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Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of informers. Amid rumors of rebellion, Kurosawa Kinko—samurai and monk—is expelled in disgrace as the head music instructor of his Zen temple in Nagasaki. He begins an odyssey across Japan, dogged by agents and assassins from an unknown foe. Along his journey, Kinko encounters a compelling cast of merchants, ronin, courtesans, spies, warriors, hermits, and spirits, on a quest to redeem his honor.

It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt—builder of the New Orleans—and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are higher.

On March 4, 1861, the air at the inaugural ball is charged with hope and apprehension. The last thing anyone wants is any sort of hitch in the proceedings, so Lincoln's trusted entourage is on their guard: Allan Pinkerton, head of the president's security team, is wary of potential assassins, and Lincoln's oldest friend, Joshua Speed, is by his side, along with Speed's nephew, Adam Quinn, who's been called to serve as Lincoln's assistant. But despite the tight security, trouble comes anyway: a man is found stabbed to death in a nearby room.

Told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, this imaginative account of Frank Lloyd Wright's raucous life blazes with Boyle's trademark wit and invention. Boyle's protean voice captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

King Horic is dead. The oaths that once bonded the Danes and Northmen in the islands of Aquitaine have broken. Hasting's new land is imperiled by fearsome challengers and old foes alike. A rumor from the continent will shatter the brittle veneer of his strength and expose his deepest wound from the past. His greatest trial will not be fought with a sword, ax, or shield, but with his heart.

"Ci farebbe bene scrivere delle nostre famiglie, senza nessuna finzione, senza romanzare. Solo raccontando ciò che è successo, o ciò che crediamo sia successo." Animato da questa convinzione, Manuel Vilas intreccia con una voce coraggiosa, disincantata, a tratti poetica, il racconto intimo di una vita sullo sfondo degli ultimi decenni di storia spagnola. Allo stesso tempo figlio e padre, Vilas celebra la presenza costante e sotterranea di chi non c'è più, il passato che riemerge a fatica dai ricordi, la lotta per la sopravvivenza che lega indissolubilmente le generazioni.

Una novela sobre la última etapa de la vida de Agustín Tosco, el dirigente sindical combativo más respetado de la historia argentina, pero no siempre tan conocido en su humanidad. Tosco tuvo que refugiarse en la vida clandestina a mediados de la década de 1970, cercado por las amenazas de la Alianza Anticomunista Argentina que preparaban el Terrorismo de Estado. En esas circunstancias empezó a cursar una enfermedad para la cual prácticamente no pudo recibir tratamiento.

Davanti ai nostri occhi una galleria di personaggi esilaranti: Augusten, prima di tutto, con le sue giacche blu, il sogno glamour di diventare parrucchiere per dive o medico in una soap opera e la naturalezza con cui simula il suicidio per non andare a scuola; il dottor Finch, lo psichiatra che ne ottiene l’affidamento e che vive in una casa tutta rosa con la moglie che sgranocchia croccantini per cani; i loro sette figli e i pazienti che frequentano la «pink house» e che forse sono più sani dei suoi abitanti, o forse sono solo diversamente pazzi.

"Le storie di questo libro stanno nel perimetro di quattro cantoni: un'età giovane e stretta, di preludio al fuoco; una città flegrea e meridionale; la materia di qualche libro sacro; gli anni di madrevita operaia di uno che nacque in borghesia. Il possedimento minimo per un passante, è stato immenso per chi si è fermato. Esso rinchiude per attrazione un me narrato più che un io narrante, qualche tu femminile scalzo e ben piantato in terra, un noi promessa di frantumi. I pronomi sono frutti che maturano in stagioni diverse.

In this fictional memoir of Singer’s remarkable life, novelist Cap Daniels and pastors Dave Mason and John Grossmann will take the listener on an unforgettable walk alongside Singer and explore unimaginable pain, loss, and heartbreak beyond compare as well as celebrate a life of incomparable courage, devotion, and self-sacrifice to both his God and his fellow man.

