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Paris, 1891. Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When aerialists Ena and August Gaudron, believing Laura to be English, decide to rescue her, she soon finds herself ensconced in the family hot air balloon business, and offered the chance to learn how to fly. Cardiff, 1896. The Gaudrons accept an invitation to be part of the Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, presenting a show of balloon ascents and parachute descents. Late one night, a young girl, Grace Parry, knocks on the door.

Eine der bedeutendsten literarischen Stimmen unserer Zeit. Es ist eine ungewöhnliche Nacht, die Leïla Slimani im Museo Punta Della Dogana in Venedig verbringt. Im einstigen Zollgebäude der Serenissima, einem Ort, an dem sich seit jeher Orient und Okzident begegnen. Für die französisch-marokkanische Schriftstellerin wird er zum Symbol ihrer eigenen Geschichte. Allein im Museum, in den dunklen Stunden zwischen Sonnenuntergang und Tagesanbruch, taucht Slimani in Erinnerungen ein.

1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name—and launch the careers of the performers he portrayed. This sparkling collection of plays introduces us to eight of those legendary artistes, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Weltberühmt und wohlhabend, aber argwöhnisch beschattet von den Chargen der McCarthy-Ära, lebt Lion Feuchtwanger 1956 noch immer im kalifornischen Exil - der letzte der großen deutschen Emigranten.

Andrea Sawatzkis ungeschminkter autobiografischer Roman. Keine Kindheit wie jede andere. Eine, die Andrea Sawatzki wie in einem Kurzfilm einfängt: 1971 wird der Journalist Günther Sawatzki von seiner Stelle in London abzogen und geht zu seiner Familie nach Deutschland zurück. Aber er will sein altes Leben aufgeben und mit seiner Geliebten zusammen sein, mit der er eine Tochter hat: Andrea. Doch bald stellt sich heraus, dass dieser weltläufige und gebildete Mann schwer krank ist.

नवाब वाज़िद अली शाह की विलासिता व पदच्युत हो नज़रबन्द होने की कहानी।

Buckingham Palace, 1981. Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer, but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems. Alone and bored in the palace, she resents the stuffy courtiers who are intent on instructing her about her new role as princess of Wales. But when she discovers a diary written in the 1800s by Princess Charlotte of Wales, a young woman born into a gilded cage so like herself, Diana is drawn into the story of Charlotte’s reckless love affairs and fraught relationship with her father, the prince regent.

When little Ruthie and her mother are taken to Belzec Extermination Camp in the midst of World War II, Ruthie's mother knows that her daughter's life is in grave danger. Desperate, she will do anything to save her from the terrible fate that awaits her, even at the cost of her own life. But she will have to act fast if she wants to give her daughter a chance of survival. Years later, Ruthie's daughter, Noga, delves into the untold mysteries of her mother's past, on a quest to heal their fragmented relationship.

Anthony, migrante camarero que trabaja en un bar de Marsella, recibe la noticia de que su padre ha fallecido en su pueblo natal en Sri Lanka. En ese momento, decide contarle a su pareja la historia de su infancia como niño soldado durante la guerra en los años 80 en Sri Lanka. Una historia dura y conmovedora basada en la vida del actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan, protagonista de la premiada pelícua Deephan, de Jacques Audiard.

Johann "Hansi" Mühlbauer führt ein ereignisreiches Leben zwischen Rockband und Reisen, zwischen Surferfreiheit, Wildnispädagogik und seiner Arbeit als Physiotherapeut - und ist seit seinem zweiten Lebensjahr blind. Die Woche beginnt für ihn mit einem herben Verlust. Nach einem durchzechten Wochenende auf dem von ihm veranstalteten Rock-Benefiz ist sein Handy verschwunden - mit der Nummer von Alexa. Auf der Suche nach dem Handy durchlebt Hansi seine Woche und wird mehr und mehr mit sich selbst und seinem bisherigen Leben konfrontiert.

En una época de mentes cerradas en la que reinaban el caos y una concepción errónea del universo aceptada desde hacía siglos, unos pocos hombres se atrevieron a cuestionar esa visión, decididos a descubrir y revelar cómo funcionaba el mundo.

"J’ai un programme politique. Je suis pour la suppression de l’héritage, de l’obligation alimentaire entre ascendants et descendants, je suis pour la suppression de l’autorité parentale, je suis pour l’abolition du mariage, je suis pour que les enfants soient éloignés de leurs parents au plus jeune âge, je suis pour l’abolition de la filiation, je suis pour l’abolition du nom de famille, je suis contre la tutelle, la minorité, je suis contre le patrimoine, je suis contre le domicile, la nationalité, je suis pour la suppression de l’état civil.

Family and friends know Marty McClure as a kind, peaceful man. They aren't aware that when he was young, he plumbed the depths of despair with no assurance he'd ever surface again. Now he needs to reveal what happened in Vietnam and how, with the help of Patti, his wife Corrie Corrigan, a disabled vet, and Doc Matheson, a corpsman turned trauma surgeon, he made peace with the ghosts that have visited his dreams all these years.

Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who rule despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already-married Katherine. Their affair persists through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption.

Quem não conhece a fascinante história da mais famosa rainha do Egito? Ambiciosa e destemida, Cleópatra não para diante de nenhum obstáculo antes de conquistar o poder. Ao envolver e seduzir César, o conquistador romano, ela tem um filho que deveria reinar sobre o trono do mundo... Mas César é assassinado repentinamente e agora ela deve se servir de toda sua sedução para continuar seus planos. Esse romance biográfico retrata a trajetória conturbada de Cleópatra sem deixar de descrever os costumes envolvidos nos bastidores da história egípcia.

It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfriend, Jenna, and the father he has never known, Jim. The year turns, and everything changes again.

In einem Abschiedsbrief zeichnet eine Unbekannte dem berühmten Romanschriftsteller R., in den sie bereits als junges Mädchen verliebt war, ihr Leben auf, "das das Deine war". Die junge Frau hat ihm ihr ganzes Leben die Treue gehalten, in einer Liebesnacht sogar ein Kind von ihm empfangen, ohne dass ihm dies alles bewusst geworden ist.

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits leave England for the raw heat of Australia: Harriet Rowell - at 22, a champion swimmer in a time when women didn’t go into the sea - and Alice Moon - at 18, a budding scientist and writer. In a time when men coerced women to believe that if they didn’t bind their bodies in whalebone corsets they would collapse and ruin their childbearing purpose, they were athletic and strong. In a time when many women loved each other but held such love secretly for fear of retribution, they openly declared their love.

A slave's brave journey to living his dream. John Ware, a well-known, highly loved, and acclaimed Black cowboy, arrived in Alberta at the beginning of the extraordinary ranching story on the grasslands. He faced and conquered snowstorms, vast distances, rough horses, not to mention a few rough men. As John participated in the building of some of the great Alberta ranches, he faced racism and delayed, but not forgotten, dreams of a ranch and family of his own. Being one of only a handful of Black men on the grasslands, his dream seemed to be passing him by.

“Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell.