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Eine Karriere als Musikerin – das war eigentlich Charlottes größter Wunsch. Aber jetzt ist es ja eh zu spät, und sie muss sich um einen vernünftigen Job kümmern, schon wegen der Eltern. Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit. Aber sie entwickelt ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihrem Chef, der ihre Stärken erkennt, ihr vertraut.

Nobuko is based on author Trisha Ready's experiences teaching English in the 1980s in Japan, where she fell for a woman who lived in a rustic cabin and made dentures for a living. A twisting maze of subplots involve the yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate—as well as food, art, adventure, samurai swords, and marriage.

First captured in The Life of John Wesley Hardin (1896), the life of America’s most dangerous outlaw was raw, violent, and astonishingly unrepentant. In Hardin Unbound, this Rebirth Series edition reshapes his story into a vivid, cinematic retelling — restoring Hardin’s myth, pride, tragedy, and humanity. From his first kill at fifteen to his fall at the hands of an assassin, Hardin’s journey defies easy judgment. Was he a monster, a martyr, or the inevitable child of a savage frontier?

Dopo una relazione durata cinque anni, Annie viene lasciata di colpo davanti alla stazione di King's Cross dal ragazzo con cui pensava che avrebbe trascorso il resto della vita.

À la fin des années 1970, un jeune fugueur évadé de Brooklyn, fils d'un Haïtien et d'une Portoricaine, recouvre les murs de Manhattan de phrases énigmatiques qu'il signe du nom de SAMO. Jean-Michel Basquiat, aujourd'hui considéré comme l'un des plus grands peintres du XXe siècle, devient ici, pour la première fois, un personnage de roman.

Amelia Earhart disappeared from the world's radar in the 1930s, but she has not been forgotten. Breathe the Sky is a fresh and provocative portrait of the legendary pilot whose courage and charisma have dazzled millions. It is also the first novel to reveal the dark side of Earhart's fame—and the dangerous, madcap course of her final voyage.

Accused of dressing as a boy to study in the prestigious galleries of eighteenth-century Italy, child prodigy Angelica Kauffman has set high goals for herself. She is determined to become a history painter, a career off-limits to women. To ensure her success, she has vowed never to marry.

Каллас — величайшая оперная звезда, всю свою жизнь посвятившая искусству, которое в итоге ее и погубило. Но первой любовью Шмитта всегда оставалась музыка — в юности он мечтал стать композитором, — и теперь он, меломан, эрудит, проницательный знаток человеческих душ, рассказывает историю Марии Каллас, чье столетие со дня рождения мир отметил в 2023 году.

In confident Edwardian Britain, the Asquith family rose to the top of politics and society, only for their world to unravel in the killing fields of the Great War. Their story bears all the hallmarks of a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, with Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and his mercurial, charismatic wife, Margot, at its heart. Four children from his first marriage also play central roles in this sweeping family saga.

The epic story behind the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Red Clay, Running Waters follows the little-known lives of John Ridge, a Cherokee man dedicated to his people, and his White wife Sarah, a woman devoted to his search for justice, as the courageous mixed-race couple are swept into the center of the Indian Removal Crisis of the 1830s and the fate of the Cherokee Nation.

Louise vokser op på Nørrebro og lærer allerede fra barnsben at række hånden frem for at få penge af de mænd, der forgriber sig på hende. Senere vælger hun selv prostitutionsvejen, men efter mange år i sexbranchen siger Louises krop og psyke pludselig stop. Hun beslutter sig for at opsøge et exit-program, der skal hjælpe hende videre i livet.

In 1854 Boston, Third Lieutenant Andrew Gunn of the United States Revenue Cutter Service questions the President’s direct order to extradite a fugitive slave, Anthony Burns, back to Virginia aboard his ship—a lawful order that he believes is immoral and unjust. Torn between his own reverence for freedom as an American and his sworn duty, Gunn suffers the hazards of hard choices that threaten his own life, liberty, and happiness. His first real exposure to the scourge of slavery brings chaos to his ordered life, despite his desperate attempts to control it.

Inspired by the true stories of over thirty women firefighters, this first-of-its-kind novel brings female firefighter stories blazing onto bookshelves. It's dangerous to be an extraordinary woman. Four women—Ruby, Dana, Brazil, and Jessie—choose the extraordinary when they join the Minneapolis Fire Department. Prepared to fight literal fires, none of them anticipate the threats lurking in the dark corners of the firehouse.

Dave seemed to have it all. A successful career, a loving family, the respect of everyone around him. But behind the polished surface, he was drinking in secret, convincing himself it wasn’t a problem. No arrests. No missed meetings. Just a few drinks to relax… The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic is a raw, memoir-style novel inspired by Howard Kane’s own sobriety journey. It takes you inside the hidden world of high-functioning addiction where success becomes a mask, denial runs deep, and every drink feels both normal and dangerous.

Mary fears she’s losing the two people she most admires—her lover and her father—after she’s lost her reputation. She regains them with the publication of Frankenstein. As Scott is crafting his biography of the Shelleys and Godwins a century later, he fears that he’s losing his audience and his wife. He regains them with the publication of his other “work” he’s authoring at the same—The Great Gatsby. As eternal celebrities of Western culture—the Shelleys, the Godwins, and the Fitzgeralds—their brief victories are dramatically retold in What Light Was as dialogues, verse, and meditations.

In Beyond Obsession, A. R. Boyd returns with the gripping true story of loyalty tested beyond human limits. Torn between fierce devotion and the bitter cost of betrayal, Robin fights to hold her world together as it crumbles around her — through prisons, broken dreams, lost fortunes, and shattered promises.

Woody groeit op als jongste van drie in een liefdevol gezin in een dorp aan de IJssel. Naarmate Woody ouder wordt, maakt zijn onbeschroomdheid plaats voor een knellend zelfbewustzijn. Als zijn zus erg ziek wordt, kiest Woody noodgedwongen voor een positie op de achtergrond. Hij moet zich in één klap volwassen gedragen, maar blijft zitten met onbeantwoorde vragen en puberale hartstocht.

Сюжет, искусно переплетенный с историческими письмами Наполеона, переносит читателя в разгар турбулентной французской жизни начала XIX века, когда Барб-Николь Клико-Понсарден, создала свою империю - великую империю шампанского. Обладая редким даром, известным как «Le Nez» (Нос), Барб-Николь способна создавать невероятные купажи, а также обонять «вонь лжи или благоухание чистого сердца. Или разрывающий сердце запах несбывшейся надежды».

Автобиографическая трилогия «Из Ларк-Райз в Кэндлфорд» — ностальгическая ода, воспевающая жизнь провинциальной Англии Викторианской эпохи, рассказанная от лица девочки Лоры, выросшей в деревушке Ларк-Райз на севере Оксфордшира, а затем, еще подростком, устроившейся работать в почтовое отделение в близлежащем городке Кэндлфорд-Грин.

Главная героиня этой страстной, дерзкой и забавной книги живет на скотоводческой ферме и мечтает о музыкальной карьере. Она ощущает в себе талант и способность покорять миллионы восторженных сердец, но вместо этого ей приходится доить коров и пасти овец на сорокаградусной жаре. Сибилла яростно сопротивляется уготованной судьбе, однако раз за разом проигрывает поединок с законами и устоями общества.