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In death, she would become infamous, yet in life passed often unseen. Jane Parker, daughter of the scholar Lord Morley, leaves her home at a tender age, embarking on a career in the dangerous Tudor Court. From the halls of her father's house to the palaces of London, from England to Calais and the Field of the Cloth of Gold Jane will travel, seeing much of this world, and others.

Daniela Dröscher erzählt vom Aufwachsen in einer Familie, in der ein Thema alles beherrscht: das Körpergewicht der Mutter. Ist diese schöne, eigenwillige, unberechenbare Frau zu dick? Muss sie dringend abnehmen? Ja, das muss sie. Entscheidet ihr Ehemann. Und die Mutter ist dem ausgesetzt, Tag für Tag.

Eigentlich hatte der Gefreite Josef Brosik gehofft, endlich in Urlaub gehen zu können, stattdessen wird er zu einer neu aufgestellten Einheit versetzt. Vom eher geruhsamen Besatzungsdienst in Frankreich geht es in die Hölle der Ostfront. Schon bei der ersten Feindberührung wird fast das ganze Regiment vernichtet; Brosik gehört zu den wenigen Überlebenden. In der Folgezeit wird er Meldegänger - eine zwar bevorzugte, doch harte Aufgabe.

There are a lot of people who will debate the existence of guardian angels. Author Derrick Cutter isn't one of them. Having been raised in a home that was being destroyed from within by alcohol, drugs, and violence, he ran away from home at age 16, longing for freedom from his own private prison. Alone and frightened at first, he would soon meet up with his new best friend, a large white dog named Sheva, who, over the next several years, would show Derrick beyond the shadow of a doubt that guardian angels really do exist, and at times, have paws instead of wings.

Daniel Patterson was a civilian prisoner captured by Confederate Commander John Mosby and held hostage at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, as a future exchange. Within two months, a life-threatening illness strikes Daniel, yet he recovers only to be sent to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina. A stormy night in the autumn of 1862 distracts the guards as he escapes. He walks at night, 400 miles north to Union lines, and returns home to his wife in New Hampshire. Weak. Carrying the burden of trauma and the miracle of reaching freedom, alone but not alone.

Waiting for Nothing by Tom Kromer is a hard-hitting tale of the Great Depression. Locked in a daily struggle to survive in a brutal world, the central character drifts from city to city and from town to town in a desperate quest to find employment, food, and shelter.

Por años Alberto Fuguet escuchó relatos difusos o esquivos acerca del paradero de su tío Carlos, que un día desapareció sin más del ámbito familiar. Con el vago indicio de que quizás estaría perdido en Estados Unidos, el sobrino, convertido ya en un escritor reconocido, inició una investigación en la que mezcló hechos y elucubraciones, intuiciones y recuerdos.

Marcelo es un niño de siete años inquieto como una cola de lagartija. Lo que más le gusta en el mundo es pasar el verano con sus abuelos, José y Valentina, en el pueblo: El Castro. Juntos dan paseos por el río, pescan, juegan y charlan de todo un poco. En sus conversaciones, el abuelo le cuenta a su nieto historias de su familia y de cómo era El Castro cuando él nació.

Charlotte Salomon, pintora alemana de origen judío, abandona Berlín tras una relación amorosa que dejará en ella una huella definitiva. Huyendo de los nazis, se refugia en el sur de Francia junto a sus abuelos, quienes custodian un secreto que Charlotte no debe conocer. Allí compone su fascinante autobiografía, una obra única que, ya acechada por el peligro, decide poner a buen recaudo en una maleta que entrega a su médico, a quien confiesa: «Es toda mi vida».

Jenny Winge forsøger at gøre karriere som billedkunstner i Norge omkring år 1900. Hun er et lidenskabeligt, frigjort og drømmende menneske, der hurtigt keder sig, og det stemmer ikke overens med samtidens strenge normer for, hvordan en kvinde bør opføre sig. Hun er forlovet med Helge, men har i hemmelighed et forhold til Helges far Gert, der også er kunstner, og affæren bliver startskuddet for en lang række tragiske hændelser. Romanen "Jenny" fra 1911 blev Sigrid Undsets helt store gennembrudsroman.

Una joven aldeana ha dado a luz a un bastardo, predestinado a convertirse en el artista más grande de todos los tiempos. Caterina se convierte repentinamente en madre de un niño que posee una inteligencia prodigiosa y ella, con espíritu curioso y algo de intuición, lo lleva a descubrir su talento. Un futuro luminoso se abre frente a ese genio al que bautiza como Leonardo.

Das größte Weib, das je gelebt hat – so wird Mariedl, geboren 1879, bezeichnet. Bereits in der Pubertät erreicht sie eine Größe von 2,17 m. Eigentlich träumt sie von einer eigenen Familie, doch welcher Mann liebt schon eine Riesin? Das Mädchen hat immer Hunger und kann von ihrer armen Bergbauernfamilie kaum ernährt werden. Doch sie hat Glück, denn eines Tages taucht Melchior Balthusi auf – ein Schaubudenbesitzer, der die sanfte Mariedl in die weite Welt entführt.

Amburgo, 1889. Oscar Troplowitz è un giovane farmacista, deciso a sperimentare nuove formule per quello che secondo lui sarà l'affare del secolo: i prodotti di bellezza per le donne. Così, quando scopre che l'imprenditore Paul Beiersdorf vende il suo laboratorio farmaceutico per ragioni famigliari, non esita a farsi avanti. Tuttavia, all'entusiasmo iniziale fanno seguito le prime difficoltà: Oscar è ebreo, e inoltre ha idee “troppo” moderne sui benefici da riservare ai lavoratori.

In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot-air balloon lands not far from the Thames River. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire. A few years later, Mary and Percy meet and fall in love in the Godwin bookshop near Black Friar’s Bridge.

En dag pakker Bobs far et par kufferter og forlader familien uden nærmere forklaring. Med ét er alting forandret. Farens fravær og morens afmægtige måde at forholde sig til det hele på, bliver begyndelsen på en rodløs og sørgmodig opvækst for Bob. Han lærer allerede i de tidlige ungdomsår at dulme sin længsel efter kærlighed og skuffelsen over de voksnes manglende ansvarlighed med sex, rusmidler og afstumpet vold. Men som en modvægt til forfaldet, fornemmer Bob også indimellem en svævende kvalitet i sig selv.

Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today.

Desire Minter was a passenger on the famous Mayflower voyage of 1620. But who was she? And why did she make that journey? Winds of Change is a short novella introducing a character from Running with the Wind and The Winter Years.

In 1887, young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum that looms on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to document—and expose—the wretched conditions faced by the patients.

Lady Be Good transports us to the glittering, sumptuous era of 1920s New York to follow the life of aspiring actress Dorothy Hale as she comes of age. Breaking societal rules imposed on women, “Peck’s Bad Girl of Pittsburgh Society” leaves behind her privileged world for the bright lights of Broadway to chase her dream.

Friedrich "Fritz" Mandl es un joven austríaco que se hace cargo a sus 19 años de la destruida fábrica de armas de su padre. En apenas una década, llega a amasar una de las fortunas más grandes del planeta. Durante la preguerra, en los años 30, entre su cartera de clientes cuenta con Mussolini, Hitler y Franco, entre otros. En 1933, al ver la película Éxtasis, donde la actriz Hedwig Kiesler interpreta el primer desnudo total femenino y el primer orgasmo en la pantalla grande, se enamora de ella.