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Wie es dem Flüchtling Enaiatollah Akbari gelungen ist, in Europa eine neue Heimat zu finden. Kann die Fremde zur Heimat werden? Der Afghane Enaiatollah Akbari kam mit 15 nach jahrelanger Flucht in Europa an, ohne Eltern, ohne Schulbildung. Aus eigener Kraft musste er sich eine neue Existenz aufbauen. Als er den Schriftsteller Fabio Geda kennenlernte, nahm sein Leben eine Wendung. Zusammen erzählen die beiden, wie es Enaiatollah trotz unüberwindlich scheinender Hürden gelang, den Schulabschluss zu machen und Politikwissenschaft zu studieren.

Aunt Emilia calls Kamar to reveal shocking news as he is battling his murky past. He has to face the atrociousness of the days gone by to find solace in his present ones. When We Were Boys, Book II starts with Young Kamar being separated from his mentally ill guardian, supposedly for his own good. But even after that, Kamar has yet to know what “good” seems like. He has yet to know what a real and loving family feels like — because all he knew was a dysfunctional and nightmarish one. The one that just might shove you in front of a moving vehicle then leave you for dead.

Explore deeper inside the dark mind of Sea Caummisar. Inspired by true events, even though some names have been changed. A blur of reality and fiction. In my experience, it wasn't the fan that became obsessed with me. I became obsessed with her. Despite this book being inspired by true events, it is still a tale of blood of gore. Listener beware: Don't let the title fool you. This is extreme horror.

An einem Frühlingstag fällt ein Elsterjunges aus seinem Nest und in Charlie Gilmours Leben. Charlie und seine Freundin päppeln das Küken auf, das nicht weniger anspruchsvoll ist als ein eigenes Baby: Es wacht bei Sonnenaufgang schreiend auf, muss alle zwanzig Minuten gefüttert werden, trägt aber leider keine Windel. Während Charlie sich liebevoll kümmert, gerät er über sich selbst ins Grübeln, stellt sich lange verdrängten Fragen: Wer hat mich mehr geprägt: mein biologischer Vater oder der, der mich großgezogen hat?

Together, Justinian and Theodora reach for greatness, albeit in different areas: Justinian aims to simplify thousands of old Roman laws into one codex, as well as reconquer Rome and other lands lost to barbarians. Theodora longs to close the chasm between two religious beliefs, establish significant rights for women, and ensure that the Justinian-Theodora bloodline continues.

"Wellen" - gelesen von Jana Reiss. Sophie Scholl kehrt in das München von heute zurück und besucht die Orte, an denen sie gelebt und gewirkt hat. "Wie ein Schwan sei Deine Seele" - gelesen von Kevin Dickmann. Ein Freund von Hans Scholl wurde von ihm zum Widerstand aufgefordert. Er betrachtet alles aus einer Perspektive der Liebe. "Der NSDAPedell" - gelesen von Martin Birnbaum. Geschildert werden die Verhaftung der Geschwister Scholl und die Verhandlung vor dem Volksgerichtshof aus der Sicht des Pedells der Universität in München, der die beiden verhaftet hat.

For Conrad Burrell — husband, father, and successful attorney in the autumn of his life — the world has come apart. Having long ago lost his first wife, the mother of his grown daughter and a widow herself, to youth and pride, he’s now lost his second to a violent accident. “You think you’re finished, that you have no more stories in you,” his ex-wife warns, and he fears she’s right. After a lifetime of meeting the expectations of others, none are left but his own, and he must discover whether love survives death as well as divorce.

At the age of 19, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, stepped into the glittering court of the Romanovs, beginning a journey that would lead her from the shimmering ballrooms of St. Petersburg to the back streets of Moscow. Through intrigues, assassination, war and revolution, to the tragedy of her own horrific murder, she remained true to her calling to bring beauty into the world. Based on the true story of "the most beautiful princess in Europe", this novel is written in tribute to a remarkable and courageous woman.

