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Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic' beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu' and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she's sacrificed—and who she's become—in her mission to conquer the world.

"Wir leben so viele Leben in unserem Leben, kleinere Leben mit Menschen, die kommen und gehen... ich weiß nie, welches meiner Leben den eigentlichen Rahmen bildet." Eine Frau liegt mit hohem Fieber im Bett. Plötzlich verspürt sie den Drang, einen bestimmten Roman wieder zu lesen. Darin: ein Gute-Besserungs-Wunsch von vor langer Zeit, geschrieben von Johanna, ihrer Ex-Freundin. Während sie das Buch durchblättert, werden Szenen aus ihrer Vergangenheit lebendig, Ereignisse und Menschen, die sie nicht vergessen kann. Aus den Erinnerungs- und Erlebnisfragmenten entsteht ein ganzes Leben.

In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt.

Dass alte Gewissheiten schwinden, dass die Welt sich schneller ändert, als er es für möglich gehalten hätte, wird Misslinger ausgerechnet in den USA klar, dem Ort, der für ihn immer noch für Freiheit und eine bessere Zukunft steht. Hier verschwimmen die Grenzen von Traum und Wirklichkeit, und Misslinger realisiert, dass ihm sein Leben längst entglitten ist... In seinem grandiosen literarischen Debüt erzählt Jakob Augstein eindringlich von einem Mann unserer Zeit, deren Konturen zwischen politischen Umbrüchen, neuen Ideen und alten Bedrohungen immer schwerer auszumachen sind.

New York, 1953. For Alana Olson, there's always been something about Picasso. An art historian and aspiring journalist, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late mother's strange fascination with the man that inspired Alana's doctoral thesis on his work. Then an assignment for a profile on Picasso from her dream publication leads Alana to a series of intimate interviews with Sara Murphy and Irene Legut - two women from the once-vibrant French social circle that included the artist.

The older she gets, the darker her world becomes. Claire discovers she was kidnapped by her father before her first birthday and that her parents, collectively, have more than 30 children with multiple partners. Growing up in an abusive, dysfunctional home turns Claire’s life upside down. Her childhood is stripped from her at the tender age of 11. Gone is the carefree, trusting little girl who can talk to strangers and win their hearts with her smile and wit.

In seinem neuen Hörbuch erzählt Uwe Timm von seinen Lehrjahren als Kürschner im Hamburg der Fünfzigerjahre. Von kuriosen Erlebnissen im Beruf und der Welt der Mode, von besonderen Freundschaften und den Büchern, die sein Leben verändert haben. Hamburg 1955 – der noch 14-jährige Uwe wird von seinem Vater, dem Inhaber eines Pelzgeschäfts, in die Kürschnerlehre gegeben. Im Takt der Stechuhren lernt der junge Mann die kreative Präzision, die das heute fast ausgestorbene Handwerk erfordert, schult den Blick für das Material, die Kundinnen, die Tücken und Geheimnisse dieser Kunst.

María de Salinas, dama y fiel amiga de Catalina de Aragón, esposa de Enrique VIII, está en sus últimas horas. Ha compartido toda una vida con su desventurada reina y prima y, con ella, el destierro en un país, Inglaterra, lejos de la Castilla que la vio nacer. Hace tres años que la vio morir y ahora, demasiado enferma para viajar, escribe a su hija, Catherine Willoughby, la joven condesa de Suffolk, una carta en la que le cuenta su vida: una vida que no puede ser contada sin la de su reina y mejor amiga, Catalina de Aragón, hija menor de los Reyes Católicos.

January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques. Years later, Anne sought to find the truth behind this postcard. She journeys 100 years into the past, tracing the lives of her ancestors from their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris, the war and its aftermath.

Die große Neuausgabe eines der meistdiskutierten Bücher der DDR-Literatur. Das Sensationsbuch erstmals so, wie die Autorin es schrieb. Eine junge Frau wird von ihrem Bruder getrennt, als dieser beschließt, in den Westen zu gehen. Brigitte Reimanns stark autobiographisch gefärbte Geschichte machte die Tragödie der gerade vollzogenen deutschen Teilung aufs Schmerzlichste erfahrbar. 1963 erschienen, wurde der Roman sofort eines der meistdiskutierten Bücher. Vor allem viele junge Menschen erkannten in den hier endlich ausgesprochenen Konflikten ihre eigenen.

