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Des rives de la baie d’Hudson aux paroisses de Sainte‑Thérèse et de Saint‑Jérôme, en passant par la Rivière Rouge de Saint‑Boniface et la rivière des Mille‑Îles, ce récit nous entraîne sur les traces de Jean Guénet. À travers un territoire immense et une époque où s’imposent la Charte royale de 1670 et l’essor de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, se dessine une quête de mémoire où routes, ponts et toponymes racontent l’élan des pionniers.

Seven-year-old Harold Thomas watches his father board a train bound for the battlefields of the Great War. What happens next will test him as brutally as any combat. The home front isn’t safe. It’s a battlefield of its own—where boys become men overnight, where winter kills without mercy, where one mistake can end everything. Where survival demands the same discipline, the same sacrifice, the same relentless courage required in the trenches overseas.

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M's life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere.

शुटिंगनंतर सहा वर्षांनी स्वरदाने विक्रांतवर सेटवर घडलेल्या प्रसंगाबद्दल आरोप केला ज्याची साक्षी ती एकटीच...

रघुवीर कुल लिखित कुल व्यक्तिचित्र - मुसाफीर काही माणसांबरोबर आपली काही असोसिएशन्स असतात. माझ्या बाबतीत वैद्य...

अख्ख्या जगाच्या नजरा गेल्या काही दिवसांपासून ज्या डीलकडे लागल्या होत्या ते डील अखेर पार पडलं. टेस्ला कंपनीचा...

नेहेमिया नीळकंठशास्त्री गोरे ही ऐतिहासिक व्यक्तिरेखा 'होरपळ' या कादंबरीचा गाभा आहे. नीळकंठशास्त्री गोरे हा...

रघुवीर कुल लिखित कुल व्यक्तिचित्रे - देबू देवधर खरं तर देबू पक्का पुणेकर! फिल्म इन्स्टिट्यूटमध्ये शिकत असताना...

Eleanor Dumont bricht alle Regeln und gründet als erste Frau auf dem amerikanischen Kontinent einen eigenen Spiel-Saloon. In einem Gebiet voller Gefahren und vergänglichem Reichtum nimmt ein tödliches Drama seinen Lauf. Dort, wo Gier, Sünde und Alkohol den Wert eines Lebens bestimmen, kommt es schon bald zu mörderischen Zwischenfällen. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten entführt Sie dieses Buch in die wohl spannendste Zeit der Pioniertage.

En junio de 1943 una prostituta de Bilbao deja al cuidado de unos jesuitas a su hijo recién nacido. Poco tiempo después, en Galicia, una mujer da a luz a una niña y la abandona en un convento. Con este punto de partida, Larrea recorre hacia atrás una complicada historia familiar que la lleva a Bilbao, la ciudad donde se encuentran las claves de sus orígenes. Una historia sobre adopciones ilegales con el trasfondo de los últimos coletazos del franquismo.

München, 1985: Die junge Claudia Baumgartner lernt den sieben Jahre älteren Flötisten Florian Moser kennen und lieben. Das junge Paar bekommt Fünflinge, die als Frühchen auf die Welt kommen. Zwei der Babys sterben nach wenigen Monaten. Claudia kämpft wie eine Löwin, um ihrer Familie das optimale Zuhause zu bieten. Sie bekommt noch eine weitere Tochter, Julia, und nimmt ein Pflegekind auf, das türkische Mädchen Merve. Doch Florian, der eine bipolare Störung hat, wird zunehmend aggressiv, hat Affären und zwingt Claudia zu mehreren Umzügen quer durch die ganze Republik.

Ambition. Sorcery. Treason. How far will one woman dare to go? Eleanor Cobham arrived at court with nothing — her greatest hope was simply to marry well. But her ambition carried her further than any woman before her had dared. She wanted to rule her own destiny. To rule England itself. They...

1850: Dorettas Familie hat schon in Deutschland Klaviere gebaut. Jetzt wagt sie den Sprung nach New York. Trotz harter Arbeit ist der Anfang schwer in den Mietskasernen des deutschen Viertels, aber Doretta findet als Klavierlehrerin Eingang in die Prachthäuser der Reichen. Instrumente von Steinway & Sons werden zum »Must-have« der New Yorker Gesellschaft. 1925: Dorettas Urenkelin Florence begibt sich auf die Suche nach den deutschen Wurzeln ihrer Familie und stößt dabei auf Schweigen und Geheimnisse, die sie sich nicht erklären kann.

Caro Pardíaco es empresaria de la noche, reina del stream y la primera influencer argentina. Idealista y genuina, comparte sus secretos y sus sueños en O Zeah: un libro fundamental e innecesario.

An immigrant stands at the edge of an unfamiliar land with nothing but faith, memory, and an unbreakable will. Courage, Tears, and The Glory is a powerful literary journey through sacrifice, identity, and perseverance. Set against the emotional landscape of displacement and hope, this story follows a man who refuses to surrender to the winds of adversity. This is not just a story of immigration. It is a story of dignity. Of faith under pressure. Of a man who rises—not because life was easy, but because he chose to endure.