Chadia was a bright and beautiful child with a zest for life. The cyclamen, native to her homeland and reminiscent of her childhood, became a metaphor for her life. Once civil war erupted in her home of Beirut, no one was left unscathed by what followed. Neighbours against neighbours, friends against their brothers; families torn, mothers weeping.

Denton Moulton, a shy, effeminate male professor, lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies.

In this third book of The Equilibrist Series, professor Cromwell-Smith, through the mantle of poetry, takes his students one last time to his past, through subjects of profound existential meaning like forgiveness, virtue, coherence, resilience, reciprocity, curiosity, serenity and joy, among others. The eminent pedagogue revisits the long period of his life when Victoria Emerson-Lloyd, the love of his life and him were apart, and the real reasons why she left him in the first place. 

"Suave es la noche" es la desgarradora crónica disfrazada de ficción de uno de los episodios más demoledores de la vida de su autor, Francis Scott Fitzgerald: la hospitalización de su esposa Zelda a causa de su esquizofrenia. La trama se articula en torno a Dick Diver, un psicoloanalista de vanguardia, y su relación con su esposa, Nicole, que asimismo fue paciente suya en el pasado.

Inghilterra, 1176. Imprigionata nel castello di Sarum dal marito, re Enrico II, per aver appoggiato la rivolta scatenata contro di lui dai tre figli, Enrico, Goffredo e Riccardo, Eleonora d'Aquitania, donna dallo spirito fiero e indomito, è costretta a vivere isolata tra le fredde mura della fortezza, lontana dai suoi affetti e dal suo mondo regale.

La protagonista, trasunto de la propia autora, relata y desgrana una etapa de soledad, marcada por una ruptura sentimental y la marcha de sus hijos, cada uno a un destino que no puede visitar. En el transcurso de estos meses, acompañada tan solo por sus dos gatos, la escritura se convertirá en el único acto de resistencia posible frente a la adversidad. Repasará los momentos clave de su existencia, vistos desde una óptica obligadamente distinta, en la que una mujer -que es también hija, madre y amante- se convertirá en una mentirosa.

Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen: "Eine kühne und starke Frau." (Stylist). Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau.

Dive into the life of a normal man with a normal family in this humorous novel told in diary entries from one Charles Pooter: husband, father, and someone who experiences relatable social embarrassments and humiliations. As he chronicles a year in his life, he discusses his 20-year-old son's foray into the dating scene, the couple's attempts at blending in with higher society, and his general interactions with friends and coworkers.

A moving story, wrapped in humor, about love, loss, and hope in one of history’s darkest hours. 1933. Hitler’s rise to power in Germany marks the beginning of the end for the Jews of Europe. For little newborn Yaakov, this is only the beginning. Hungary, 1944. 11-year-old Yaakov and his parents and younger sister are forced out of their home into the unknown. They find themselves in the ghetto, living under impossible conditions, until they are banished by the Nazis to Bergen Belsen concentration camp through Austria, what might be their final destination.

Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises, and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot.

"Ci farebbe bene scrivere delle nostre famiglie, senza nessuna finzione, senza romanzare. Solo raccontando ciò che è successo, o ciò che crediamo sia successo." Animato da questa convinzione, Manuel Vilas intreccia con una voce coraggiosa, disincantata, a tratti poetica, il racconto intimo di una vita sullo sfondo degli ultimi decenni di storia spagnola. Allo stesso tempo figlio e padre, Vilas celebra la presenza costante e sotterranea di chi non c'è più, il passato che riemerge a fatica dai ricordi, la lotta per la sopravvivenza che lega indissolubilmente le generazioni.

El compromiso político más profundo y la denuncia más contundente a la sociedad japonesa de principios del siglo XX se dan cita en estos tres relatos autobiográficos de la escritora Miyamoto Yuriko. Tres cantos en contra de la guerra, de los horrores de la bomba atómica y de sus consecuencias, a través de la experiencia de una mujer que es en realidad todas las mujeres japonesas de su época.