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Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours. Through the radiant specificity of memory, he reckons with a hard-driving father, a caring, sometimes careless mother, a generous, self-involved uncle who’s just become a movie star, and star-struck grandparents. Sam fears the undertow of feelings: he’s not quite spent the night with someone he’s fallen for.

Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.

Australia, primi anni del Novecento. Stella Miles Franklin è la maggiore di sette tra fratelli e sorelle, vive in una fattoria dell’entroterra. Si vede libera, padrona del suo destino. Nel 1901, a vent’anni, scrive un romanzo, La mia brillante carriera, che inaspettatamente diventa un bestseller proiettandola agli onori della cronaca.

Dans Sido, Colette rend un hommage bouleversant à sa mère, cette femme libre, fantasque et passionnée de nature, dont l’empreinte marquera à jamais son œuvre. Entre souvenirs d’enfance, évocations sensorielles et portraits familiaux, l’autrice nous transporte dans un univers tendre, bucolique et intensément vivant.

Seizure is the ongoing story of Chris, experienced academic and up and coming freelance graphic designer with Epilepsy seeking new design projects daily and ultimately his own lifestyle in York, Pennsylvania. It is the story of Michael, his former best friend, and of how both men will decide how involved each will be in their separate lives.

Sur un banc face à la mer, à Biarritz, un ancien général raconte son parcours à son petit-fils de 15 ans. Il a survécu à deux guerres mondiales et à la déportation. Un témoignage puissant, de l'enfance basque au camp de concentration de Dachau. Une réflexion sur l'histoire et l'évolution des mentalités. Ce roman vrai, écrit par son petit-fils, est fondé sur les mémoires du général Etcheberrigaray.

Born in 1859 to Irish immigrants, Mary Dowling arrived at the height of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic fervor in America. The hardscrabble life her family led provided the foundation of grit and determination that would serve her well. She married the enterprising John Dowling. He offered her oversight of their burgeoning bourbon company's financial books and sought her insight as they grew from distillery investors to sole proprietors of Waterfill and Frazier.

Tayo, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial de ascendencia mixta, regresa a la reserva de los lagunas. Está profundamente marcado por su experiencia como prisionero de los japoneses y herido por el rechazo de su pueblo. Solo sumergiéndose en el pasado indio puede empezar a recuperar la paz que le fue arrebatada. Pero, por muy poderosa que sea la historia de Tayo, el triunfo perdurable de Ceremonia se extiende mucho más allá de la narración de los acontecimientos.

Der Seelenfänger von Capri Band 2 von Menschen und Tieren ist die Fortsetzung des Seelenfängers von Capri. Es wird erzählt, wie es mit den Protagonisten weitergeht. Auch hier stehen im Vordergrund ethische, tierethische und philosophische Fragen, eingebettet in eine unterhaltsame Familiengeschichte. Studienzeit bzw. Doktorarbeit in München und Wien, Assistenztierarzt in Prominententierklinik in Starnberg, erneuter Besuch der Insel Capri, Plan einer eigenen Tierarztpraxis...

La storia d’amore di una francese quindicenne con un giovane miliardario cinese, sullo sfondo di un ritratto di famiglia, nell’Indocina degli anni Trenta. Strade brulicanti di vita, il jazz, l’odore della pioggia e dei gelsomini. Racconti rivelazione di una lucidità struggente, di terribile e dolce bellezza, L’amante è l’opera che ha dato a Duras la consacrazione di un’immensa popolarità.

First, he led his own uprising. Then he captured a forsaken king. Henry had no intention of taking the crown for himself; it was given to him by popular acclaim. Alas, it didn't take long to realize that that having the kingship was much less rewarding than striving for it. Only three months after his coronation, Henry IV had to face a rebellion led by Richard's disgruntled favorites. Repressive measures led to more discontent. His own supporters turned against him, demanding more than he could give.

