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Quatorze ans : c'est l'âge de Nina. Son père est pianiste. La musique est au centre de tout — ou presque. Entre eux, quelque chose s'est abîmé. Un soir, elle décide de provoquer son père et de dire tout haut ce que beaucoup pensent tout bas : la musique classique ne sert plus à rien. Ce qui devait être une simple provocation devient le point de départ d'un dialogue inattendu. Un face-à-face entre deux générations, deux visions du monde, deux façons d'habiter le temps. Peu à peu, la musique cesse d'être un mur pour devenir un terrain de rencontre.

Madrid, 1889. La capital es una ciudad de contrastes vibrantes. En ese mundo en ebullición, una joven de catorce años se enfrenta a la prematura muerte de su madre. Su nombre es Julia Loewe. Inteligente, audaz y con una visión prodigiosa, Julia comprende que ha nacido una «nueva mujer», que recorre el mundo, que trabaja, que monta en bicicleta y que, para conquistar su independencia, necesita algo revolucionario: una nueva moda.

মায়া মৃদঙ্গ - সৈয়দ মুস্তাফা সিরাজের লেখা শিল্পীদের মনস্তত্ত্ব-এর বিষয়ে লেখা এক উপন্যাস। শিল্পিদের প্রেরণা যা...

Adavi Bapiraju (1895 - 1952) is a poet, painter, sculptor, novelist, singer, editor, aesthetist, freedom fighter, and scholar extraordinaire. He was the foremost writer of the Romantic movement in Telugu. His prose and poetry took writing in Telugu to new heights. He ignited the spirit of the...

ঋভু-র চরিত্রটির মধ্যে দিয়ে বুদ্ধদেব গুহ আমাদের একটি আত্মজীবনী মূলক উপন্যাসই উপহার দিয়েছন। ঋভুর ছোটবেলা, বড়ো...

প্রেমাঙ্কুর আতর্থী একজন লেখক , সাংবাদিক এবং পরিচালক। তিনি হিন্দি এবং বাংলা সিনেমা উভয়তেই যুক্ত ছিলেন। তার লেখা...

সোমনাথ ব্যানার্জী-র জীবনের কাহিনী শুনুন, শংকরের লেখা অনবদ্য উপন্যাস, শুনুন শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল-এ!...

Ein bewegender Familienroman und zugleich die unvergleichliche Erfolgsgeschichte der Firma LEGO Billund 1924. Der dänische Tischler Ole Kirk Christiansen liebt seine Familie über alles. Doch nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag muss er seine vier Söhne allein großziehen, und seine Zimmerei...

ভাৰতবৰ্ষই স্বাধীনতা লাভ কৰাৰ পাছৰ সময়। মিছিং সম্প্ৰদায়ৰ এখন গাঁও। য'ত প্ৰগতিশীল চিন্তাৰ অধিকাৰী, সকলোৰে...

মহাপুৰুষ শ্ৰীমন্ত শংকৰদেৱক লগ পোৱাৰ পূৰ্বে কোন আছিল মাধৱ? কেনেকৈ লগ পাইছিল তেওঁ গুৰুজনাক? জীৱনৰ আৰম্ভণিৰে পৰা...

ঘড়ীৰ কাঁটাৰ নিৰ্দেশত চলি থকা ব্যক্তি দিলীপ পেছাগত ভাবে এজন প্ৰফেচাৰ। নিয়মানুৱৰ্তিতা মানি চলাটো দিলীপৰ যেন...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the #1 nationally bestselling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tóibín's The Master, or Michael Cunningham's The Hours. In...

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.

Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. 

In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies.

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they also run deep." 

Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage - in name only - to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too - atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war. 

Narrated by Roger Allam, Olivier Award-winning star of The Thick of It. Inspired by the true story of mountaineer George Mallory, Paths of Glory bring to life one of history's enduringly enigmatic figures in a stunning novel from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. 'Archer at the peak of his...

James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. This is her story. A mesmerising fictionalisation of Lucia Joyce's life told for the first time. Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda...

‘My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old – or will be in ten days’ time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself…’ Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as...