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American Amelia Montague defied her family five years ago to marry the man she loved, but that decision cost her everything. Disowned by her family, and left a penniless widow after her husband’s death, Amelia becomes her cousin Wallis Simpson’s private secretary in France. With no other prospects available, Amelia has no choice but to succeed, and under their Aunt Bessie’s direction, hopes to have a positive influence on Wallis and the Duke of Windsor. During the next two years, Amelia realizes that not everything with the Windsors is glittering happiness.

Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journalist, activist, politician - the word 'famine' will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Ireland's dead, the liquid Irish of the past now mute on their tongues. Propelled by disgust at the injustice, Mitchel will do all he can to fight for the destitute, the starved, the forgotten. His odyssey will take him all the way to America - that land of promise - but it will draw him into a terrible paradox.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes upon each other, a fatal attraction is born. Their secret love burns with a passion that consumes them. But with every stolen kiss and illicit tryst, Costanza's reputation is at stake. Meanwhile, Bernini has a dangerous desire: he wants to make Costanza immortal.

«Mai più. Due avverbi sono sufficienti a divorarmi il cuore, frantumare le ossa. Mai più lo rivedrò. Mai più lo abbraccerò. Mai più mangiare insieme, sorseggiare del vino, ballare, leggere pagine ad alta voce, ridere, camminare mano nella mano, a Roma, a Parigi, incontrare persone, viaggiare in treno, guardare il mare, le nuvole, un fuoco nel camino, la neve. Fare l’amore. Scopare. Cantare, recitare una poesia, piangere al cinema, ascoltare la musica. Mai più il suo odore su di me, le sue braccia.

Lifestyle of a Hustler, Vol. 1 tells the story of a young black man trying to find his way, learning how to be an entrepreneur—from childhood hustles, to hustling to pay for college. This is the autobiography of a fictional character, Keynote King, based on the life of the author, Kayo Hustle.

Ci sono imprenditori che si sforzano di trovare un’idea geniale per cambiare le sorti di un settore, ma ci sono anche uomini che, giovanissimi, s’innamorano di un sogno e fanno di tutto per realizzarlo. Romano Artioli, fondatore di Autexpò, è un imprenditore che ha inseguito il desiderio di far rinascere una delle più prestigiose marche automobilistiche del mondo, la Bugatti. E, con passione e dedizione, ha raggiunto questo obiettivo.

An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit. At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation.

In this very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, our favorite couple finally ties the knot, but this is by no means a spoiler, because there is a twist or two. Meanwhile, our favorite young star manages to increase his star-rating even higher. The hilarious antics come toward the end of the book when father and son must have the “father and son talk.”

En la familia de Clara existe una leyenda: una maldición acecha la vida de todos sus miembros. Cuando decide indagar sobre el origen desconocido de esta oscura herencia, se embarca en una búsqueda que le llevará hasta el siglo XVIII y la historia de su antepasada, la IX Duquesa de Osuna. Ensombrecida por la muerte de varios de sus hijos, la duquesa se refugia en el diseño de su jardín a las afueras de la capital: El Capricho. Además, encargará a Goya seis de sus cuadros más oscuros, que expondrá en sus dependencias privadas.

Ein Forscherleben als Spiegel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die einfühlsam erzählte Geschichte eines spannungsreichen Lebens: Konrad Lorenz begründete die Tierpsychologie, wurde als Verhaltensforscher berühmt und erhielt 1973 den Nobelpreis. Die Kontinuität seiner biologistischen Auffassungen trug ihm heftige Kritik ein. Ilona Jerger erfindet eine Erzählerin, die mit seinen Büchern aufgewachsen ist und Biologin wurde. Sie vertieft sich in sein Leben und Werk. Je mehr sie erfährt, desto größer wird ihre Faszination – und desto zahlreicher werden die Fragen.

Journey of Hope: From Honduras to Home is a gripping tale of the Perez family's harrowing odyssey from the violence-ridden streets of Honduras to the promise of a new life in the United States. As they navigate treacherous landscapes, encounter both compassion and cruelty, and endure the darkest of trials, their unwavering hope and unbreakable family bonds become a beacon of inspiration.

She will not be silenced! Brilliant, corseted, and haunted by spirits from the Borderlands, a young girl turns her back on the constrictions of Victorian society and strikes out on her own, becoming a mystic marriage counselor. Sharing what she views as essential sexual knowledge puts her in the crosshairs of Anthony Comstock, the nation’s Anti-Obscenity Postal Inspector. She vows to bring him down. He promises to silence her forever. With prison looming, Ida and her angel lover must prepare for a battle they may not be able to win.

Příběh Olgy Hepnarové, která jedním otočením volantu zabila osm lidí, poslední ženy odsouzené v Československu k trestu smrti. Bylo úterý 10. července roku 1973, krátce před druhou hodinou odpolední. Obyčejný všední den na pražské Letné. Pro jednu dvaadvacetiletou dívku však nebylo cesty zpátky. Nákladní auto, které řídila, prudce vybočilo z předpokládané dráhy, vřítilo se na chodník plný lidí, pak srovnalo kola a jízdou po chodníku těsně kolem stěny domů poráželo, přejíždělo a drtilo každého, kdo mu nestačil uhnout z cesty.

Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone.

Cambridge philosophy student Rickie Elliot—an orphan, lame in one foot—wants to be a writer. He exists in the intense university environment, influenced by relationships with other students both intellectual and sporty, and faces a growing involvement with the beautiful Agnes Pembroke. But he finds himself ill prepared for the reality of life and work in the outside world, further complicated by the unexpected appearance of a half-brother. His life moves toward compromise shaped by marriage and a teaching post. Where will this ultimately lead?

En esta novela al estilo de una novela picaresca, pero ambientada en el siglo XX, la autora recopila las malas andanzas del marqués de la Cañahueca, apodado así en el seno de su infernal familia, donde aprendió el mal como norma de vida. En sus instantes postreros, el marqués ansía legar al mundo su filosofía canallesca, enseñando a cultivar el lado oscuro que la sociedad intenta reprimir.

Die Geschichte eines Lebens - fesselnd, real, ergreifend. Nach einer wahren Begebenheit. Verschleppung, Zwangsarbeit, Hunger, Tod der Weggefährten, Verzweiflung und Flucht sind nur einige Stichpunkte aus dem Leben von Johann, der 1925 in der Republik der Wolgadeutschen geboren wird. Die Verhältnisse, in denen wir ihn begleiten dürfen, sind bedrückend. Er kämpft täglich mit Hunger, Not und Elend, erlebt die Zwangskollektivierung, die Deportation nach Kasachstan, Jahre harter Zwangsarbeit in der Trudarmee und die Gefangenschaft im Sträflingslager.

When Jackie is twenty-one, she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a dinner party in Georgetown. She is dreaming of France, of a life of freedom and adventure. She has won an internship at Vogue, and she thinks Kennedy is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” And yet there is his intelligence, his humor and drive, and the chemistry between them. He pursues her, then disappears, then pursues her again in a pattern of intimacy and distance.

Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, and becomes an ambassador to Constantinople, but at his heart all Orlando ever wants to be is a great writer (and living at the same time as Marlowe, Donne, and Shakespeare, this is no easy thing). But while living in Constantinople, one evening Orlando is transformed into woman.