This is the story of Perry Barnes, a multi-talented man who made one bad teenage mistake in the weeks leading up to his high school graduation in 1942. On a lark he "borrowed" some jewelry that wasn't technically his. The local judge took it personally and gave Perry the choice of an assignment to a newly formed Army special operations unit at the start of World War II, or go to jail for 15 years. As a result, he winds up being trained by the United States government in the skills and arts of sabotage, killing, self-preservation, espionage, and ultimately how to be a first class jewel thief.

Den Kennern von H.P. Lovecraft dürfte der Künstler Richard U. Pickman ein Begriff sein. Der Maler morbider und monströser Werke soll sich durch seine exzellente Technik und den ungeheuren "Realismus" seiner alptraumhaften Werke ausgezeichnet haben. Wenig ist bekannt über das Leben dieses Ausnahmekünstlers und auch sein Werk ist, der außergewöhnlichen Qualität zum Trotz, in Vergessenheit geraten. Durch eine ebenso unwahrscheinliche wie bizarre Fügung bin ich in Besitz einer modrigen, wurmzerfressenen Kiste gelangt in welcher sich Tagebücher, Notiz- und Skizzenbücher Pickmans befinden.

Born and raised in San Francisco Author John Kiramis is a retired police lieutenant and detective sergeant who served for 31 years and upon retirement went on to became Mayor of Foster City, California, a community within the realm of the Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Kate and their cats Chalmers and Anthony. John was born, raised, and educated in San Francisco up until he graduated from the Jesuit University of San Francisco with a degree in rhetoric and sociology.

An ordinary lad from Teeside becomes an actor by pure chance, is given a fabricated name, experiences inexplicable success and uncertain recognition, only to suffer a lifetime of chronic imposter syndrome.

The Rappahannock Line continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan who serves in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the year 1862 draws to its close, the powerful Union army gathers its strength on the Rappahannock River in Virginia to renew its advance on the Confederate capital. Lee's army confronts it there bringing on a further bloody collision.

It is 1901, and Dr Gallagher has just pronounced Murray Hall dead. New York politico, gambler, womaniser - Hall is all these things, but when the press break the news of his death to the world, they reveal a side to his identity he never wanted known, a secret no one could have guessed. One journalist is determined to uncover the truth of Hall's past, but his search leads him down winding alleys of fact and fiction. From humble beginnings in Glasgow's tenements to a life spent rubbing up against New York's political elite, Murray Hall is the definition of a self-made man.

Книгу Марии Конюковой можно считать одновременно и портретом на фоне эпохи, и описанием эпохи на фоне портрета. Герой романа — дед Марии, который большую часть жизни прожил в Советском Союзе. Существование в Советской империи превратило его, талантливого, умного человека, физика-ядерщика, в представителя особой породы людей, которую советский писатель Илья Эренбург именовал ужаснувшимися. В книге о жизни и выживании homo soveticus`а автор пытается осмыслить эпоху СССР 1970–80-х годов, к оценке которой мы только сегодня начали подходить.

Putin by Stu Armstrong is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, delivering a compelling narrative that explores the life and legacy of one of the world’s most controversial leaders. Meticulously researched and infused with dramatic storytelling, this audiobook takes listeners deep into the psyche of Vladimir Putin, from his early days as a KGB operative in Soviet-era East Germany to his rise as the unchallenged ruler of modern Russia.

1932 zieht Erna aus einem kleinen Ort im Weserbergland nach Berlin - in die Metropole voller Versprechungen. Doch dem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen bleibt nicht viel Zeit, um die Sehnsucht nach einem aufregenden Leben in der Großstadt zu stillen. Viel zu schnell müssen die unbeschwerten Stunden den Stunden der Angst und der Trauer weichen. Erna versucht ihre aufrechte Haltung im Angesicht der Tyrannei zu bewahren. Schwerverletzt überlebt sie den Krieg und findet zwischen Trümmern und Tod ein neues Leben.