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Die wildeste Frau der Goldenen Zwanziger. Sommer 1925: Anita Berber ist das Phänomen ihrer Zeit. Sie tanzt nackt auf den Bühnen der Weimarer Republik, betört die Massen mit ihrer Schönheit und Extravaganz. Doch dann ist sie nach einer Reihe Eskapaden und Skandalen in den Varietés, in denen sie einst Erfolge feierte, nicht mehr willkommen. Von nun an tanzt sie nur noch vor leeren Rängen und droht, sich in Erinnerungen an ein vergangenes Leben zu verlieren. In der Gefahr, bereits in Vergessenheit zu geraten, begegnet sie einem noch recht unbekannten Maler: Otto Dix.

Eine unvergleichliche Amour fou: Alma Mahler und Walter Gropius. Österreich, 1910: Alma ist mit Gustav Mahler verheiratet, der ihr untersagt, selbst zu komponieren. Als sie den jungen Architekten Walter Gropius kennenlernt, ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Mit Mahlers Tod scheint der Weg frei für sie, doch Eifersucht und überschäumende Leidenschaft verhindern, dass sie zueinander finden - bis Gropius schwer verletzt aus dem Krieg zurückkehrt.

Short story based upon the author's experiences with the homeless alcoholics in Worthing.

El 15 de abril de 1986, tras una oleada de atentados contra intereses occidentales respaldados por, Muammar al-Gadafi, Ronald Reagan la ejecución de la “Operación el Dorado Canyon” destinada a acabar con el dictador libio. Ningún país de la OTAN apoyó militarmente esta operación. Ante la precariedad de medios, la CIA solicitó ayuda a España. Dentro del más absoluto secreto, el CESID traslada a un agente español a Libia para localizar a Gadafi que terminaría convirtiéndose en la única fuente de información sobre el terreno.

This is a true life story. The story of a little girl born after the darkest of days, living in a world that still carried a few signs of the horrors of before. Tree in the Captive, by Deborah Kanda, is a novel based on a true life story. It is an autobiography of a girl, Deborah, born in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994.

Before Graceland is the coming-of-age story of the most enduring pop-cultural icon of all time. Follow 11-year-old Elvis Presley through the highs of experiencing his first crush, getting his hands on his first guitar, and securing a spot to compete on Children's Day of the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Follow him through the hardships of his birth home's foreclosure, his beloved mother's health problems, and his father's imprisonment. Book one of the Before Graceland trilogy frames the journey of the boy who would be king as never before.

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick", as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have.

Annabel Wahba sitzt am Bett ihres schwer kranken Bruders André. Von einem Bild schaut der Totengott Anubis auf ihn herab. Sie erinnert sich an die gemeinsame Kindheit in der Kleinstadt, in der ihre deutsch-ägyptische Herkunft etwas Exotisches war. In Andrés letzten Stunden unternimmt die Erzählerin eine Reise in ihre Familiengeschichte. Zu den Vorfahren im München des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ins New York der Fünfzigerjahre, wo ihre Mutter einst arbeitete. Ins Nildelta, wo ihr Vater aufwuchs und die Eltern noch die Ehepartner für die Kinder aussuchten.

Als Elisabeth (Sisi) durch Heirat zur Kaiserin von Österreich wird, betritt sie eine streng geordnete Welt voll steifer Konventionen und langweiliger Empfänge. Ausbrechen kann sie nur auf ausgedehnten Reisen und bei Aufenthalten auf ihrem ungarischen Schloss Gödöllö. Dort kann sie ungezwungen leben und ihrer größten Leidenschaft nachgehen: wilden Reitjagden. Sisi gehört zu den besten und tollkühnsten Reiterinnen ihrer Zeit. Bei einem Aufenthalt auf Gödöllö lädt Sisi ihre reit- und fechtkundige Nichte Marie Louise von Wallersee zu sich ein.

