Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

Tra le ombre scintillanti della corte Tudor, Jane Parker cammina con passo sicuro. Gli occhi di tutti sono su di lei, ma nessuno vede davvero chi è. I segreti sono i suoi alleati, le bugie il suo scudo. Jane Parker è una moglie devota, una sorella fedele, una spia silenziosa. Ma è soprattutto la mente più acuta dell’Inghilterra di quel periodo. Mentre il potere dei Bolena vacilla e l’ira di un re imprevedibile si abbatte come una tempesta, Jane si muove sul filo delle alleanze, dove uno sguardo può tradire e un sorriso nascondere una condanna.

Step into the heart of East London through the eyes of Elizabeth Cooper as she reflects on three turbulent decades of life, love, and survival. From the cobbled streets of Masthead Lane to the shadow of the Great War and the challenges of making ends meet, Elizabeth's story captures the resilience of working-class families as they navigate a rapidly changing world.

Kutalaani: From the Stars is a stylish unique recording in radio-play style. It reveals the amazing life of Gerry Moses Martin a blind indigenous man who believes that his ancestors are talking to him through iconic Hollywood movies. This audio features traditional indigenous elders singing ancient stories from country (Australia) as well as contemporary original indigenous music.

Melbourne, 1976. A crew of precision-minded criminals walks into the fortified Victoria Club and disappears with millions in cash. No weapons. No alarms. No arrests. What they pulled off would go down as one of the boldest and most mysterious heists in Australian history. But this story isn’t just about the robbery—it’s about the silence that followed… and the cost of keeping it.

Big Boys Don’t Cry is a raw, emotionally charged work of fiction drawn from the real-life experiences of those who serve and protect. Told through the eyes of a first responder, it reveals the deep inner struggles faced by men and women in uniform—long after the sirens fade.

A história de uma das figuras mais importantes da Igreja cristã primitiva. Em Médico de homens e de almas, Taylor Caldwell retrata a vida e a obra de São Lucas com riqueza de detalhes em uma narrativa emocionante. A Bíblia apresenta São Lucas como o médico de coração generoso, bem instruído e autor de um dos evangelhos e do Livro de Atos. Lendas antigas o descrevem como uma pessoa fora do comum, a quem são atribuídos milagres e prodígios antes mesmo de sua conversão ao cristianismo.

Magical Journey is the story of Ricky, a 13-year-old minister’s son, who is forced to move from his comfortable home in Maine when his father is called to a new church in New Hampshire. His dad, who is also a professional magician, takes the family on a seven-month cross-country journey in a converted school bus to all 48 states in 1952 America.

After losing the life he worked so hard to build, Folly finds himself in ruins with no direction, no certainty, and no map of where to go next. Drawn by whispers of a reclusive Sage that dwells high in the mountains, he sets out on a journey that he hopes will piece him back together. What he doesn’t yet understand is that transformation demands he face the very things he has tried to outrun and question the identity he constructed to protect himself.

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect...

In May 1862, Robert Smalls, a slave and ship’s pilot in Charleston, South Carolina, crafts a daring plan to steal the steamship Planter and deliver it, along with, the crew and their families to the Union blockade. After risking his life to escape slavery, Robert faces an even more difficult challenge: convincing Abraham Lincoln to enlist black troops.

Donald Rumsfeld was a major player in American history. In this riveting alternative history, he's put on trial for his role in the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq. The story charts Rumsfeld's rise to fame and power, the fight with President Donald Trump that leads to his prosecution, and his spellbinding trial at the International Criminal Court. Told through the eyes of a mysterious narrator whose identity—and role in Rumsfeld’s downfall—are eventually revealed, The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld is a tale of politics, betrayal, and the explosive nexus between ambition and power.

Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons told in alternating time periods over 35 years. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks out of college, Bram returns to Israel in an effort to find a sense of purpose. He enlists in the Army with Yoni, his cousin and best friend. Their tour of duty is uneventful until, nearing the end of their service, they find themselves on the Lebanon frontier confronting the horrors of war.

One Ordinary Man is a vibrant, witty, and captivating story that is at once, both human and larger than life. A story that captures the times, adversity, and incredible accomplishments of a largely forgotten American hero whose abiding faith in America and its democracy drove him to overcome incredible odds and lift his country up from the darkest depths of its Great Depression to victory in World War II.

From the bestselling author of SIX TUDOR QUEENS, a captivating new novel about two Boleyn cousins, close as sisters - and the truth that will change everything. 'Vivid and utterly addictive... brings to life a fascinating woman who has remained in the shadows for too long' TRACY BORMAN 'Her...

From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan comes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time. Her famed collection has long since dispersed or been lost, but what remains is her correspondence–thousands of letters preserved in a deconsecrated church and convent in the archive of Mantua.

Nel cuore di un tranquillo paesino di una provincia veneta, l’adolescenza di Marta prende una svolta oscura quando cade vittima delle arti manipolatorie di un santone carismatico. Dapprima alla ricerca di sostegno e amore, Marta piomba presto in un vero e proprio incubo, un incubo che ha il volto di padre Antonio. Marta, e con lei tanti altri giovani, si ritrova vittima di abusi e violenze indicibili, intrappolata in una situazione che non avrebbe mai immaginato possibile.

In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound...

The story blends a bit of imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy and his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, in the 1960s, and back again to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

In The Crimson Oath by Nathanial J. Blackthorne, sisters Mary and Chrestian Oliver navigate the aftermath of their mother Bridget Bishop’s 1692 execution for witchcraft in Salem. Bound by a mystical crimson ribbon that pulses with their mother’s curse, they face exile, betrayal, and the dark shadow man’s temptations, their oath becomes a timeless legacy of vengeance, weaving eternal.

Riley und Zayn kennen sich nur flüchtig, bis sie eines Abends ein Gespräch führen, das die ganze Nacht anhält. Die immer tiefer werdenden Gefühle füreinander verändern nicht nur ihre Freundschaft, sondern auch ihr gesamtes Leben. Zayn respektiert als pakistanischer Moslem die Traditionen seiner Familie und weiß, dass die Regeln der westlich erzogenen Riley gegen alles verstoßen, was ihm beigebracht wurde. Obwohl Riley mit Schatten kämpft, die manchmal größer sind als sie selbst, ist sie stark, sieht direkt in Zayns Herz und glaubt an eine gemeinsame Zukunft.