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Heart on My Sleeve
<p>With a foreword by Richie Sadlier<br><br>From the heartbreak of losing his mother to breast cancer at just 12 years old, to battling mental health struggles throughout his teens, Andrew Porter's journey is one of extraordinary resilience. In this deeply personal and inspiring account, the Irish rugby star opens up about the challenges that shaped him - on and off the pitch.<br><br>With honesty and heart, Andrew shares how rugby became his lifeline, guiding him from the gym floor to the world stage. He reflects on the emotional highs and lows of his career, including earning 75 caps for Ireland, winning three Six Nations titles and becoming one of the sport's most respected figures. This is more than a story of athletic triumph - it's a testament to the power of perseverance, vulnerability, and the human spirit.</p>
Smartass
Perfect for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes of the ballet world, a rousing memoir of a brash young ballerina from a dysfunctional family who achieves her greatest dream only to realize?as she begins to find success?that she?s gay.With a priest for a father and a magician for a mother, Emily Sayre Smith was always going to have an interesting life?for better and for worse. Here, she recounts what it was like coming of age in Texas and Arizona in the ?50s, ?60s, and ?70s in a decidedly dysfunctional family. To escape her turbulent family life, Emily throws herself into her ballet classes, where she can dance out the anxiety in her body and take refuge in fantasy worlds. Driven by the dream of being a ballerina, she earns scholarships and lead roles, studies in London for two years, and eventually lands back in Tucson, where she joins a fledgling ballet company and falls in love?with a woman and with marijuana. Join Emily as she survives her troubled family, hangs out with dance royalty, saves Martha Graham, meets the Queen of England, slings hash in a diner, discovers her sexuality, and tries to figure out how it?s all going fit together in her ballerina world in this story of a brave and sometimes bumbling girl charging her way through life.
Paper Girl
From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding the fabric of our shared life, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometownThe town of Urbana, Ohio was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the 70?s and 80?s, certainly not for her family. Her dad was an alcoholic who only fitfully worked, and people called him the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy enough economy, and there were middle class kids at school whose families became her role models. People in Urbana were proud of their schools, and the library, and the history of their town, an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Macy loved Urbana, and though she was able to make it to college on a Pell Grant and then follow a career in journalism that took her far away, she still clung gratefully to the hometown that helped raise her. On the surface it was still picture-postcard cute.But as Macy?s mother?s health began its final descent in 2020, on more frequent visits home to Ohio, she couldn?t shake the feeling that her town had dramatically hardened in ways she couldn?t process. Beth grew up as the paper girl, delivering the local newspaper, which was like civic glue, mirroring the community back to itself. Now there was no local paper, no paper girl, and precious little civic glue. Yes, a lot of the work that once supported the middle class had gone away, along with all that went with it. But that was an old story that didn?t begin to cover the forces turning her town into a poorer and angrier place. High school graduation rates were plummeting as absenteeism soared in the public schools and in the workplace. A mental health crisis gripped the small city, along with a litany of other pathologies. Urbana?s pride in its institutions was withering: parents were opting to home school, or transferring their kids elsewhere, in record numbers. Even more painfully, many of her own family members and old friends had gone down the rabbit hole of conspiracies like QAnon, and worse. What happened to Urbana?This was not an assignment Beth Macy ever wanted to take, but she felt she had no choice. Two years ago, she began to return regularly, to deploy everything she?d learned to figure her hometown out. The result is an astonishment, a book that takes us into the heart of one specific place and through it brings into focus in a new way our most urgent set of national issues.Paper Girl is a gift of courage, empathy and insight, a profoundly generous act. Beth Macy has turned to face the darkest corners in the shared life of her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she struggles now to like. And in doing so, in facing the truth?in person, with respect?she has found sparks of human dignity that she has used to light a great signal fire, of warning but also of hope.
