Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

Greg Ellis had a fascinating legal career. He grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Law School in Chicago in 1980. He defended Chicago mobsters and later prosecuted the worst mob murderers as a State’s Attorney. His first case out of Law School was a life changer. While working for a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Greg represented the two Marlborough Diamond Thieves. It is a 45-carat diamond in a necklace, stolen from a London jewelry store in 1980. It has never been recovered. This book follows its trail for the past 42 years. Where it has been and where it is now.

Артур Конан Дойл — автор, в котором органично соединились детектив и путешественник, поклонник науки и спиритизма, а также писатель и врач. Оставаясь всю жизнь верным своему врачебному призванию и черпая вдохновение из него, мастер писал: "...любой врач должен быть благодарен судьбе за свою профессию. Ведь делать добро — это такое огромное удовольствие, что впору платить за эту привилегию..." Письма молодого врача — это история жизни молодого доктора Старка Монро. Во многом автобиографичное произведение, почти все персонажи которого списаны с реальных прототипов.

This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.

Jim Nolan, a would-be hero, becomes a truck driver in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Despite the unglamorous role, he finds mobility that leads to exciting, sometimes funny, and often sad situations. Jim's changing attitudes about himself and the world around him affect the American soldiers he interacts with. He struggles internally between good and evil, trying to comprehend the difference.

Esta es la historia de una búsqueda que empieza hace quince años, cuando su protagonista decide plantarse en Bosnia recién salida de la facultad de Periodismo. Va a la caza de un gran reportaje, pero una noche conoce a Darko y termina encerrada en un dormitorio cuyallave solo tiene él. No es un secuestro, pero no le importaría. Un misterioso mensaje de una mujer le dará a conocer una red de casas secretas donde se esconden víctimas de trata.

Una promesa a su madre lo mantuvo con vida en medio del horror del Holocausto. Cuando Abram y su madre llegaron al campo de exterminio de Auschwitz el 29 de agosto de 1944, se dieron cuenta de que sería su final. En los últimos instantes juntos, ella le pidió que hiciera todo lo humanamente posible para sobrevivir y para contarle al mundo entero lo que pasó con los judíos. Minutos después, fue asesinada en la cámara de gas. A pesar del dolor y de las dificultades, Abram siguió adelante, motivado por aquella promesa.

The Almost True Memoirs of a Quirky Cat Burglar follows the adventures of Henry Sears O'Connor, a quick-witted and resourceful protagonist, and his accomplice, Antonio Rossi, during the Great Depression era. Henry, a skilled cat burglar teams up with Antonio, a handsome Italian getaway man, to pull off daring heists targeting the wealthy elite in upstate New York.

Il pennino, scritto nel 1910, è un libro che si è meritato il soprannome di “Bibbia delle suffragette”. La protagonista, la giovane Barbro Magnus, è una giovane forte, ottimista e ribelle. “Era vestita con un lungo cappotto da giornalista blu scuro, dritto e stretto come un astuccio.” Sulla testa un cappello rosso fuoco, un cosiddetto “corvo della sera, da cui si affacciavano un paio di occhi molto maliziosi”. La sua vita si divide fra il lavoro di giornalista e la sua lotta per il suffragio femminile, una battaglia che condivide con Cecilia, che di professione è insegnante.

Alla disperata ricerca di qualcuno che ascolti la sua storia, Karim Mensy, un rifugiato iracheno prende in ostaggio la funzionaria dell’Autorità per l’immigrazione che gli ha revocato il permesso di soggiorno. Dopo un interminabile barcamenarsi nel tentativo di ottenere lo status di rifugiato, infatti gli è stato appena comunicato che sarà rimpatriato, in quello stesso Iraq da cui è scappato, questo perché (ritengono le autorità tedesche) con la caduta di Saddam ormai il suo è un paese sicuro.

