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Best-selling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, as well as many of Mantle's friends, family members, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, 7, Mickey tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family. In this fictional portrait, Mantle, now in heaven, needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them.

Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life, Édouard Manet begins to jot down his daily impressions, reflections, and memories in a notebook. He travels for healing respites in the French countryside and finds inspiration in nature - a cloud of dragonflies, peonies blanketed by the morning dew. Back in Paris, the artist holds court in his studio and meets a mysterious muse, Suzon. Entranced by Suzon's cool blue eyes, he decides to paint his final masterpiece, "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere", life-sized - and wagers his health to complete it.

Questo ultimo romanzo di Charlotte Bronte è da alcuni considerato il suo capolavoro; da molti la sua opera più matura sia come contenuti che come modernità di scrittura. "Villette" è il nome di una città immaginaria del continente dove una giovane donna inglese approda "in cerca di fortuna", si potrebbe dire, se in realtà la sua non fosse quasi una scelta obbligata, intrapresa per la necessità di sopravvivere e per la fuga da un deserto affettivo.

"Aucun journal, aucune agence de presse, aucune historiographie n'a jamais mentionné la guerre mondiale du ghetto de San Li Tun, qui dura de 1972 à 1975. C'est à la faveur de cette barbarie que j'ai compris une vérité immense : grâce à l'ennemi, ce sinistre accident qu'est la vie devient une épopée. La mienne serait grandiose : les généraux de l'armée des Alliés m'avaient nommée éclaireur. Sans l'arrivée d'Elena, je serais restée invulnérable jusqu'au bout."

First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest speculators who ever lived. Now, almost 90 years later, it remains the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever written. Generations of investors have found that it has more to teach them about themselves and other investors than years of experience in the market. They have also discovered that its trading advice and keen analyses of market price movements rings true.

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At...

The spirited daughter of England's greatest knight, Mahelt Marshal, lives a privileged medieval life. But when her beloved father falls out with the volatile and dangerous King John, her world is shattered. The king takes her brothers hostage and Mahelt's planned marriage to Hugh Bigod, heir to nobility, takes place sooner than she expected.

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy US marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, Reeves became an expert marksman under his master's tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out.

Blanc alcanzó su cima literaria contando de forma novelada su azarosa vida en tres novelas que abordan su problemática infancia, su paso por un batallón de castigo en África y su participación en la guerra civil española.

The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.

" Déjà, je me suis mis au monde tout seul. Ils étaient trois ou quatre à assister à l’événement, et ils m’ont toujours accordé une chose : c’est moi qui ai dû me taper le plus dur, vu que ma mère était, disons, hors du coup. " Né à même le sol d’un mobil-home au fin fond des Appalaches d’une jeune toxicomane et d’un père trop tôt disparu, Demon Copperhead est le digne héritier d’un célèbre personnage de Charles Dickens.

El escritor emprende un viaje a pie por el condado de Suffolk, en la costa este de Inglaterra, para llenar el vacío que se ha apoderado de su interior al haber concluido un trabajo importante. Mientras contempla paisajes solitarios y pequeñas poblaciones costeras se topa con vestigios de un pasado que le remite a la totalidad del mundo, enmarcado en multitud de épocas, espacios y personajes diferentes. Sebald funde magistralmente la autobiografía con la historia y con historias, anécdotas, conjeturas y recuerdos a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, en los que la civilización y la naturaleza se muestran en sus variedades más amplias.

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ’No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and king of 39 other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The king had to choose: to be king, or to have love... and leave his country, never to return.

Hamburg, 1962: Fotografie ist Abbys Leben, das Motiv ihrer Bilder: vier junge Männer aus Liverpool. Die Beatles warten immer noch auf ihren Durchbruch und bitten Abby, sie nach England zu begleiten. Abby stürzt sich in die Arbeit, denn noch immer schmerzt sie der tragische Verlust ihrer großen Liebe Stuart tief. Bei ihrer Mitbewohnerin Sofia findet sie Halt. Doch auch diese braucht Hilfe, denn ihr Freund Lukas, der ihr zur Flucht verholfen hat, ist noch immer in Ostberlin.

Alle meine Mütter erzählt von dieser besonderen, oft lebenslang komplexen Beziehung und ihren Facetten, erzählt davon, welche Mütter wir selbst zu sein versuchen, wie wir scheitern, zweifeln, stolpern, welche Ängste uns begleiten, was uns bindet und prägt, aber auch, was uns abhält, was es heißt, ungewollt Mutter oder nicht Mutter zu sein, ein Kind anzunehmen, zu verlieren oder nicht loslassen zu können. Eine feinfühlige Erkundung der wohl prägendsten Beziehung unseres Lebens, der zu unseren Müttern. Ein bewegend aufrichtiger Roman. Dieses Hörbuch geht alle an.

Nadim Suri erzählt von den Lieben seines Lebens. Wie er in Damaskus als Sohn eines christlichen Syrers und einer deutsch-jüdischen Mutter aufwuchs. Wie er als junger Mann offiziell in der Heimat begraben wurde und heimlich über Beirut nach Deutschland floh. Wie er in Heidelberg als Dolmetscher erfolgreich war, und dass er seine wichtigsten Eigenschaften den Frauen verdankt. Jedes Kapitel ist einer Frau gewidmet, und auch wenn manche Liebe tragisch endet – Nadims erste Frau Salma wird vom Geheimdienst ermordet –, hinterlässt jede einen unverzichtbaren Mosaikstein in seiner Seele.

Called ""a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination"" by the New York Times Book Review and the inspiration for the film starring Kate Winslet. Escaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daughters, aged five and seven, to Morocco in search of...

1799, Madrid. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, pintor de cámara del rey, anuncia la puesta en venta de un lujoso libro de estampas titulado Los Caprichos. Aunque las ventas son un éxito, dos semanas después de publicarlo, Goya lo retira del mercado. Durante los meses siguientes su escandaloso contenido comienza a correr como la pólvora. ¿Por qué Goya esconde su obra más personal? ¿De qué tiene miedo?

On the set of Boom!, a big‑budget adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play, Elizabeth Taylor is at the height of her fame. It's an exhilarating experience for everyone in her orbit. That includes Jean, her personal assistant, and Buddy, her semi-closeted best friend and costume designer. Yet Jean can see that for all Elizabeth’s verve, she's worried that her box-office potential is dimming. At thirty-five, she needs to stretch. She sets her sights on an unlikely role: the lead in the film version of Hello, Dolly!

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025 The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. ‘You’ve got the wrong person,’ I told him. ‘My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ In 1939, when she was...