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In pursuit of her dream to be a writer, Nora journeys from her family in Canada after she accepts a job as a journalist in Jamaica and then later, the United States. In the autobiography, the young author recounts her early life and writing career. Only seventeen years old and with just ten dollars in her pocket, Nora sets sail for Jamaica west Indies, and when this new career as a newspaper writer takes an unwelcome turn, Nora ends up in Chicago, where she struggles to find a good job and make it as a journalist and storyteller.

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past. “I've come to believe that...

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel...

It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories. Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations.

Quante volte si può scomparire? O quante volte si può tornare a esistere prima di essere veramente scomparsi al mondo fisico? Il protagonista di questo romanzo ci parla da un dopo morte (una morte accidentale) che ha ancora legami con la vita.

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New...

Judy Goodman and Beverly Caldwell have different reasons for putting continents and oceans between themselves and their disparate pasts, but they have the same desire—to earn a coveted position on an elite team of stewardesses for Pan American Airlines. For Judy, running away from an oppressive marriage in small-town Pennsylvania is a risk she must take. And for Beverly, leaving behind the gilded cage of New York society will allow her to pursue a future of her own making.

She called herself Silent Anna, because she couldn’t tell anyone about what happened between her and her stepfather. Many years later, Anna breaks the silence to reveal the sexual abuse she suffered, its impact on her life and how she has finally managed to overcome it. This is the story of a young girl’s determination to survive and to overcome her traumatic childhood.

ástečně autobiografická kniha přináší příběh osmiletého Saši žijícího s babičkou a dědou v Moskvě koncem sedmdesátých let minulého století. Je plná někdy groteskních, jindy tragikomických příhod z běžného života, vyprávěných syrovým jazykem malého chlapce, který postupně čtenáři odhaluje, jak křehká může dětská duše být. Chlapce si prarodiče vzali do péče coby čtyřletého proto, že jeho matka se o něj nemohla z finančních důvodů postarat.

Spanning from the birth of Ulysses S. Grant until his victory over the Confederacy, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant gives us an honest portrait of an American hero who struggled to balance love, soldiering, and the attainment of the American Dream.

1938, Hitler visita l'Italia. Uno storico dell'arte irlandese, trasferitosi da tempo a Roma, è costretto ad accompagnare Mussolini e il suo ospite per gallerie e musei. Tra il fascino e il disgusto, ha l'occasione di osservare da vicino i due tiranni e di chiedersi se possa sfruttare l'occasione per "occuparsi" di loro. Con profondo imbarazzo è costretto però a constatare che manca della tenacia necessaria per passare all'azione. Trent'anni dopo, sua figlia si imbatte in una foto scabrosa che ritrae il padre con i due dittatori.

“Sei sempre stata un faro per la nostra famiglia”, le ripeteva sua madre. Alessandra, però, seconda di cinque figli, non voleva portare luce, voleva che qualcuno illuminasse la strada per lei e rispondesse alle sue domande di bambina. Cresciuta sotto la rigida disciplina dei Testimoni di Geova, ha sempre cercato di soddisfare le attese dei genitori e di non creare problemi. Così, fino a ventinove anni, non ha mai partecipato a un compleanno né spento una candelina. Non ha ascoltato la musica che ascoltavano i suoi coetanei né letto libri non approvati in comunità.

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. In...

"De vegades sembla com si tinguéssim els ulls tancats amb parpelles de pedra que haguessin perdut tot moviment voluntari i involuntari d'obrir-se en algun moment. A vosaltres us desitjo aquesta vergonya: la monstruositat d'unes parpelles de pedra immòbils, però sempre obertes."