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Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

"There is a humility in author and narrator Rachel Cusk’s voice that makes this analysis feel earnest, not cold. There is no judgment in her tone, but instead a tenacity that doesn’t let up until every aspect, flattering or not, of M's psyche has been uncovered." — Kirkus Reviews From the...

Benedicto XIII, el afamado papa Luna, era menudo, extremadamente culto y sofisticado y, sobre todo, terco como buen aragonés —es a su irreductible negativa a abdicar que debemos la expresión popular «seguir en sus trece»—. Fue el último santo padre de Aviñón al que el concilio de Constanza de 1414 depuso y declaró antipapa. Pero ¿qué secreto esconde su trayectoria? ¿Por qué nunca quiso hablar de esa aciaga primavera de 1378 en la que nació el gran cisma de Occidente que perturbó durante treinta años la cristiandad y anticipó la escisión definitiva, un siglo después, de la Reforma?

Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't...

En 1893, à Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Émiliana Cyr, la fille unique de Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort de tous les temps, a six ans. Grâce à la force héritée de son père, que l’on prétend être un don de Dieu, elle marque son époque, présentée sur toutes les scènes comme l’enfant prodige du xixe siècle.

Birmingham, Alabama, 1921: after the Great War, the city of coal and steel is a crucible of money and power. Fortunes are there to be won or lost, with race and class used as means to that end. Father Jimmy Coyle swims passionately against that tide, building inclusive congregations and speaking out against the rise of white supremacy. Dedicated, determined, ambitious, naturally inclined towards human rights–he is a thorn in the side of the Ku Klux Klan, until he isn’t ...

Hur kunde Pedro Alonso López nästan obemärkt våldta och mörda uppemot 300 unga flickor i Ecuador, Colombia och Peru på 1970-talet? Kan hans dåd förklaras av hans uppväxtmiljö, eller är han bara helt enkelt en produkt av ren och skär ondska? I ”Monstret från Anderna” målar...

Blending family drama with page-turning suspense, My Lethal Obsession confronts the eternal hatred one group has faced throughout history in very human, very personal terms, and honors the unbreakable will to survive and begin anew. Gideon Wistreich is haunted by visions of his family’s...

Новелла «Встреча» была написана мной после рассказа одной женщины — это действительно её история. Это чистая правда, такая встреча была на самом деле. Я принципиально не меняла ни профессию главной героини, ни место этой встречи.

Inspired by true events, this richly researched novel offers an intimate portrait of the woman who reigned over America's Gilded Age —and the unforgettable night that tested her power, her convictions, and her heart. New York City, 1896 On the eve of her annual winter ball, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor reflects on her life and all that has led up to this moment. She is about to reintroduce her daughter, Charlotte, into society after a scandalous divorce. Society dictates that divorced women simply disappear, but Caroline refuses to ban her daughter from her rightful place.

From Prison to PhD by Richard Morris, narrated by Ron Garner, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful true-life memoir of redemption, resilience, faith, education, and second chances. In this gripping and deeply personal story, Dr. Richard Morris chronicles his extraordinary journey from U.S. Marine and Army National Guardsman to federal inmate and ultimately Doctor of Business Administration. After combat deployments, personal struggles, poor choices, two felony convictions, and time in federal prison, Morris refused to let his past define his future.

La vida de una figura legendaria, y la historia de una democracia confiscada: la de Estados Unidos. «Sin duda, lo mejor que he leído sobre este legendario joven forajido.» Yannick Haenel, Charlie Hebdo «Un anti-western que ilumina admirablemente los excesos y la violencia de Estados Unidos...

García Márquez y Vargas Llosa se conocieron en el aeropuerto de Caracas, en agosto de 1967. Con apenas treinta y un años, Vargas Llosa era ya un escritor aclamado por la crítica. García Márquez, cuarenta años cumplidos, encontraba por fin el éxito editorial con Cien años de soledad, publicada ese año en Buenos Aires. Antes de confundirse en un abrazo en el aeropuerto de Caracas que dio inicio formal a la amistad, los dos genios de la literatura se habían escrito cartas y leído mutuamente con admiración.

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.

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

Hvor mange ved, at den franske impressionismes vugge var dansk og stod på Sankt Thomas i Dansk Vestindien? Maleren Camille Pissarro begyndte livet som Jacobo Pizzarro i en dansk-jødisk familie, der havde søgt tilflugt for jødeforfølgelserne på Sankt Thomas. Her bliver hans mor, Rachel, som...

Ein mitreißendes historisches Abenteuer, inspiriert vom Leben Grace O'Malleys, der legendären irischen Volksheldin, die alles riskierte, um ihr Volk zu verteidigen Grace O'Malley wurde geboren, um Kapitänin zu werden. Doch trotz ihres natürlichen Talents auf dem Wasser erkennt Grace schon...

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While...

You have seen her ten thousand times, on the prow of every Rolls-Royce ever built: the little silver woman leaning into the wind. You have never known her name. She was Eleanor Thornton. Born in a clerk's house in south London, she invented a self the world would make way for, ran the most glamorous motoring magazine of the Edwardian age, and for fifteen years loved a man she was never once permitted to claim: John, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. She bore him a daughter in secret and gave her away to keep her safe.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY FIRST CHAPTER AWARD (2026)For a woman, holding power in a man’s world is dangerous; holding fast to her faith in an intolerant one can be deadly. England, 1185. Nicola de la Haye, constable of Lincoln Castle, commands her fortress with hard-won authority. Determined to protect her family from a kingdom fracturing around her, she discovers the hardest battle is the one inside her own walls.