Títulos em Ficção Biográfica

Главная героиня этой страстной, дерзкой и забавной книги живет на скотоводческой ферме и мечтает о музыкальной карьере. Она ощущает в себе талант и способность покорять миллионы восторженных сердец, но вместо этого ей приходится доить коров и пасти овец на сорокаградусной жаре. Сибилла яростно сопротивляется уготованной судьбе, однако раз за разом проигрывает поединок с законами и устоями общества.

Остенде – блистательный морской курорт, на котором в 1936 году собрались писатели, журналисты, издатели, поэты – Стефан Цвейг и Йозеф Рот, Артур Кестлер и Эрнст Толлер - все те, кому нет места в национал-социалистической Германии. Поэты в бегах, писатели в изгнании. Фолькер Вайдерманн точно и проникновенно рассказывает историю того удивительного лета незадолго до Второй мировой войны, когда цвет немецкой творческой интеллигенции празднует жизнь (у большинства из них она скоро оборвется), как это могут делать только полностью отчаявшиеся люди.

Wie viel Selbstbestimmung ist möglich, wenn das Leben von einer psychischen Krankheit fremdgesteuert ist? Wonach sehnt sich einer, der nichts mehr zu verlieren hat? Willkommen im »Haus zur Sonne«, einer Institution, die zugleich Wunscherfüllungsmaschine wie Abschaffungsapparat ist.

Lever les yeux vers les étoiles. Aussi, à défaut de pouvoir les approcher, dans un monde où le métier d'astronaute est réservé aux hommes, elle est devenue astrophysicienne. Mais le jour où elle apprend que la NASA recrute des scientifiques, consciente des sacrifices qui s'annoncent, elle saisit sa chance. Ce matin de décembre 1984, quand Joan arrive au centre de contrôle à Houston, elle s'attend à vivre une journée comme les autres.

During a séance in 1924, Houdini―the greatest entertainer in the world―was cursed by a vengeful spirit, who said his days were numbered. Houdini laughed. He believed talking to the dead was impossible. By 1926, Houdini was dead. This is the untold story of the last performance of Harry Houdini, who―inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln―devotes himself full-time to a personal crusade against Spiritualism, the practice of speaking to the dead.

After a decade chasing dreams in New York—and running from the pieces of herself she left behind—Tiffany W. White returns to her childhood home in Tulsa with nothing but a suitcase and a broken melody echoing in her heart. Haunted by past regrets and the silence of an absent father, she never planned to stay long. But the porch light still flickers, the piano still plays across the fence, and a familiar neighbor still remembers the girl who once believed in music.

Dopo una relazione durata cinque anni, Annie viene lasciata di colpo davanti alla stazione di King's Cross dal ragazzo con cui pensava che avrebbe trascorso il resto della vita.

Based on real-life characters and events, this historical novel tells the story of Sebastian Castellio, a brilliant theologian and ethicist, whose calls for religious tolerance and dialogue in the sixteenth century sparked a violent backlash from his one-time colleague and friend, the renowned Protestant Reformer John Calvin.

I was tired of watching one child abuser after another get little to no consequence for destroying the futures of so many innocent victims. I felt more and more infuriated after learning a case investigated with solid evidence had charges negotiated and pled down to little or no jail time.

The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful existence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand.

It was a beautiful spring day in 1836, and Texas had just won its independence from Mexico. Across the wild frontier, Texans—including the Parker family—were celebrating in grand fashion. The Parkers had traveled 1,000 miles from Illinois to Central Texas, quickly building a strong fort to protect themselves from the feared Comanche. Yet, on this day, for some reason, they did the unthinkable and left the main gate wide open.

Богатый историческими деталями и прекрасно прорисованными персонажами, роман погружает читателя во Францию середины XIX века, когда общественные ограничения для женщин, франко-прусская война и доминирование мужчин в сфере производства шампанского проверяют на прочность неукротимую мадам Поммери. Душевная боль, любовь и потери, вдовство и почти неразрешимые проблемами, могли бы заставить мадам Поммери сдаться. Но внутри нее вспыхивает искра, и она создает шампанское брют, не похожее ни на одно другое, – сухое, элегантное, бунтующее против сладких традиций.

In Hitler’s Germany, loyalty is demanded and dissent is deadly. But for a young German girl named Waltraud, nothing is more devastating than the day the Nazis steal away her father and force him to fight on the front lines. Even as their reign of terror spreads, she convinces herself that war will never touch her quiet village. But when bombs start falling and innocent people disappear, she’s confronted with a stark reality… she might be next. That’s because Waltraud has a secret. She’s been quietly resisting all along, and now she’s hiding someone in the barn.

In this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book for those fascinated by female interiority.

Tras el fenómeno de El consentimiento, traducido en 31 países, aclamado por la crítica y llevado al cine, vuelve Vanessa Springora con una impactante novela que desenmascara el pasado de los hombres de su familia.

Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn't understand.

In real life Virginia Thorndike, the author’s mother, died of a drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 57. In this novel she recovers and fights to stay clean. Her son Rob drives her home from rehab, pours her gin and wine onto the lawn and clears her house of all drugs. Her older son Jamie and his gay lover Miles also come to help, but after Miles is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Ginny must face her recovery alone through a cold and quiet winter. When Rob’s wife runs off, leaving him to care for their one-year-old twins, Ginny moves in with them.

China, the 1720s. Giuseppe Castiglione, a promising and ambitious Italian painter, is recruited by the Jesuits to serve the Emperor of China. But his painting style is rejected as inauspicious. Meanwhile, Niuhuru, a grey-eyed, too-tall girl is chosen as a concubine to a minor prince and sent to live in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, where Giuseppe meets her when he is tasked with turning the Garden into a wonderland for the Qianlong Emperor. But as the Garden changes and Niuhuru is swept upwards to ever-greater importance, is something precious being lost?

L'acqua ha sommerso ogni cosa: solo la punta del campanile emerge dal lago. Trina è una giovane madre che alla ferita della collettività somma la propria: invoca di continuo il nome della figlia, scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Finché la guerra viene a bussare alla porta di casa, e Trina segue il marito disertore sulle montagne, dove entrambi imparano a convivere con la morte.

An account of the first major military campaign embarked upon by the future Emperor of the Roman Empire, Marcus Ulpius Traianus, commonly known as Trajan. Follow Trajan and his detachment of the Seventh Legion from Hispania to Germania, meeting friend and foe as they clash and collaborate to save the Empire from rebellion.