Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

Captain Scott Williams was a fisherman by birth, a devoted husband and became a hero to many during the Great Depression. During the fall of the stock market, millions were left with nothing, millions had lost hope. After losing his wife, Williams set out on his last fishing trip only to find comfort, not only on the open waters of the Atlantic, but in those he helped along the way. This is his story.

This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George’s life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement. George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner’s family, and thus his own wife and children. More fact than fiction, George’s story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. In the shadows of the smokestacks was a wooden hut where children sang, staged plays, wrote poetry, and learned about the world. Within those four walls, brightly adorned with hand-painted cartoons, the youngest prisoners were kept vermin-free, received better food, and were even taught to imagine having full stomachs and a day without fear. Their guiding light was a twenty-seven-year-old gay, Jewish athlete: Fredy Hirsch.

In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege?

La guerra ha terminado. España está en ruinas. En el cementerio de Alicante exhuman los restos de José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Sus camaradas falangistas van a llevarlo a hombros hasta enterrarlo en El Escorial, morada de reyes, sepulcro imperial. Durante once días y diez noches, el cortejo fantasmagórico avanzará por pueblos y ciudades entre hogueras, escarcha, brazos enhiestos y propaganda: una epopeya fascista de 467 kilómetros para demostrar quién manda en la nueva España.

Lee Krasner was determined to be an artist. With single-minded passion she pursued her dream. By her twenties she was Hans Hofmann's best student, and a vanguard of America's first art movement, along with de Kooning, Kline and Pollock. But for most of the twentieth century, art was a man's world, and even her peers failed her. Another obstacle for Lee was her marriage to Jackson Pollock, whose star shone so brightly, it cast a shadow over everything around it, eventually self-destructing.

Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbour, Meredith, Jayne is forced to reevaluate her determination to keep the world at a distance. Meredith's dust-covered home is chaotic and neglected. And slowly, Jayne starts to grasp that Meredith herself is quite lost. She can't seem to remember anything: what she last ate, when she last went out or saw her daughter, or even Jayne's name, despite what are becoming frequent visits. But most alarmingly, Meredith can't remember where her husband is.

In this rich, sweeping novel, Monika Zgustova immerses us in the daily life of this remarkable couple, offering insights into their complex personal and professional relationships, as well as the real people behind characters such as Lolita. Vera considered herself an independent woman, but was she really, when her husband took up so much space? And without Vera, could Nabokov have become one of the twentieth century's greatest writers?

La baronessa Melusine von der Schulenburg è giovane, indipendente e ribelle: refrattaria a ogni obbligo, pretende di avere gli stessi diritti dei maschi, vuole studiare, rifiuta sia di prendere marito che di farsi monaca, e sostiene di riuscire a parlare con i morti. Accetta di fare da dama di compagnia alla corte di Hannover solo per incontrare Leibniz, che lì studia. Ma a corte non è facile inserirsi: tutti iniziano a chiamarla, con astio, la Pertica, perché alta e slanciata com’è non è certo una bellezza, e le regole imposte dall’etichetta le tolgono la libertà che andava cercando.

Sie hat alles gehabt und alles verloren: Sekunden der Unachtsamkeit kosten ihre einzige Tochter das Leben. Tief sieht Linda in den Abgrund und wäre beinahe gefallen, doch da sind hauchfeine Fäden, die sie halten – die Hündin Kaja, die steten Handgriffe im Garten, das Mitgefühl für andere. Wie viel Kraft in ihr steckt, ahnt sie erst, als sie zurückfindet in einen Alltag und zu sich selbst.

Der Roman über eine abenteuerliche Flucht, der auf der wahren Geschichte des Autors Matthias Lisse - bekannt als Autor spannender und erfolgreicher historischer Romane unter dem Pseudonym Mac P. Lorne - basiert, und gleichermaßen eine anrührende Familiengeschichte: Berlin 13. August 1961. Der Traum vom "Arbeiter- und Bauernparadies" ist ausgeträumt, und wie viele andere haben Wolfgang Leipold und seine Frau nur ein Ziel: die DDR, zusammen mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Marcus, so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen.

Discover the remarkable journey of Taryn, a highly sensitive woman with Misophonia, as she navigates life's challenges in "The Sound Within." Taking inspiration from her life events, Taryn's work of fiction offers a lighthearted and inspiring quest for strength and relationships. With authenticity and hope, she reflects on her isolation, finding relief in the lessons of Santiago from The Alchemist.

L'ascension féroce d'une petite fille qui rêvait d'être célèbre. Cruel et brillant ! Cléo grandit dans une famille franco-américaine, mais tristement banale, d'universitaires. Dès l'enfance, elle n'a qu'une obsession : devenir célèbre. Elle sera chanteuse : elle a le timbre, le charisme, l'écriture, la double-nationalité. Au fil des années, Cléo saute tous les obstacles qui s'imposent à elle, arrache chaque victoire à pleine dents, s'entaille la cuisse à chaque échec.

“Where Eagles Nest chronicles a young couple, Alex and Julianna Lampert, as they immigrate from Lichtenstein, in search of land where they can raise a family and participate in the American dream. The young newlyweds eventually settle in the rugged hills and pasturelands above the Sandy River in Oregon, where they forge a life of love and pursue their quest for prosperity in spite of the struggle in the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s.”—Sharon Nesbit, writer and historian, author of It Could’ve Been Carpdale.

Jacques Lusseyran erblindet im Alter von acht Jahren. Doch dem Jungen gelingt es, den Schicksalsschlag in eine innere Stärke zu verwandeln, die ihn befähigt, auf unvergleichliche Weise zu »sehen«. So wird der charismatische Jugendliche Kopf einer Widerstandgruppe gegen die Nationalsozialisten und überlebt das KZ Buchenwald. Seine außergewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte erzählt vom unzerstörbaren Glauben an das Leben; inspirierend, poetisch und zutiefst bewegend. Jacques Lusseyran verliert 1932 als achtjähriges Kind nach einem Unfall sein Augenlicht.

Inside the beleaguered city of Rome in 1944, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.

Diego salta desde un quinto piso y desde entonces esa imagen no deja de taladrarle la cabeza a su hermana: seis segundos y un cuerpo estrellándose contra el suelo. Es ella quien echa la vista atrás y cuenta la historia de los dos hermanos. Su llegada al mundo en un hogar en el que la vida nunca fue justa. Los años que pasaron en México con sus abuelos, mientras su madre se buscaba la vida en España, y era ella, aún niña, quien se hacía cargo de Diego. La etapa en Madrid, una ciudad que no entendían y que tampoco los entendía a ellos.

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark.

Obra surpreendente com as vivências do multiartista e xamã João Irineu França Neto, indígena do Nordeste do Brasil; um audiolivro que pode (e deve) ser ouvido como um romance de auto-ficção. Nele, o autor explora temas como o amor e a sua natureza; vida e morte; a arte; e a natureza em si, sempre com uma reflexão importante sobre a preservação das culturas tradicionais do país, mas também sobre a preservação de todo o planeta.