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Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy. Not the kind of happy that comes and goes like a can of flaked tuna but an enduring happiness. The deep-down happiness that makes you purr from the heart.

Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521. Nestled deep in a land rich in myth and fairy-tale, within the changing politics and religion of the Holy Roman Empire, a young girl grows to adulthood, watching war and faith tear the world she knows asunder.

Il più grande giornalista musicale italiano debutta nella narrativa con un romanzo di ispirazione autobiografica, in cui la storia privata e la grande Storia collettiva si intrecciano, in un affresco indimenticabile. Un uomo nasce, nel 1950, alla metà esatta del Novecento, l’ultimo secolo del Millennio. Il suo nome è Luigi. Passa i suoi primi anni a Napoli, tra il mare e una raffineria, poi con la famiglia si trasferisce a Roma. È lì che lo sorprendono gli anni Sessanta, con la loro musica, le band che arrivano da altri paesi e sembrano parlare del futuro.

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.

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to...nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes. Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love? Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected? Alfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one.

1564: Devon sailor Francis Drake sets out on a journey of adventure. Drake learns of routes used to transport Spanish silver and gold, and risks his life in an audacious plan to steal a fortune.

Wie kaum eine Autorin ihrer Zeit hat Susanne Kerckhoff den Verlust der moralischen Integrität der Deutschen, ihre Schuld an den Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus und die Frage der daraus resultierenden geistigen Neuorientierung zum Mittelpunkt ihres literarischen Schaffens gemacht. Ein bedeutendes Zeugnis dieser Auseinandersetzung ist ihr kurzer, 1948 erschienener halbfiktiver Briefroman "Berliner Briefe". In diesem Buch richtet Helene, eine im zerstörten Berlin lebende Frau, nach Kriegsende dreizehn Briefe an ihren nach Paris emigrierten jüdischen Jugendfreund Hans.

Heitere Kurzgeschichte über einen Bassisten, der Musik im Blut hat und von allen bewundert wird - außer von seiner Gattin Irene. - Die Handlung spielt in den Achtzigerjahren.

Andrea Pennacchi dedica il libro al nonno e al padre, entrambi Bepi, coinvolti nella Prima e nella Seconda guerra mondiale. Il nonno Bepi fece la guerra in trincea, il padre fu internato in un campo di concentramento. Sopravvissero a quelle esperienze, lontane nel tempo eppure drammaticamente sovrapponibili. Le storie di famiglia si proiettano anche sull'episodio finale ambientato nella Mogadiscio del 1993, durante la battaglia del checkpoint Pasta.

Adriana Altaras erzählt von ihrer Tante, der schönen Teta Jele. Von einer Frau, die 101 Jahre alt wurde, die spanische Grippe, das KZ und ihre norditalienische Schwiegermutter überlebte. Von einer so liebevollen wie eigensinnigen Beziehung. Und davon, wie man lernt, das Leben anzunehmen. Als ihre Eltern aus Zagreb fliehen müssen, kommt Adriana mit vier Jahren zu ihrer Tante nach Italien. Dorthin wird sie ihr Leben lang zurückkehren. Als Jugendliche in den Sommerferien, mit ihrer gesamten Abiklasse - und mit all ihren Liebhabern, die Tantchens aristokratischem Blick standhalten müssen.

Thirty-five Letters is a compilation of found letters written by a mother to her absent son. Spanning from 1972 to the spring of 1980, these letters offer insight into the world of a wife and mother who is trying desperately to keep her life on track and family intact.

Dash, an aspiring football player with his dreams firmly insight, was ready to face the difficulties in life. He loves the thrill and toll that accompanies attempts to realize his dreams, but unfortunately, life throws curveballs after curveballs at him.

Dall'ombra dei Monti della Luna alla cupa foresta degli alberi alti, dall'opulenza di Taiwan alle lussuose stanze del potere nel cuore di Londra. Un romanzo incalzante che è diventato un classico della narrativa d'avventura, riproposto in una nuova traduzione. Giornalista e autore di documentari televisivi, Daniel Armstrong ha dedicato gran parte della sua vita a proteggere gli animali e le foreste pluviali dell'Africa.

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

Moderne Aschenputtel-Geschichte in der glitzernden Pariser Modewelt der wilden 90er Jahre. Bestseller-Autorin Katharina Fuchs erzählt in Der Traum vom Leben einfühlsam, authentisch und hochspannend ein faszinierendes Frauen-Schicksal in der Ära der Topmodels, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. Zu groß, zu dünn und zu blass ist die junge Luise für die Jungs in der norddeutschen Provinz - da verliebt sie sich in Nils, den Sohn des Großbauern mit den strahlenden Augen... Doch die Tochter des ärmsten Bauern weit und breit ist für seine Eltern nicht standesgemäß.

1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage.

1720. Tras la inesperada muerte de su esposa, un devastado Johann Sebastian Bach conoce a una soprano a la que prácticamente dobla la edad y ambos cometen el peor de los errores: enamorarse.

El que debería haber sido el día más feliz en la vida de la narradora de esta novela se convierte en el inicio de una historia de locura. La ansiedad se apodera de ella y el peso del mundo cae sobre sus hombros por partida doble: debe cuidar a sus mellizos recién nacidos y dar voz a los que han confiado en ella. Esta historia indaga en una herida personal para conectar con luchas universales, y es un viaje a través del arte, la literatura, la mitología y la historia de la medicina.