検索キーワード： 伝記フィクション

Steventon, Hampshire, 1795. Jane ha vent'anni e si prepara a festeggiare il Natale insieme alla sua famiglia. Jane è contenta per il matrimonio della sorella, ma sa che da quel momento in poi la madre non si darà pace pur di trovarle un buon partito, e Jane non ha alcuna intenzione di sposarsi. Il suo unico desiderio è quello di scrivere e di diventare, un giorno, una scrittrice di successo.

Hollywood producer Ben Howell built an empire on dreams, but died keeping his darkest truth locked away. When his estranged son, Will, discovers a mysterious key among his father’s belongings, it unlocks more than just a hidden journal. It unleashes the voice of a seventeen-year-old boy named Benji, trapped forever on the decks of the Titanic as it plunged toward disaster.

El protagonista de esta novela negrísima, un periodista jubilado con un pasado glorioso como reportero de sucesos, escribe a toda velocidad El leñador, su última novela policiaca, mientras hace balance de su vida e investiga por su cuenta «el crimen de Raspai». En su novela, el inspector-jefe José Pulido debe enfrentarse a su peor caso: el asesinato, a golpes de hacha, del alcalde de una pequeña población mediterránea. Un crimen de una violencia feroz que le hará descender a los sótanos de su propio infierno cuando se tope con el muro de la verdad y del gran dinero.

The Old Writer is losing the plot. Struggling to complete the long-overdue thirteenth and final volume of his cult ‘Leepus’ series of bizarre detective novels, he is exhaustingly distracted by the anarchic reality of his family life. Rude Jude, Jilted John, Vile Viola, ASBO Angie, Cracked Jack and Obscene Irene are the characters of his life story—relatives and children whose dysfunctional lives conspire to undermine his efforts to find them resolution and redemption.

Ich bin felsenfest davon überzeugt, dass wir die Menschen, die wir aufrichtig lieben, niemals verlieren. Wir treffen uns an einem anderen Ort wieder. Möglicherweise in einer anderen Gestalt oder Lebensform. In jedem Fall bleiben wir für immer zusammen. Spüren einander. Fühlen uns geborgen. Das ist der Himmel.

Charlotte learns the truth behind the execution of the Royal Romanov family of Russia, revealed to her by the surviving grandson of Tsar Nicholas II, the last full blood Prince of Russia. One of the World's biggest mysteries and tragic events is uncovered after a century of numerous speculations. She must face the threats and dangers from the governments in power wanting to keep the truth hidden. Should she tell the world the secrets being buried or stay silent as the shadow group behind the Monarchies of Europe insists?

Karl Marx: The Divine Tragedy presents a groundbreaking exploration of Karl Marx’s life, revealing the man not just as a revolutionary thinker, but as a flawed prophet consumed by his own radical vision. Robert Orlando traces Marx's descent through the lens of Dante’s Divine Comedy. unveiling a deeply spiritual and haunting journey through the inferno of Marx’s personal and ideological struggles.

Occupied France, 1942: Psychiatrist Dr. Adélaïde Hautval is arrested for defending a Jewish family. When she’s deported to Auschwitz and assigned to the women’s infirmary, she’s ordered to assist with sterilization experiments under SS doctors—including the infamous Josef Mengele. As the line between healing and harm blurs, Adélaïde makes a choice that could cost her everything. London, 1964: Two decades later, one of the Nazi doctors is on trial—and Adélaïde is the key to exposing the truth.

"جلست جانب النهر تغسل قدميها، قالت: أيتها المياه، أنتِ فعلا تحفظين عهدك. تأتين في الوقت المحدد كل يوم. بادلتها المياه الحديث: ما رأيته بالأمس لم يكن أنا، لقد وصلت للتو إلى هنا. تنهدت وقالت: لحسن الحظ إذن أن النهر لم يتغير، وإلا فلن أجد مكانًا أذهب إليه. قالت المياه: المياه ليست هي المياه نفسها، وبالتالي فالنهر ليس هو النهر نفسه أيضًا. مر سرب من الإوز البري محلقا في السماء، قالت: أيها الإوز، أنت فعلا لا تخلف موعدك، مررت من هنا في العام الماضي، وها أنت تعود في نفس الموعد هذا العام.

Daisy DeVoe has left her abusive husband, her father has been pinched for bootlegging, and she’s embarrassed by her rural Kentucky roots. But on the plus side, she’s climbing the ladder in the salon of Paramount Pictures, styling hair for actress Clara Bow. Clara is a handful. The “It” Girl of the Jazz Age personifies the new woman of the 1920s onscreen, smoking, drinking bootleg hooch, and bursting with sex appeal. But her conduct off the set is even more scandalous. Hoping to impose a little order on Clara’s chaotic life, Paramount persuades Daisy to sign on as Clara’s personal secretary.