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta
Frank Farley (1870–1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with expert ornithologists across the continent, mentored young people (including famous Canadian writer and grand-nephew Farley Mowat), and published widely to scientific and popular audiences. His most significant publication was Birds of the Battle River Region. His data and research served as the basis for the first account of the birds of Alberta, published in 1958. Farley’s career shows how a single individual can make significant contributions to the fields of ornithology and environmental conservation, both locally and internationally. Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta adds a new layer to a complex western Canadian past and will be an invaluable resource for those interested in Canadian environmental history, climate change, and ecological activism.
Last Rites
''People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I''m like, f*** no. If I''d been clean and sober, I wouldn''t be Ozzy. If I''d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn''t be Ozzy.''Husband. Father. Grandfather. Icon.1948 - 2025In 2019, at the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world.Then: disaster.In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Ozzy''s descent into hell. Along the way are reflections on an extraordinary life and career, including his marriage to wife Sharon, and what it took for him to return to the stage for the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert, streamed around the world, where Ozzy reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates for the final time.Unflinching, brutally honest, but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy transcended his status as ''The Godfather of Metal'' and ''The Prince of Darkness'' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.
Taylor Swift - A Life In Pictures: The Illustrated Biography
This is Taylor Swift’s life story, in a beautifully illustrated Poster Book with 16 pull out on the page posters. Her record sales top 200 million worldwide and she is the most streamed female artist on Spotify. Her 2024 Album The Tortured Poets Department added more than 300 million streams in 24 hours and became Spotify’s most streamed album in a single day. Along the way, every one of her 11 studio albums has topped the charts. Her latest, worldwide tour, the Eras Tour, is her most ambitious yet – a three-hour, 44-song set celebrating each one of her albums.
Five Star White Trash
An unforgettable journey from seventh-grade dropout to celebrated professor Her family was white, but not the right kind of white. They were five star white trash. They borrowed money and tried to buy class. In this unflinching response to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Georgiann Davis guides us through her extraordinary life, from weighing almost 300 pounds by fifth grade, to dropping out of school in the seventh and on to selling weed out of her "monkey shit green" Plymouth Neon. A tall, fat girl who only wore boy's clothing, she grew up with a turbulent family outside of Chicago: the larger-than-life mother who looked like Farah Fawcett, the father who understood cars better than children, the brother whose drug use went unchecked, and the Greek grandparents who could only love her from afar. Then there was the shocking medical secret kept from her–one that upended everything she thought she knew about herself, gender, and the human body. With unflinching candor and dark humor, Davis tells her 'stranger-than-fiction' life story in a brave voice that will have readers rooting for her. As Davis chronicles her surprising journey from middle-school dropout to professor, she reveals how whiteness colored her family's struggles. She connects her personal experiences of medical abuse, fatphobia, and fear of the intersex body with incisive critiques of whiteness, the opioid crisis, and gendered and queer oppression. Faced with unimaginable setbacks—identity theft, home eviction, medical trauma, and family betrayal—Davis relentlessly pursued education. It was this quest that transformed her life, giving her the tools to tell her own story. The result is a deeply moving memoir which complicates our understanding of upward mobility and familial love.
Harry Styles - Komiksová biografie
Nahlédněte do životního příběhu dobrosrdečného muže, který se proslavil jako člen kapely One Direction a stal se miláčkem dívčích srdcí! Harry Styles je významnou osobností uměleckého světa, jež se v současnosti bourá genderové stereotypy!
Harry Styles si už v dětství uvědomil, že vlastní osud má v rukou jen on sám. Svou okouzlující osobností si podmanil porotu britského X Factoru i diváky u televizních obrazovek, a právě díky tomu vznikla jedna z nejslavnějších chlapeckých hudebních skupin.
Přečtěte si, jaký byl život na turné i jak se Harryho život a kariéra vyvíjely po rozpadu světoznámé kapely One Direction, který mnohé fanynky oplakaly, jako by byl konec světa. Dozvíte se, jak si Harry rozšiřoval obzory za hranicemi hudebního průmyslu. Vyzkoušel si herectví například v historickém válečném filmu Dunkerk a spolupracoval i s proslulými módními návrháři. Objevil se i na obálce časopisu Vogue!
