Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

In confident Edwardian Britain, the Asquith family rose to the top of politics and society, only for their world to unravel in the killing fields of the Great War. Their story bears all the hallmarks of a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, with Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and his mercurial, charismatic wife, Margot, at its heart. Four children from his first marriage also play central roles in this sweeping family saga.

The epic story behind the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Red Clay, Running Waters follows the little-known lives of John Ridge, a Cherokee man dedicated to his people, and his White wife Sarah, a woman devoted to his search for justice, as the courageous mixed-race couple are swept into the center of the Indian Removal Crisis of the 1830s and the fate of the Cherokee Nation.

Virginia, 1749. Rosanna Waters is more comfortable catching grasshoppers for fishing bait than helping her Mama with the washing. After one defiance too many ends in terrible tragedy, Rosanna learns that her rebellious nature carries a price too steep to pay. She must tame the fire within—for her family’s sake, if not her own.

In 1854 Boston, Third Lieutenant Andrew Gunn of the United States Revenue Cutter Service questions the President’s direct order to extradite a fugitive slave, Anthony Burns, back to Virginia aboard his ship—a lawful order that he believes is immoral and unjust. Torn between his own reverence for freedom as an American and his sworn duty, Gunn suffers the hazards of hard choices that threaten his own life, liberty, and happiness. His first real exposure to the scourge of slavery brings chaos to his ordered life, despite his desperate attempts to control it.

Zwischen Obst- und Gemüsegärten liegen die Häuser des idyllischen deutschen Dorfes in der Ukraine, wo Miluscha zusammen mit sechs Geschwistern aufwächst. Der Vater ist der geliebte Lehrer des Dorfes. Trotz Bedrohung durch das kommunistische Regime, trotz Deportation und Zwangsarbeit, hält die Familie zusammen. Doch der Vater ist den Strapazen auf Dauer nicht gewachsen. Es sind seine letzten Worte, als Segen gesprochen, die Miluscha dann all die Jahre hindurch begleiten und tragen.

Louise vokser op på Nørrebro og lærer allerede fra barnsben at række hånden frem for at få penge af de mænd, der forgriber sig på hende. Senere vælger hun selv prostitutionsvejen, men efter mange år i sexbranchen siger Louises krop og psyke pludselig stop. Hun beslutter sig for at opsøge et exit-program, der skal hjælpe hende videre i livet.

Inspired by the true stories of over thirty women firefighters, this first-of-its-kind novel brings female firefighter stories blazing onto bookshelves. It's dangerous to be an extraordinary woman. Four women—Ruby, Dana, Brazil, and Jessie—choose the extraordinary when they join the Minneapolis Fire Department. Prepared to fight literal fires, none of them anticipate the threats lurking in the dark corners of the firehouse.

Mary fears she’s losing the two people she most admires—her lover and her father—after she’s lost her reputation. She regains them with the publication of Frankenstein. As Scott is crafting his biography of the Shelleys and Godwins a century later, he fears that he’s losing his audience and his wife. He regains them with the publication of his other “work” he’s authoring at the same—The Great Gatsby. As eternal celebrities of Western culture—the Shelleys, the Godwins, and the Fitzgeralds—their brief victories are dramatically retold in What Light Was as dialogues, verse, and meditations.

Dave seemed to have it all. A successful career, a loving family, the respect of everyone around him. But behind the polished surface, he was drinking in secret, convincing himself it wasn’t a problem. No arrests. No missed meetings. Just a few drinks to relax… The Double Life of a High-Functioning Alcoholic is a raw, memoir-style novel inspired by Howard Kane’s own sobriety journey. It takes you inside the hidden world of high-functioning addiction where success becomes a mask, denial runs deep, and every drink feels both normal and dangerous.

Quand son père malade le presse d'écrire sur son ancêtre Louis, capitaine des hussards fauché en 1914 dans une charge de cavalerie, Thibault de Montaigu ne sait pas encore quel secret de famille cache cette mort héroïque. Ni pourquoi elle résonne étrangement avec le destin de son propre père qui décline de jour en jour. La course contre la montre qu'il engage alors pour remonter le passé se mue en une enquête bouleversante où se succèdent personnages proustiens et veuves de guerre, amants flamboyants et épouses délaissées.

Manuel Kaminski ist ein Maler von Weltrang, seit Langem zurückgezogen lebend, es heißt, er sei erblindet. Der Kunsthistoriker Sebastian Zöllner will nun eine Biografie über den großen Mann schreiben, für die eigene Karriere verspricht er sich davon einiges. Doch ist Eile geboten, denn wer weiß, wie viele Jahre dem betagten Künstler in seinem Domizil in den Alpen noch gegeben sind.

Viele Jahre schon hat sich der Physiker David Mahler mit dem Problem der Zeit beschäftigt, mit der Frage, ob ihre Richtung wirklich unveränderlich ist oder sich nicht doch etwas finden ließe, das ihren Lauf umkehrt, als er eines Nachts im Traum eine Entdeckung macht. Am nächsten Morgen hält er einen Stoß beschriebener Blätter in den Händen, die das älteste Gesetz der Natur in Frage stellen und damit die Grundfesten der Welt. Mahler will seiner ungeheuren Entdeckung Gehör verschaffen, aber das gestaltet sich ausgesprochen schwierig.

In Beyond Obsession, A. R. Boyd returns with the gripping true story of loyalty tested beyond human limits. Torn between fierce devotion and the bitter cost of betrayal, Robin fights to hold her world together as it crumbles around her — through prisons, broken dreams, lost fortunes, and shattered promises.

From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen was the society event of the year...even though the bride and groom were not-so-secretly in love with other people.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true story: two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff Shaara, renowned for his body of work exploring the conflicts and personalities surrounding key moments in American history, turns his attention to one of the most consequential figures during one of the most critical points in history: Abraham Lincoln. As only the finest of historical novelists can do, Shaara brings to life the travails and conflicts, victories and tragic defeats, the legends and the history, both personal and private of Lincoln during the country's most pivotal years.

The Yankee Sphinx by Mark Frost is a forthcoming title from Flatiron Books.

Woody groeit op als jongste van drie in een liefdevol gezin in een dorp aan de IJssel. Naarmate Woody ouder wordt, maakt zijn onbeschroomdheid plaats voor een knellend zelfbewustzijn. Als zijn zus erg ziek wordt, kiest Woody noodgedwongen voor een positie op de achtergrond. Hij moet zich in één klap volwassen gedragen, maar blijft zitten met onbeantwoorde vragen en puberale hartstocht.

Сюжет, искусно переплетенный с историческими письмами Наполеона, переносит читателя в разгар турбулентной французской жизни начала XIX века, когда Барб-Николь Клико-Понсарден, создала свою империю - великую империю шампанского. Обладая редким даром, известным как «Le Nez» (Нос), Барб-Николь способна создавать невероятные купажи, а также обонять «вонь лжи или благоухание чистого сердца. Или разрывающий сердце запах несбывшейся надежды».

Автобиографическая трилогия «Из Ларк-Райз в Кэндлфорд» — ностальгическая ода, воспевающая жизнь провинциальной Англии Викторианской эпохи, рассказанная от лица девочки Лоры, выросшей в деревушке Ларк-Райз на севере Оксфордшира, а затем, еще подростком, устроившейся работать в почтовое отделение в близлежащем городке Кэндлфорд-Грин.