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At the end of 1954, just a handful of weeks after emigrating from a small village in Germany to Montreal Canada, Rosemarie Döderlein (Doederlein) just turned 14 years old when she vanished on the way to a bakery a few doors down from the family apartment, never to be seen or heard from again. After 68 years of fruitless searching and wondering, in 2022, Rosemarie's youngest sister Vera finally learned the truth of what happened to her. It is a remarkable story about unconditional love, DNA, and investigative genetic genealogy.

In 1828, the beautiful Rosina Wheeler married one of Victorian England’s most successful and prolific writers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. What followed shocked and entertained the public for over thirty years. After their marriage broke down, Rosina refused to be silenced. She pursued her husband with a single-minded and very public crusade to prove she was in the right. She even interrupted her husband’s election campaign to denounce him to the assembled voters. Edward responded by threatening to have her committed to a lunatic asylum.

Nienstedten bei Hamburg 1790: Tradition trifft auf Revolution, Liebe auf Vernunft. Ein Unglück nimmt Maria Burmester den Ehemann und ihren Kindern den Vater. Trotz der ererbten Schulden möchte sie die Konditorei am Hochufer der Elbe behalten, doch ein Konkurrent bedrängt sie und schreckt dabei nicht vor Erpressung und Tätlichkeiten zurück. Da bietet ihr der reiche Kaufmann Joachim Graaf einen Kredit an, wenn sie ein Fest für seine Angebetete ausrichtet.

Darf ich vorstellen. Mein Name ist Thomas, Apostel Thomas, übersetzt - der Zwilling. Dies ist meine persönliche Geschichte als Apostel Thomas. Ich erhielt die Botschaft, die Geschichte neu zu erzählen, da Wesentliches verfälscht, verzerrt und erfunden wurde. Jetzt ist die Zeit der Reinheit, Klarheit und Wahrheit, die Geschehnisse in Liebe neu zu erzählen und ins rechte Licht zu rücken. Ich bin mir der großen Verantwortung auf meinen Schultern bewusst, die es zu tragen gilt.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up. In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.

In my two previous books, "Emergency Landing—Based on a True Story" and "Emergency Landing—The Life of Carlos", I described my experience during my stay in Oregon and the flight back to Houston. During that flight, one of the passengers, Carlos Pérez, suffered two severe epileptic episodes halfway through the trip. The nurse, who was traveling as a passenger on the plane, and me had to provide first aid, I was playing the role of translator from English to Spanish and, at the same time, assisting and facilitating the nurse's work.

The Education of Joshua Chastain is a fictional memoir about a gay boy who grows up in a small Mormon community in northern Arizona, a kind of Mormon shtetl. The novel describes Josh's journey of self-discovery as he explores his sexuality, engages in various sexual relationships during his teenage years (including one with a Roman Catholic priest), and endures verbal and sometimes physical abuse from teachers and classmates.

Kit Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of enemies and old flames in his wake. His plays are a roaring success; he seems destined for greatness. But the queen's eyes are everywhere and the air is laced with paranoia. When Marlowe is arrested on charges of treason, heresy and sodomy—all of which are punishable by death—he is released on bail with the help of Thomas Walsingham, a man he presumes to be his friend, but who has in fact hired the infamous assassin Robin Poley to take care of Marlowe.

This is a work of "faction" based on the life of the author's great great grandfather, John Croft (1807-1883), who was born in Hertfordshire, England, served as a young officer in the British East India Company Army during the first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), became one of Australia's wealthiest men (1843-1859), then returned to England as a landed gentleman who married into a prominent family of industrialists.

La tradición lo condena: fue el fanático que tembló ante las profecías, el traidor que entregó el poder al invasor, el cobarde que sólo mereció la muerte más ignominiosa. ¿Cómo explicar, entonces, que la caída de Moctezuma haya ocurrido en el momento de mayor esplendor del mundo mexica? En esta apasionante novela, José Luis Trueba Lara indaga sobre la vida del controvertido Tlatoani, especialmente en los acontecimientos poco conocidos que precedieron a la conquista.

