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Una donna ancora giovane, serena e appagata, tutt’altro che inattiva nel cerchio sicuro della famiglia, viene abbandonata all’improvviso dal marito e precipita in un gorgo scuro e antico. Rimasta con i due figli e il cane, profondamente segnata dal dolore e dall’umiliazione, Olga, dalla tranquilla Torino dove si è trasferita da qualche anno, è risucchiata tra i fantasmi della sua infanzia napoletana. Comincia a questo punto una caduta rovinosa, un racconto che cattura e trascina fino al fondo più nero, più dolente dell’esperienza femminile.

"JE NE VIS PLUS. J'AI PERDU PLUS QUE LA VIE, PLUS QUE LE BONHEUR, PLUS QUE LE REPOS." (lettre de Napoléon à Joséphine) Napoléon et Joséphine ont formé un couple mythique, qui suscite encore la curiosité aujourd'hui, tant leurs caractères semblent opposés en tous points. Octave Aubry relate, entre roman et histoire, cette flamboyante idylle, qui, malgré ses aléas, ne s'éteignit jamais tout à fait. Celle qui se fera appeler Joséphine est née Marie-Joseph-Rose de Tascher en 1763 sur l'île de la Martinique. Lorsqu'elle rencontre Napoléon, il n'est encore que général, et de 6 ans son cadet.

The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize–winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREIDA MCFADDEN: "[A] must-read... equal parts heartwarming and empowering.” Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking...

In the vibrant streets of Lavapiés, Madrid, young Iker harbors an ambitious dream: to play for the iconic Real Madrid Football Club. However, a significant challenge stands in his way - his diagnosed scoliosis, which many believe makes the intense world of professional football an unattainable dream for him.

A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone “Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy...

S'innamorano di una sagoma di cartone o di un pretoriano in miniatura, odiano i bambini pur portandoseli in grembo, lasciano una donna ma ne restano imprigionati, vomitano amore e rabbia, si tagliano, tradiscono, si ammalano. Sono alcuni dei personaggi del nuovo, strabiliante libro di Michela Murgia, un romanzo fatto di storie che si incastrano e in cui i protagonisti stanno attraversando un cambiamento radicale che costringe ciascuno di loro a forme inedite di sopravvivenza emotiva. "Una sera ti metti a tavola e la vita che conoscevi è finita."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the...

A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men—Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago’s first Black bank.

For fans of The Book of Lost Names and The Way We Hide! In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it becomes one woman's mission to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to. Five years...

Rom, 16. Jahrhundert. Michelangelo Buonarotti, der begnadetste Bildhauer seiner Zeit, soll im päpstlichen Auftrag die Decke der Sixtinischen Kapelle gestalten. Nur widerstrebend macht er sich ans Werk. Bald jedoch entflammt seine Leidenschaft und er möchte nicht weniger als das eindrucksvollste Fresko aller Zeiten erschaffen. Verzweifelt kämpft er an gegen abblätternde Farbschichten und die Bösartigkeiten seines Widersachers Bramante. Vor allem jedoch die Leidenschaft für seinen Schüler Aurelio droht ihn zu zerstören.

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway. Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to...

From the shattered empire, five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos, triumphant in the capture of Babylon, now faces the challenge of holding onto his hard-won prize. One-eyed Antigonos and his son are newly reconciled and both hungry for revenge. But Antigonos has foes of his own. Driven by vengeance, widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy, planning to thwart the one-eyed brute. The key to their success is Herakles, the sixteen-year-old illegitimate son of Alexander. To see him crowned, they will not only need an army but also to eliminate Kassandros, a powerful rival.

È l'alba, in pieno inverno. Un immenso piroscafo è in partenza dal porto di Genova, diretto in Brasile. Siamo nel 1936 e due donne dall'aspetto dimesso stanno per imbarcarsi in un viaggio verso l'ignoto. La più anziana delle due, accompagnata dalla nuora, è in cerca del proprio figlio, scomparso nel nulla. Le sue tracce si sono perse a Rio De Janeiro, ma un difficile viaggio aspetta le due ingenue viaggiatrici: dovranno addentrarsi nelle immense praterie dell'interno del Brasile.

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca.

Based on interviews with the protagonist and his medical and police records, Through the Wall dives into the world of an individual who tries to battle out with his conscience and almost loses his sanity due to the voices he hears in his head. Find out how the protagonist falls in love with the girl of his dreams and flees from the police, thinking that he’s a super hero.

G.I. Gurdjieff allows the reader in these narratives to become acquainted with a person that is up to this day to many, who have for instance read his Beelzebub, still an enigma. You will meet a person, who is more often than not, as the esteemed Mulla Nassr Edin would say "into the deepest galoshes that have ever been worn on sweaty feet." In other words, you will meet G.I. Gurdjieff, the human being. The spiritual messages are hidden inside breathtaking adventures and a colorful description of really remarkable men and women and the time before and after the Russian Revolution.

