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From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.

At the onset of the first World War, E.G. Lewis wielded his outsized charm and entrepreneurial spirit to attract legions of women to move across the country to build a new American dream in Atascadero, California. His new city, envisioned to rival Los Angeles and San Francisco, targeted the millions of subscribers to his national women's magazines who longed for a utopia designed for progressive women and their families.

In the 1950s, after the publication of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the life of one of the most well-known Biblical figures, Herod the Great, reimagining him in a very different light than his villainous portrayal in the New Testament. In Hurston’s retelling, Herod is a forerunner of Christ, a religious and philosophical man who enriched Jewish culture and lived a life of adventure.

In the enthralling narrative of "KEPT WOMAN," best-selling author A.R. Boyd invites listeners into a vortex of passion, peril, and paradox. Dive deep into the life of a woman ensnared in a web spun from the threads of love and lucre, faithfulness and deceit, truth and treachery. Over the course of two tumultuous decades, follow her journey through the underbelly of society—from the shadowy lanes of drug trafficking and the corruption-riddled corridors of power to the cold bars of prison cells and the crushing blows of heartbreak and deportation.

L’esperienza vissuta nell’angoscioso sogno: l’anziana donna nero-vestita, sguardo minaccioso e agghiacciante, che con voce infernale pronuncia ripetutamente “non ti darò pace”, il reale manifestarsi nella sera successiva della stessa che resasi visibile, ripete la medesima minaccia “non ti darò pace”, rivelano al giovane quattordicenne che la linea tra il reale e il surrreale si è spezzata. Misteri e verità nella vita di un medium, frutto di un’accurata indagine, e molteplici testimonianze, si annovera nella categoria del “romanzo sperimentale”, inteso come documento di vita.

Death is hard. It’s as inevitable as manipulation and misogyny; as inevitable as love, conflict, insanity, sleep-deprivation, and broken hearts. It’s coming. It’s here. On the 28th April 2018, a young poet called Dan “DC” Collins was found dead in the woodlands by his home in Birmingham. He’d taken his own life. This was done, at least in part, because I had made the incredibly selfish decision to stop being his girlfriend. This decision would go on to affect the rest of my adult life.

"Україна – країна смутку і краси, де найбільше люблять волю і найменше мають її, країна гарячої любові до народу і чорної йому зради, довгої, вікової, героїчної боротьби за волю, в результаті якої – велетенське кладовище : високі в степу могили, руїна та прекрасна на весь світ, безіменна, невідомо коли і ким складена пісня ..." В бур'янах - твір Степана Васильченка, в якому розповідається про дитинство Тараса. Відомі факти й документальні дані письменник доповнює щирим громадським почуттям, образним змістом, духом історії.

Berlin, 1919: Als Hans die junge Stiefmutter seines Schulfreunds Hellmut Quandt kennenlernt, ahnt er nicht, welche Rolle Magda in seinem Leben spielen wird – für ihn persönlich, aber auch Jahre später als fanatische Nationalsozialistin und Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reichs. Noch ist die Weimarer Republik im Aufbruch und Hans hoffnungslos in Hellmut verliebt. Doch nach einem Unglücksfall beginnen Hans und Magda eine Affäre, von der sie sich Trost und Vorteile versprechen: Sie will aus ihrer Ehe ausbrechen, er seine Homosexualität verbergen.

Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by his dark and intense stare. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn't long before she embarks on a passionate relationship with the Spanish artist that sometimes includes sadism and masochism, and ultimately pushes her to the edge. The Paris Muse is the fictionalized retelling of this disturbing love story, as we follow Dora on her journey of self-discovery and expression.

"Es tut uns sehr leid, Ihnen mitteilen zu müssen..."Den restlichen Teil der Beileidsbekundung zum Tod ihres Ehemannes nimmt Nele nicht mehr wahr. Seitdem schwelgt sie immer wieder in Erinnerungen und driftet ab in eine Welt, in der Aaron noch an ihrer Seite ist. Wie lange dauert es, bis man den Verlust seines Seelenverwandten überwunden hat? Nele findet ihren ganz eigenen Weg. Eine traurig schöne Geschichte zum Eintauchen, Reinfühlen und Hoffnung schöpfen.

Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister's lavish Caribbean wedding, she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have peppered her unremarkable career.

The Missy Box is an imagined story based on the young life of Maria Suhm Wheelock, the wife of the second President of Dartmouth College and her great grandmother, Maria Bourdoux Lasalle, a Huguenot refugee from France. Set in a time before the interior of America had been discovered by Europeans, the Missy Box recreates a world connected by oceans, peopled by refugees, and the kings who controlled their fates.

Ekmek Parası, Muzaffer İzgü'nün kendi yaşamından yola çıkarak yazdığı unutulmaz roman Zıkkımın Kökü'nün çocuklar için uyarladığı versiyonudur. Bu kitapta işini kaybeden bir baba, ayakkabısı olmayan çocuklar, su baskınında yıkılan bir ev, kaybolan eşyalar ve ev sahibinin karşısında bükülen boyunlarıyla anlatılan bir ailenin hikâyesine tanıklık edeceksiniz. Tüm bu olumsuzluklara rağmen dünyanın en güzel ailesinin hikâyesi.

Otlakçı'daki öyküler doğaya, insanlara arı duru bir sevgiyle bakan; gerilimleri bile sevecenlikle karşılayan bir anlayışın ürünüdür. Soyuttan arınmış gözlemleri, alabildiğine derin ve gerçekçi boyutlarıyla, her dönemin yapıtı olabilecek öyküler bırakmıştır Memduh Şevket Esendal. Esendal, içinde yaşadığı dönemin kişilerini, o günlerde oluşan olayları alaysamalı bir anlatımla sergilemekte ve eleştirmektedir.

Jack London'ın kendini anlattığı Martin Eden'in yayınlandığı yıllarda, London zaten çok ünlü bir yazardı. London farklı sınıflar arasındaki zihniyet ve değer farklarını gözlerimizin önüne sererken, statü ve parasal gücün Amerikan toplumundaki önemine işaret eder. Yazdıklarını zaten yaşamıştır yazar. Martin eğitimsiz genç bir işçiden, başarılı ve rafine bir yazara dönüşür. Hedefine ulaştığında ise motivasyonunu ve heyecanını çoktan yitirmiş, trajik bir sona doğru sürüklenmektedir artık.

Navigating the ins and outs of an absent father and a traumatized mother, and marked by choices made around religious zealots, drug addicted family, and growing up with his gay siblings in suburbia. We discover that as we grow, we become collectors of memories, keeping the ones that matter and throwing out the ones that don’t. Our choices rely heavily on how we interpret our past, and what meaning that we give to those memories.

Um dos maiores escritores da literatura russa, reconhecido mundialmente, Lev Tolstói foi mestre do romance do século XIX reconhecido também pela narrativa curta. Nesta novela – considerada uma das mais perfeitas já escritas –, Tolstói narra a história de Ivan Ílitch, juiz de instrução que, depois de alcançar uma vida confortável, descobre que tem uma grave doença. A partir daí, ele passa a refletir sobre o sentido de sua existência, numa experiência-limite de rara força poética, que só a grande literatura consegue traduzir.

Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumour growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again — and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children — she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights and always buying that dress when she sees it.

Discover excitement and romance in To Seek for Eldorado—a heart-racing adventure and love story that spans the vast geography of Canada and takes you through the depths of the human soul. In this book, listeners will experience the joy and heartbreak of young love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the power of determination in the face of adversity.

1934 Young Kathleen Carver dreams of becoming a movie star despite her fathers warnings that she wouldn't want that life. As she grows, she becomes more determined and her strong personality and independent soul won't let her give up. After college, she stays out east and works in the theater. Then her big break comes—Hollywood is calling—and she goes home to California to become the star she always knew she'd be. But there are bumps along the highway to stardom, heartbreak, losses, and scandals. And secrets—so many secrets to keep.