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Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never heard it before.

A religious cult, militia conspirators, and an FBI standoff. Can a nine-year-old girl survive them all? Sophia’s mom has been promised Zion after meeting and marrying a fanatic religious cult member. Sophia is left to protect her younger sister while facing severe punishments, strange rules, and meetings meant to indoctrinate them.

In a high-energy, adventure-filled romp across four countries and two continents, Four Borders to Freedom follows the adventures of a teenage boy as he escapes the confining political and social system of Iran to freedom.

Matilda is the granddaughter of William the Conqueror but also descended, through her mother, from the ancient line of Anglo-Saxon kings. Betrothed to Emperor Henry of Germany at the age of eight, she is married at 12 and crowned Empress. By her early 20s she is a widow, and the only surviving legitimate heir to her father, Henry I of England. Forced into a second marriage to a boy 10 years younger, she gives birth to three sons, the male heirs her father longs for.

Com 23 anos, a infanta Catarina de Bragança, filha de D. Luísa de Gusmão e de D. João IV, deixou para trás tudo o que lhe era querido e próximo para navegar rumo a uma vida nova. No coração, um misto de tristeza e alegria. Saudades da sua Lisboa, de Vila Viçosa, do cheiro a laranjas, dos seus irmãos que já haviam partido deste mundo e dos que ficavam em Portugal a lutar pelo poder. Mas os seus olhos escuros deixavam perceber o entusiasmo pelo casamento com o homem dos seus sonhos, Charles de Inglaterra, um príncipe encantado que Catarina amava perdidamente ainda antes de o conhecer.

Der literarische Bestseller aus Frankreich. Im Januar 2003 fand Anne Berests Mutter unter den Neujahrswünschen eine verstörende Postkarte mit nichts als den Namen ihrer vier Angehörigen, die in Auschwitz ermordet wurden; ohne Absender, ohne Unterschrift. Anne fragt nach und die Mutter erzählt ihr die tragische Geschichte der Rabinowicz. Aber erst als ihre kleine Tochter in der Schule Antisemitismus erfährt, beschließt Anne der Sache wirklich auf den Grund zu gehen. Mit Hilfe eines Privatdetektivs und eines Kriminologen recherchiert sie in alle erdenklichen Richtungen.

Paulo es un joven que sueña con ser escritor, se deja el cabello largo y sale al mundo en busca de la libertad y para darle un significado profundo a su vida. Una jornada que va desde el famoso "Tren de la muerte a Bolivia", después Perú, Chile y Argentina, hasta el encuentro con Karla en Ámsterdam, quien lo convence de viajar juntos en el Magic Bus, un autobús que viaja por Europa y Asia Central hasta Katmandú. En el camino, Karla y Paulo no sólo vivirán una extraordinaria historia de amor, sino también conocerán a maravillosos compañeros de viaje.

Geroge Novak přijíždí do Prahy najít své české kořeny. Brzy ale zjistí, že vlastně hledá odpověď na jinou otázku: Kdo jsem? Kdo si myslím, že jsem? V živé staropražské hospodě U Devíti Draků a jedné ovce potkává svérázné přátele, kteří v něm však spíše otázky vyvolávají, než aby mu předkládali snadné odpovědi. Kdo je Vera, Georgova tajuplná sousedka?

As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before. One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure. But when the king learns of their relationship, the suitability of the foreign prince is questioned by all at court. He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking.

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.

"L'unica cosa importante in questo tipo di ritratti scritti e cercare la distanza giusta, che è lo stile dell'unicità". Così scrive Emanuele Trevi in un brano di questo audiolibro che, all'apparenza, si presenta come il racconto di due vite, quella di Rocco Carbone e Pia Pera, scrittori prematuramente scomparsi qualche tempo fa e legati, durante la loro breve esistenza, da profonda amicizia. Trevi ne delinea le differenti nature: incline a infliggere colpi quella di Rocco Carbone per le Furie che lo braccavano senza tregua; incline a riceverli quella di Pia Pera.

Scènes de la Vie de Bohème d'Henry Murger, initialement publiées en 1851, offre un portrait vivant de la vie bohème à Paris dans les années 1840. Cette œuvre, bien qu'il ne s'agisse pas d'un roman traditionnel, se compose d'histoires interconnectées se déroulant dans le Quartier Latin, romantisant le style de vie insouciant et artistique des bohèmes.

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective similar only in exhibiting those unusual and outre features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers. Watson includes the earliest case of the champion of the law and what tragically seems to be his last.

It's 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, travel to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will be forced to ask themselves how far they will go to remain his wife....

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

Ursula Pohjolan-Pirhosen Porvoo & Helsinki -trilogia nyt ensimmäistä kertaa äänikirjanaKunnianhimoinen Frans Stockman kulkee kullattua polkua kohti menestystä. Hän aikoo tulla Porvoon vauraimmaksi ja vaikutusvaltaisimmaksi kauppiaaksi, eikä mikään näytä seisovan hänen tiellään. Sormessaan hän kantaa sinikivistä sormusta, jonka huhutaan olevan lahja itseltään kuningatar Kristiinalta ja Stockmanin onnen salaisuus. Sydämessään Frans Stockman kantaa kuitenkin toista salaisuutta.

Elizabeth's parents warned her that Alexander Blackwell would not make a dependable husband, and only after eloping with him did she learn they may have been right... After their marriage, the couple finds lodgings in London. Alexander looks for work while Elizabeth learns engraving. Before long, though, Alexander is in the Marshalsea, the notorious debtors' prison, and she is left to fend for herself. Alone and penniless, she has a few things going for her: a skill, an idea, and an acquaintance.

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in assistant for an unnamed shut-in. He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room.

Alexander's epic quest continues. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King Darius' domination of land and sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedinoan armies. Ruthlessly, Alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands, and ever closer to his destiny.

Told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, this imaginative account of Frank Lloyd Wright's raucous life blazes with Boyle's trademark wit and invention. Boyle's protean voice captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.