Biographical Fiction

From the New York Times best-selling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton - a revolutionary woman....

In 1580s England, during the Black Plague, a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction....

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast....

Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him....

Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money....

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe....

This is the story about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—a forbidden friendship that changed the world....

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins....

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....

Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....

Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....

1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm....

Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....

They were the Boleyns, once one of England's most powerful family. Anne Boleyn captured the hand of Henry VIII, and now we see the rise and fall of their family fortunes through the eyes of the eldest Boleyn daughter, Mary....

Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph....

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House and the Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary—an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America....

The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England....

April 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted - and about to meet royalty. So begins the unforgettable story of Charlotte Bill, who would care for a generation of royals as their parents never could....

When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction....

Dan Freeman, the “spook who sat by the door,” is enlisted in the CIA’s elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as “Freedom Fighters” in this explosive novel....

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post comes an epic imagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation....

December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a postwar Britain hungry for change.

Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II. Single, six foot two, and thirty years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America's first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture. The Secret War of Julia Child traces Julia's transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, DC file clerk, to head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services.

Któregoś dnia w prowansalskim miasteczku Digne zjawia się wypuszczony z więzienia Jean Valjean. Jedyną osobą, która przyjmuje go przychylnie, jest biskup. Valjean ucieka w nocy, kradnąc zastawę stołową. Zostaje zatrzymany przez policję, biskup jednak zapewnia, że sam podarował mu srebra. Po odejściu policjantów stwierdza, że w ten sposób wykupił duszę Valjeana od sił zła i oddał Bogu. Były więzień postanawia zmienić swoje życie.

Tagsüber hilft Juno ihrem schwerkranken Mann Jupiter dabei, seinen Alltag zu meistern. Außerdem ist sie Künstlerin, tanzt und spielt Theater. Und nachts, wenn sie wieder einmal nicht schlafen kann, chattet sie mit Love-Scammern im Internet. Martina Hefter hat einen berührenden Roman über Bedürfnisse und Sehnsüchte im Leben geschrieben. Und darüber, wie weit man bereit ist, für die Liebe zu gehen. Juno schreibt online mit Männern, die Frauen online ihre Liebe gestehen und so versuchen, sie um ihr Geld zu bringen.

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.

In 1897, an on-field tragedy nearly killed the game of football in Georgia, until an unlikely heroine came to its defense. Inspired by historical events.

Die wahre Geschichte eines Pflegekindes auf einem Bergbauernhof. Mitfühlend und Mut machend erzählt Nummer-1-Bestseller-Autorin Hera Lind in ihrem Tatsachenroman Verraten und verkauft das Schicksal von Steffi, die Furchtbares durchgemacht hat. Aber zum Schweigen hat sie sich nicht bringen lassen. Ein einsam gelegener, ärmlicher Bauernhof in der Steiermark wird 1970 zum neuen "Zuhause" der 2-jährigen Steffi: Das Wiener Jugendamt überlässt sie dem Bauern als Pflegekind. Von klein auf muss Steffi für ihre kargen Mahlzeiten schuften, ein eigenes Bett bekommt sie nicht, und auch keine Schuhe.

Dans cette fresque magistrale se mêlent secrets de familles, succès éclatants, amours contrariées, disparitions et drames retentissants. De Vienne à New-York, et tout au long du 20e siècle, découvrez les protagonistes qui gravitent autour d’un tableau de Gustave Klimt.

"Francisca" es un cuento de León Tolstoi que explora temas de fe, compasión y la condición humana. La narrativa sigue la vida de Francisca, una campesina que vive una existencia sencilla y devota en la Rusia rural. A pesar de enfrentar numerosas dificultades e injusticias, Francisca se mantiene firme en su creencia en Dios y su compromiso de vivir una vida virtuosa. Sin embargo, cuando ocurre una tragedia y pierde a su amado hijo, la fe de Francisca se pone a prueba. Mientras lidia con el dolor y la desesperación, Francisca se embarca en un viaje espiritual de introspección e iluminación.

Heinrich Breloer hat mit seinem TV-Mehrteiler Die Manns unser Bild von Thomas Mann geprägt wie niemand sonst. Marcel Reich-Ranicki bezeichnete die Filme als "Glanzstück" und "Höhepunkt der deutschen Filmkunst". In Ein tadelloses Glück erzählt Breloer nun die ereignisreiche Vorgeschichte: Vom Aufstieg Thomas Manns, seiner Liebe zu Männern, seinem Werben um Katia Pringsheim und dem deutsch-jüdischen Bündnis ihrer Familien in den entscheidenden Jahren vor Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs.

"Mi mancavano i boschi. Non li conoscevo bene, né sapevo molto su di loro, ma mi mancavano lo stesso." Marassi, periferia di Genova, quartiere di palazzoni residenziali alti nove, dieci piani, dai colori sbiaditi. Balconi dappertutto, di emergenza, di salvataggio, come se chi abita lì dentro vivesse in apnea. Marassi è un quartiere da cui è meglio partire che arrivare. Lo sa bene Maurizio. Sono gli stessi palazzi a suggerirglielo. “Salvati” sembrano dirgli. Il desiderio di una vita altrove diventa urgenza, il richiamo della montagna irresistibile. Fino a farsi malessere.

