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Rebecca glaubte, ihr Leben zu kennen. Gefangen im täglichen Spagat zwischen den Bedürfnissen ihrer Familie und ihren eigenen unerfüllten Sehnsüchten ahnt Rebecca nicht, dass ein geheimnisvoller Traum und ein spontaner Urlaub in den Highlands Schottlands alles verändern werden. Inmitten einer neu entdeckten Welt, umgeben von uralter Magie, unbändiger Kräfte und rätselhafter Wesen wird Rebecca auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

L'acqua ha sommerso ogni cosa: solo la punta del campanile emerge dal lago. Trina è una giovane madre che alla ferita della collettività somma la propria: invoca di continuo il nome della figlia, scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Finché la guerra viene a bussare alla porta di casa, e Trina segue il marito disertore sulle montagne, dove entrambi imparano a convivere con la morte.

قام النظام الشمولي الإيراني بشنق امرأة تبلغ من العمر ستة وعشرين عامًا أدينت بارتكاب جريمة قتل ، على الرغم من دفاعها المستمر عن نفسها. العديد من الجماعات الحقوقية...

Catherine Parr ha soltanto sette anni quando, durante un torneo, il suo destino incrocia per la prima volta quello di Enrico VIII, il re d'Inghilterra. Catherine non può certo immaginare che un giorno, passata anche lei attraverso vari matrimoni, finirà con il diventare la sesta e ultima moglie di Enrico. Coraggiosa, romantica, colta e appassionata d'arte, Catherine assisterà a congiure ed esecuzioni e solo grazie alle sue arti diplomatiche riuscirà a sfuggire miracolosamente alla morte.

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.

تحكي هذه الرواية سيرة «لسان الدين ابن الخطيب»، شهيدِ المحبّةِ وصريعِ الروح الذي يُعتبر مع صديقه ابن خلدون أعظمَ رجلين أنجبهما القرن الثامن الهجري في الغرب...

«Te incineraron con una novela mía entre las manos. Por eso escribo este libro. Hasta ese momento jamás pensé que contaría nuestra historia. Había logrado asumir el largo camino de tu final, que a veces, no sé si atreverme a decirlo, tanto deseaba que llegara, y describir aquel calvario...

Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg, reina de España por su matrimonio con Alfonso XIII y nieta de la reina Victoria de Inglaterra, fue una mujer despreciada por su marido, anulada por su suegra -la reina madre María Cristina-, ridiculizada por la corte, ignorada por sus súbditos y castigada por...

La locura y el horror han obsesionado mi vida, escribe el autor. Los libros que he escrito no hablan de otra cosa. Después de "El adversario", ya no aguantaba más. Quise escapar. Creí que escapaba amando a una mujer y realizando una investigación. La investigación fue sobre mi abuelo...

La infanta Paz de Borbón nació entre los algodones y las puntillas del Palacio Real de Madrid en 1862. Según los mentideros de la corte, fruto de la relación de la reina Isabel II con su secretario personal Miguel Tenorio de Castilla. Fue una niña dulce y callada con un carácter muy...

Based on real-life characters and events, this historical novel tells the story of Sebastian Castellio, a brilliant theologian and ethicist, whose calls for religious tolerance and dialogue in the sixteenth century sparked a violent backlash from his one-time colleague and friend, the renowned Protestant Reformer John Calvin.

I was tired of watching one child abuser after another get little to no consequence for destroying the futures of so many innocent victims. I felt more and more infuriated after learning a case investigated with solid evidence had charges negotiated and pled down to little or no jail time.

Sylvie è uno dei racconti più noti e più belli del grande scrittore francese Gérard de Nerval. In una costruzione perfetta e coinvolgente, Aurélie, Sylvie e Adrienne emergono in profili ora di sogno, ora reali, ma sempre vivissimi. Romanticismo estremo, allucinato, quello di Nerval, poeta ispirato e scrittore immenso che dipinge figure femminili allo stesso tempo rarefatte, metafisiche, romantiche, tragiche. Un racconto struggente reso ancor più vivo ed emozionante dall'intreccio di voci degli intensi interpreti, Fabio Farnè e Valeria Ianniello.

For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart - and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in an upcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.

To Pocahontas and her people, the Tidewater is the rightful home of the Powhatan tribe. To England it is Virginia Territory, fertile with promise, rich with silver and gold. As Jamestown struggles to take root, John Smith knows that the only hope for survival lies with the Powhatan people. He knows, too, that they would rather see the English starve than yield their homeland to invaders. In the midst of this conflict, Pocahontas, the daughter of the great chief, forges an unlikely friendship with Smith.

Una joven belga inicia su vida labora el una empresa de Tokio. Una mirada irónica y sagaz sobre las diferencias entre Oriente y Occidente. Esta novela de inspiración autobiográfica, que ha obtenido un enorme éxito en Francia, cuenta la historia de una joven belga que empieza a trabajar en Tokio en una gran compañía japonesa. Pero en el Japón actual, fuertemente jerarquizado, la joven tiene el lastre de un doble handicap.

"Il silenzio è irreale, qui, al centro del salone. Non riesco nemmeno a sentire gli uccelli cantare nel giardino, fuori dalle grandi finestre. L'odore di bruciato copre ogni cosa, così come la fuliggine. Si è depositata su mobili, fotografie, quadri... su tutto quello che resta di quanto conteneva questa casa. La mia casa, Villa Montenegro. Queste mura hanno resistito a tempeste, terremoti, ma non al fuoco, e alle impossibili temperature dell'odio. Ma ora, in mezzo alla catastrofe, mi manca l'aria."

In the tradition of Schindler's List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in Adolf Hitler's foreign ministry. Recognizing that millions of lives are at stake, Kolbe uses his position to pass information to the Americans - risking himself and the people he holds most dear - and embarks on a dangerous double life as the Allies' most important spy.

In the real world, Reinhard Heydrich, the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated in Czechoslovakia in May 1942. In The Man with the Iron Heart, Heydrich survives that fated assassination attempt, only to hatch an insurgency as insidious as anything conceived by Osama bin Laden.