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Before Graceland is the coming-of-age story of the most enduring pop-cultural icon of all time. Follow 11-year-old Elvis Presley through the highs of experiencing his first crush, getting his hands on his first guitar, and securing a spot to compete on Children's Day of the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Follow him through the hardships of his birth home's foreclosure, his beloved mother's health problems, and his father's imprisonment. Book one of the Before Graceland trilogy frames the journey of the boy who would be king as never before.

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick", as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have.

Annabel Wahba sitzt am Bett ihres schwer kranken Bruders André. Von einem Bild schaut der Totengott Anubis auf ihn herab. Sie erinnert sich an die gemeinsame Kindheit in der Kleinstadt, in der ihre deutsch-ägyptische Herkunft etwas Exotisches war. In Andrés letzten Stunden unternimmt die Erzählerin eine Reise in ihre Familiengeschichte. Zu den Vorfahren im München des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ins New York der Fünfzigerjahre, wo ihre Mutter einst arbeitete. Ins Nildelta, wo ihr Vater aufwuchs und die Eltern noch die Ehepartner für die Kinder aussuchten.

Als Elisabeth (Sisi) durch Heirat zur Kaiserin von Österreich wird, betritt sie eine streng geordnete Welt voll steifer Konventionen und langweiliger Empfänge. Ausbrechen kann sie nur auf ausgedehnten Reisen und bei Aufenthalten auf ihrem ungarischen Schloss Gödöllö. Dort kann sie ungezwungen leben und ihrer größten Leidenschaft nachgehen: wilden Reitjagden. Sisi gehört zu den besten und tollkühnsten Reiterinnen ihrer Zeit. Bei einem Aufenthalt auf Gödöllö lädt Sisi ihre reit- und fechtkundige Nichte Marie Louise von Wallersee zu sich ein.

Join Keith as he opens windows on peoples’ loves, lives, hopes, and dreams—some humorous, some sad. Keith performs a series of works prompted by his favorite pastime—people watching. Each story progressively builds a picture of a life from a first day at school. We meet a West Country Marilyn Monroe and fall in love with a Welsh Audrey Hepburn. We meet Miss Rebecca of Paris and see if diamonds are a girl’s best friend. We grow old and reminisce.

In the heart of Boston in the 1980s, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, Black athlete, focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs. This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them.

In this work, set during the turbulent period of Irish Independence 1921–22, Somerville finds herself at a crossroads. Her position as a member of the ascendancy is perilous as she struggles to keep her family home, Drishane House in West Cork, while others are burned out. After years in a successful writing partnership with Violet Martin, Edith continues to write after her partner’s death, comforted in the belief they continue to connect through automatic writing and séances.

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power.

Un deslumbrante estudio biográfico del mayor filósofo alemán del siglo XIX por uno de los autores de habla alemana más leídos del siglo XX. En esta vívida y elocuente biografía, Zweig evita en gran medida el discurso académico tradicional sobre la obra del filósofo, concentrándose por completo en Nietzsche como persona, sus hábitos, sus pasiones y sus obsesiones. Stefan Zweig describe la tragedia de la existencia de Nietzsche, su aislamiento del mundo, en el aislamiento autoimpuesto, de una manera extremadamente poderosa e impresionante.

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of 18th-century Paris. With a beautiful rival who’s better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing erotic pastels threatens to create as many problems as it solves.

La leyenda de los viajes de Marco Polo cobra vida en este texto de una forma nunca vista hasta entonces. De la mano de una de las escritoras de viajes más reputadas de la actualidad, Patricia Almarcegui, el hecho histórico de su partida desde Venecia hasta las profundidades de la China imperial se convierte en una trepidante narración en la que nosotros, afortunados viajeros, acompañamos a Marco Polo codo con codo en su gesta.