At the age of fourteen Lady Margaret de la Roche is presented at court as a New Year’s Day gift for King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon. In her role as a maid of honour she develops a great admiration for the virtuous queen. But her loyalty is tested when the king falls in love with the fascinating Anne Boleyn. As her life at court becomes increasingly perilous, she must find a way to be a faithful servant of the queen and a true subject of the king. “The Tudor Lady in Waiting” tells the story of the dangers and intrigues of the Tudor court in the reign of Henry VIII.

It’s October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a suspicious porter. By the time they’re pried open, revealing the dismembered bodies of two women inside, Ruth has disappeared into the crowd. The search for, and eventual apprehension of, the Trunk Murderess quickly becomes a headline-making sensation. Even the Phoenix murder house is a sideshow attraction.

Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.

Good things happen when your life is freed from the restrictions of gravity and time. Jake Spinner is a modern-day Don Quixote mixed in with a large dose of Winnie the Pooh.

Der junge Sam Greven, 23, ist ein Draufgänger. Als Kopf einer Sprayer-Gang ist er in der Szene im Kreis Bergheim bei Köln bekannt und hat neben seinen Graffiti-Künsten, wegen denen er immer wieder mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt tritt, eine sehr hohe kriminelle Energie. Als er die 19-jährige Leonie Hammerschmidt zufällig in einer Bar kennen lernt, verstehen sich die Beiden auf Anhieb.

Druga połowa XIX wieku. Ulice Powiśla. Zakamarki Krakowskiego Przedmieścia. Salony warszawskich kupców i przedsiębiorców. Ciasne pokoiki obskurnych burdeli. Mała dziewczynka, wychowywana w domu publicznym, do której niespodziewanie uśmiecha się los – trafia do rodziny bogatego kupca, Stanisława Berga. Życie nareszcie zaczyna się układać, ale jeden nierozsądny, młodzieńczy wybuch pożądania sprawia, że panna zostaje zmuszona do wyjazdu. Krótka wyprawa do Indii, która miała być tylko przygodą i nauką rzemiosła, staje się wieloletnim zesłaniem.

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

De acuerdo con los valores de Confucio, «una mujer educada es una mujer inútil», pero Tan Yunxian, nacida en una familia de élite, es criada en condiciones excepcionales. Su abuela es una de las pocas doctoras que hay en China, y enseña a Yunxian los pilares de la medicina, los Cuatro Exámenes —mirar, escuchar, tocar y preguntar—, algo que un hombre nunca puede hacer con una paciente.

Nell’Afghanistan degli anni settanta il dodicenne Amir desidera con tutto se stesso vincere la gara di aquiloni che si tiene ogni anno a Kabul; ad assisterlo e a sostenere i suoi sforzi c’è Hassan, un amico caro quanto un fratello. Ma nel giorno in cui Amir riesce finalmente a realizzare il proprio sogno, Hassan è vittima di un episodio terribile che segna la conclusione dell’amicizia che li lega. A sconvolgere per sempre le esistenze dei due ragazzi arriva poi l’invasione russa, che costringe la famiglia di Amir a lasciare l’Afghanistan.

A major company in the computer industry, based in Italy, finds itself in an untenable position as a new system project it sold to a very substantial client founders due to an over-zealous salesman and hardware that is far from ready as a major financial crisis hits the world following the Lehman Brothers crash. Countback examines the events both within the company and the effects of those events on its staff and sub-contractors battling both the technical problems they encountered as well as, in some cases, their own personal demons.

Los subterráneos es una de las mejores novelas de Jack Kerouac; en ella se precisa su voluntad de llevar a cabo una suerte de autobiografía literaria que será, al mismo tiempo, una crónica legendaria de la Generación Beat. En efecto, casi todo es aquí relato autobiográfico, "fraseado" con ese inimitable estilo sincopado que Kerouac aprendió escuchando en el Minton's de Nueva York a los grandes del bop. Al igual que Charlie Parker, Kerouac improvisa en torno a un tema, y escribe de la manera más flexible, adaptándose en cada episodio a las resonancias que le sugiere el momento.