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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories as told to our best British writers, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK. Edited by Joanna Cannon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie and A Tidy Ending, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness.

In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, "All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter" poetically examines life's greater values.

Rebellin, Designerin, Aktivistin - Vivienne Westwood. 1965: Geschieden und alleinerziehend, sieht Vivienne Westwood keine Alternative, als ihren Traum von einem anderen Leben abzuhaken und Lehrerin zu werden. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in den Kunststudenten Malcolm McLaren und eröffnet mit ihm in London einen Fashion-Shop, der zum Anlaufpunkt all jener wird, die gegen das Establishment rebellieren. Als Malcolm die "Sex Pistols" gründet und Vivienne die Outfits der Band entwirft, ist der Look des Punk geboren.

Una nueva agencia de detectives acaba de nacer en Madrid. La forman un grupo de lo más peculiar y divertido: Mario, un joven emprendedor invidente; Nicolás, su amigo del alma, y Milagros y Juanma, dos jóvenes con unas capacidades muy especiales. Juntos intentarán averiguar qué le ha sucedido a una joven que lleva meses desaparecida. Al equipo de detectives se unen dos sabuesos de primera....

Es geht auch andersrum! Um seiner Frau bei ihrer Karriere in einem DAX-Konzern den Rücken frei zu halten, schlüpft der ehemalige ARD-Reporter, WDR-Redakteur und Grimme-Preisträger Matthias Veit nach der Geburt der gemeinsamen Tochter in die klassische "Mutterrolle". Ein geregelter Job in Teilzeit macht es möglich. So taucht der Rheinländer (geboren in Köln, freiwillig wohnhaft in Düsseldorf) ein in die Welt der Kitas, Kinderkrankheiten und Erziehungskämpfe, während die Ehefrau selbst nach Feierabend noch Controllerin bleibt.

In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century.

A vida de Ayrton Senna em um romance potente, que narra com realismo, paixão e inventividade suas relações com seus amigos, seus familiares, seus amores, seus adversários e com suas eternas corridas. Nos sentimos próximos da sua vida e dos seus sentimentos durante os anos mais esplendorosos e que marcaram Senna como um dos maiores brasileiros da história.

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting some of the world’s greatest religious works of art. But it is his bitter feud with Giovanni Roero, a brutal knight in the Maltese Order of St. John, that is his fatal error. Now, in the village of Monte Piccolo, a priest claims to have discovered a lost painting by the famed artist in the storage room of an orphanage. Retired professor A. R. Richman believes it’s a delusional dream.