Join Keith as he opens windows on peoples’ loves, lives, hopes, and dreams—some humorous, some sad. Keith performs a series of works prompted by his favorite pastime—people watching. Each story progressively builds a picture of a life from a first day at school. We meet a West Country Marilyn Monroe and fall in love with a Welsh Audrey Hepburn. We meet Miss Rebecca of Paris and see if diamonds are a girl’s best friend. We grow old and reminisce.

In the heart of Boston in the 1980s, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, Black athlete, focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs. This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them.

In this work, set during the turbulent period of Irish Independence 1921–22, Somerville finds herself at a crossroads. Her position as a member of the ascendancy is perilous as she struggles to keep her family home, Drishane House in West Cork, while others are burned out. After years in a successful writing partnership with Violet Martin, Edith continues to write after her partner’s death, comforted in the belief they continue to connect through automatic writing and séances.

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power.

Un deslumbrante estudio biográfico del mayor filósofo alemán del siglo XIX por uno de los autores de habla alemana más leídos del siglo XX. En esta vívida y elocuente biografía, Zweig evita en gran medida el discurso académico tradicional sobre la obra del filósofo, concentrándose por completo en Nietzsche como persona, sus hábitos, sus pasiones y sus obsesiones. Stefan Zweig describe la tragedia de la existencia de Nietzsche, su aislamiento del mundo, en el aislamiento autoimpuesto, de una manera extremadamente poderosa e impresionante.

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of 18th-century Paris. With a beautiful rival who’s better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing erotic pastels threatens to create as many problems as it solves.

La leyenda de los viajes de Marco Polo cobra vida en este texto de una forma nunca vista hasta entonces. De la mano de una de las escritoras de viajes más reputadas de la actualidad, Patricia Almarcegui, el hecho histórico de su partida desde Venecia hasta las profundidades de la China imperial se convierte en una trepidante narración en la que nosotros, afortunados viajeros, acompañamos a Marco Polo codo con codo en su gesta.

La opera prima de Slauerhoff es una obra mágica y a la vez con cierto sentido experimentalista, una novela modernista en la que se origina un cambio continuo del espacio y el tiempo y cuyos dos personajes principales viajan a distintas épocas entre los siglos XVI y el XX, introduciendo aspectos de la casi desconocida vida del poeta Luís Vaz de Camões mezclando detalles reales y ficticios en el contexto histórico de la Portugal del siglo XVI y otros países del entorno como España así como el proceso colonizador que sufrieron los países orientales.

Questo è un romanzo anti-biografico. Appino, Ufo e Karim – voce, chitarra e batteria degli Zen Circus – prestano i nomi e la vita a una storia che potrebbe essere una delle loro canzoni. Realtà e finzione si rincorrono in questo rocambolesco romanzo che racconta la nascita di una famiglia disfunzionale, quella di un gruppo di ragazzi che attraverso la musica cercano di definire se stessi, e la generazione di vecchi senza esperienza dalla quale vogliono fuggire.

"Gli anni della nostra amicizia sono stati per me gli anni della grande libertà. Libertà di essere come sono" scrive Susanna Tamaro a Pierluigi Cappello, il poeta scomparso nel 2017, tenendo fede a una promessa che si erano fatti prima che la malattia li separasse. Quella di scrivere un libro insieme. Il libro è questo. Un libro delicato, profondo e commovente che ripercorre gli anni brevi e intensi della loro amicizia. Un'amicizia speciale, limpida e luminosa, riflessiva e inquieta, capace di analizzare la tormentata complessità di questi tempi, senza lasciarsene mai sopraffare.

Inspiré par l’artiste antillaise Marie Martinez, surnommée la Malibran noire, le récit met en scène une narratrice universitaire qui fait des recherches sur ce personnage. Son travail est perturbé par l’irruption dans sa vie d'une chanteuse qui pourrait bien avoir quelque chose à voir avec l'artiste que Nadar photographia du temps de sa splendeur, mais aussi de sa déchéance. Le texte de Marie N’Diaye retrace au prix de multiples détours, le parcours méconnu de la chanteuse Maria Martinez.