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Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories. Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations.

Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng's autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) gilt als bedeutendster Philosoph Dänemarks; hier jedoch glänzt er als unglaublich versierter Erzähler. Seine eigene unglücliche Liebesgeschichte erzählt Kierkegaard hier nach - als einen raffinierten Psychothriller, dessen subtile Schikanen und Manipulationen nur ein Ziel haben: Die emotionale Unterwerfung einer Frau, nur um sie danach fallen zu lassen. Das Werk schlug seinerzeit hohe Wellen und etablierte Kierkegaard auch als Belletristen.

Justine ha scelto di vivere a Milly – un paesino di cinquecento anime nel cuore della Francia – e di rifugiarsi in un lavoro sicuro come assistente in una casa di riposo.

Christmas is over. And so is my marriage… Twenty years of marriage. Twenty years of ignored red flags. And one very smug ex-girlfriend. When I discovered my husband's secret double life, I had two options (well three, if you count me and my best friend with two spades and a suspicious willingness to serve hard time): 1. Stay for the kids 2.

In Natascha Wodins neuem Buch wagt die Erzählerin den Versuch, die Liebe über die Einsamkeit siegen zu lassen, ein letztmögliches Lebensexperiment, in dem sich die Fragen nach Liebe und Tod mit existenzieller Dringlichkeit stellen und die Mühen des Alters zum Alltag gehören. Die Geschichte des Paares ist der rote Faden im Text, einem Gewebe aus Erinnerungen, Reflexionen, Beobachtungen – aufgezeichnet an einem mecklenburgischen Sees mit Blick auf das Wasser und den gegenüberliegenden Horizont.

Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City’s five largest organized crime families. Other prosecutors have tried to bring down Lucky, but they’ve all focused on the crime syndicate’s traditional businesses—bootlegging, gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing—or tax evasion. No one has thought to approach the mob through its hand in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can’t get Luciano alone.

The heroine of A Noble Cunning, Bethan Glentaggart, Countess of Clarencefield, a persecuted Catholic noblewoman, is determined to try every possible means of saving her husband's life, with the help of a group of devoted women friends. Amid the turbulence of the 1715 Rebellion against England's first German king George I, Bethan faces down a mob attack on her home, travels alone from the Scottish Lowlands to London through one of the worst snowstorms in many years, and confronts a cruel king before his court to plead for mercy for her husband Gavin.

Experience the unforgettable journey of Black Beauty, a noble horse with a kind and gentle heart, as he recounts his life in Victorian England—from idyllic pastures to bustling city streets. Told from the horse’s point of view, Anna Sewell’s timeless classic offers a powerful reflection on kindness, cruelty, and the deep bond between animals and humans.

The Comandante's Shadow: A Revolutionary's Fall. From Revolutionary Hero to Ruthless Dictator—The Tragic Transformation of a Nation's Dreams. In 1979, Daniel Ortega stood on the palace balcony in Managua, promising democracy and justice to a nation finally free from dictatorship. Forty-six years later, that same palace has become the center of a regime that eliminates opponents, silences critics, and rules through fear—all in the name of protecting the revolution.

Read by the author, “Good Morning” is rooted in the author’s sunrise walks in a beautiful little place called Peaceful Valley. Told in the third person, the old man, named “Good Morning”, and a Canada Goose which he named Godfrey, become closer and closer friends over four years of experiences; learning and sharing Life with each other.

She longed for freedom and adventure... but was she truly ready? Twenty-year old Jacqueline Bouvier is anxious to leave her overbearing family for the chance to study in Paris. Aching for freedom from difficult family relationships--and the constant pressure to find a husband--she wants to submerge herself in academics, the arts, and all Paris has to offer. As she sets sail, she has no interest in falling in love. However, her striking beauty catches the eyes of Paris' most elite bachelors--and a mysterious rogue.

In the 1930s, young women with big dreams came to New York City to pursue careers, meet men, and make friends. Charles "Lucky" Luciano, an Italian-American gangster, was one of the people who preyed on them. This fictionalized first-person account of a girl from a small town in the northeast US details how she became ensnared in the party circuit and eventually worked as a prostitute in Luciano's houses.

Mariam knew she would marry Yeshua and was aware of the work expected of them. They both needed education to be able to fulfill their mission. Through her initiations at the university surrounding the Library of Alexandria and at Ephesus, she becomes a powerful and dangerous priestess. What has been chosen to be revealed, and what has been masterfully hidden, has made the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene even more alluring. Veiled in mystery and obscurity, this fascination has been amplified as more historical facts have come to light.

Eduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. It is 1984 and their native country, in the midst of a violent civil war, feels newly alien to them – their Spanish faltering, already half-forgotten. Their grandfather collects the boys from the airport and drives them into the mountains, depositing them at what they're told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the children meet a counsellor called Samuel Blum: a handsome young man with sky-blue eyes who knows about all kinds of things.

Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.

Hijo de ladrón constituye un clásico de la literatura nacional. Publicada el año 1951, es considerada por la crítica como la obra central de la producción literaria de Manuel Rojas, quien introdujo en su obra el monólogo interior o corriente de la conciencia, al estilo de Joyce y Faulkner, además de profundizar en los aspectos psicológicos y existenciales de sus personajes, rompiendo, de este modo, con los procedimientos literarios de la época.

Flora Thompson is best known as the author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical, bestselling series exploring Oxfordshire country life in the late 19th century. Heatherley picks up the story a year after her central character, Laura, left Candleford Green, moving on to Grayshott on the Hampshire/Surrey border, and with it, finding a new world. Through Laura, the book explores Flora’s experience working in a post-office, where to her surprise her customers included the authors Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw.

Berlin, 1919: Als Hans die junge Stiefmutter seines Schulfreunds Hellmut Quandt kennenlernt, ahnt er nicht, welche Rolle Magda in seinem Leben spielen wird – für ihn persönlich, aber auch Jahre später als fanatische Nationalsozialistin und Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reichs. Noch ist die Weimarer Republik im Aufbruch und Hans hoffnungslos in Hellmut verliebt. Doch nach einem Unglücksfall beginnen Hans und Magda eine Affäre, von der sie sich Trost und Vorteile versprechen: Sie will aus ihrer Ehe ausbrechen, er seine Homosexualität verbergen.