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Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn't put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings' childhood was marked by unpredictability. As they pass through temporary homes, they're caught between Manuel's outsized temper and their young mother's worsening illness, which would tragically take her life. Beginning with nine-year-old Manuel's experience in Madrid in 1939, Open Heart takes us on a journey through Spain full of insights about love in its many forms.

Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company’s outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants—boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London—must work the tobacco plantations. Orphaned and afraid, Tony initially longs for home.

A young boy grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry. Harry is the second son. He is never meant to rule. But the death of his brother changes everything, and great destiny awaits this young prince. One day he will be the most infamous king in English history. Henry VIII. His story.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous for his stained-glass windows, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair, the largest in history. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass. Known as the “Tiffany Girls,” these women are responsible for much of the design and construction of Tiffany’s extraordinary glassworks, but none receive credit.

It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft is a shy nineteen-year-old law student living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands with ambitious goals for her future. But dreams die in wartime, and Hannie’s closest friends are no longer safe as fascism insidiously rises in her country. Hiding them is not enough. Hannie may be young but she can’t stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip. Driven by love and moral outrage, Hannie soon becomes an armed member of the Dutch Resistance movement.

Rye, New York, 1893. Sadie Fremd’s dreams hinge on her family’s nursery, which has been the supplier of choice for respected landscape architects on the East Coast for decades. Now her small town is in a panic as the economy plummets into a depression, and Sadie’s father is pressuring her to secure her future by marrying a wealthy man among her peerage—but Sadie has never been one to play it safe. Besides, her heart is already spoken for.

Wife and mother to a dynasty of kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator, Eleanor of Aquitaine is a thoroughly modern woman, despite living almost 900 years ago. Intelligent, witty and independent, she is tough enough to forge her own destiny—and subtle enough to shape the world to her will.

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn.

June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow. It is widely assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable, Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved.

Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the rock band Ashbirds they were superstars. Then Ash went missing in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone around him were changed forever. Infuriating, mesmerizing Ash left a hole they could never hope to fill.

Follow the adventures of a baby boomer born in 1948 from his birth to high school graduation in 1966. Born in a small South Western Pennsylvania town on the edge of Appalachia, the narrator, in a fictional memoir filled with amusing anecdotes, captures life in an absorbing snapshot of coming of age in the Pennsylvania bituminous coalfields of the 1950s.

It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles is a multi-cast radio play based on Paul Levinson's story, "It's Real Life," a story about the most popular band in the history of rock & roll music—The Beatles—and WFUV Radio, adapted for audio by Vincent Tese.

Quando Johanna Bonger arriva a Parigi non ha idea di cosa possa riservarle il destino: in fuga dalla bigotta Amsterdam dopo una relazione clandestina con un uomo che non l'avrebbe mai sposata, con l'onta dello scandalo che la segue come un'ombra, si rifugia dall'amato fratello, decisa a perseguire la sua vocazione artistica.

På den amerikanske vestkyst i Los Angeles arbejder Henry Chinaski for postvæsnet. Vi følger ham i en hverdag præget af faste rutiner, hvor dagen begynder tidligt med at dele breve ud, mens fritiden fordrives med hestevæddeløb, druk til langt ud på natten og talrige og sporadiske romancer med mange forskellige kvinder, før det igen bliver morgen, og hele rumlen starter forfra.

"Hvem slog min far ihjel" er en selvstændig opfølger til "Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule". Da Louis møder sin far igen efter fem år, er faren en nedbrudt og knækket mand. Med udgangspunkt i en række barndomsnedslag reflekterer Louis over farens liv, fra fødsel til social død. Det er en historie om en søn og en far, der ikke kan finde ud af at tale sammen, men også en historie om en mand fra underklassen, som vi ellers kun sjældent møder i litteraturen. Og det er frem for alt en kollektiv historie – en refleksion over måden politikere og deres beslutninger påvirker vores kroppe.

"Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule" er en stærk og personlig mønsterbryderfortælling om at vokse op på samfundets bund. Allerede som lille opdager Eddy Bellegueule, at han ikke er som de andre drenge. Han er tyndere, blidere og mere feminin. Han kunne ikke passe dårligere ind i sin egen familie i den lille nordfranske flække, hvor det gælder om at være et rigtig mandfolk, og ”bøsse” er det værste skældsord, der findes. Eddys far er som de fleste fædre i byen: Han drikker pastis, kommer op at slås med de andre fædre og slider langsomt og sikkert sig selv ned på den lokale fabrik.

Michael Cunninghams Pulitzerprisvindende "TIMERNE" skildrer tre dage i tre vidt forskellige kvinders liv. Clarissa Vaughan, forlagsredaktør i 1990'ernes New York, forbereder et selskab for sin ven, digteren Richard, og går en smuk junimorgen ud for at købe blomster. Virginia Woolf er mere end 70 år tidligere i færd med at skrive sin berømte roman "Mrs. Dalloway" og overvejer forskellige åbninger. I Los Angeles i 1949 er den hjemmegående husmor Laura Brown netop begyndt at læse "Mrs. Dalloway", men afbrydes, fordi sønnen Richie og ægtemanden Dan kræver hendes opmærksomhed.

Sonja er en ener. Som ung kvinde i overklassen i 1930’erne er hendes liv stort set lagt til rette på forhånd, men hun har ikke tænkt sig at indrette sig efter konventionerne. Hun vil være kunstner. Mod sin mors vilje søger hun optagelse på en københavnsk kunstskole og tumler hovedkulds ind i avantgardens brus af utæmmet kreativitet, fornyelse og frisindede eksperimenter. Altings midtpunkt er den karismatiske og rebelske Richard Mortensen, og Sonja bliver forelsket. Men som kvindelig kunstner er det tæt på umuligt at blive hørt, og hun må tage et valg.

Paris, en vinternat i 1983. Pigen er seksten år og faret vild i de ukendte gader. På en seddel har hun adressen på A, en tredive år ældre fotograf. Næsten fire årtier senere, mens både hendes eget liv og verden udenfor krakelerer, prøver den voksne kvinde at forstå den unge pige, hun engang var. Erindringsromanen Pige, 1983 udspiller sig i Oslo, New York og Paris og er en genreoverskridende og besættende rejse gennem lag af minder og glemsel. Den norske forfatter Linn Ullmann udforsker på ny hukommelsens digteriske kraft i forsøget på at fortælle om det allermest hemmelige.

Without the Veil Between catches both the triumph and the tragedy of Anne's short but quietly courageous and determined life. This book gives us Anne. Not Anne, the "less gifted" sister of Charlotte and Emily, nor the Anne who "also wrote two novels", but Anne herself, courageous, committed, daring, and fiercely individual: a writer of remarkable insight, prescience and moral courage whose work can still astonish us today.