A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023 Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a...

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation. The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli...

In Good Girl, Piyané Ung explains with raw and honest insight how she went from being a passive people-pleaser–struggling with depression and frequent suicidal ideas–to a powerhouse entrepreneur, comfortable in her own skin and leading multiple successful businesses.

Good Girl Complex is a podcast for the women who were raised to be liked instead of known. For the ones who were taught to earn love through obedience, silence, and perfection. For the ones who feel the pressure to stay small, say yes, and never make anyone uncomfortable. Hosted by Belén Giménez, Good Girl Complex explores what it means to unlearn the rules you never agreed to, reclaim your voice, and redefine what it means to be “good.” Through storytelling, reflection, and honest conversation, this podcast holds space for the messy, beautiful process of becoming. Beyond performance, ...

A groundbreaking debut memoir that examines the rhyming scripts of diet culture and evangelical purity culture, both of which direct women to fear their own bodies and appetites Raised Baptist in an insular Appalachian community, Anna Rollins learned early that among the world's many dangers, her own body loomed large. So, she dedicated herself to keeping it small—strictly controlling her calories and exercising to the point of exhaustion while murmuring some version of the prayer: "We must decrease so that He can increase.

“A bible for badass women.”—SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR “Gripping and liberating.”—ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again “Survivor legend and gay icon, Parvati Shallow has won my heart all over again.”—BOWEN YANG NATIONAL BESTSELLER ...

Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “At once a tender coming-of-age...

You Good, Girl? is a real-time look at what it actually takes to build something of your own. Hosted by Susan Jensen and Mika-Tashé St. Fleur, this podcast follows two marketers navigating the first year of solopreneurship—without pretending to have it all figured out. From client work and confidence dips to overthinking, momentum, and everything in between, each episode is an honest conversation about the messy middle of starting over and building what’s next. This isn’t a “how-to” podcast. It’s a “we’re in it too” podcast. If you’ve ever thought about leaving corporate, ...

From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it. ‘I absolutely love her, I think she’s such a force for good’ Pandora Sykes, The High Low In A Good Time...

This action-packed, and eye-opening book will take you on a wild ride and show you the dark side of human nature. You will also learn the 25 life lessons I learned from 15 years of being a cop, that you can implement into your own life today. Good Cop Girl Cop will bust myths and misconceptions about policing, challenging everything you’ve been told about it. It is not watered down; it is not sugar-coated - just the plain, simple, and shocking truth.

Was passiert, wenn wir Frauen uns entziehen Was wäre, wenn Nettsein kein Charakterzug, sondern ein Überlebensmechanismus ist? In diesem Hörbuch verabschiedet sich Silvi Carlsson von der Rolle der immer braven, verständnisvollen Frau. Was passiert, wenn wir uns erlauben, nicht immer für...

Chapter 2. This is soft erotic audio from a voice that knows exactly what you need. It's intimate, and rooted in consensual fantasy...not reality.Every episode is a private experience: seductive, dominant, sometimes sweet, sometimes not. For adults 18 and over. If it's for you...press play.Thank you for being part of this journey. - D ps. Chapter 1, Episodes 1-50 should be considered the Soft-Motivational Series. Moving forward, My Daily Daddy will add variety by expanding the concept, as I continue to listen closely to what you really want to hear. 🎧 New episodes daily 💌 ...

From our very first show in Brisbane in 2016, when we stopped mid-set to call out a guy who was pushing to the front and shoving women aside, we knew exactly what kind of space we wanted to build. One where women and queer people didn't have to shrink themselves or brace for impact if they...

The ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot, interrogating the “good girl” archetype and the price one pays to embody it A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An utterly compelling blend of lyricism, diary, and criticism that has become my go-to for invoking the...