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Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

Rhys Sheffield, the Duke of Worthington, has bet his friends an ungodly sum of money that despite his loftiness, he can pass himself off as a servant at the house party of the Season. But when his ex-flame arrives and recognizes Rhys pretending to be a groomsman, she realizes it's the perfect opportunity to pay him back for breaking off their engagement.

L.D. Cade thought the war was behind him. Drifting west with a worn coat and a faster draw, he lands in 1870s San Francisco—a city of gilded mansions, backroom deals, and blood in the gutters. A job guarding a smooth-talking real estate tycoon looks like a lucky break. But nothing in this city is what it seems. Beneath the champagne and smoke, something darker is at work. As Cade moves through the Barbary Coast’s chaos, Russian Hill’s velvet facades, and Chinatown’s guarded alleyways, he’s pulled into a web of power, lies, and violence.

Yet, Ilse harbors a perilous secret within the walls of Lebensborn: her unborn child's father is Jewish. Surrounded by the very architects of the regime's sinister vision, she must rely on her cunning, her knowledge of herbs, and her indomitable spirit to hide the truth and keep her child safe.

Upon the death of their art-loving parents, two young Jewish adolescents are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister’s forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent - and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives.

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov’s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two are not to be confused (?).

When Lady Olivia Gosling finds the Book of Love in a musty bookshop, she is most eager to try out its love "recipes" on someone safe. Did she say safe? Well, Beast isn't really safe, but with her odious guardian about to marry her off to one of his unsavory friends, Olivia needs her childhood friend to fall in love with her...fast. If Beast can love her, then any man she chooses will surely do the same. Alexander Beastling, Duke of Hartford, is known as Beast among the ton. He is big and muscled, and there is a dark aura of mystery about him that he makes no effort to dispel.

"I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man." Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return the South to fight for the greater cause in the Civil War.

Paris, 1941: Going against her mother’s orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother’s disapproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter who is wanted by the Nazis.

In this most entrancing tale of mystery and romance by the New York Times bestselling author AMANDA QUICK, lovers and partners-in-crime investigators Lavinia Lake and Tobias March continue their exciting newfound relationship, with its delicious mix of risky business, rising passion, and...

Die Geschichte der großen Liebe zwischen dem legendären Fotoreporter Robert Capa und Gerda Taro – einer Fotografin, deren künstlerisches Werk erst viel zu spät gewürdigt wurde.

『언젠가 우리가 같은 별을 바라본다면』은 고국을 떠나 70년 만에 필리핀의 한 작은 섬에서 발견된 쑤니 할머니의 젊은 시절을 담은 이야기이다. 작가는 우리나라가 일본에 주권을 빼앗긴 채 가난하고 핍박받던 시절을 맨몸으로 버텨 낸 우리 어머니의 어머니, 아버지의 아버지들의 이야기를 남기고자 집필을 시작했다. A4 용지 스무 장 분량으로 시작한 이야기는 10년의 집필 기간 동안 데이터 유실로 의지가 꺾이기도 하고 모든 것을 원점에서 복기하기를 반복하는 등 우여곡절을 겪은 후, 더욱 진정성과 사실에 근거한 서정적이고 아름다운 소설로 완성되었다.

Novel·la breu i intensa, esbalaïdora i poètica, sobre el misteri de la mirada de l'auriga de Delfos. La mirada de l´auriga, enllà e la trama de la nissaga dinomènida i de l´entrellat d´unes atziagues morts familiars, és una novel·la tan breu com intensa i tan esbalaïdora com poètica.