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Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set—a failed debutante's new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer “This glittering novel shines as...

Buckingham Palace, 1981. Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer, but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems. Alone and bored in the palace, she resents the stuffy courtiers who are intent on instructing her about her new role as princess of Wales. But when she discovers a diary written in the 1800s by Princess Charlotte of Wales, a young woman born into a gilded cage so like herself, Diana is drawn into the story of Charlotte’s reckless love affairs and fraught relationship with her father, the prince regent.

The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it may as well be paradise. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibilities, the creative spirit can flower, nurtured by the company of other artistic souls. Janet Belle Smith's husband doesn't understand why she can't write at home - or really, for that matter, why she must write at all - but for Janet, the reason is clear. Only in Illyria can she be herself.

Die "Lebensbilanz" der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin - und eine große Geschichte über Schuld und Schulden. Ein steuerliches Ermittlungsverfahren, das zwar inzwischen längst eingestellt wurde, das aber selbst intimste E-Mails auswertete, wird für Elfriede Jelinek zum Anlass, auf ihre "Lebenslaufbahn" zurückzublicken. Erstmals erzählt sie literarisch die Geschichte des jüdischen Teils ihrer Familie. In die persönlichen amtlichen Angaben schieben sich Berichte über das Schicksal von Verwandten, die während der Nazizeit aus Österreich fliehen mussten, die deportiert und ermordet wurden.

The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood...

On a December night in 1938, a 10-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kinder transport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England's east coast, Lore will find herself living in other people's houses for the next seven years: the Orthodox Levines, the Hoopers, the working-class Grimsleys, and the wealthy Miss Douglas and Mrs. Dillon.

The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an...

Inspired by true events, Among Kings tells the inspiring story of William Sheppard, the first African American missionary to the Congo who rescues the entire nation enslaved by Belgian's ruthless King Leopold II. Traveling 1,000 miles up the Congo River with Samuel Lapsley, his white missionary companion, the two overcome deadly fevers, dangerous animals, and cannibal tribes. Sheppard becomes a famous explorer honored by kings, queens, and presidents. Armed with a camera, he exposes widespread Congo atrocities to the world.

Obra surpreendente com as vivências do multiartista e xamã João Irineu França Neto, indígena do Nordeste do Brasil; um audiolivro que pode (e deve) ser ouvido como um romance de auto-ficção. Nele, o autor explora temas como o amor e a sua natureza; vida e morte; a arte; e a natureza em si, sempre com uma reflexão importante sobre a preservação das culturas tradicionais do país, mas também sobre a preservação de todo o planeta.

"Mal Himmel, mal Hölle!" ist eine biographische Reise durch das Leben und Werk Wolfgang Borcherts, dessen Leben von Extremen angesichts Krieg und Krankheit geprägt war. Dennoch sind seine Geschichten mit Humor und Lebenslust durchzogen, sie erzählen von seiner Begeisterung für Frauen und seiner Besessenheit von der Literatur und dem Theater. Es ist ein Werk, das heute moderner und aktueller denn je erscheint. Absolut hörenswert!