Showing results for "Barbara" in Biographical Fiction

It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of 'lending a hand on the land', as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high. Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. Barbara Whitton's autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Women's Land Army during the Second World War.

England, 1554. In the wake of the failed Wyatt Rebellion, a vengeful Queen Mary has ordered all conspirators captured and executed. Among the imprisoned is her own sister, 21 year-old Princess Elizabeth. Though she protests her innocence, Elizabeth's brave stand only angers Mary more. Elizabeth longs to gain her liberty - and her sister's crown. In Honor and Richard Thornleigh and their son, Adam, the young princess has loyal allies. Disgusted by Queen Mary's proclaimed intent to burn heretics, Honor visits Elizabeth in the Tower and they quickly become friends.

“Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led.”—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author...

After publishing many books, and after many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel The Viagra Diaries and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist's age from 60 to 20-something, Bette angrily confronts network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public "wants young". After betrayal, intrigue, and bartering with the network, the impassioned Bette finds herself in the middle of a high-stakes Hollywood legal court battle.

" Déjà, je me suis mis au monde tout seul. Ils étaient trois ou quatre à assister à l’événement, et ils m’ont toujours accordé une chose : c’est moi qui ai dû me taper le plus dur, vu que ma mère était, disons, hors du coup. " Né à même le sol d’un mobil-home au fin fond des Appalaches d’une jeune toxicomane et d’un père trop tôt disparu, Demon Copperhead est le digne héritier d’un célèbre personnage de Charles Dickens.

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion, and prisoners eat, work, and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket, or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes.

"Che il velo sia da sposa!" nasce dallo straordinario successo del blog "Voglio sposarmi", creato dall'autrice per raccontare il 'vortice' di proposte di fidanzamento, di offerte di matrimonio, di presentazioni di potenziali mariti, che l'aveva travolta all'indomani della laurea in farmacia. Il blog è diventato poi un bestseller non solo in Egitto ma in tutto il mondo. La protagonista del libro, l'egiziana Bride, "che sarebbe 'sposa' ma in inglese fa più figo e la gente dirà che sono colta", non riesce a trovare marito.

In diesem autobiographischen Roman erzählt Barbara Noack aus dem Leben ihres Sohnes Philip, beginnend mit dem Umzug von Berlin nach München. Dem schüchternen Neunjährigen fällt es schwer, sich nach der Trennung seiner Eltern und dem Umzug in eine fremde Stadt in der neuen Umgebung einzugewöhnen. Seine Freunde muss er in Berlin zurücklassen und er tut sich nicht leicht, neue Freunde zu finden - bis er auf Joschi trifft.

As a child growing up in 1920s Paris, Ida Chagall copes with her father Marc Chagall's brilliant artistic mind and overbearing ego and the tight leash he keeps on her. But as Ida blossoms into a young woman, she begins to glimpse freedom and opportunities for herself.

Nelle voci registrate in una canzone, nelle fotografie scattate nel corso degli anni, in un diario tenuto insieme alla persona amata per quindici giorni, nelle sottolineature sull'ultimo libro letto, cosa rimane di noi? Cosa ci dicono le tracce che lasciamo nel nostro passare? È possibile arrivare alla fine di una storia e da lì cominciare per evocare, rievocare, ridarle vita? Nella notte tra il 10 e l'11 gennaio 2022, Elisa Bricchi, Domenico Di Canio, Costantino Merli e William Pagani, quattro amici tra i venti e ventitré anni, si ribaltano con l'auto nel fiume Trebbia, nel piacentino, e muoiono annegati.

L'incredibile storia vera diventata bestseller internazionale. La coraggiosa testimonianza di una bambina fuggita all'olocausto e tornata in cerca di giustizia. All'alba della seconda guerra mondiale, il mondo di Hedy viene sconvolto quando un professore la minaccia e le proibisce di tornare a scuola. La bambina è costretta a separarsi dai genitori e a scappare in Inghilterra per sfuggire alle persecuzioni antisemite della Germania nazista.

Das spannende und ungewöhnliche Leben des Schriftsellers Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904) zwischen Griechenland, Irland, England, Amerika und Japan und das Schicksal dreier so unterschiedlicher Frauen läßt Monique Troung vor uns erstehen. Es ist ein abenteuerliches und zugleich reiches Dasein, das Leben eines außergewöhnlichen literarischen Gestaltwandlers und es sind Porträts dreier außergewöhnlich mutigen und starken Frauen, die sein Leben begleiteten.

In ihrem ersten Erinnerungsbuch "Vater. Mutter. Kind. Kriegserklärungen" erzählt Margit Schreiner von der siebenjährigen Margit, die sich ein Dackelmädchen namens Bella erfindet, das nie von ihrer Seite weicht (das Hörbuch ist auch im derDiwan Hörbuchverlag erschienen). In "Mütter. Väter. Männer. Klassenkämpfe" besetzt ein paar Jahre später ein Maharadscha ihre Fantasien, während das Mädchen ihm als Panther zu Füßen liegt. Doch auch diese wunderbare Zeit endete irgendwann, "und ich saß an meinem Schreibtisch und löste Rechenaufgaben".

Arthur Smith takes a trip down memory lane with celebrities including Miriam Margolyes, Tony Benn and Jack Vettriano 'Charming' The Times Comedian and broadcaster Arthur Smith plays tour guide to fifteen well-known personalities, as they visit places that are meaningful to them and remember...

El diario de Raquel: es un relato intimista escrito a modo de diario por su protagonista, una niña de en torno a 8/9 años, que observa su entorno familiar y social y comienza a expresar una visión personal de la vida, del tiempo y las relaciones que le han tocado vivir. En este su camino de...