Odhalte, jak Harry tráví svůj volný čas a mezi vší prací a pozorností hledá duševní rovnováhu. Meditace je jen jedním z jeho způsobů. TPWK – Treat People with Kindness – neboli „Jednej s lidmi laskavě“ se stalo jeho heslem. Tím se řídil i autor, který komiks věnoval na památku Liama Payna, bývalého člena One Direction, jenž nečekaně zemřel roku 2024.
O autorovi:
Filippo Zambello se narodil v roce 1982 v Rovigo (Itálie). Je absolventem Accademia Nazionale del Cinema v Bologni. Navštěvoval kurzy filmové tvorby a vyprávění, včetně jednoho na New York Film
Casanova v Praze
Zbavme se už jednou provždy klišé, podle kterého byl Casanova jen šarmantním dobyvatelem ženských srdcí. Giacomo Casanova byl především literátem a filozofem, ale také špionem, matematikem nebo hudebníkem, a především mimořádně nadaným pozorovatelem. Tento výjimečný muž prožil v Čechách velkou část života. Dlouhé měsíce trávil v Praze, kde tiskl svá literární díla, navštěvoval šlechtické salony, účastnil se korunovace českého krále Leopolda II. a zřejmě také zasahoval do příprav premiéry slavné Mozartovy opery Don Giovanni. Casanova poznal rokokovou a raně klasicistní Prahu druhé poloviny 18. století. Prahu, která milovala vynikající hudbu a divadlo, takže se stala přední kulturní metropolí Evropy. O tom všem, o životě slavného Benátčana i Praze jeho doby, je tato kniha rámovaná bohatým brazovým materiálem.
Hear Me
"Having lived through these experiences and been unable to speak out - not knowing how to use my voice to ask for help - I am thrilled that I am finally being heard and my story is being told."This is a memoir about childhood neglect; childhood sexual abuse; and living in care - but it is also one of the best examples of resilience and survival. Groomed and abused as a child, Liz could easily have crumbled. Instead, she stood up and saw justice done. But Hear Me is more than one woman's story - as remarkable and powerfully written as that story is. It is also a call to arms for the unheard victims across the country. Liz is fiercely passionate about spreading awareness of child neglect, abuse, poverty, living in care and how that can impact people throughout life, and limit their chances of achieving their full potential. She is determined to have an impact on this subject, to be a voice for change. Until these topics are highlighted on prime-time TV, on drive time radio shows, and are discussed around the dinner table and in the playground, abusers will continue to abuse, protected by a blanket of fear. Liz is hopeful her story will contribute to a change in the culture we live in. Despite the horrors she has endured, Hear Me is also a beautifully, sometimes even funny, memoir which will make readers stop in their tracks and really think.
A Szoboszlai - sztori
Egy apa. Egy fiú. Egy futballcsoda.
Szoboszlai Dominik sztorija, ahogy még nem ismerted.
Az első magyar focista, aki angol bajnoki címet nyert, és akinek az életét most az édesapja meséli el.
Honnan indult?
Milyen pofonokat kapott az élettől?
Hogyan küzdötte fel magát a világelitbe?
Mit súgott neki Neymar?
Miért nem örült az apja, amikor a szurkolókkal pálinkázott?
Hogyan lett az álomból valóság?
Egy könyv a szenvedélyről és az alázatról.
Egy könyv arról, hogyan néz ki egy világsztár élete a kulisszák mögött.
Egy könyv, amely nemcsak a futballról szól, hanem a kitartásról, az elhivatottságról és a család erejéről.
A székesfehérvári panellakásból az angol Premier League csúcsára - Szoboszlai Dominik igaz története!
Má duše stále hledá domov: Příběh kanadského indiána
Jestli vydržím ještě minutu, mohlo by se mi podařit přežít, mohlo by se mi podařit být něčím lepším než jen zoufalým feťákem.