It’s the 1970s, and from hippie London to Warhol’s Factory in New York, reluctant aristocrat Loulou de la Falaise is desperately seeking adventure. Having escaped an early, unhappy marriage, she arrives on a whim in Paris—the champagne-soaked heart of the fashion world, where the rigid old world of haute couture and the fast-paced new world of ready-to-wear are vying for supremacy. Glamour, sex, and cocaine nights fuel the Paris fashion scene. Its crown prince is the soulful and intensely gifted Yves Saint Laurent.

Señalada como «bruja cósmica» en los años de la psicodelia y el hippismo, Janis Joplin, la pionera cantante de rock, fue el símbolo femenino de la contracultura, la musa del movimiento que abogaba por la libertad, la paz y las flores, y la mujer que supo transmitir mejor que nadie, a través de su potente voz, las emociones sutiles y desgarradoras que la embargaban. Vivió a plenitud, atravesada por una vulnerabilidad que la llevaba a refugiarse en las drogas.

1470. England is in turmoil as the battle between supporters of the Yorkist king, Edward IV, and the old Lancastrian king, Henry VI, escalates. And for Isobel Fenton, the war is personal. Her father's death made her heiress to Beaumoncote Manor, a desirable estate in the midlands. But as conflict threatens England's unstable peace, Isobel and her lands become the focus of bitter tensions and a long-held feud. Taken from her manor, Isobel becomes the unwilling mistress of an indomitable Earl. She sees her only chance of happiness in the Earl's brother, Robert Langton.

In the twilight of the 19th century, as the Old West collides with the opulence of the Gilded Age, one man embarks on a journey that will redefine his life. The Gambler's Game is a captivating historical fiction saga that follows the extraordinary life of a mid-western baseball player turned high-stakes gambler. His audacious spirit leads him from the dust chocked plains to the refined ambiance of English garden parties and the allure of Belle Epoque Monte Carlo.

1469. For almost ten years, Edward IV has ruled with the Earl of Warwick's support, but now rebellion threatens the fragile peace. Heiress Isobel Fenton is determined not to be separated from her beloved manor of Beaumancote. But as unseen witness to a summary execution, she is propelled into the world of personal feud and national politics. She's left in the protection of the formidable Earl, who has begun to foment rebellion, but is set to marry his enemy's heir, Thomas Lacey.

Navigating the ins and outs of an absent father and a traumatized mother, and marked by choices made around religious zealots, drug addicted family, and growing up with his gay siblings in suburbia. We discover that as we grow, we become collectors of memories, keeping the ones that matter and throwing out the ones that don’t. Our choices rely heavily on how we interpret our past, and what meaning that we give to those memories.

"Den Fidus er der dog ved Galskaben, at Galskab holde man sin Afstand til! I Quarantaine-Dage burde alle lege Gale." I Aaret 2020 er H.C. Andersen som alle i Kongeriget gaaet i Quarantaine, men paa sit Kammer i Nyhavn savner han saavel Adsprædelse som aldehaande Fornødenheder. Han holder Aanden rank ved at gjøre Papirèsclip til Prindserne og Prindsesserne, men en dag bliver hans Trang til at se Verden ham for stor, og han beslutter at gaae til Amalienborg og bede om Audiens.

Daughter of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was born into wealth—and scandal. Upon her parents’ separation, her mother took Jennie and her sisters to Paris, where Mrs. Jerome was determined to marry her daughters into the most elite families. The glamorous city became their tumultuous finishing school until it fell to revolt.

Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor.

Friends Are Thicker Than Water: Tales of a Misspent Youth is the story of two friends sharing their adventures that fabled year. From football to first jobs, from golf to girls, Mike's father thought Ralph was having a "misspent youth" and Mike was going along for the ride. Just like the mandolin they pawned in '55, Mike and Ralph were forever glued together in friendship. Step back in time with Ralph and Mike as they spend that carefree year of friendship living through one riotous situation after another "funny bone first!"