Showing results for "Education" in Biographical Fiction

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special...

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities. How many times have words not been...

Février 2017, Olivier, éducateur d'une trentaine d'années, assiste à la veillée funèbre d'Ismahane, qu'il connaissait depuis sa plus tendre enfance. Ismahane l'insolente, la libre et charismatique Ismahane, s'est suicidée à la veille de ses seize ans. Pour lui rendre hommage et pour tenter de comprendre son geste inconcevable, il décide de mener l'enquête. L'occasion pour lui de revenir sur ses débuts - chaotiques - d'éducateur dans ce quartier difficile de la banlieue de Toulouse.

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ’No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and king of 39 other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The king had to choose: to be king, or to have love... and leave his country, never to return.