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From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's...

The Bronx, 1958. The Policewoman's Bureau doesn’t officially exist, and yet it handles those cases only a woman's touch could solve. Marie Cirile, a young officer with the 44th Precinct, has joined the few women stepping away from the select matronly duties available to female officers to take up serious cases. With courage and a stiff upper lip when undercover, Marie is dispatched in often grim and scary circumstances, using her air of innocence and others' prejudice against her to take down degenerates and sex offenders.

'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. 'With...

Abandonadas de niñas por su familia y educadas en la rigidez de un convento, Antoinette y Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel sueñan con un futuro mejor mientras leen novelas sentimentales y ojean revistas de moda a escondidas. La inconformista Coco no acepta un destino de pobreza y obediencia y con su ambición inquebrantable irá conquistando su libertad bajo la mirada de su hermana, que la apoyará incondicionalmente en su camino para convertirse en diseñadora de moda.

Based on the true story of the celebrated Nancy Hart Rifles, The Cotillion Brigade is a sweeping epic of the Civil War’s ravages on family and love, the resilient bonds of sisterhood amid devastation, and the miracle of reconciliation between bitter enemies. 1856. Sixteen-year-old Nannie Colquitt Hill makes her debut in the antebellum society of the Chattahoochee River plantations. A thousand miles to the north, a Wisconsin farm boy, Hugh LaGrange, joins an Abolitionist crusade to ban slavery in Bleeding Kansas.

Юнкера - автобиографический роман Александра Ивановича Куприна, в котором он вспоминает о своей молодости, московской жизни и обучении в Александровском военном училище, стал настоящим гимном русскому солдату, воинской службе и верности Родине.

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional Southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally inclined half brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk, only to return to New York, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal, and crash.

Born and bred in the Texas Pandhandle town of Comanche Crossing, William "Wild Bill" Longley gunned down a dozen of its men in cold blood before he got around to the sheriff and deputy - so he could take over the job himself. Then he found the perfect sidekick in a vicious career criminal named Booker Tate. 

Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, and becomes an ambassador to Constantinople, but at his heart all Orlando ever wants to be is a great writer (and living at the same time as Marlowe, Donne, and Shakespeare, this is no easy thing). But while living in Constantinople, one evening Orlando is transformed into woman.

Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a...

As the beautiful daughter of courtiers, Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount is overjoyed when she secures a position as maid of honor to Katherine of Aragon. But when she captures the attention of the king himself, there are whispers that the queen ought to be worried for her throne. When Bess gives birth to a healthy son the whispers become a roar. But soon the infamous Boleyn girls come to court and Henry's love for her begins to fade. 

Carlo ha dodici anni quando sale in Scanuppia, una montagna del Trentino, per trascorrere le vacanze estive nella baita di famiglia. I genitori non fanno che litigare, la tensione è palpabile, eppure un inatteso sollievo lo coglie quando si immerge nel dipinto appeso nella sua stanza: una giovane donna con un bambino tra le braccia. Chi sono quelle due persone? Al ragazzo pare di riconoscerle e chiede notizie alla Moma, la nonna originaria della Calabria, scoprendo che il nonno aveva conosciuto il pittore, Giovanni Segantini.

Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt further recollections, and the floodgates of memory open, pouring forth a torrent of vivid reminiscences.

"Fra Thule til Rio" er en samlet bearbejdelse af opdagelsesrejsende og polarforsker Peter Freuchens selvbiografiske bøger "Min anden ungdom" og "Flugten til Sydamerika". Personlige og etnografisk ret præcise rejsebøger, der med stor kærlighed skildrer den vilde natur og de indfødte set med den berejste Freuchens øjne.

Mare Internum, año 75 a. C. Un barco mercante navega rumbo a la isla de Rodas. A bordo, Julio César acompañado sólo por su fiel Labieno. Obligado por sus enemigos a exiliarse de Roma, se dirige al encuentro con el maestro Apolonio para aprender oratoria y de este modo, a su regreso, iniciar una feroz pugna para ingresar en el Senado y enfrentarse allí al temido Cicerón.

Frankreich, 1897: Gabrielle Chanel - später unter dem Namen Coco weltberühmt - und ihre Schwester Antoinette werden von ihrem Vater in einem Waisenheim abgegeben. Armut und harte Arbeit bestimmen dort ihren Alltag. Doch Coco ist nicht bereit, sich in ihr Schicksal zu fügen. Unbeirrbar erobert sie sich ihre Freiheit - unter den teils bewundernden, teils neidischen Blicken ihrer Schwester. Antoinette weicht Coco bei ihrem Weg zur Modemacherin nicht von der Seite und unterstützt sie, wo sie kann. Bald schon spricht man in Paris ehrfurchtsvoll von den "Schwestern Chanel".

In the year 1526 King Henry VIII is facing a great personal crisis. He has been married to Queen Catherine of Aragon for seventeen years. But he has no son and the kingdom is without an heir. He has fallen in love with a maid of honor named Anne Boleyn. But she refuses to become his mistress and insists on being recognized as his lawful wife. The tragedy of “The King’s Great Matter” begins to unfold with terrible consequences for all concerned.

Amsterdam, 1640. Un homme est excommunié de la communauté juive portugaise pour avoir remis en question les Saintes Ecritures. Le jeune Bento de Espinosa assiste à la scène et l'épisode fait germer en lui un doute. Et si tout ce qui est écrit dans la Bible était faux ? Le soupçon va lancer Bento dans la plus grande quête intellectuelle qui soit. Qui a écrit les textes sacrés ? Qui est vraiment Dieu ? Qu'est-ce que la nature ? Toutes ces questions sont extrêmement dangereuses et le jeune Spinoza va bientôt en payer le prix. Juifs et chrétiens l'accusent d'hérésie et commencent à le persécuter.

Read by the author, Garth Greenwell Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island 'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam 'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon...