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This imagined retelling of Jho Low’s story, based on real events, gives listeners an insider’s view of the glitzy, glamorous world of wealth and privilege, as well as a close-up look at this enigmatic protagonist’s high-stakes fall from grace. The narrator is quirky yet eloquent, at times thoughtful and other times brash, as he leads readers through the corridors of power, where the line between friend and foe blurs. As secrets unravel and fortunes teeter on the edge, readers get a front-row seat to the dark underbelly of high finance and the price of unchecked ambition and greed.

La nouvelle héroïne d'Alexandra Lapierre. Stupéfiante de modernité ! Australie, 1901 : Miles Franklin, vingt ans, fille de fermiers du bush, parvient contre vents et marées à faire publier son premier roman, un texte remarquable d'insolence et de fougue, qui connaît un immense succès dans le monde anglo-saxon. Alors qu'elle cherche à garder l'anonymat sous un pseudonyme masculin, son identité est révélée et les préjugés misogynes de son époque la heurtent au plus profond.

Inspired by true events, The Death of Us All follows the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, a catholic nun who was brutally murdered by contract killers in 2005. Dedicating her life to save the Amazon Rainforest and stop the atrocities inflicted upon the indigenous peoples; her work in Brazil intertwines with locals, Adriana and Izabel.

Escriba errante é uma jornada com as palavras e os amores. Jornada essa cheia de encruzilhadas. Sem GPS. O livro narra a vida de uma escriba mais inquieta do que correta. Mais errante do que linha reta na sua obsessão de fazer sentido ao escrever. Uma escritora trafegando na fronteira do analógico com o digital. Ora seguindo a manada, ora se insurgindo contra ela. Mas não só.

In 1537, amidst England's religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated daughter of a Lincolnshire knight, Anne is determined to free herself from her abusive husband, harsh in-laws, and the cruel strictures of her married life. But this is the England of Henry VIII, where religion and politics are dangerously entangled.

Wäre dem Autor nur ein Attribut erlaubt, um seine Generation zu beschreiben, so wählte er "sattgelebt"! In einen langen Frieden hineingeboren und im Wirtschaftswunder groß geworden, wärmen die milden Winter und die heißen Sommer deren alten Glieder. Der flüchtigen Freuden des Lebens müde, irrt sie zwischen dem Schielen nach Askese und dem Heischen nach Exzessen durch das Leben – stets darauf bedacht, ihren Footprint kleinzureden. Zahllose Sachbücher belegen den Klimawandel, ohne uns in die Pflicht der Mäßigung zu nehmen.

This portrayal of Douglass distinguishes him as one of the founders of American democracy instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escapes to become a fierce abolitionist, gifted orator, and newspaper publisher of The North Star.

It’s the early 1990s in Glasgow, Scotland, and Stephen has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay. Diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease which has robbed him of any prospects of work, friends, or independent living, he moves slowly toward new goals and meets others like him, including Richard, a friend from school, and Carrie, a young woman bedridden for five years. Feeling isolated and alone, they form their own support group, and try to get by with as little money and pain as possible.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up. In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.

Emma, seduta alla sua cattedra, ricorda con nostalgia il suo passato di alunna guardando la sua alunna Eva, una bimba che siede al banco di fronte a lei. Due generazioni messe a confronto con vissuti diversi. Le varie circostanze quotidiane, a scuola, riportano Emma al passato facendole rivivere le emozioni di un tempo lontano. L'amore e la passione per la scuola da alunna, oggi manifestati nel ruolo di maestra.

La cronologia dell’acqua è la storia di una vita che “non segue alcun ordine. Gli avvenimenti non rispondono al rapporto di causa ed effetto come vorremmo. È tutta una serie di frammenti e ripetizioni e trame,” perché “questo condividono il linguaggio e l’acqua”. Il nuoto – il corpo che si perde e si ritrova nell’acqua –, e la letteratura – il desiderio di scrivere senza compromessi –, sono le uniche due certezze di Lidia.

Im Jahr 1899 entflieht Josef Naumann, 20 Jahre alt, seinem vorbestimmten Leben in Hamburg und nimmt Arbeit in einem Handelshaus in Wladiwostok an. Dort erlebt er Konflikte und Kriege zwischen Russland, China, Japan und den Kolonialmächten. Im 1. Weltkrieg gerät er in zaristische Verbannung, lebt sieben Jahre in der Taiga und gründet dort eine Familie. Von Rotarmisten mit dem Tode bedroht gelingt ihm mit seiner Familie die Flucht in einem Pferdetreck durch kriegerische Fronten.

உலகத்தில் எல்லோரும் வழிப்போக்கர்களே. ஒவ்வொருவரும் ஒவ்வொரு வழியில் போய்க் கொண்டு இருக்கிறார்கள். சிலர் எங்கே போகிறோம் என்கிற லட்சியம் இல்லாமலே போய் கொண்டு இருக்கிறார்கள், சிலர் இருட்டிலே நடக்கிறார்கள், சிலர் வழியிலேயே நடக்கிறார்கள், சிலர் ஒளியைத் தேடி நடக்கிறார்கள், சிலர் கல்லும் முள்ளும் நிறைந்த கரடு முரடான பாதையில் நடக்கிறார்கள். சிலர் பட்டு விரித்த பாதையில் நடக்கிறார்கள்.

Escenas de una infancia reúne, por primera vez en lengua española, una selección de la mejor prosa breve del Premio Nobel de Literatura. De los relatos aquí contenidos, algunos se adentran libremente en el terreno de lo autobiográfico, como las extraordinarias estampas de «Escenas de una infancia» o «El pelo de Line»: evocan primeras veces, amistades, pérdidas, el descubrimiento del deseo, instantes de felicidad y fracasos más o menos estrepitosos.

My autobiography and the fictional events after my death.

El 8 de enero de 1982, la escultora colombiana Feliza Bursztyn murió en un restaurante de París. Tenía cuarenta y ocho años. En el momento de su muerte repentina la acompañaban su marido y cuatro amigos. Uno de ellos, el escritor Gabriel García Márquez, publicó días después un artículo que incluía tres palabras en apariencia simples, pero misteriosas en el fondo: «Murió de tristeza».

Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister's lavish Caribbean wedding, she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have peppered her unremarkable career.

Starke Männer? Schwache Frauen? Genaues Hinsehen birgt oft Überraschungen. Ein Lebensbogen: Die vierjährige Anna in der gefährlichen russischen Zone im grauen Nachkriegswien. Aemilia, eine liebevolle Großmutter, die die diffusen Kinderängste in strahlenden Lebensmut verwandelt. Diese ganz besondere Kraft träge Anna bis zu ihrem Tot durch ihr bewegtes Leben zwischen Wiener und New Yorker High Society: Liebe, Glück, Freundschaft, Ehrgeiz, Intrigen, unerwartete Wendungen. Und diese eine unbeantwortete Frage: Waren es Morde? Oder nur tragische Zufälle? Trügt hier das scheinbar offensichtliche?

At seventeen, Alice Marble has no formal tennis skills and no coach. What she does have is an ability to hit the ball as hard as she can and a strong desire to prove herself. With steadfast determination and one sacrifice after another, Alice plays her heart out on the courts of the rich and famous, at national tournaments, and—the greatest of them all—at Wimbledon, rising to be one of the top-ranked players in the world.

Intrigue and excitement follow the main character through a decade of life—from the United States Military Academy at West Point to the Vietnam War, and into the world of dangerous army intelligence operations in Turkey, Germany, and Shemya, Alaska.