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Der biografische Roman »Sanssouci war nicht mehr frei« erzählt die wahre Geschichte einer spektakulären Flucht aus einem DDR-Gefängnis. 1961 trennt der Bau der Berliner Mauer mehr als 13.000 Familien–auch die von Liane Kirchner. Dieter Hötger, der Ehemann ihrer Großmutter, gräbt zusammen mit einem Freund 1962 einen Tunnel vom Westen in den Osten Berlins. Sie wollen beide ihre Familien zu sich holen, doch ihr Plan wird verraten: Am Tunnelausgang erwartet sie eine Maschinengewehr-Salve der Stasi.

La guerra ha terminado. España está en ruinas. En el cementerio de Alicante exhuman los restos de José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Sus camaradas falangistas van a llevarlo a hombros hasta enterrarlo en El Escorial, morada de reyes, sepulcro imperial. Durante once días y diez noches, el cortejo fantasmagórico avanzará por pueblos y ciudades entre hogueras, escarcha, brazos enhiestos y propaganda: una epopeya fascista de 467 kilómetros para demostrar quién manda en la nueva España.

Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life. Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence.

Questo memoir, scritto nella lingua ispirata e inconfondibile di Tea Ranno, si apre con un risveglio in ospedale: Tea ha quarantacinque anni ed è appena stata operata d'urgenza per un'infezione che, partita dall'utero, è arrivata a infuocarle l'intestino, il fegato, i polmoni. Soffre di endometriosi da quando è giovanissima. Ma questa volta ne è quasi morta. L'endometriosi è una malattia cronica che colpisce molte donne. Le cause non sono ancora del tutto chiare, la diagnosi spesso è complessa e non esiste una cura definitiva.

In this rich, sweeping novel, Monika Zgustova immerses us in the daily life of this remarkable couple, offering insights into their complex personal and professional relationships, as well as the real people behind characters such as Lolita. Vera considered herself an independent woman, but was she really, when her husband took up so much space? And without Vera, could Nabokov have become one of the twentieth century's greatest writers?

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

"That will cost you two weeks pay and no raise for two years. Hell, you might as well quit. You won't make it that long," Mr. Hickory tells the worker. He then turns to Red Jones and laughs. Suddenly and at the same time they both see John walk up and they simultaneously stop laughing. They realize that John has seen the whole episode. "What do you want?" Mr. Hickory snaps as he settles himself back on the keg.

Die zehnjährige Mascha und der junge Hund Tinkapur müssen sich zusehends Regeln beugen, die ihren eigenen Lebensimpulsen widersprechen. Wie sie in ihrem Umfeld um ihre Identität ringen und sich gegenseitig unterstützen, davon erzählt dieses Buch. Mit großer poetischer Kraft und tiefem Mitgefühl für alle Figuren beschreibt die Autorin ein knappes Jahr im Leben der beiden Protagonisten, das sich mehr und mehr zum Thriller einer Kindheit entwickelt.

The Golden Age of Red is a fast, entertaining work of immersive biographical historical fiction that will resonate with sports enthusiasts of all ages, and especially those following today’s almost daily changes regarding the compensation of student-athletes.

Somehow they find themselves in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but why? At thirteen, Rosalia suffers a sexual assault and her reputation is damaged in her hometown of Gliewitz, Germany. She must choose between a life of rejection or a sojourn into the wild, unknown land of Arkansas, where a young man awaits who will marry her. Her journey during the mid-1800s takes the listener across the Atlantic Ocean where she is almost kidnapped by a gentleman who conceals his true career: sex trafficking of hapless immigrant women in transit to America.

The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey.

Недалёкое будущее. После ряда эпидемий, экономических и политических проблем люди озлоблены, преступность растёт из года в год, а служба в полиции теперь очень опасная и мало популярная профессия... У Артёма Левинского не было выбора – воспитанник детского дома, по новому закону он не мог не стать полицейским. Артём разочарован в жизни, в людях и в мире вокруг. Единственное, что греет ему душу и даёт мотивацию жить дальше: жена и дочка, которых он любит всем сердцем.

Госпожа Ём — учитель на пенсии и владелица скромного продуктового магазина в одном из районов Сеула. Ее принцип — не прибыль, а помощь людям. Даже если продажи не радуют, сотрудники всегда найдут у нее не только работу, но и поддержку. Она помогает бездомному с Сеульского вокзала, который однажды выручил женщину. Этот человек не знает о себе ничего, кроме прозвища — Токко. Попав в магазин госпожи Ём, Токко начинает меняться, обретая себя. Он не только выручает своих коллеги улучшает продажи.

Элис Чейн повезло: она выиграла шанс обучаться в самом престижном университете страны и целых шесть лет, несмотря на слабое сердце, выгрызала в граните наук тоннель в свое светлое будущее. Она верила, что справится. Но жизнь полетела кувырком, когда в ночном клубе, а затем в лекционной аудитории Элис столкнулась с профессором Джеральдом Риверсом — гениальным разработчиком искусственного интеллекта, повесой и весьма эпатажной личностью. И чем больше Элис его узнавала, тем труднее казалась задача не влюбиться в этого человека всем своим больным сердцем.

El retrato de formación de uno de los escritores más sólidos de la narrativa española. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón fue niño en el Logroño de los sesenta, muchacho en la Zaragoza de los setenta y aprendiz de novelista en la Barcelona de los ochenta. La primera parte de su vida es la de un chico cualquiera, nacido en el seno de una familia feliz hasta la temprana muerte de su padre; años cruciales de los que se nutre su mundo literario.

Periferia di Roma, venerdì 29 novembre 1991. Andrea ha quindici anni e sua madre lo accompagna per l'ultima volta a vedere il padre, o meglio ciò che resta di quell'uomo che da tempo li ha abbandonati per andare a vivere con un'altra donna e che adesso un cancro si sta finendo di mangiare, questione di poche ore. Scenario di questo incontro totalmente asimmetrico, giacché il padre non ha più le forze per guardare il figlio né rispondere alle sue domande, è "la fattoria", come la chiama Andrea, la casa che gli uomini della sua famiglia hanno tirato su con le proprie mani, sacco di cemento dopo sacco di cemento.

Lo sacrificó todo para salvar a los que más la necesitaban. Descubre una de las historias de valor y sacrificio más inspiradoras y poco conocidas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Corrie ten Boom, una relojera holandesa, transformó desinteresadamente su hogar en un escondite para albergar a judíos durante las feroces redadas de la Gestapo. Aunque los nazis sospechaban lo que Corrie y su familia hacían, nunca pudieron encontrar a quienes se ocultaban en la casa.

England, 1647. As civil war gives way to an uneasy peace and Puritanism becomes the letter of the law, Frances Wolfreston, a rector's wife, is charged with enforcing religious compliance by informing on her parishioners. This awful task triggers memories of her mother, Alice, who inspired Frances' love of books and secretly practiced Catholicism at great risk. Conflicted, she doesn't report a reclusive and mysterious midwife to delay her going to gaol.

When Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life is split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky. After, there was capture, slavery—and eventually release—with Àjàyí, left transfigured, unrecognizable, and now, in the service of a new god, with a new name and a culture different from the one left far behind.

William Marshal’s prowess and loyalty as a knight in the English royal household has been rewarded by marriage to Isabelle de Clare, heiress to great estates in England, Normandy and Ireland. But their contentment and security is shattered when King Richard dies and is succeeded by his brother John, who takes the Marshals’ sons hostage and seizes their lands.