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Passionen sveper iväg mig, jag bryr mig inte om något annat än att vara tillsammans med den jag träffat, vi gör allt för att vara tillsammans, sviker andra som älskar oss, det enda som gäller är att vi hör ihop. Men hur klarar denna starka passion vardagen, klarar den äktenskap, barn...

Om liv, politik och passion under sextiotalets sista turbulenta år. Det är en tid av politisk hetta i slutet av sextiotalet. Lena och David reser till Paris för att leva på ett nytt sätt, fria och starka i sitt skrivande. Tillsammans ska de erövra världen, som Jean-Paul Sartre och Simone...

”En fruktansvärt rolig roman som samtidigt lyckas vara en förkrossande fin kärleksförklaring till ungdomen.” - Fredrik Backman Kungälv, några år in på 00-talet. Felix, Eddie, Mikko och Andy startar ett band för att bli något. För att komma bort från sig själva. Från allt. För...

Manuel, el joven reportero del Philadelphia Examiner, recibe un encargo de su jefe: se trata de entrevistar a Ernest Hemingway, quien acababa de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Todos en la editorial saben que el encargo es imposible; es por eso que se lo asignaron al más junior. Manuel no solo logra conseguir la entrevista, sino que, a través de una serie de circunstancias, se llegan a conocer y se hacen amigos.

Un diagnóstico lo cambia todo. Una hija acompaña a su padre en el tramo final de su vida mientras enfrenta el amor, la pérdida y la despedida. Esta memoria íntima explora cómo la vida continúa, e incluso encuentra belleza y sentido, cuando el mundo parece detenerse.

Die Entstehungsgeschichte ihres ungewöhnlichsten Bildes: Als Lucian Freud, Enkel Sigmund Freuds, die Queen bittet, ihr Porträt malen zu dürfen, ist er fast 80 Jahre alt und in einer persönlichen Krise. Queen Elizabeth II. hat nach dem Unfalltod von Lady Di ein massives Imageproblem. Obwohl Freud als unberechenbar gilt, willigt sie ein und sitzt ihm von Mai 2000 bis Dezember 2001 in monatlichen mehrstündigen Sitzungen Modell. Der Roman erzählt, was hinter verschlossenen Türen geschah.

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska-a place of...

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life...

Catherine Donohue's life was set on a an unexpected course when she accepted a job at Radium Dial. The pay was great, and her co-workers became her best friends. But a secret was lurking in the greenish-grey paint that magically made things glow in the dark. When Catherine and her friends started becoming sick, this shy Catholic girl stood up to the might of the radium industry, the legal and medical communities, and townspeople who told her to be quiet. Would she be too late? Catherine's quest for social justice in the era between World Wars is emotive and inspiring.

After four years of meticulous research, C.D. Baker invites his readers to encounter the Jesus of the Gospels, though in ways they may not have expected. Becoming the Son: an Autobiography of Jesus is a unique, daring, and inspiring novel that reveals the astonishing possibilities of what could have been.

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.” On a cold...

Jean Mancilla, dans un récit comme une confidence, raconte les 25 premières années de sa vie. Enfant en proie à la violence paternelle, perdu face à l'indifférence maternelle, il est, malgré son goût de la lecture, sa passion pour la poésie et ses aptitudes aux études, retiré de l'école dès 14 ans pour être mis en apprentissage... L'auteur prête sa voix à ce roman émouvant. Il sait lui donner toute la profondeur et l'émotion qui conviennent à ce texte où le narrateur semble confier au lecteur comme on murmure à l'oreille le récit de sa vie. Une interprétation pleine de retenue et de vérité.

Zaubertrankmeister, Hauslehrer von Slytherin und Doppelagent im Kampf gegen Voldemort – kaum eine Figur aus dem Harry-Potter-Universum ist so schwer zu durchschauen und zugleich faszinierend wie Severus Snape. Einst selbst Zauberschüler, fällt er als Lehrer in Hogwarts durch seine Abneigung...

If these tales were by an unknown author, they would be no more than reflections on a childhood in the early 20th century. But they gain in interest because of who wrote them, for they provide insight into the young life and mind of a great philosopher and spiritual teacher: Douglas Harding (1909-2007), author of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, On Having No Head, and other books. The stories open a window on Harding's early life; their autobiographical nature is only thinly disguised. After listening to them, you will understand Harding in a new and more intimate way.

The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler's parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the 20th century, Mailer's novel delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.

Die ergreifende Geschichte des "weiblichen Oskar Schindler". Warschau, 1940: Die Nazis errichten das Ghetto. Die 29-jährige Sozialarbeiterin Irena versucht alles, um den jüdischen Menschen zu helfen. Sie versteckt ein kleines, von verzweifelten Eltern ausgesetztes Mädchen unter falschem Namen bei einer nicht-jüdischen Familie. Was als mutige Tat beginnt, wird zur groß angelegten Rettungsaktion. Irena schmuggelt immer mehr Kinder mit gefälschten "arischen" Identitäten aus dem Ghetto. Sie denkt nie ans Aufgeben, obwohl sie in ständiger Lebensgefahr schwebt.

Brought to you by Penguin. Travel to the heart of a Roman dynasty beset by power struggles and betrayal in this latest chapter of the tale of Nero. The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and...

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the...

This is the fictional memoir of an 18-year-old hitchhiking across the country in 1972. But it is inspired by the humorous, bizarre, and scary experiences Jeff Rasley actually had hitchhiking from Goshen, Indiana to Key West and then to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Jeff dropped out of Goshen College after one semester, worked in a factory for six weeks, saved up $65, and began thumbing south.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.