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They have weathered high, snow-covered passes, ice chocked rivers, personal loss, and the worst of mankind’s deceptions to venture nearly five-hundred miles overland from the Pacific’s salt water to the Yukon frontier and the Klondike boom town of Dawson City. During this summer season of 1898, our favorite characters are part of the 30,000 souls that crushed in on the city, all with the intent on getting rich, either by digging in the mud for the ‘Flecks of Kings,’ or by mining the miners at a poker table, the supply store, and even in the bedroom.

Прошел почти год с тех пор, как я прислушался к зову своего сердца и покинул родной город, оставив в нем все, что было так дорого. В дороге я понял, что счастье — это люди и обыкновенные разговоры с ними. Это прогулка по спящему городу с теми, кто готов разделить с тобой любое приключение. Счастье — это принятие себя, своих страхов и заблуждений. И вот спустя десять месяцев и четыре дня поезд наконец везет меня в сторону дома. Но ждут ли там моего возвращения? Эта книга хранит в себе мои воспоминания.

Ein Hörbuch für die Kinder der Achtziger Kreuzberg war schon immer anders: wilder, anarchischer, frauenbewegter. Und in vielem früher dran. In den Achtzigern kämpften Susanne und ihre Freundinnen zwischen brennenden Barrikaden. Sie wollten anders leben als das spießige Westdeutschland mit seinen Kleinfamilien und Kiesauffahrten. Mehr als dreißig Jahre später ist Kreuzberg immer noch ein Ort für Träume aller Art, doch die große Freiheit trägt jetzt ein Preisschild in Euro. Für die alten Vorreiterinnen wird es langsam eng.

Boxweltmeister Max Schmeling riskiert alles für seine Liebe zu Anny Ondra. Max Schmeling mag der "Champion of the World" sein, die erfolgreiche Schauspielerin Anny Ondra von sich zu überzeugen stellt den schüchternen Hünen jedoch vor große Probleme. Als es ihm endlich gelingt, werden die beiden zum Traumpaar der deutschen Öffentlichkeit. Doch der Ruhm birgt seine Schattenseiten: Die NS-Führung will Max für ihre Propaganda inszenieren, und die Versuche, seine jüdischen Freunde zu schützen, bringen Max immer mehr in Gefahr, bis er dann an die Ostfront geschickt wird.

Новая долгожданная книга Елены Колиной — это сюрприз в блестящей обертке: снаружи остроумие и легкость, смех и любовь, счастье и несчастья, семейные отношения и нежная дружба, но разворачиваешь — и всё оказывается всерьез: понимание, разочарования, надежды, утраты, сострадание. Неужели с годами у всех нас появляются скелеты в шкафу? Романы Елены Колиной обладают удивительным даром — они дают читателям радость узнавания, понимания и даже облегчения.

Автор книги предлагает читателю окунуться во времена своей молодости — СССР 1970-х годов. Вы сможете проникнуться атмосферой, своеобразием и ритмом жизни того периода. Главным героям предстоит побывать на концерте Муслима Магомаева, увидеть на театральной сцене Владимира Высоцкого в роли Гамлета, познакомиться с поэтом Андреем Вознесенским и пообщаться с любимой женщиной Василия Сталина. А еще их ждет любовь: яркая, непредсказуемая, преодолевающая все преграды того непростого времени.

Teheran, 1979. Behsad, giovane rivoluzionario comunista, lotta per un nuovo ordine dopo la cacciata dello Scià. Ci trascina nelle sue azioni clandestine, ci confessa le sue speranze per un nuovo Iran e ci racconta come, nel cuore della lotta, abbia incontrato l’amore della sua vita, Nahid. Dieci anni dopo, Behsad e Nahid si trovano in Germania. Insieme ai loro figli, Laleh e Morad, sono fuggiti dall’Iran dopo l’ascesa al potere di Khomeini. Di notte tutto è silenzio a Teheran racconta quattro decenni di un popolo in lotta.

In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, "All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter" poetically examines life's greater values.

A compelling and poetic deep dive into the intricacies of a love cut short, Tea on the blue Sofa dissects Natasha Illum Berg's reflections on her childhood in Sweden and her life in Africa. This autobiographical love letter is an ode to the beauty and brutality of life in which Natasha tries to come to terms with the violent loss of her great love.

A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Literary Hub Electric Literature The Los Angeles Times The New Statesman Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet...

Als einziges überlebendes Kind seiner Eltern wächst Johannes Catt im Köln der Nachkriegszeit auf. Nach dem Verlust seiner vier Brüder ist die Mutter stumm geworden...

Set in the 10th century, The Last Israelite tells the true story of Eldad the Danite who came from Africa and claimed to be from one of the the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CECILY 1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – eighteen years old and unstoppable. Cecily has piloted his rise to power and stands at his shoulder now, first to claim...

Brought to you by Penguin. Intimate and devastating, a luminous debut novel about untimely grief and the resilience of the human heart, inspired by the author's own experiences 'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive.' Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her...

Brought to you by Penguin. This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her...

For the first time in one place, the reader will see all the likely conspirators revealed. The Warren Commission and the FBI agreed that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Fifteen years later, the House Committee on Assassinations re-examined the evidence. They announced that he was not killed by a single gunman, but probably murdered as the result of a conspiracy.

In the twilight of the 19th century, as the Old West collides with the opulence of the Gilded Age, one man embarks on a journey that will redefine his life. The Gambler's Game is a captivating historical fiction saga that follows the extraordinary life of a mid-western baseball player turned high-stakes gambler. His audacious spirit leads him from the dust chocked plains to the refined ambiance of English garden parties and the allure of Belle Epoque Monte Carlo.

The spirited daughter of England's greatest knight, Mahelt Marshal, lives a privileged medieval life. But when her beloved father falls out with the volatile and dangerous King John, her world is shattered. The king takes her brothers hostage and Mahelt's planned marriage to Hugh Bigod, heir to nobility, takes place sooner than she expected.

12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.

An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin’s youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide.