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Marcelo es un niño de siete años inquieto como una cola de lagartija. Lo que más le gusta en el mundo es pasar el verano con sus abuelos, José y Valentina, en el pueblo: El Castro. Juntos dan paseos por el río, pescan, juegan y charlan de todo un poco. En sus conversaciones, el abuelo le cuenta a su nieto historias de su familia y de cómo era El Castro cuando él nació.

Charlotte Salomon, pintora alemana de origen judío, abandona Berlín tras una relación amorosa que dejará en ella una huella definitiva. Huyendo de los nazis, se refugia en el sur de Francia junto a sus abuelos, quienes custodian un secreto que Charlotte no debe conocer. Allí compone su fascinante autobiografía, una obra única que, ya acechada por el peligro, decide poner a buen recaudo en una maleta que entrega a su médico, a quien confiesa: «Es toda mi vida».

With the age of voyages of discovery in the 15th century, the curtain of history slowly came down on the late Middle Ages. Portuguese and Spanish seafarers set out to remeasure the dimensions of the earth. Numerous spices and fruits, which we would hardly be able to do without today, found their way to Europe for the first time. Columbus discovered America in 1492 on his quest for India. Six years later, it was left to Vasco da Gama to travel through the sea route to India sought by Columbus on the eastern route around Africa.

Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writing about the Cultural Revolution’s impact on his life and those around him. Finally, alone and humbled, Wang Er must come to terms with the banality of his own existence.

Poteet Victory is a rags-to-riches story of historical significance. Through his efforts on behalf of the tribes, Poteet became one of the most-honored Native Americans of the past half century. Abandoned as a child, he beat the odds to become a renowned painter, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who has sold thousands of paintings for millions of dollars.

Tishtar runs a small legal practice in Melbourne where he has a new client, Habiba, who seeks to bring her orphan nieces to Australia from war-torn Somalia. He is also a migrant, having left the civil unrest in Iran to find a new life in a new country. As Tishtar becomes consumed with Habiba's tales of war-torn Somalia, his own childhood memories return and he reflects on the time he spent at his grandmother's house to escape the atrocities that unravelled post the Islamic Revolution.

Obligada a ocultarse en una cueva, como fiera perseguida, una mujer embarazada delira entre la fiebre y los dolores de su inminente parto. Las llagas en la cara, la oscuridad del cubil y la suciedad del cuerpo, ocultan el esplendor de una vida llena de lujos, luces y libros. Este es sólo uno de los apasionantes pasajes en los que Celia del Palacio nos sumerge en Leona. Apoyada en una documentación acuciosa, la autora recrea el convulso tiempo en que vivió uno de los personajes fundamentales de la Independencia de México: Leona Vicario.

Sprechen Menschen über Angst und Psychosen, dann oft mit angezogener Handbremse. Wer in dieser Gesellschaft mithalten will, redet nicht über seelische Krankheiten, schon gar nicht über die eigenen. "Schlage bitte weiter, Kämpferherz!" ist die autobiografische Geschichte eines Mannes, der mit schonungsloser Offenheit erzählt, wie er schon als Kind die seelischen Abgründe seiner Familie kennenlernen musste. Die Geschichte eines übergewichtigen Teenagers, der dem Mobbing seiner Mitschüler ausgesetzt war und sich irgendwann zur Wehr setzte.

She had the fiery feminism of Mae West, the blonde sex appeal of Jean Harlow, and the athletics of men like Yakima Canutt and Eddie Parker combined. Known as "The Horsewoman of Hollywood's Backlot", she was Alivia Chambers, a pioneer stuntwoman during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures. Introduced in previously published works, this fictional icon of Hollywood's classic era comes alive once again in these new sensational stories of her moments in the film industry from the 1930s, '40s, and early '50s.

Il primo incontro con Fellini avviene sul set di 8½, dove la madre di Marina, Caterina Boratto, è stata presa per interpretare la Signora Misteriosa, ruolo che segna il suo ritorno alle scene dopo un lungo periodo di assenza. Subito tra la sedicenne Marina e il regista scatta un’affinità. Benché sia per natura diffidente con gli altri, e ancor più verso una personalità istrionica e sfuggente come quella di Fellini, Marina si lascia affascinare dal mondo del cinema e prende a frequentare il Teatro 5 di Cinecittà.

Cesare Borgia, former cardinal, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, has been a figure of awe and scorn for generations. Seemingly compelled to explore this fascinating historical figure's true nature, Rafael Sabatini brought Borgia life as no one had before. Drawn to the passion, suspicion, betrayal, and ambition of Borgia's brief but exciting life, Sabatini penned seven short stories set during the Italian Renaissance: "The Honour of Varano", "The Test", "Ferrante's Jest", "Gisimondi's Wage", "The Snare", "The Lust of Conquest", and "The Pasquinade". These stories are collected here.

Die eigenbrötlerische Magd Crescentia Anna Aloisia Finkenhuber lässt sich aus ihrem Zillertaler Gebirgsdorf abwerben. Der höheren Entlohnung wegen nimmt die unehelich geborene, verknöcherte Jungfer Dienst im Wiener Hause des jungen Lebemannes Freiherr von F. an. Zwar hat das bigotte, strenge alte Mädchen seit Jahren schon das Lachen verlernt, doch nach einem Klaps auf den Hintern, verabreicht vom Hausherrn, ist die dürre Tirolerin dem Freiherrn geradezu hündisch ergeben. Der Baron ahnt nicht, welche unheilvolle Liaison er damit besiegelt hat.

Señalada como «bruja cósmica» en los años de la psicodelia y el hippismo, Janis Joplin, la pionera cantante de rock, fue el símbolo femenino de la contracultura, la musa del movimiento que abogaba por la libertad, la paz y las flores, y la mujer que supo transmitir mejor que nadie, a través de su potente voz, las emociones sutiles y desgarradoras que la embargaban. Vivió a plenitud, atravesada por una vulnerabilidad que la llevaba a refugiarse en las drogas.

We take many things for granted, but having a heart isn't one of them. Paul Cardall is an internationally acclaimed pianist whose career has been an inspiration to millions. But before the awards and success, he was just a little boy with half a functioning heart.

In death, she would become infamous, yet in life passed often unseen. Jane Parker, daughter of the scholar Lord Morley, leaves her home at a tender age, embarking on a career in the dangerous Tudor Court. From the halls of her father's house to the palaces of London, from England to Calais and the Field of the Cloth of Gold Jane will travel, seeing much of this world, and others.

"Metafísica de los tubos" cuenta los primeros tres años de vida de un ser obsesionado por el agua que, disconforme con su entorno, adopta la inerte forma de tubo como condición existencial. Con la crueldad, el realismo y el peculiar humor al que nos tiene acostumbrados, Amélie Nothomb rememora, a través de una narración que combina filosofía y fontanería, episodios de su infancia japonesa, transcurrida en Osaka.

Eigentlich hatte der Gefreite Josef Brosik gehofft, endlich in Urlaub gehen zu können, stattdessen wird er zu einer neu aufgestellten Einheit versetzt. Vom eher geruhsamen Besatzungsdienst in Frankreich geht es in die Hölle der Ostfront. Schon bei der ersten Feindberührung wird fast das ganze Regiment vernichtet; Brosik gehört zu den wenigen Überlebenden. In der Folgezeit wird er Meldegänger - eine zwar bevorzugte, doch harte Aufgabe.

There are a lot of people who will debate the existence of guardian angels. Author Derrick Cutter isn't one of them. Having been raised in a home that was being destroyed from within by alcohol, drugs, and violence, he ran away from home at age 16, longing for freedom from his own private prison. Alone and frightened at first, he would soon meet up with his new best friend, a large white dog named Sheva, who, over the next several years, would show Derrick beyond the shadow of a doubt that guardian angels really do exist, and at times, have paws instead of wings.

Daniel Patterson was a civilian prisoner captured by Confederate Commander John Mosby and held hostage at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, as a future exchange. Within two months, a life-threatening illness strikes Daniel, yet he recovers only to be sent to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina. A stormy night in the autumn of 1862 distracts the guards as he escapes. He walks at night, 400 miles north to Union lines, and returns home to his wife in New Hampshire. Weak. Carrying the burden of trauma and the miracle of reaching freedom, alone but not alone.

Waiting for Nothing by Tom Kromer is a hard-hitting tale of the Great Depression. Locked in a daily struggle to survive in a brutal world, the central character drifts from city to city and from town to town in a desperate quest to find employment, food, and shelter.