Jesse Thistle, v batolecím věku opuštěný oběma rodiči, se se svými dvěma bratry nakrátko ocitá v pěstounské péči, odříznutý od všeho, co kdy znal. Všechny tři děti se posléze dostanou k otcovým rodičům, jejichž milující, ale tvrdá výchova brzy vyvolá první konflikty. Celý dům i paměť všech členů rodiny navíc bez ustání trýznivě prostupuje duch Jesseho drogově závislého otce. Jesse se ve snaze vyrovnat s minulostí propadá do sebedestruktivního cyklu drogové a alkoholové závislosti a drobných zločinů, v důsledku nichž stráví s krátkými přestávkami víc než deset let na ulici. Teprve pak si uvědomí, že jestli nezačne žít jinak, zemře.
Ve svých dojemně lidských, srdceryvných pamětech se Thistle upřímně a nebojácně svěřuje se svou problematickou minulostí, píše o ústrcích, které zažil, i o tom, jak se dozvěděl pravdu o svých rodičích. Díky své vytrvalosti a touze po vzdělání – a také nově nalezené lásce – si našel cestu zpět do kruhu domorodé rodiny a kultury, z níž pochází.
Kniha je ale nejen výmluvným líčením následků, které přinášejí předsudky a rasismus – jejím hlavním poselstvím je uvědomění, že láska a podpora nás mohou dovést ke štěstí i navzdory okolnostem.
dostupné aj ako:
Alain Delon. Rebel a legenda
Předmluva Alain Delon Výjimečný portrét jednoho z největších herců světové kinematografie Tato kniha nabízí unikátní pohled na život a kariéru Alaina Delona – nejen jako filmové ikony, ale především jako člověka. Je doplněna o exkluzivní archivní materiály, dosud nezveřejněná svědectví a bohatý výběr fotografií z osobního i profesního života. Ve své osobní a velmi otevřené předmluvě se Delon vrací ke klíčovým okamžikům, které formovaly jeho osud: k láskám k Romy Schneiderové a Mireille Darcové, vztahu ke svým dětem i k filmům, které ho proslavily – Gepard, Samuraj, Pan Klein a desítky dalších. Kniha přináší také výpovědi jeho nejbližších přátel a hereckých kolegů – Brigitte Bardotové, Sophie Lorenové, Claudie Cardinalové nebo Jane Birkinové a mnoha dalších. Jejich vzpomínky odhalují Delonovu výjimečnou osobnost, charisma i vliv, který přesahoval hranice filmového plátna. Díky luxusnímu zpracování, velkorysému formátu a dokumentárním fotografiím je tato kniha mimořádným titulem, který osloví filmové fanoušky, obdivovatele francouzské kultury i sběratele hodnotných knih.
Diego Maradona: Mistr světa ze slumu
Autor mapuje život Diega Maradony od jeho skromných začátků v chudinských čtvrtích Buenos Aires přes slavné roky v Barceloně a Neapoli až po legendární argentinské vítězství na mistrovství světa v roce 1986. Zaměřuje se na Diegovy úspěchy, ale i vnitřní démony, boje se závislostmi nebo kontroverzní politické postoje.
dostupné aj ako:
Palimpsest: A Memoir
Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator, controversialist, and a man who knew pretty much everybody worth knowing (from Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, Jack Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams, and on and on). Here, recalled with the charm and razor wit of one of the great raconteurs of our time, are his birth into a DC political clan; his school days; his service in World War II; his emergence as a literary wunderkind in New York; his time in Hollywood, London, Paris and Rome; his campaign for Congress (outpolling JFK in his district); and his legendary feuds with, among many others, Truman Capote and William F. Buckley. At the emotional heart of this book is his evocation of his first and greatest love, boyhood friend Jimmy Trimble, killed in battle on Iwo Jima. 'Gore Vidal, a writer of lustrous and fabulously readable prose, was always ahead of his time, so it is wonderful to see some of his finest works being republished for an audience who will be ready to (re)discover his daring, his insight and his wickedly waspish wit' STEPHEN FRY
Az én Wrexham-sztorim - Az Üdv Wrexhamben!-sorozat titkai
A Wrexham futballistája, Paul Mullin elképesztő önéletrajzi kötetében őszintén vall arról, hogyan élte meg a Disney+ népszerű sorozata, a Ryan Reynolds és Rob McElhenney által készített Welcome to Wrexham (Üdv Wrexhamben!) forgatásának éveit. Az angol negyedosztály akkortájt éppen Év játékosának választott és frissen gólkirályi címet nyerő csatára 2021 júliusában sokkolta a szurkolókat, amikor egy szinttel lejjebb, a Wrexham AFC-be szerződött. ,,Super Paul Mullin" azóta a gólokat halmozva formálta át a klub sorsát, juttatta fel a csapatot és hívta fel magára futballszurkolók millióinak figyelmét szerte a világon. Ebben a könyvben Mullin először meséli el saját történetét: liverpooli gyökereit, az angol futball keserves feljutási küzdelmeinek valóságát, az apaként autizmussal vívott állandó harc nehézségeit és azt, hogy milyen érzés, amikor Hollywood szó szerint bekopogtat az ajtódon.
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull was the quintessential icon of the Swinging Sixties, with her long blonde hair, blue eyes, and mini skirts embodying the era's vibrant culture. Her high-profile relationship with Mick Jagger further cemented her status in the public eye. Born to an Austrian baroness and an English university professor, Marianne's life was nothing short of extraordinary. In Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By, Mark Hodkinson offers a deeply researched and richly detailed portrait of her multifaceted journey, one that extends far beyond her association with the Rolling Stones. The biography explores her aristocratic lineage, convent school years, meteoric rise to fame, battles with addiction, and artistic evolution, from folk singer to punk icon and torch chanteuse. Based on over fifty interviews with family, former lovers, and close friends, Hodkinson seeks to uncover the woman behind the myth. Spanning decades of personal and artistic reinvention until her passing in 2025, As Years Go By captures Faithfull's remarkable resilience, adaptability and lasting influence.
Shark-Infested Waters
Theatrical agent, Michael Whitehall, has been involved with the careers of many eminent actors from Kenneth More, Tom Courtenay, Colin Firth, Dorothy Tutin, Edward Fox, Jack Davenport, Judi Dench, Ian Charleson, Peter Bowles, Elaine Stritch, Richard E Grant, Danie Day-Lewis, David Hemmings and Richard Griffiths amongst others. In Shark-Infested Waters, Michael Whitehall contrasts the glamorous image of theatrical life with the mundane realities of the business, while passing on some startling trade secrets along the way. A laconic raconteur of refreshingly un-starstruck theatrical anecdotes, Whitehall deftly sketches the social comedy of his eccentric background: growing up in suburban London in the 1950s, his schooldays at Ampleforth and his subsequent adventures as a prep schoolmaster - worthy of Evelyn Waugh himself - before becoming an actors' agent. The result is a charming, funny and piquant view of a world that continues to fascinate.
We Made It, Kid
'Compelling, heartfelt and inspiring. I found this book so real. so honest. It has taught me about drive, ambition, persistence and love. And what it means to be really Irish! A triumphant story of achievement in a world made for men!' - Katriona O'Sullivan, author of Poor
Jackie McCarthy O'Brien has led a truly remarkable life, from being born in 1961 to an Irish mother and Jamaican father (whom she never met) in Birmingham to growing up in Limerick. She was put in an industrial school as a baby by a priest for being an "illegitimate" black child and not recovered by her mother until she was five.
As a teen she excelled at sport and played for Ireland in soccer, but when she was sexually harassed by a coach she changed to Irish rugby team. She got married at 21 before accepting her sexual feelings for women, and leaving the marriage with her three young children.
Always a hilarious raconteur, this memoir tells her extraordinary story up until becoming a TikTok star and LGBTQ+ icon in her sixties.
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
