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Teresa (Florencio) Pla Messeguer, el maquis hermafrodita o "la Pastora" de Vallibona, es el personaje más legendario, contradictorio y misterioso de las guerrillas españolas. Fue mujer hasta que, al desnudarse una fría mañana invernal ante la Guardia Civil, y debido a un problema de malformación genital, cambió sus ropas femeninas, y se convirtió en Florencio. Para unos fue durante quince años una pesadilla fuera de la ley, hasta ser apodado "el terror del Caro" e imputársele 29 muertes.

Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK) “In the end, what’s a...

An international bestseller—“an elegant, charming, and heartwarming fable...one part Zelig, one part Siddhartha, and one part Rin Tin Tin” (Vogue)—about an extraordinary fox terrier who helps his Jewish family escape from Nazi Germany, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contributes...

When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punish­ing five-year...

L’opera al nero è la storia di un personaggio immaginario, Zenone, medico, alchimista, filosofo, dalla nascita illegittima a Bruges nei primi anni...

“Vivencias: todo lo que amamos y odiamos y que no viene en los libros”, precisa con contundencia Laviada como resultado de un singular ejercicio de escritura en el que busca, justamente, entregarnos sus vivencias. Es así que se nos propone este libro como un compendio integrado por casi medio centenar de secuencias en las que se cuenta la historia de vida de un personaje que está todavía en acción.

Über 200 Jahre wurde unter Verschluss gehalten, dass die wichtigste Frau an der Seite des dritten US-Präsidenten Thomas Jefferson seine Sklavin Sally Hemings war. Erst die international bekannte Künstlerin Barbara Chase-Riboud gab ihr mit diesem Roman eine Identität und ihre eigene Geschichte zurück. In ›Sally Hemings‹ zeichnet sie das Bild einer stolzen, eigenwilligen Frau, die statt Freiheit die Liebe wählte und zeitlebens um ihren Platz in Jeffersons Leben kämpfte.

An Orte der Vergangenheit zurückkehren, an das anschließen, was einmal war – für Amélie Nothomb ist das unmöglich. Seit 12 Jahren war sie nicht mehr in Japan, dem Land ihrer Kindheit, das sie so liebt und zu dem sie eine so zwiespältige Beziehung hat. Doch als eine Freundin eine Reise gewinnt und Amélie kurzerhand als Fremdenführerin verpflichtet, kann sie nicht anders als sich mitreißen lassen. Sie entdeckt das Land aufs Neue und damit auch ihre Faszination. Denn die Rückkehr ist unmöglich, zum Glück.

What happens when a "professional small boy" grows up completely unsupervised in the Colorado wilderness? You get the unforgettable adventure memoir that's part Hatchet, part Stand by Me, and entirely authentic. Days of High Adventure chronicles the semi-fictional true stories of a feral boy's education in 1980s Southern Colorado before cell phones, helicopter parents, and sanitized safety replaced real character-building adventure.

Neste romance de formação com tintas autobiográficas, Simone Campos conta a jornada de uma menina carioca desde a infância, quando se converte a uma renomada denominação evangélica, até a vida adulta — momento em que rompe com a igreja. Uma história de amadurecimento, vínculos familiares e convicções que, muitas vezes, podem cair por terra. Nascida em uma família católica nos anos 1980, a narradora de Mulher de pouca fé se converte, ainda criança, a uma influente igreja evangélica no Rio de Janeiro depois que o pai decide abraçar a doutrina pentecostal e se torna um fiel fervoroso.

London, 1987: Als Rose den Nachlass ihrer Mutter sichtet, entdeckt sie, dass diese ein Adoptivkind war. Bei der Recherche nach ihrer Herkunft stößt Rose auf einen Hinweis, der sie zu einem von Anna Freuds Kriegswaisenhäusern führt. Dort betreut 1945 die aus Wien geflüchtete Jüdin Helen sechs Kinder aus Theresienstadt, nicht ahnend, dass sie mit einem kleinen Mädchen schicksalhaft verbunden ist. Erst Jahrzehnte später wird Rose die dramatische Wahrheit herausfinden und erkennen, dass in ihr die Geschichte einer bedingungslosen Freundschaft weiterlebt.

Hamburg, 1913: Als Hedda ihre Stelle als Obergärtnerin bei der jüdischen Bankiersfamilie Clarenburg antritt, hat sie es nicht leicht. Auf dem parkähnlichen Anwesen oberhalb der Elbe ist sie die erste Frau auf diesem Posten und wird von den ausschließlich männlichen Kollegen entsprechend kritisch beäugt. Auch körperlich wird ihr viel abverlangt, denn das Anwesen über der Elbe ist riesig, und der Erste Weltkrieg fordert ihr gärtnerisches Können noch einmal besonders heraus.

If all happy families are alike, the Kennedys of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, are the exception. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. governs his silver-spoon sons and daughters, all nine of them, with the same firm hand that earned him a fortune, an ambassadorship, and enough clout to plant the seeds of an...

Queen Elizabeth Tudor is wary of the cousins. Ever since the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey nearly wrested the throne from her family, Elizabeth has been keen to ensure the fate of England doesn't land in Grey hands. She has banished Catherine Grey from court, along with her two children, but her unwed sister Mary remains at Whitehall Palace as one of Elizabeth's courtiers.

Behind the Iron Curtain, the Truth Can Kill You. Europe, 1956. The Iron Curtain divides the Free West from the Soviet Bloc, and the battle for hearts and minds is waged with words, not bullets. Charlie Atkins, a 23-year-old California farm girl, works at Radio Free Europe in Munich, relaying Western news to millions trapped behind Soviet borders. She longs to report real stories—like her own, marked by the mysterious disappearance of her father, Captain A. J. Atkins, in the last days of World War II. Her boss dismisses her: too young, too green, too female.

Pur essendo ormai anziano, il pittore Louis Cuchas, quando qualcuno gli chiede qual è l’immagine che ha di sé stesso, risponde, senza esitazione alcuna, che lui si vede sempre come un ragazzino. Perché di fatto la sua arte è il frutto di quel modo particolare di vedere la realtà che solo l’anima pura di un ragazzino riesce a percepire.

My name is Jon McCullough, a pastor in Texas. I also love writing, another way to help people in this very lost world. The book you are about to listen to is my story, my history. I purposed in my heart to write a true story about my past, the bad, the good, everything. I wanted to remind others that if you make mistakes, it doesn’t have to define you. You can be redeemed. “Dulapa” is based on a true story about me when I was twenty-one years old.

On the verge of becoming a spinster at twenty-three in colonial Nova Scotia, Submit Leete yields to parental pressure to marry a British Captain more than twice her age, but when he dies and she marries his young protégé too soon afterwards, her young stepdaughter Mary suspects the worst and vows revenge. Was his death an accident or murder? Mary sets out to prove that Submit and her new husband were motivated by lust and greed to end her father's life and steal his fortune. Dogged by this quest, she traces clues deep into the past hoping to destroy their lives, just as hers was destroyed.

If you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip. In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone.

In the bustling silver mining town of Aspen, Colorado, a young woman's promising life was cut short on a June evening in 1886. I should know—I was that woman. My name is Ida Chatfield, and my mysterious death has remained one of Aspen's oldest unsolved enigmas. From beyond the grave, I recount my journey from the Nebraska prairie to the soaring peaks of Colorado.