Sin dalla prima volta in cui Joseph Lambert ha visto la faccia di Edmonde nel momento del piacere, ha smesso di essere una efficiente, taciturna, un po' stolida segretaria, ed è diventata la sua complice. Fra loro è nata un'intesa che non è né amore né passione, ma piuttosto la condivisione di un gioco segreto. E quando, una sera, guidando a zig-zag con la sinistra mentre tiene la destra tra le cosce di lei, Lambert sente dietro di sé il claxon disperato di un pullman e lo vede poi schiantarsi contro un muro, non pensa neppure a fermarsi.

لعل الخليفة «هارون الرشيد» هو أكثر خلفاء العصر العباسي شهرة ومعرفة بين الناس وذلك لِمَا تَحَقق في عصره من نهضة عِلْمية وأدبية، حيث قَرَّب من مجالسه الشعراء والأدباء وأهل العلم كما ازدهرت حركة التجارة الخارجية ونَمَت العلاقات السياسية بين دولة الخلافة وممالك أوروبا فأهدى الرشيدُ الهدايا النفيسة والطريفة للإمبراطور «شارمان» التي عَكَسَت ما وَصَلَت له الحضارة العربية مِنْ تَقَدُّم آنذاك. أيضًا طار صيت الرشيد إلى أن بَلَغ الغربَ بسبب ما حَكَتْه روايات «ألف ليلة وليلة» عن الحياة الباذخة التي كانت عليها قصور الخليفة. كما يسرد المؤلف في هذا الكتاب الكثيرَ من

My character has been shaped by two opposing forces; the pressure to conform to social norms, and the pressure to be true to myself. To be honest with you, these forces have really torn me apart. They’ve pulled me one way and then the other. At times, they’ve left me questioning my whole entire existence. But please don’t think that I’m angry or morose. I’m not. Because through adversity comes knowledge. I’ve suffered, it’s true. But I’ve learnt from my pain. I’ve become a better person.

If you have found this booklet, I am hopefully already dead, buried next to my father and mother, within spitting distance of Thomas, Elsie, and Sally Somers. And, though it is called the Gilley Burying Ground, my father would be irked (when was he not?) to lie for eternity next to the neighbors he so despised. Though I wanted to understand his feelings, I wanted even more to understand the Somers, whose exploits in Southwest Harbor were the subject of so much scrutiny and conjecture, but whose daily lives were full of earnest hard work.

Non è facile avere un padre sedentario, distante, a volte ostile, raccolto in se stesso, un impiegato che sembra calamitare in sé i tratti di una provincia ottusa e democristiana. Eppure quello stesso padre, scampato a un cancro alla parotide, improvvisamente comincia a correre, e quando comincia sembra non smettere più. In città lo chiamano "quello che corre" e dalle imprese sulle strade marchigiane si avvia a diventare un protagonista della "marcialonga", prima nazionale poi internazionale, della maratona, delle marce di resistenza.

Beginning in 1930s Germany and based on their real lives, four cousins as close as siblings—Bettina, Trudi, Gustav, and Gertrud—share the experiences of the young, including first loves, marriages, and children. Bettina, the oldest, struggles to help her parents with their failing business. Trudi dresses in the latest fashions and tries to make everything look beautiful. Gustav is an artist at heart and hopes to one day open a tailoring shop. Gertrud, the youngest, is forced by her parents to keep secrets, but that doesn’t stop her from chasing boys.

In the gritty underbelly of Milan, a successful car salesman's life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a mysterious homeless musician beneath the Corvetto overpass. Drawn to the stranger's haunting melodies, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the musician's fall from grace. As their worlds collide, both men must confront the dreams they've abandoned and the choices that have led them to this moment. Through richly layered prose, Buzzi explores the delicate balance between artistic passion and practical survival.

Nineteen-year-old Anne of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, is thrilled and triumphant at the birth of a healthy baby boy, destined to reign as King of Scotland and, possibly, England. But Anne's enjoyment of maternal glory quickly fades as her husband King James, fearing his son will be politically manipulated against him as he was against his mother, the deceased Mary Queen of Scots, removes the child permanently from her care. Outraged, Anne tries to regain control of her son, initiating a bitter marital struggle which sours what had been a loving and harmonious marriage.

In seiner Biografie erzählt der Autor nicht nur von seinen eigenen Erlebnissen in der HKC-Gruppe, sondern auch die von anderen Mitgliedern in dieser Zeit. Er erzählt sehr plastisch den Umgang in der Gruppe untereinander und in der Szene generell, die nicht nur geprägt von Freundschaften, Emotionen, Erfolgen, Misserfolgen und musikalischen Experimenten, sondern vor allem auch von einer unkonventionellen, von Hass, Gewalt, Drogen und Kriminalität geprägten Lebensweise, in der auch Enttäuschung, Trauer und Tod eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle spielt.

Uscire dall'austero palazzo Leopardi, lasciarsi alle spalle Recanati e la sua gente pettegola: questo è il desiderio più grande di Paolina, ma anche il più difficile da realizzare. Vive in obbedienza alle rigide regole del padre Monaldo, moralista e conservatore, e della madre Adelaide, ossessionata più dalla religione e dal benessere economico che da quello dei propri figli. Se il fratello può andarsene per seguire il suo destino di scrittore e poeta, lei è costretta a restare, docile prigioniera tra le mura domestiche.