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1966. Jimmy James is a struggling guitarist, hungry and desperate enough to sign any contract for a meal—or a tab of acid. A year later, he's rock legend Jimi Hendrix, electrifying stages from Swinging London to Monterey Pop. But when a shady old contract surfaces, Hendrix finds himself pursued by ruthless Tin Pan Alley goombahs determined to cash in on his rising fame.

An epic take on the white slave trade by Barbary pirates, centreing on the most famous buccaneer of the Salle Rovers—Jan Janszoon Van Haarlem. This novel-length narrative poem is set over six books, all interconnected but each telling its own separate and unique story.

The essence of an addict is as unique and personal as one’s fingerprints. After years of hopping on and off the train of destruction, Luke’s life comes to a screeching halt. Thrust into sobriety by a ten-year jail sentence for running guns across a state line, reality and illusionary realms become blurred. Luke, once known as the boy who shot his brother, delves into his past through a series of dreams. Travel the twisted road of addiction as Luke navigates his way through fixation, love, self-awareness, forgiveness, and faith.

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

Il legame matrimoniale può intralciare la vocazione dell'artista? Il dubbio di un pittore di successo, in un romanzo di tono autobiografico.

A sweeping, sensational novel of America’s first “It Girl,” whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York’s streets teem with change...

“Violaine Huisman explores and contests the myths surrounding the great men of her family, using fiction where the official archives fall silent. The Monuments of Paris is a moving elegy for her accomplished, mercurial, outrageous father—and a beautiful act of disobedience.” —Ben Lerner...

When Leila Johnston discovers the bleak reality of her family's life from a young age, everything comes crashing down for her. She watches her family fall apart, she loses those she treasures the most, and through it all, she's forced to be alone and fend for herself because society is no help. Leila is determined to come out stronger. She's seeking refuge and figuring out who she is and her purpose. She tries to pick up the pieces of what's left of her and turn them into something new. At the end of it all, she comes out stronger, winning the battle and emerging as a fierce survivor.

Plötzlich und kalt steht die Endlichkeit im Raum, die jegliche Kommunikation zwischen dir und mir verhindert. All das, was uns viele Jahre ausgemacht hat, ist vollständig abgebrochen. Stillstand. Danach war ich auf der Suche nach einem Weg durch mein Leben und das unserer vier kleinen Kinder. Aufgeschrieben von mir, einem Mann nach dem Tod seiner Frau.

Composto e pubblicato nel decennio che precede lo scoppio della Grande Guerra, tra 1904 e 1914, questo romanzo corrisponde alla fase giovanile, romantica, della produzione di Hermann Hesse, che ancora non ha scoperto la psicoanalisi junghiana, ma già rivela i temi che lo accompagneranno per tutta la vita. Di forte ispirazione autobiografica, Peter Camenzind si iscrive nella tradizione germanica del Bildungsroman ; simili per sensibilità appare il protagonista, spirito raffinato che trova appagamento nell'immergersi nella natura.

“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review “Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Nazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto...

Catherine Parr ha soltanto sette anni quando, durante un torneo, il suo destino incrocia per la prima volta quello di Enrico VIII, il re d'Inghilterra. Catherine non può certo immaginare che un giorno, passata anche lei attraverso vari matrimoni, finirà con il diventare la sesta e ultima moglie di Enrico. Coraggiosa, romantica, colta e appassionata d'arte, Catherine assisterà a congiure ed esecuzioni e solo grazie alle sue arti diplomatiche riuscirà a sfuggire miracolosamente alla morte.

Im Hungerwinter 1946/47 begegnet Hedi, hochschwanger und junge Flüchtlingsfrau aus Pommern, Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth, einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. Als alleinerziehende Mutter kämpft Hedi gegen Vorurteile und Misstrauen. Aber ihre beharrliche Suche nach Freundschaft und Liebe wird belohnt – bis vollkommen unerwartet der Vater ihres Kindes vor der Tür steht.

Les femmes, ces grandes oubliées de l’Histoire. Mais comment auraient-elles pu y obtenir leur juste place lorsque seuls les hommes l’écrivaient ? Montluçon, 1816. La jeune Héloïse de la Roche, aristocrate à l’avenir tout tracé, crée le scandale en refusant d’épouser l’homme choisi par sa mère. Après plusieurs années passées au couvent, Héloïse, rebelle et intrépide, s’installe à Paris, où elle découvre une misère qu’elle n’aurait jamais imaginée. Un Paris du début du XIXe siècle, où la population des laissés-pour-compte tente de survivre, où tout s’achète et tout se vend.

This is a true story about a power struggle in a part of the country that has been forgotten about by some and never known about by others. In an area where opportunity is not abundant and young people rarely see a bright future, there will always be predators who are able to take advantage of the vulnerable and wreak havoc on their communities. When bad people intend to do harm, there are good people who will try to intervene for the benefit of the downtrodden. This all too often brings about a clash of wills.

Una rebelión contra el mundo, contra su familia y contra la sociedad. Salí corriendo de repente. Sólo me dio tiempo a oír a mi madre, que decía Pero ¿qué hace ese idiota? No quería estar con ellos, me negaba a compartir con ellos ese momento. Yo estaba ya lejos, había dejado de pertenecer a su mundo, la carta lo decía. Salí al campo y estuve andando gran parte de la noche: el ambiente fresco del norte, los caminos de tierra, el olor de la colza, muy intenso en esa época del año. Dediqué toda la noche a elaborar mi nueva vida, lejos de allí.

November 1539. Sent as a bride for the much-married King of England, Anna of Cleves has left her homeland and family behind to travel to England. There to be wed to a man who has killed one wife, and perhaps caused the deaths of two more, Anna fears her marriage and husband, yet she has been promised to Henry VIII to secure alliance for her country, and safety for her people. But will there be safety for Anna? Into a court of scandal and cutthroat politics she is thrown, and only by her wits will she survive.

1522, England. Anne Boleyn has lived an adventurous youth in the glittering courts of Europe, now, promised in marriage to a man she knows nothing of, Anne has been called home by her ambitious father. She will enter the English Court, to find many admirers courting her. Anne finds potential for love in three men, but there is one... more unexpected than all the others, who claims her heart. The beginning of a love which would change the course of English history, and shake the foundations of the Church... The courtier's daughter who captured the heart of a king, Anne Boleyn.

Eylau, c'est la rencontre paroxystique de l'Histoire et de la géographie. Une bataille napoléonienne qui a lieu le 8 février 1807 contre les Russes, en Prusse orientale, là où se trouvait autrefois la célèbre Königsberg fondée par les chevaliers teutoniques. Aujourd'hui Eylau est située dans l'enclave de Kaliningrad, territoire russe séparé de la Russie par la Pologne et la Lituanie. Jean-Paul Kauffmann qui s'était rendu une première fois à Kaliningrad en 1991 voulait y revenir mais, cette fois, en famille. Un voyage de cohésion familiale en quelque sorte.

Mare Internum, 75 v. Chr. Ein Handelsschiff steuert die Insel Rhodos an. An Bord: Julius Cäsar, begleitet von seinem Getreuen Titus Labienus. Von seinen Feinden ins Exil getrieben, ist er auf dem Weg zu Apollonius Molon, einem der bedeutendsten Rhetoriklehrer der damaligen Zeit, um seine Redekunst zu verfeinern und so gewappnet zu sein für seine nächsten Schritte auf seinem Weg an die Spitze der politischen Macht. Ein monumentaler Roman, der uns den wahren Preis der Macht vor Augen führt: Julius Cäsar muss erfahren, dass Rom alles dafür verlangt, sogar sein wertvollstes Gut.