Eine junge Reporterin, die 70er Jahre und die Wahrheit zwischen den Zeilen. München, 1968: Die 21-jährige Alice ergattert ein Volontariat bei einem Münchner Lokalblatt. In der Redaktion lernt Alice das journalistische Schreiben von der Pike auf. Aber in einer Zeit, in der Sexismus Alltag ist, hat Alice es nicht leicht. Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als die junge Redakteurin und alleinerziehende Mutter an einen cholerischen Chef gerät, der seine Untergebenen drangsaliert. Doch je rauer das Arbeitsklima wird, umso mehr vertieft sich der Zusammenhalt unter den wenigen Frauen im Ressort.

La transformación épica de Bilbao a partir de uno de los grandes símbolos de nuestra era: el Guggenheim. El cierre de la trilogía de Bilbao que esperan sus 20.000 lectores Alberto Cepeda regresa a Bilbao después de un exilio de diez años al que se vio forzado por las amenazas de ETA a sus padres, unos de los miles de emigrantes que llegaron a Vizcaya en los años sesenta. En 1993, contratado por el estudio de ingeniería encargado de construir el museo Guggenheim, Alberto tendrá que vencer sus miedos para enfrentarse a su amada ciudad, cuya vida sigue condicionada por el terrorismo.

Sabine Kuegler wuchs im Dschungel von Westpapua auf, ihr Buch "Dschungelkind" wurde ein weltweiter Millionenbestseller. Mit 17 Jahren kam sie nach Europa und erfuhr einen Kultur-Clash. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg, hat Kinder, Freunde und Arbeit. Aber noch immer ist sie eine Zerrissene zwischen den Welten und der innere Kampf um ihre Identität quält sie. 

Comment vivre en étant la fille d’un bourreau nazi ? Comment construire une vie d’adulte fondée sur le mensonge ? John Boyne dresse un portrait de femme inoubliable, au crépuscule de sa vie, rongée par ses démons.

Un premier roman saisissant inspiré de la vie de "La Tondue de Chartres", photographiée par Robert Capa en juin 1944, à la Libération.

Mare Internum, año 75 a. C. Un barco mercante navega rumbo a la isla de Rodas. A bordo, Julio César acompañado sólo por su fiel Labieno. Obligado por sus enemigos a exiliarse de Roma, se dirige al encuentro con el maestro Apolonio para aprender oratoria y de este modo, a su regreso, iniciar una feroz pugna para ingresar en el Senado y enfrentarse allí al temido Cicerón.

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the “Blood Countess”, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds...

Stefan Zweig schrieb Castellio gegen Calvin in den Dreißigerjahren unter dem Eindruck des um sich greifenden Totalitarismus in Europa, denn das sechzehnte Jahrhundert erschien ihm wie ein Spiegel seiner eigenen Epoche: eine Ära der amoklaufenden Ideologen, der gewalttätigen Rechthaber, die für sich selbst, solange andere an der Macht sind, Toleranz einfordern, sie aber – kaum selbst zur Macht gelangt – allen anderen verweigern; die im Andersdenkenden nicht mehr den Menschen erkennen, nur den vermeintlichen Abgesandten des Bösen.

Le teste si possono tagliare o contare. Nel 1931 il regime fascista scelse entrambe le soluzioni e impose a tutti i professori universitari un giuramento di fedeltà al duce. Giurarono in 1238. Solo in dodici si rifiutarono. Questo è il racconto di uno di quei dodici, ed è liberamente ispirato alla figura di Mario Carrara, medico legale, uno dei primi a rifiutare il freddo censimento con cui Lombroso aveva insegnato a catalogare gli uomini e le anime.

1979: Tettenhall College for Boys was a private school near Wolverhampton. Posh though it appeared, it was a school with a dark secret. Bullying and abuse were rife, and not just among the pupils. The headmaster was a sadistic Irishman who wheeled his slipper and cane with abandon. Our class of 11- and 12-year-old boys all lived in constant fear of his abuse. As a child, you are taught to trust and respect your parents, teachers, policemen, and priests. But no one ever tells you what to do when you know in your heart they can’t be trusted.

Mit Musik aus der Ersteinspielung von Händels Messiah-Urfassung, durch den Gutenberg-Kammerchor und dem Neumeyer Consort unter der Leitung von Felix Koch mit der Solistin und den Solisten Stefanie Schaefer, Fabian Kelly und Julian Dominique Clement. Diese Aufnahme verknüpft Teile des Oratoriums mit dem Text aus Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit". Darin wird geschildert, wie Händel im Jahr 1741 während der Genesung nach einem Schlaganfall sein bekanntestes Werk wie in einem Rausch schuf.

The Eisenhower Chronicles dramatizes Ike's life, portraying his epic journey from unknown soldier to global hero as only a novel could. He is shown working with icons such as FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and confronting challenges like D-Day, the Little Rock Crisis, and Sputnik.

De la mà de l'aclamat escriptor de Brooklyn, arriba una saga familiar èpica travessada per l'amor no correspost, la guerra i l'exili. Any 1933. Thomas Mann i la seva dona abandonen Alemanya anticipant l'horror del nazisme. Ell és l'escriptor més famós del seu temps, però quins secrets oculta la seva ànima turmentada? El Mag explica la història d'un home imperfecte i ambivalent. L'home que amb l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial va situar-se al costat fosc de la història. El pare de sis fills que va amagar la seva homosexualitat.