La opera prima de Slauerhoff es una obra mágica y a la vez con cierto sentido experimentalista, una novela modernista en la que se origina un cambio continuo del espacio y el tiempo y cuyos dos personajes principales viajan a distintas épocas entre los siglos XVI y el XX, introduciendo aspectos de la casi desconocida vida del poeta Luís Vaz de Camões mezclando detalles reales y ficticios en el contexto histórico de la Portugal del siglo XVI y otros países del entorno como España así como el proceso colonizador que sufrieron los países orientales.

Questo è un romanzo anti-biografico. Appino, Ufo e Karim – voce, chitarra e batteria degli Zen Circus – prestano i nomi e la vita a una storia che potrebbe essere una delle loro canzoni. Realtà e finzione si rincorrono in questo rocambolesco romanzo che racconta la nascita di una famiglia disfunzionale, quella di un gruppo di ragazzi che attraverso la musica cercano di definire se stessi, e la generazione di vecchi senza esperienza dalla quale vogliono fuggire.

"Gli anni della nostra amicizia sono stati per me gli anni della grande libertà. Libertà di essere come sono" scrive Susanna Tamaro a Pierluigi Cappello, il poeta scomparso nel 2017, tenendo fede a una promessa che si erano fatti prima che la malattia li separasse. Quella di scrivere un libro insieme. Il libro è questo. Un libro delicato, profondo e commovente che ripercorre gli anni brevi e intensi della loro amicizia. Un'amicizia speciale, limpida e luminosa, riflessiva e inquieta, capace di analizzare la tormentata complessità di questi tempi, senza lasciarsene mai sopraffare.

Inspiré par l’artiste antillaise Marie Martinez, surnommée la Malibran noire, le récit met en scène une narratrice universitaire qui fait des recherches sur ce personnage. Son travail est perturbé par l’irruption dans sa vie d'une chanteuse qui pourrait bien avoir quelque chose à voir avec l'artiste que Nadar photographia du temps de sa splendeur, mais aussi de sa déchéance. Le texte de Marie N’Diaye retrace au prix de multiples détours, le parcours méconnu de la chanteuse Maria Martinez.

In diesem authentischen Roman beschreibt die Autorin die beschwerliche Zeit des Wiederaufbaus nach dem Krieg. Er beginnt im Jahr 1947 und ist der Anschluss ihres ersten Romans "Schreckliche schöne Kindheit", in dem sie ihre schrecklichen Erlebnisse des Krieges schildert. Die Menschen hatten keine Zeit, sich von den Ängsten und Strapazen des Krieges zu erholen, denn nun begannen für sie andere Überlebenskämpfe. Es gab keine Wohnungen für die ganzen "Ausgebombten" und die Massen von Flüchtlingen aus dem Osten, die nur das gerettet hatten, was sie auf dem Leib trugen.

"Давным-давно, на исходе прошлого тысячелетия, я переступила порог – жизненный, судьбинный: уехала в другую страну, оказавшись, как Робинзон Крузо, на острове иной жизни. И принялась его обживать – сурово, мужественно и отчаянно; временами – растерянно. Остров назывался Израиль.

The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful existence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand.

1941, Lithuania. Young Pola Wawer is the daughter of a successful engineer and on the cusp of a promising ophthalmology career, when her home city of Vilnius is invaded by Nazi forces. With her husband taken by the Gestapo and her home no longer her own, Pola flees the city with her parents in pursuit of safety. Almost everywhere they turn, they are met with persecution and hate, until they finally find salvation in the most unexpected of places—among the countryside villages, home of the windmills of her father's design.

Gaudias Poulin is a pioneering Stampeder who has worked gold claims in Dawson all his adult life. Courage and insurmountable odds are all a normal part of life in the Yukon, a cruel country where every living thing wants to kill you. Although he always believed that the next pan would bring a huge strike, his hard-earned sweat has only brought sore bones and a niggling illness. Time has left him sick and friendless. His heart is filled with bitterness and regret. Perhaps it’s time to go back home.