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The National Book Award–winning author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen is a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Killing Mister Watson is his bestselling, fact-based novel that pieces together the life and death of Edgar J. Watson. At the beginning of the 20th century...

Juste avant la révolution d'Octobre, Dimitri Radzanov et Horowitz s'affrontent en duel au piano au conservatoire de Kiev. Chassés par les Bolcheviks, les deux jeunes gens doivent fuir l'Ukraine. Horowitz émigre aux États-Unis où il rencontre vite fortune et gloire. Radzanov, quant à lui, après avoir servi dans la garde blanche, échoue en banlieue parisienne avec sa mère. Il entre comme chimiste aux usines Pathé Marconi à Chatou où, ironie du sort, il va fabriquer des disques pour son vieux rival Horowitz qui fait vibrer les foules outre-Atlantique.

In Der Tod gestaltet Thomas Mann eine eindringliche, symbolisch aufgeladene Annäherung an das Sterben. Die Erzählung kreist um die unausweichliche Endlichkeit des Menschen und verbindet äußere Wahrnehmung mit innerer Reflexion. In dichter, poetischer Sprache entsteht ein Bild von Abschied, Vergänglichkeit und der stillen Macht des Todes, die das Leben in ein neues Licht rückt.

Fenômeno de vendas na França e vencedor de prêmios importantes, Limonov, conta na forma de um romance eletrizante, uma história real: a vida de uma figura polêmica cuja trajetória—de poeta russo a revolucionário, de celebridade a presidiário—acompanha a própria história da Europa no século XX.

Un bambino finito in uno sconosciuto letto d'ospedale per un banale mal di pancia, la timidezza e i pudori verso le infermiere, il primo batticuore per una bambina che non rivedrà mai piu'. Scritto con grande abilità in prima persona con uno stile che trascina via e rievoca lucide sensazioni senza esitare. (Sandra Mazzinghi)

It's Friday evening on the Canterbury Estate in Bradford, and Christine, who's been rushed to hospital by her friend, Josie, is on the maternity ward giving birth. She's 17 and terrified. Not just of the pain, which is ripping her in two, but because she knows that once the baby arrives, her family is never going to speak to her again. Her beautiful baby boy is about to start a chain of events that will lead to tragedy - and only her own family can save her.

The Bestseller no. 1 in Germany: Poppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a run-down suburban neighborhood. One day, they move into a luxurious mansion with her mother's new partner. Poppy's mother is happy. She can finally buy anything she wants. This new 'Daddy' or "Mr. Rich", as the young girl calls him, makes Poppy's every wish come true. He showers her with gifts, washes her hair three times a week and takes her on long journeys in his big car, just the two of them. He calls her his little wife.

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the real-life “Tiffany Girls,” a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s most legendary glassworks. It’s 1899, and Manhattan is abuzz. Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous...

"Das ist unser neues Zuhause", sagt Mama. "Poppy, du musst dich nie vor mir verstecken, weißt du das denn nicht?", sagt er. "Der hat ein Gesicht wie eine Bowlingkugel", sagt Oma Becker. "Euch klar ausdrücken, Leute, sagt einfach klar und deutlich, was ihr meint", sagt der Lehrer. Hilfe, denkt Poppy. Die sechsjährige Poppy lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einem heruntergekommenen Vorstadtviertel. Eines Tages ziehen sie in eine prachtvolle Villa zu dem neuen Mann ihrer Mutter. Der neuer "Papa" erfüllt Poppy jeden Wunsch.

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times, their home a fin-de-siècle mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens, Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the War in Europe with his lungs seared by gas, and when the death of their parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918 leaves the brothers orphaned, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era.

When Naomi’s sisters are snatched up to be taken to be wives of the erratic Pharaoh, Akhenaten, she knows they won’t survive the palace, so she offers herself in their place. The fearsome Commander Horemheb sees her courage, and knows she is exactly what he is looking for… The Great Queen Nefertiti despises Naomi instantly, and strips her of her Hebrew lineage, including her name, which is changed to Kiya. Kiya allies herself with Horemheb, who pushes her to greatness and encourages her to make the Pharaoh fall in love with her.