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Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

È il 1966, e l'estate pare essersi dimenticata delle Alpi, lasciando al suo posto piogge e temporali che inchiodano escursionisti e amanti delle cime negli alberghi e nei campeggi. L'arrampicatore californiano Gary Hemming - idealista, sfrontato e carismatico - guarda il Monte Bianco e freme: è venuto in Europa sull'onda dell'insaziabile fame di vita che da sempre lo incendia, e invece si ritrova un tetto di nuvole sopra la testa.

"Nicolas" è il racconto di un amore, lungo vent'anni, tra due uomini; è la visione limpida e travolgente di una malattia terminale; è la storia di una vita intensa, vissuta senza impianti fino all'ultimo giorno. Navigando nella memoria e contemplando i ricordi che a mano a mano riemergono – viaggi, frammenti d’infanzia, libri, fotografie, musiche, case – l'autore risponde all’urgenza di riappropriarsi di un passato ormai sommerso eppure ancora capace di esprimere messaggi di felicità.

London, 1910: Mit ihrer erotischen Libertinage wird Virginias Schwester Vanessa zum Zentrum der Bloomsbury Group. Sie fühlt sich zu dem faszinierenden, aber homosexuellen Maler Duncan Grant hingezogen, und trotz aller Hindernisse erkunden die beiden bald künstlerische wie sinnliche Grenzen, was jedoch weder Gesellschaft noch Kunstkritik tolerieren. So wird Vanessas Malerei lange Zeit verkannt. Virginia entscheidet sich indes, Leonard Woolf zu heiraten, und wagt, was vielen in ihrer Zeit verwehrt bleibt: als Ehefrau zu arbeiten und den Traum vom Schreiben zu verwirklichen.

Inge Klatt hat mit ihren autobiografischen Büchern "Schrecklich schöne Kindheit" und "Auferstehung aus Trümmern und Schutt" eindrucksvoll ihr Heranwachsen im Hamburg der 1930er und 1940er Jahre beschrieben. Nun ist sie erwachsen und erlebt, oft gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann, allerlei Skurilles und Amüsantes.

Die berührende Geschichte einer Kindheit von 1969 bis 1988 vor dem Hintergrund der Stadt Dresden und dem Leben in der DDR. Als der Fernsehturm und der Kulturpalast eröffnet wurden, war Frieda ein paar Monate alt. Im selben Jahr, 1969, findet das erste Konzert der Puhdys in der Nähe von Dresden statt. Frieda wächst in scheinbar unauffälligen Familienverhältnissen auf, gilt als liebes Kind und gute Schülerin. Friedas Kindheit hält Aufgaben der Erwachsenen für sie bereit, und dafür wird sie gelobt. Das, was in ihrem Leben passiert, ist für sie nicht vorhersehbar.

1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage.

She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava’s star is rising just as Frank’s career—and public image as a family man—is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds herself gracing the front page of every tabloid in America. Jealousy and cheating abound.

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to...nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes. Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love? Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected? Alfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one.

1564: Devon sailor Francis Drake sets out on a journey of adventure. Drake learns of routes used to transport Spanish silver and gold, and risks his life in an audacious plan to steal a fortune.

Wie kaum eine Autorin ihrer Zeit hat Susanne Kerckhoff den Verlust der moralischen Integrität der Deutschen, ihre Schuld an den Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus und die Frage der daraus resultierenden geistigen Neuorientierung zum Mittelpunkt ihres literarischen Schaffens gemacht. Ein bedeutendes Zeugnis dieser Auseinandersetzung ist ihr kurzer, 1948 erschienener halbfiktiver Briefroman "Berliner Briefe". In diesem Buch richtet Helene, eine im zerstörten Berlin lebende Frau, nach Kriegsende dreizehn Briefe an ihren nach Paris emigrierten jüdischen Jugendfreund Hans.

Short story based upon the author's time seeking seasonal work in Stanthorpe.

Sam is dead, which means that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog of work and single parenting. Too restless to sleep, Elsie pores over Sam's old love letters, paces her house, and bickers with the ghosts of Sam and her dead parents night after night. As the year unfolds, she develops an obsession with a local murder mystery, attends a series of disastrous internet dates in search of a "replacement soulmate," and solicits a space-time wizard via Craigslist.

Heitere Kurzgeschichte über einen Bassisten, der Musik im Blut hat und von allen bewundert wird - außer von seiner Gattin Irene. - Die Handlung spielt in den Achtzigerjahren.

«Scoprii che esiste un’altra parola per definire una foiba, dolina, e provai a usarla per sostituire quel brutto termine nella mia testa – dolina portava con sé tutta una languida atmosfera ungarettiana, mi faceva sentire una docile fibra dell'universo. Ma non ce l’ho fatta: il termine dolina non ha attecchito. Non si può mettere in mezzo la poesia per attenuare il suono dei cadaveri che scricchiolano sotto le scarpe.» L'Istria è un luogo meraviglioso per passarci le vacanze.

After finding himself stopped by a group of protesters, Tom Decker takes the microphone and uses the opportunity to tell them inspirational stories based on the objects found in his pocket. Through his stories, the old man relives his past while hoping he has also found a way to pass on more than just words to the next generation.

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser der Franzosen, trachtet danach, Europa zu unterwerfen. Nach der Niederlage in der Schlacht von Trafalgar erringt er bei Austerlitz einen glorreichen Sieg gegen die Russen und Österreicher. Er zwingt den spanischen König zur Abdankung und verhilft seinem Bruder auf den Thron. Doch ein erbitterter Feind steht ihm weiterhin im Weg. Arthur Wellesley führt die Britischen Truppen auf dem Kontinent an. Er befreit Portugal aus der französischen Herrschaft und führt das Heer in Spanien von Sieg zu Sieg.

Quattro persone entrarono nel Pardès, nel giardino dell'Eden, è scritto nel Talmud, ma soltanto una ne uscì incolume. Le vie dell'Eden, infatti, dove maturano i frutti più preziosi della vita, sono lastricate di pericoli. Lo sanno bene i personaggi che compongono questo trittico dove, ancora una volta, Eshkol Nevo indaga dietro le maschere che vestiamo per gli altri, ma anche su quelle che indossiamo quando ci troviamo di fronte a verità troppo difficili, o pericolose, da accettare.

En esta novela hay veranos, cigarrillos, piscinas, hospitales, caballos, azulejos, cemento, arena, cartas, plantas, fuego, vacaciones, amores, mentiras, verdades, vergüenzas... y también alcohol, que lo impregna todo, estropeándolo y deformándolo. Porque el padre es alcohólico. Y ella, la hija de un alcohólico.