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For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

Marie Benedict widmet sich Hedy Lamarr, einer Frau, die das Weltgeschehen maßgeblich beeinflusst hat und deren Errungenschaften vergessen wurden. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Schauspielerin, Glamour-Ikone und Wissenschaftlerin: Die Schönheit von Hedy Lamarr, die mit bürgerlichem Namen Hedwig Maria Kiesler hieß und jüdischer Abstammung war, führte sie zu einer kometenhaften Schauspielkarriere in Wien und zur Heirat mit einem österreichischen Waffenhändler.

Ein epochales Forscherinnenleben - und der Alltag einer Mutter von vier Kindern. Kopenhagen, 1948: Maries kleiner Sohn Peder ist noch ein Baby, der Gedanke, ihn für viele Monate zu verlassen, schmerzt. Aber Marie muss fort, sie wird auf einer strapaziösen Expedition Beweise suchen für ihre These, dass die Kontinente ursprünglich einmal zusammenhingen. Pangäa ist ihr Lebenszweck, von nichts und niemandem lässt sie sich einschränken. Sie ist Forscherin, verheiratet und hat vier Kinder.

È il 1966, e l'estate pare essersi dimenticata delle Alpi, lasciando al suo posto piogge e temporali che inchiodano escursionisti e amanti delle cime negli alberghi e nei campeggi. L'arrampicatore californiano Gary Hemming - idealista, sfrontato e carismatico - guarda il Monte Bianco e freme: è venuto in Europa sull'onda dell'insaziabile fame di vita che da sempre lo incendia, e invece si ritrova un tetto di nuvole sopra la testa.

Sie überlebte Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen und Theresienstadt! – Ein ergreifendes Holocaust-Memoir von einem starkem Großmutter-Enkelin-Duo. Von der Kraft, nicht aufzugeben. Crasna, 1944: Rosie ist achtzehn Jahre alt, als sie von den Nationalsozialisten aus dem vertrauten Leben in ihrem Heimatdorf an der rumänisch-ungarischen Grenze gerissen wird. Von diesem Moment an beginnt ihre unvorstellbare Reise durch die Hölle, die sie in verschiedene Arbeits- und Konzentrationslager führt.

For admirers of Tom Rachman's work, this is a return to the formal ingenuity and technique that he exhibited so flamboyantly in his debut. It's set during a crisis in democracy, a society in lockdown linked digitally but convulsed by a social media frenzy, and is told by a little-known, little-read Dutch novelist named Dora Frenhofer, who has decided that her life as an old woman in this post-truth pandemic world has become too much. But like a twenty-first century Scheherazade Dora spins stories to fend off the evil day, conjuring connections from her past to give meaning to the present.

"Nicolas" è il racconto di un amore, lungo vent'anni, tra due uomini; è la visione limpida e travolgente di una malattia terminale; è la storia di una vita intensa, vissuta senza impianti fino all'ultimo giorno. Navigando nella memoria e contemplando i ricordi che a mano a mano riemergono – viaggi, frammenti d’infanzia, libri, fotografie, musiche, case – l'autore risponde all’urgenza di riappropriarsi di un passato ormai sommerso eppure ancora capace di esprimere messaggi di felicità.

1940, France. Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don't get to them first. With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his list. At home in New York, making a list seemed hard, but in the middle of humanity's darkest hour, Varian must do all he can to help. And as the Nazis begin to get word of Varian's secret operation, he must dig deep and find the courage to rescue as many innocents as he can.

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen: Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.

Artefacto verbal inteligentísimo, gozoso, centrífugo, La buena nueva... rastrea la huella de ese caminante a través de un vagabundeo que es, al mismo tiempo, retrato hablado: un centro inasible, rodeado de brío y fascinación, que se lee a sí mismo en busca del autor.

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to...nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes. Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love? Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected? Alfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one.

1564: Devon sailor Francis Drake sets out on a journey of adventure. Drake learns of routes used to transport Spanish silver and gold, and risks his life in an audacious plan to steal a fortune.

Wie kaum eine Autorin ihrer Zeit hat Susanne Kerckhoff den Verlust der moralischen Integrität der Deutschen, ihre Schuld an den Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus und die Frage der daraus resultierenden geistigen Neuorientierung zum Mittelpunkt ihres literarischen Schaffens gemacht. Ein bedeutendes Zeugnis dieser Auseinandersetzung ist ihr kurzer, 1948 erschienener halbfiktiver Briefroman "Berliner Briefe". In diesem Buch richtet Helene, eine im zerstörten Berlin lebende Frau, nach Kriegsende dreizehn Briefe an ihren nach Paris emigrierten jüdischen Jugendfreund Hans.

Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the French throne alongside her husband, Louis XVI. But behind the extravagance of the young queen's elaborate silk gowns and dizzyingly high coiffures, she harbors deeper fears for her future and that of the Bourbon dynasty. From the early growing pains of marriage to the joy of conceiving a child, from her passion for Swedish military attache Axel von Fersen to the devastating Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Marie Antoinette tries to rise above the gossip and rivalries that encircle her.

Versailles, 1789. As the burgeoning rebellion reaches the palace gates, Marie Antoinette finds her privileged and peaceful life swiftly upended by violence. Once her loyal subjects, the people of France now seek to overthrow the crown, placing the heirs of the Bourbon dynasty in mortal peril. Displaced to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, the royal family is propelled into the heart of the Revolution. There, despite a few staunch allies, they are surrounded by cunning spies and vicious enemies.

London, 1910: Mit ihrer erotischen Libertinage wird Virginias Schwester Vanessa zum Zentrum der Bloomsbury Group. Sie fühlt sich zu dem faszinierenden, aber homosexuellen Maler Duncan Grant hingezogen, und trotz aller Hindernisse erkunden die beiden bald künstlerische wie sinnliche Grenzen, was jedoch weder Gesellschaft noch Kunstkritik tolerieren. So wird Vanessas Malerei lange Zeit verkannt. Virginia entscheidet sich indes, Leonard Woolf zu heiraten, und wagt, was vielen in ihrer Zeit verwehrt bleibt: als Ehefrau zu arbeiten und den Traum vom Schreiben zu verwirklichen.

Short story based upon the author's time seeking seasonal work in Stanthorpe.

Inge Klatt hat mit ihren autobiografischen Büchern "Schrecklich schöne Kindheit" und "Auferstehung aus Trümmern und Schutt" eindrucksvoll ihr Heranwachsen im Hamburg der 1930er und 1940er Jahre beschrieben. Nun ist sie erwachsen und erlebt, oft gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann, allerlei Skurilles und Amüsantes.