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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.

With unparalleled ambition, instinctual physicality, keen business intelligence, and a remarkable sense of humor, Marilyn Monroe achieved sensational celebrity. Yet, she insisted, “I never really felt like a star. Not really, not in my heart.” The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.

It’s 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of the crash landing of an unidentified craft have triggered a crisis of faith. Residents are drifting away from the divine, awed no longer by the heavens but rather the stars.

Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss, has controlled the Black vote in St. Louis for decades. Sara, his equally formidable wife, runs the renowned funeral establishment that put the Sable name on the map. Together they have pushed through obstacles in order to create a legacy for their children. When tragedy bursts their carefully constructed empire of dignity and safety, the family rallies around an unconventional solution. But at what cost?

Alice Heppenheimer, born into a prosperous German Jewish family around the turn of the twentieth century, comes of age at a time of growing opportunities for women. So, when she turns 21 years old, she convinces her strict family to allow her to attend art school, and then pursues a career in women's fashion. Alice prospers in her career and settles into married life, but she could not anticipate a Nazi Germany, where simply being Jewish has become an existential threat.