Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

L'incredibile storia vera dei Catalano, gli immigrati siciliani che incantarono l'America con la loro musica. La Sicilia di inizio Novecento è una terra bellissima e crudele, che non fa sconti. Rosario Catalano lì non ha futuro; la sua passione per la musica e l'amore incondizionato per Rosa non bastano. Così, i due innamorati decidono di partire in cerca di fortuna nella scintillante New York. In poco tempo, il quartetto siciliano di Rosario conquista i cuori degli americani portandogli fama e ricchezza, ma anche tradimenti e gelosia.

In the wake of a major operation, a twenty-eight-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body and prepare herself to leave the routines, comforts, and interiority of her convalescence. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But Frida sees her chronic illness as something to overcome and her body as something to control. She adores the pool and pushes the herself toward an active life, relentlessly pursuing the prevailing narrative of illness.

Ronny Allard has held down several jobs, but one stands out more than the others. His role as an undertaker exposed him to a world of death, rotting flesh and sadness. The Undertaker Down Under is a collection of short stories written from the undertaker's perspective. In each story, Ronny describes the scene and imagines the life lost and lived.

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of 1,800 starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

In the rugged and beautiful mountains of Oregon, Ron Spears, a war veteran seeking peace and purpose, builds a life as a gold miner. For thirty years, he lives a solitary existence on his claim, wrestling with the ghosts of his past and the relentless pursuit of gold. His isolation is broken by the return of his sons, Ryan and Mitchell, who find him and bring him back to Winona, Missouri, where he reunites with his daughters, Mary and Colleen, and spends his final days surrounded by family.

Blood Pudding renders vividly, at times violently, the raw struggles of the colorful Malinowski family, immigrants from Poland. Gritty, patient, always loving, their son Tad runs a gauntlet of painful and humiliating boyhood cruelties. Above Tad's clear voice, we hear the cold constant heartbeat of a growing industrial city, whose restless yet noble soul surely resides in the lives of these very immigrants.

Jane Seymour has risen to become a lady in waiting to Queen Katherine, wife of King Henry VIII, but Jane has joined the household of the true Queen at a time most dangerous, as the King seeks to end his marriage to Katherine, and take Anne Boleyn as his Queen. Through years of struggle, Jane will watch as the England she knows, and the faith she honours are torn apart by the King's wish to take a new wife, and to break from the power of Rome. Devoted to her beloved mistress, Queen Katherine, Jane makes an oath to do all she can, to save England and its King.

“In queste pagine unisco,” chiarisce De Luca nell’Introduzione, “storie estreme di genitori e figli.” La narrazione si rinsalda nelle radici della storia tramandata: si inizia da Isacco, naturalmente, dalla mancanza di legittima difesa contro il padre – la legatura di Isacco, in ebraico così ci si riferisce a quello che noi di solito chiamiamo “il sacrificio”, perché quel nodo stretto fra lui e Abramo è irreparabile. Nodo che sembra potersi sciogliere solamente diventando a propria volta genitori, “passaggio che fa scordare e slega dallo stato di figlio”.

From international 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.