Il reverendo John Ames sta morendo. Sa che non potrà veder crescere il figlio di soli sette anni, né offrirgli testimonianza di ciò che è stato e ha imparato. Sceglie allora di affidarsi a una lettera-diario, per mostrargli quanto di sé, e del mondo, è importante sapere.

L'audiolibro racconta la vita di Davide: una vita avventurosa che molti sognano, ma che solo lui sceglie di vivere fino in fondo. Un viaggio che attraversa Milano, Nizza, Algeri e Casablanca, tra incontri decisivi e situazioni pericolose. Lungo la strada accadono eventi che mettono alla prova il coraggio, le scelte e i legami. Tra sfide, amicizie e svolte inattese, il viaggio diventa insieme reale e simbolico: un attraversamento di luoghi e di esperienze che intreccia storie e provenienze diverse in un racconto intenso e profondamente umano.

„Nett zu sein, war mein erster Traum, lange bevor ich wusste, dass man genauso gut Rockstar sein kann." „Hummelhirn" ist die Geschichte einer Anpassung – inklusive herzzerreißender und hochkomischer Fehlversuche. Mit Zartheit und Talent fürs Tragikomische blickt Judith Holofernes auf ihre Kindheit zurück. Sie erzählt von ihrer Ausbildung zum People Pleaser, der nonkonformistischen Mutter, von Liebeswirren, ersten eigenen Songs und davon, wie es ihr gelingt, die eigene Hummeligkeit ins Erwachsenenleben hinüberzuretten.

A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia...

A new spymaster thriller series set during the reign of Elizabeth I! For fans of Rory Clements, S J Parris, S W Perry and Andrew Taylor. Will Tom Walsingham’s first mission be his last…? England, 1581: Nineteen-year-old Thomas Walsingham is thrilled to be working as a confidential courier, carrying messages between London and Paris for his illustrious cousin, Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham … until everything goes wrong.

I was eager to learn more about my great-grandmother and the location where she was laid to rest. Figured I could get my hands on the guitar she played. Turns out the marker where she was buried had withered away, and nobody knew exactly where she was.

She longed for love and an unconventional life… but never dreamed what it would cost her. After a year in Paris, Jacqueline Bouvier returns home to her family in Mclean, Virginia. Changes and new opportunities abound, including a dinner invite from good friends, anxious to introduce her to Congressman John F. Kennedy. Though she’s curious, Jackie is certain she couldn’t be a match for a boring politician—until she meets him. Chemistry sparks between them, but both Jackie and Jack, as he is known, are slow to develop the relationship. Months lapse before they see each other again.

In the early 17th century, the relentless machine of the Portuguese Empire is devouring the African interior, fueled by the brutal demands of the slave trade and a messianic certainty of its own superiority. But on the shores of Ndongo, one woman stands in the doorway of what the colonizers call the "Gate of Hell," and she refuses to let them pass.

June 1940. France is falling. Thirty thousand refugees are trapped in Bordeaux with nowhere to run—and one Portuguese diplomat has been ordered to let them die.

Brought to you by Penguin. Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: ‘For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite’. The...

Juan Antonio Rascón llega a París en 1878 para ver unos cuadros de Goya que resultan ser las pinturas negras de la quinta madrileña del artista. Al examinarlas, vuelve a él la memoria de Rosario Weiss, de quien estuvo enamorado en su juventud. La joven creció junto a Goya y aprendió de él, pero por encima de todo, fue la hija que lo acompañó hasta sus últimos días; sin embargo, tras la muerte del pintor, quedó relegada durante décadas, borrada tanto por su condición de mujer como por la voluntad colectiva de conservar intacto el mito goyesco.

When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in sole charge of his strange young son, Danny. Danny isn't the kind of son he would have chosen, but, in caring for the boy, Johno finds new meaning and new direction. But what do you do when the world you've so carefully built comes crashing down? Can you ever escape your past?

Maggie's Mountain Song takes the reader on a journey through the Appalachian Mountain region near Boone North Carolina during the 1930's-1940's. The story is told through Maggie's Mountain dialect as she recalls her idyllic childhood ,and the highs, and lows of her life from her later years. Maggie takes the reader on a descriptive ramble over the farm she grew up on and the days of family togetherness, work, school, community, and human relationships and World War Two.

Es gibt Momente, die unser Leben unwiderruflich in ein Davor und ein Danach teilen. Für mich war es ein Wimpernschlag – ein Augenblick, der alles veränderte. Von einem selbstverständlichen Leben blieb nur ein mühsamer Kampf um jeden Atemzug, jeden Schritt. Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der aus seinem gewohnten Alltag gerissen wurde und lernen musste, das Leben neu zu begreifen – trotz Schmerz, Zweifel und der Sehnsucht nach Freiheit.

