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Ibid is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1927 or 1928, and first published in the January 1938, issue of O-Wash-Ta-Nong. Ibid is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486–587), whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all." The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Take a trip back in time to the 80s when it was a great time to be alive. When Tommy and his 2 friends got drunk for the first time, playing air guitar to AC/DC, they knew their life would never be the same.

During my early twenties as a young and sometimes excruciatingly naïve gal growing up in New York City, life was challenging and rewarding. While navigating through my personal sea of fear, laughter, and pain, I discovered how living with family, friends, and crazy roommates equipped me with life-changing tools I used towards shaping a successful adult life. Like many daring apartment dwellers before me, I faced my own flavor of uncertainty and occasional horrors sharing a home with roommates who were less than desirable.

Der Roman "Das Flüstern des Lebens" von Bestseller-Autorin Katharina Fuchs erzählt die wahre Geschichte einer späten großen Liebe. Isabelle erfährt erst nach dem Tod ihrer Tante Corinna von ihrem unerwarteten Erbe - einer Kaffeeplantage in Tansania. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass dieses Vermächtnis mehr als ein Stück Land und ein altes Farmhaus birgt, nämlich ihre zweite Chance auf ein neues, erfülltes Leben. Mitten in der atemberaubenden Natur führt das Schicksal Isabelle eines Tages mit Frank zusammen, dem Piloten einer Propellermaschine, die auf der Sandpiste ihrer Plantage landet.

Записки на манжетах — частично автобиографическая повесть, написанная Булгаковым в 1922–1923 годах. При жизни .писателя повесть ни разу не публиковалась целиком, а на сегодняшний день часть текста вовсе утеряна. Остроумное, ироничное и смешное повествование о скитаниях по послереволюционному Кавказу, сложных и непростых отношениях с новой революционной властью и собратьями по перу, мечтах об эмиграции и первом опыте в литературе.

Белая гвардия — первый роман выдающегося русского писателя и драматурга Михаила Булгакова. События романа происходят во время Гражданской войны в Украине в конце 1918 года. Булгаков рассказывает о семье русских интеллигентов и их друзьях, которые переживают социальный катаклизм гражданской войны. Роман во многом автобиографичен, почти у всех персонажей есть прототипы — родственники, друзья и знакомые семьи Булгаковых. Декорациями романа стали улицы Киева и дом, в котором жила семья Булгаковых в 1918 году.

Parigi, 1894. Mentre si immerge nelle intricate ricerche per la sua seconda laurea in Matematica, dopo aver conseguito quella in Fisica, Marie s'imbatte in Pierre, un animo affine in grado di decifrare la sua mente complessa. Tra loro nasce un connubio di intelletti straordinari, uniti dalla sete di conoscenza e dalla volontà di esplorare insieme gli enigmi dell'universo. Tuttavia, Marie fin da giovane si rivela essere una donna particolare: rifiuta il destino di moglie tradizionale, respingendo l'idea di confinarsi tra le mura domestiche.

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence.

All he wants is a quiet wife. But she wants something more . . . 19th Century, Liverpool. As wife to an errant husband, the art patron and industrialist Frederick Leyland, Frances is losing her sense of self. Living in the beautiful Speke Hall with her family, she is shocked when Frederick...

Never underestimate just how dangerous a woman on a mission can be. Sally Amir never wanted to be a spy. The life of covert espionage was forced upon her the day she discovered her husband was not, in fact, a simple embassy attaché – but a top-secret spy for the Israeli Mossad. But now, undercover in Tehran, posing as a businesswoman and tasked with infiltrating the highest levels of the Iranian government, is not the time to ponder the life choices that led her there.

Mechthild von Magdeburg (1207-1282) stammte aus einem wohlhabenden, vermutlich adligen Geschlecht aus dem Erzbistum Magdeburg. Sie kämpft gegen alle Widerstände ihrer Zeit, predigt wider überkommene Religionsvorstellungen und trotzt mächtigen Kirchenvätern. Nur knapp entgeht sie dabei dem Scheiterhaufen. Die Mystikerin lebte dreissig Jahre als Begine nach der Dominikanerregel in Magdeburg, seit 1270 im Zisterzienserinnenkloster in Helfta. Ihr Beichtvater, der Dominikanermönch Heinrich von Halle sammelte ihre Aufzeichnungen.

Жарким днем 1919 года молодой солдат, спасая свою жизнь, убивает преследующего его всадника на белом коне. От этой встречи без свидетелей останутся лишь болезненное воспоминание и образ, всю жизнь преследующий героя, пока спустя годы, работая в Париже журналистом, он не прочитает рассказ, в деталях воспроизводящий историю с точки зрения жертвы. Так начинаются поиски неуловимого Александра Вольфа, в результате которых рассказчик оказывается вовлеченным в серию странных встреч и событий, заставляющих его размышлять о жизни, смерти, роковых совпадениях и неизбежности судьбы.

18th century, Scotland. Jacobite sympathies stir powerful emotions, especially in a titled young man with little to occupy him. But strong-willed Lady Winifred Nithsdale has already seen her mother, father, and brother imprisoned for their support of England's Catholic king. While she wants to be loyal, Winifred tries to protect her husband from imprisonment, or worse, the scaffold. But will she escape with her own life intact?

Laura ha sei anni quando i suoi genitori decidono di trasferirsi dal loro quartiere residenziale di Roma Nord al Laurentino 38, esperimento presto fallito di edilizia popolare a sud della capitale, uno dei luoghi più malfamati d’Italia. Perché i loro figli devono stare a contatto con la “vita vera”, non devono “crescere nella bambagia”. E la vita vera è lì ad accoglierli, tra eroinomani che si trascinano sofferenti e ragazzini delle medie pronti a squagliarti la faccia sulla fiamma di una candela. Laura prova a mimetizzarsi, a cantare con gli altri "Un due tre viva Pinochet".

Svantje ist elf Jahre alt und mit ihrer allein erziehenden Mutter neu in die Wohnsiedlung Brookstraße in Frechen eingezogen. Das Mädchen ist sehr still, zurückhaltend und spricht mit niemandem. Eines Tages, während Svantje allein auf einer Bank am Spielplatz sitzt, nähert sich ihr ein zwölfjähriger Junge, der sich ihr als Daryl vorstellt.

It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina. There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land.

This is a story about a middle-aged married Christian man. How his life changed when an unexpected thing happened to him. The way he handled it was the wrong way to handle it. He became a fugitive from the law. He was on the run for thirteen years till the police arrested him. This Christian man prayed to the Lord and prayed for his help and protection through his ordeal.

"Nous étions six – cinq garçons et une fille – insouciants, frivoles, joyeux, dans un été de tous les possibles. Pourquoi a-t-il fallu que l'un d'entre nous disparaisse ?" S'inspirant d'une histoire vécue, Philippe Besson retrace un drame de sa jeunesse, survenu dans l'île de Ré, un soir de juillet, au milieu des années 80.

Massachusetts, 1780. Depuis la petite ferme isolée du Massachusetts où elle travaille comme servante depuis ses dix ans, Deborah Samson rêve de Boston, de New York et de Philadelphie, de découvrir des endroits qui n'ont pas encore de nom... À vingt et un ans, elle attend impatiemment le jour où elle pourra enfin goûter à la liberté et explorer le monde. Alors, quand la guerre pour l'indépendance des colonies éclate, elle trouve dans la cause américaine, opposée à l'oppression anglaise, un écho singulier à sa propre situation.

“A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling of African linguist and clergyman Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator. “Run, Àjàyí, run!” When Malian slave traders invaded the...