Dare agli altri la colpa della propria infelicità è un esercizio di malafede collaudato, una tentazione alla portata di tutti. Ed è ciò che prova a fare anche il protagonista di questo romanzo. Almeno fino a un certo punto. Figlio unico di una strana famiglia disfunzionale, con genitori litigiosissimi e assediati dai debiti, è stato un bambino introverso, abituato a bastare a se stesso e a cercare conforto nella musica e nei propri pensieri.

C'è un momento cruciale, in questa storia. E c'è un "prima", e c'è un "dopo". Il momento cruciale è verso la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, quando Olga, vedova di Antonio Panini, decide, insieme ai suoi otto figli, di acquistare l'edicola di corso Duomo, nel centro di Modena. Il "prima" è la storia di Antonio Panini, scampato miracolosamente alla Grande Guerra, combattuta in trincea; del suo amore infinito per Olga, detta "la Caserèina", perché figlia del casaro; e di come nel durissimo momento tra le due guerre i due abbiano costruito una famiglia tanto numerosa quanto movimentata.

FASCYNUJĄCY PORTRET FRYCKA CHOPINA I EPOKI, W KTÓREJ ŻYŁ Ola z Erykiem jadą do dziadków na święta. Oprócz przygotowań i prezentów czeka tam na nich gabinet wciągających książek. W tym niezwykłym pomieszczeniu zebrano prawdziwie magiczne tomy. Wystarczy je otworzyć, aby przenieść się w czasie i przestrzeni. W ten sposób rodzeństwo poznaje losy Frycka Chopina. Towarzyszy mu od pierwszych dni nauki gry na fortepianie. Obserwuje jego wzloty i upadki, młodzieńczą miłość oraz wyjazd do Wiednia i sukcesy w Paryżu.

Laura Baldinis fesselnder Roman über die junge Emmi Pikler (1902–1984), die unter den Nazis um ihr Leben fürchtete und von den Eltern ihrer Schützlinge gerettet wurde. Emmi Pikler war eine ungarische Jüdin, die in Wien Medizin studierte und eine herausragende Kinderärztin wurde, die Eltern bis heute inspiriert. Wien, 1930er Jahre: Die frisch promovierte Emmi ist begeistert von den modernen Ansätzen der Kindermedizin, denn Ärzte, Analytiker und Pädagogen arbeiten zum Wohle der Kleinsten zusammen. Hier will sie ihre eigenen Ideen einer liebevollen Erziehung weiterentwickeln.

Manchmal braucht das Herz mehr Zeit, um etwas zu akzeptieren, was der Kopf schon längst weiß. Sophie und Claudine, Schwestern, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten.Sophie träumt davon, in New York am Broadway als Musical-Sängerin durchzustarten. Sie ist wild, freiheitsliebend und will sich nicht binden. Als sie Julien kennenlernt, spürt sie eine starke Anziehungskraft, doch sie will ihr Ziel nicht aus den Augen verlieren, am Broadway erfolgreich zu sein, und ignoriert ihre Gefühle für den jungen Mann.

Tiere sind für ihn Brüder und Schwestern. Die Liebe zu ihnen, zu den Pflanzen und zu allem, was lebt, schließt immer Menschenliebe mit ein. Schon als Jugendlicher findet er in den Büchern von Axel Munthe seine Gedanken und Gefühle wieder. So entsteht die Sehnsucht nach Capri. Seine Approbation zum Tierarzt und das Todesurteil Krebs für seine Mutter treffen ihn fast zur gleichen Stunde und so ist es augenblicklich sein innigster Wunsch, der Mutter noch seine Lieblingsinsel zu zeigen.

Frau Hempels Tochter von Alice Berend ist ein Gesellschaftsroman, der uns in das Berlin des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts entführt. Laura Hempel, die zwischen den Erwartungen ihrer fleißigen und hingebungsvollen Mutter und ihrem eigenen Wunsch nach einem selbstbestimmten Leben hin- und hergerissen ist, wächst in einer bescheidenen kleinen Kellerwohnung auf und steht mit ihren sechzehn Jahren vor großen Veränderungen. Frau Hempel hat klare Vorstellungen von der Zukunft ihrer Tochter: eine standesgemäße Heirat soll für finanzielle Sicherheit und gesellschaftliches Ansehen sorgen.

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O que pode florescer da convivência entre uma velhinha que está perdendo a memória e um menino que só pensa em jogos eletrônicos? A história nasceu a partir da colaboração de três autores que se experimentaram em diferentes linguagens. O texto escrito por Everson ganhou voz na narração de Mafuane, e depois uma narrativa visual composta por Juão Paulo Vaz. Assim, como é parte do caminho das histórias orais, a narração foi se modificando, perdendo uma parte aqui, ganhando outra ali, até fixar-se nessa edição.