Aleksander is the oldest son of the Steinfeld family and a child prodigy. Exceptionally gifted at the piano, his father grooms him to become a world-class concert pianist in the family tradition. Making a name for himself in Europe and the US, everything seems to be on track for the Steinfelds' continuing international acclaim. Tragically, during a pogrom in Lwów, Poland, in 1918, the Steinfelds are arrested, and their home burned to the ground.

Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in the life of Ti Jean Duluoz as they unfold in the short, tragic-happy life of his brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, childhood’s intensity, innocence, suffering, and delight unfold as Gerard interacts with animals, has visions of Our Lady in heaven, astonishes the priest in the church confessional, and observes his family as they laugh and drink and weep—that is, when he isn’t sick and confined to bed.

In pursuit of her dream to be a writer, Nora journeys from her family in Canada after she accepts a job as a journalist in Jamaica and then later, the United States. In the autobiography, the young author recounts her early life and writing career. Only seventeen years old and with just ten dollars in her pocket, Nora sets sail for Jamaica west Indies, and when this new career as a newspaper writer takes an unwelcome turn, Nora ends up in Chicago, where she struggles to find a good job and make it as a journalist and storyteller.

1173, France. Eleanor of Aquitaine has been arrested for rebelling against her husband, King Henry II of England. Her loyal ladies-in-waiting, Alice and Joanna of Agen, have fled to the nunnery at Fontrevault, where they are anxiously awaiting news of their queen. Alice and Joanna struggle to adapt to their cramped new home at the Abbey. Each is secretly nursing a broken heart—and harboring unholy desires. Joanna left behind a lover, Jean, at Eleanor's court in Poitiers, and Alice has long been in love with the queen's daughter, Marie.

Company of Women is based on the exploits of one of America’s most entrepreneurial minds at the time of the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. B promoting a woman’s right to vote, Edward Garner Lewis built a women’s magazine empire that spanned the country until a conspiracy–all the way up to President Teddy Roosevelt–threatened to destroy it all.

Based on a true story, Queenie of Norwich is the compelling tale of one remarkable girl's journey to womanhood. Spanning the first half of the 20th century, Queenie's story is one of heartbreak and triumph, love and loss, and the power of family. It is a story of redemption, and how, with grit and determination, anything is possible.

When Lina’s idyllic childhood descends into mental chaos in her teenage years, Lina resorts to recording her thoughts in diaries, online chats, and emails to make sense of her anguish. Through Lina’s heart-wrenching words, the listener steps into her broken inner world to experience firsthand the obsessions, irrationality, angst, and ruthlessness of teenage borderline personality disorder.

Ronnie Fairchild hates his brother. He always has. Mick’s a bastard. A weight hanging heavy 'round everyone’s neck and a reminder of a wrong never made right. But when their momma dies, leaving a final demand to find his daddy, Ronnie’s going to uncover a whole heap of trouble tracking him down. And when that bombastic journey leads him to a no-good Texan motel with his sorry-for-nothing brother laying wait to settle a debt, by God, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Every book is an invitation to a journey. Not all journeys are worth the time, though. This book, Ali, by Joshua Sabey and Ali Alsamar, offers a journey worth taking—actually many journeys, including stories from the Qur’an and the Bible, family lore (from two families), and ancient glimpses into the human struggle through another Iraq's adventures: Sinbad.

Schwerin 1934: Kriminalrat Hans Lobbes wird aus Berlin in die norddeutsche Provinz beordert. Schreckliche Dinge haben sich hier in der ländlichen Idylle ereignet: Mehrere Leichen kleiner Jungen liegen tot im Wald. Doch die Körper weisen keinerlei Spuren von Gewalt oder Gift auf. Die toten Kinder erwecken den Eindruck, friedlich zu schlafen. Wer hat Ihnen das angetan und woran sind sie gestorben? Der Verdacht fällt auf Adolf Seefeldt, einen reisenden Uhrmacher ohne festen Wohnsitz, der bei den Kindern als "Onkel Tick Tack" bekannt ist.