Ein Jahr voller Gier, Luxus, Sex und Alkohol – die wahre Geschichte einer Ex-BrokerinMit gerade einmal 23 Jahren tritt Venetia ihren Job als Brokerin in derLondoner City an.
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground.
Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Armys defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying.
The Incredible True Story of Two Girls in the Seventeen-Hundreds Who Become the Powers Behind the Thrones of the World's Greatest EmpiresThe fulfillment of an outrageous prediction seals the fates of two cousins in this true story that begins on a Caribbean sugar plantation and careens wildly towards the thrones of two empires.
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignoredCity of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteriaand the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men.
Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge.
A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonistIn the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 187379, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick.
In these linked stories Jewel navigates the stage of life between 25 and 45, from the day she finds a body on a wild California beach to crossroads encounters with mystics, lovers, beggars, surgeons, and sailors on the shores of Maui and streets of San Miguel de Allende, Lisbon, Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Barcelona.
Cuando Alejo Carpentier abandonó Cuba con destino a Francia, huyendo de la dictadura de Gerardo Machado, se convirtió en mediador entre dos mundos, manteniéndose al tanto de Cuba y sumergiéndose en la Vanguardia europea.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler's List'One of the world's greatest writers' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene'Powerful' The Times'Marvellous' Sunday TimesIn the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged.
Mit literarischen Beiträgen von Gabriele von Arnim, Zsuzsa Bánk, Marica Bodrožić, Isabel Bogdan, Ann Cotten, Mareike Fallwickl, Julia Friese, Olga Grjasnowa, Claudia Hamm, Stefanie Jaksch, Rasha Khayat, Christine Koschmieder, Jarka Kubsova, Daria Kinga Majewski, Maria-Christina Piwowarski, Judith Poznan, Slata Roschal, Caca Savić, Clara Schaksmeier und Simone ScharbertUnsere Leben verlaufen längst nicht so linear, wie Bücher sie oft erzählen.
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE COUSINS WAR SERIES FROMSUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORYChild-bride of Edmund Tudor, although widowed in her early teens, is determined to infiltratethe house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant.
When Kate Thomas travels to Saudi Arabia with her young son and daughter to join her architect husband who is already working there, she lands a teaching post in a dysfunctional private school for Muslim expatriates.
