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Sometimes, one's most sincere thoughts and feelings can only be expressed in a letter to their mother. Letters to you, to her, to no one is a moving story about a girl growing up in a Bulgarian orphanage told through intimate letters to her imaginary mother. The letters span years, recording a journey exploring friendship, loss, anorexia, and, most of all, dreams.

Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther is a novella written by Elizabeth von Arnim, a British-German author known for her witty and insightful novels. Published in 1907, the story revolves around the correspondence between two main characters, Fräulein Rose-Marie Schmidt, a spinster in her late 30s, and Mr. Henry Anstruther, a kind and sympathetic stranger, as they navigate their lives and explore their feelings for each other.

Liées par l’amitié, mais séparées par choix, Louise de Chaulieu et Renée de Maucombe sont jeunes et quittent leur couvent avec des rêves de bonheur très différents. À travers une série de lettres intimes, elles se confient leurs espoirs, leurs déceptions et leur désillusion grandissante à l’aube de l’âge adulte.

Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as a young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened … Anaya Sebeya is missing...

It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime, even if you can't remember why you started. The Unforgettable Mailman is a heartwarming story about intergenerational friendship and the power of human connection, perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans' The Correspondent. 1966...

Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

The fourth book in Adrian Mole's diaries, where we catch up with a hapless Adrian and his desperate attempts to win back the love of his life. Thursday January 3rd I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another...

'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault.' Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 'I not only wept, I...

Emilia ist 39, liebt gutes Essen, fühlt sich oft zu schwer – und manchmal auch zu falsch. Sie arbeitet als Contentmanagerin bei einer Frauenzeitschrift und füllt ihre Tage mit Clickbait und Selbsthilfe-Tipps, während sie selbst den Kontakt zu dem verliert, was ihr wirklich wichtig ist: echte Worte, wahrhaftige Geschichten und das Gefühl, im eigenen Leben zu Hause zu sein. Als sie zufällig in einen verwunschenen Laden stolpert – voller alter Dinge, handgeschriebener Briefe und Herzensbücher – spürt sie sofort: Hier könnte ein neuer Anfang liegen. Zunächst ist es nur ein Ort zum Verschnaufen.

Als Elsie Lindtner, vierzigjährig, ins "gefährliche Alter" kommt, verlässt sie ihren Mann und zieht sich in ein eigens für sie gebautes Haus auf einer dänischen Ostseeinsel zurück. Ohne männliche Begleitung will sie "die Jahre des Übergangs" verbringen. Als sie endlich begreift, dass sie in Wahrheit vor der Leidenschaft für einen jüngeren Mann flüchtete, ist es zu spät. Er liebt sie nicht mehr. Und ihr Mann hat sich längst mit einer jüngeren Frau getröstet.

For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end...

En kvinde forlader sin familie for at arbejde og stå på egne ben. I tolv breve til sin veninde fortæller hun om sine frihedsdrømme og sin sorg over at føle sig fanget i en snæver, ydmygende kvinderolle. Clara Raphael er et inderligt og radikalt manifest for en kvindes ret til at tænke. Romanen er Mathilde Fibigers debut, og den udkom til stor skandale i 1851.

Breaking a long silence, Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, is living in a Hindu monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married publisher, newly in love with a boy in Los Angeles, decides to visit Oliver to persuade him not to renounce the world.

Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings, and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (pinguinus impennis).

Fedro Carlos Guillén une su pasión por la literatura, la historia y la ciencia en su esta novela: La carta secreta de Darwin. Esta novela por entregas expone el increíble mosaico de observaciones y descubrimientos que hizo a lo largo de los años el célebre Charles Darwin...

This epistolary novel was probably written in 1794, but was not published until 1871. Lady Susan Vernon, middle-aged and recently widowed, has retained her looks and appealing vivacity. She makes use of her bereavement and her loss of wealth by imposing herself on the hospitality of relatives...

Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. Letters of Two Brides follows two...

رسائل سالي مكبرايد إلى صديقتها جودي آبي وعدوها اللدود وآخرين! في الجزء الثاني من رواية "صاحب الظل الطويل" تقبل سالي بإدارة ميتم جون غرير بعد إلحاح من جودي...

الكتاب هو مجموعة رسائل تحوى فلسفة خاصة من إنسان عاشق متيم ، يرى الجمال فى كل ما حوله. يخاطب الرافعي نفسه في هذا الكتاب على أسلوب (التجريد) فهو يزعم أنها رسائل صديق...

Varcare il confine vicino a Metz, attraversare il Württemberg e la Baviera, raggiungere in treno Vienna e Budapest, proseguire a cavallo per la steppa russa, superare gli Urali e la Siberia, costeggiare il lago Bajkal e ridiscendere il fiume Amur fino all’Oceano. Poi, fermarsi a Sabirk ad aspettare una nave di contrabbandieri olandesi. È così che nel 1861 Hervé Joncour, che compra e vende bachi da seta, arriva in Giappone. È così che arriva al suo destino, che ha il volto di una ragazzina.