Para The New York Daily Mirror era «tan bonita como una cruz gamada», y para Goebbels, «la artista que mejor nos entiende». En mayo de 1945, tras la derrota de la Alemania nazi, Leni Riefenstahl quema documentos, cartas y material fotográfico en el jardín de su casa ante la inminente llegada de los americanos.

In 1877, the Paris art scene is very competitive for men but nearly impossible for thirty-three-year-old Mary Cassatt, an American woman. Bored by traditional methods of painting, she admires the work of avant-garde painters, especially Edgar Degas. So, when Edgar visits Mary's studio to view her paintings, she is exhilarated by his invitation to join him, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other Impressionists in the collective.

Novels can have power. They remind us of our responsibilities to planet Earth. That we remember the damage done by corrupt politicians and greedy developers, but so soon forgotten. Story telling is a valuable weapon in the fight for ecological health, and our battle against ongoing ecocide. It's why they demonize, ban, and even burn, such books, my friends. Good guy on the run because of his efforts to fight political environmental ecocide. Corrupt government pursuers. He falls in love with a brilliant female computer hacker. But will she save him? Talented eco-scientist, Dr.

Dall'Ungheria a Londra e ritorno, dal crollo della Cortina di ferro alla pandemia, passando per la seconda guerra del Golfo e l'ingresso nell'Unione Europea dei Paesi dell'ex blocco sovietico, la vita di István è la parabola di un uomo in balìa di forze che non è in grado di controllare. Tutto – i traumi e i lutti, i traguardi raggiunti e le potenziali soddisfazioni – lo lascia ugualmente impassibile, pronto a fronteggiare ogni accadimento, dal più fortunato al più tragico, con l'arma del suo laconico: «Okay».

Iryna Fingerova erzählt so bewegend wie authentisch vom Leben einer jungen ukrainischen Hausärztin in Deutschland, während in ihrem Heimatland Krieg herrscht. Von ihrer Trauer, ihren Schuldgefühlen, ihrer Wut und Resignation, bis hin zu dem Versuch, das eigene Leben weiterzuleben, die Ereignisse zu akzeptieren und vielleicht persönlichen Frieden zu finden. Mira Zehmann ist Hausärztin, Mutter, Ehefrau. Sie stammt aus einer jüdischen Familie in Odesa, vor Jahren hat sie zusammen mit ihrem Mann die Ukraine verlassen, um in Deutschland ihr eigenes Leben zu leben – für sich und ihre kleine Tochter.

Ona se anima a cruzar hacia lo imprevisto, el Nuevo Mundo, la incerteza de todo lo que todavía no tiene nombre. Ese viaje también supondrá un autodescubrimiento, explorar y reconfigurar su identidad. Esta obra cruza memoria individual con memoria colectiva. Giorgina Cerutti reconstruye, en su primera novela, la trayectoria de sus antepasados, mujeres migrantes, mujeres dadas a un destino ignoto, un retrato que surge del archivo familiar: cartas, fotos, relatos transmitidos y heredados, y se vuelve crónica.

India, 1947. Una familia de tres hermanas vive en una aldea rural de Bengala. Priya, inteligente e idealista, sueña con seguir los pasos de su padre y convertirse en médica, desafiando las normas que impone la sociedad. Deepa, la belleza de la familia, aspira a un matrimonio que eleve el estatus familiar. Jamini, devota y perspicaz, es una prodigiosa artesana de colchas, pero sus anhelos más profundos permanecen ocultos. La paz y el amor que comparten en su hogar son un refugio contra los violentos acontecimientos que se viven en la India.

Pablo, un aspirante a escritor sin muchos escrúpulos, viaja a Madrid para recuperar el manuscrito que Eduardo, su amigo y mentor, dejó al morir. Un libro que nunca culminó pero que pretendía explicar lo inexplicable: el infortunado destino de la Argentina, que durante el siglo XVII configuró su economía con un sistema de comercio clandestino tan sofisticado e institucional que se lo conocía como «contrabando ejemplar».

In den 1950er-Jahren wird die junge Ann in einer englischen Arbeiterfamilie groß, doch die Liebe zur Literatur ermöglicht ihr den sozialen Aufstieg und führt sie schließlich nach Paris. Die Literatur wird auch die verbindende Sprache zwischen Ann und ihrer Tochter Julia, die keine gemeinsame Muttersprache miteinander teilen. Julias Leben gerät unvermittelt ins Wanken, als sie Ann nach einem Schlaganfall findet.

Il primo è Javier, ripescato dalle acque del Rio della Plata con le mani legate dietro la schiena da due giri di fil di ferro. Il Turco e Mariano li ritrovano dentro una macchina scassata ai margini della Carretera Norte, con un buco nella nuca grosso come una noce. Poi tocca agli altri: Otilio, il trequarti alto e largo come un armadio; Mariano che ha le mani grandi come le pale di un mulino; Gustavo, sedici anni, leggero come una crosta di pane... Siamo in Argentina, nel 1978, e da due anni comandano i militari.

Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At nineteen, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather, and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.