Benito Juárez fue siempre una figura controvertida, mucho más compleja de lo que ambas visiones dejan atisbar. Alejado de los extremos en que se sitúan la hagiografía y el pasquín furioso, José Luis Trueba Lara presenta a un político hábil, lleno de claroscuros, amado y temido por igual. En esta novela coral, con la que el autor continúa su exploración narrativa por la historia de México, se asoman las voces de Margarita Maza, Concha Miramón, Porfirio Díaz, Ignacio Zaragoza, la emperatriz Carlota y otros personajes de la época.

Ich ertrage es nicht mehr, ich ertrage mich und mein Selbstmitleid über den Verlust meiner Ehe nicht mehr.Alkohol, eine zerrüttete Partnerschaft, finanzielle Sorgen und eine unbeschreibliche Einsamkeit das Leben von Maria Fy befindet sich an einem absoluten Tiefpunkt. Doch bevor es zum völligen Absturz kommt, begibt sie sich in den Dschungel von Panama, wo sie mit einem Schamanen in Kontakt kommt, der versucht, ihre Lebensblockade zu lösen und ihr wieder neuen Mut einzuflößen. Maria Fy beginnt eine spannende und intensive Reise zu sich selbst.

This book is based on a true story, a mother who finally gets the man of her dreams, only to find that it comes with a confusing family legacy of abuse and manipulation. Read how this young woman eventually hears the wild woman within trying to save her, and learns how, through the art of self-help and meditation, to overcome it all.

Nella primavera 1944 Anna Banti ha quasi ultimato il suo racconto biografico dedicato all'artista seicentesca Artemisia Gentileschi, ma in agosto il manoscritto va distrutto nei bombardamenti tedeschi su Firenze. Con "ostinazione accorata" la scrittrice torna allora al suo personaggio, "pittrice valentissima" ma soprattutto "una delle prime donne che sostennero colle parole e colle opere il diritto al lavoro congeniale e a una parità di spirito fra i due sessi".

Jacob's Room is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1922. It's considered one of her pioneering works in modernist literature. The novel follows the life of Jacob Flanders, from his childhood to his adulthood, primarily through the perspectives and memories of those who knew him. Woolf's experimental narrative style, characterized by stream-of-consciousness and shifting perspectives, creates a fragmented yet rich portrayal of Jacob's inner life and the world around him.

L’histoire d’Hélène Hannemann qui, grâce à son héroïsme, a rendu sa dignité à tout son village. Ce roman est inspiré de la véritable histoire d’une courageuse infirmière allemande chargée de prendre soin des prisonniers les plus jeunes d’Auschwitz. Berceuse d’Auschwitz rend hommage à Hélène Hannemann, une femme qui a tout sacrifié pour sa famille et farouchement lutté pour les enfants qu’elle espérait sauver. Par une matinée ordinaire de 1943, Hélène Hannemann prépare ses cinq enfants pour le jour où la police allemande débarquera chez elle.

Nata in un giorno di pioggia e di presagi, Virdimura porta il nome del muschio che affiora tenace dalle mura di Catania e della sua nascita non sa quasi nulla. A crescerla è suo padre, il maestro Urìa, medico ed ebreo, "il più alto dei giudei, il più forte, il più santo". Un uomo che conosce i segreti delle spezie e i progressi delle scienze, che parla molte lingue, che sa che da tutto bisogna imparare: dalla natura, dalla strada, dalla poesia. A Virdimura insegna a guarire sia i corpi sia le anime, senza distinguere tra musulmani, cristiani o ebrei.

Christina Georgina Rossetti is the youngest of four siblings in a close-knit, creative Anglo-Italian family. A spirited child like her brother, Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in adolescence she struggles with being sickly and depressed. She emerges "a dove on a solitary branch," realizing her voice through writing, most exceptionally poetry.

From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.

"Ich, die Königin" von Susan Hastings ist nicht nur ein historischer Roman - es ist eine Zeitreise ins Kastilien von 1464, ein Land geplagt von Unordnung und Ungerechtigkeit. In dieser raue Welt, wo Reisende und Kaufleute der Gnadenlosigkeit von Räuberscharen ausgeliefert sind und Adel und Klerus sich unerbittlich an der armen Bevölkerung bereichern, erscheint die Lage düster und verzweifelt. Aber aus dem Schatten tritt Isabella hervor, die Schwester des unauffälligen Königs Enrique. Mit ihrer eisernen Entschlossenheit und scharfen Intelligenz trotzt sie den Gezeiten und bringt Veränderung.