Ergebnis für "Carol" in Romanbiografien

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe Soon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic...

A mother, a wife, a woman of substance... At nineteen, Elizabeth Seymour is already a mother, has been recently widowed, and seen her Queen, Anne Boleyn, lose her life. Against the wishes of her father, she heads North, away from Wulf Hall and the court in London to Yorkshire, determined to...

"[Narrator Euan Morton's] British-accented narration is pure delight...This imaginative story is so charming that listeners will be convinced it is fact, not fiction. A heartwarming addition to the holiday audiobook collection." — Booklist Laced with humor, rich historical detail from Charles...

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

It is September 1068. Thea, also known as Gytha, the elder daughter of King Harold II, travels with her brothers and grandmother into exile carrying revenge in her heart. She is soon betrothed to a prince of Kiev. Will her betrothal and marriage bring her happiness, as she confronts enemies from inside and outside Russian territories? Will she prove herself the courageous princess she surely is, win her princely husband's respect and establish her independence in a society protective towards its women?

A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men—Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago’s first Black bank.

From the explosive opening in the vast waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the endless expanses of the African continent, Arthur and Barbara Stannard’s journey is no ordinary one. It is a journey of faith in every sense beginning in troubled world times.

Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros—en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente—ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda. Tras una exhaustiva documentación, Joyce Carol Oates redibuja la vida interior de Norma Jeane Baker.

It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina. There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land.

1236. Beautiful Ailenor of Provence, cultured and intelligent, is only 13 when she marries Henry III. Aware of the desperate importance of providing heirs to secure the throne from those who would snatch it away, she is ruthless in her dealings with Henry's barons. As conflict escalates between them, Ailenor's shrewd and clever Savoyard uncles come to support her, but her growing political power is threatened when Henry's half-siblings also arrive at court. Henry and Ailenor become embroiled in an unpopular war to protect Gascony, the last English territory on the continent.

Una poderosa exploración del dolor y la resiliencia después de la pérdida Cada quien lidia con el duelo a su manera: Helen Macdonald halló consuelo al entrenar a un halcón salvaje; Cheryl Strayed encontró fuerza en una caminata a través de Estados Unidos, mientras que Carol Smith, periodista nominada al Premio Pulitzer y autora de este libro, afrontó la muerte de su hijo pequeño entregándose a su trabajo.

Pronounced by the most eminent physician of the day to be "a true hybrid wherein the nature of woman presides over that of the brute", Julia Pastrana stood apart from the other carnival acts. She was fluent in English, French, and Spanish, an accomplished musician with an exquisite singing voice, and equally at ease riding horseback and turning pirouettes - but all anyone noticed was her utterly unusual face.

For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart - and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in an upcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.

Palamós, estiu del 1962. Truman Capote acabava de comprar dues ampolles de ginebra, una de vermut sec i unes olives en una pastisseria del carrer Major de Palamós quan va descobrir en un diari que la seva gran amiga Marilyn Monroe havia mort a causa d’una sobredosi de somnífers. Així comença aquesta novel·la, en què l’autor recrea els tres llargs estius (d’abril a octubre) que Capote va passar a la Costa Brava, redactant la que estava convençut que seria la seva obra mestra, A sang freda.

Palamós, estiu del 1962. Truman Capote acabava de comprar dues ampolles de ginebra, una de vermut sec i unes olives en una pastisseria del carrer Major de Palamós quan va descobrir en un diari que la seva gran amiga Marilyn Monroe havia mort a causa d’una sobredosi de somnífers. Així comença aquesta novel·la, en què l’autor recrea els tres llargs estius (d’abril a octubre) que Capote va passar a la Costa Brava, redactant la que estava convençut que seria la seva obra mestra, "A sang freda".

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker comes a blockbuster novel that takes you behind the scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind, while turning the spotlight on the passionate romance between its dashing leading man, Clark Gable, and the blithe, free-spirited actress...

Layla vive e respira música. É seu trabalho, e também seu hobby. Vicente Callalta, um de seus músicos favoritos, é a personificação desse amor tão grande. Assistir ao seu show é um de seus sonhos, finalmente realizado quando o cantor se muda para sua cidade. Entre marcações em posts e stories, o direct de Vicente acaba se tornando seu bloco de notas, um jeito prático e fácil de anotar lembretes. Tudo funciona até o dia em que uma mensagem de "visualizado" aparece na conversa. Vicente Callalta conhece agora sua existência e detalhes embaraçosos de sua vida.

Three stories about historical heroes (Matthew Henson, Michael Faraday, and Joseph Lister) and three exciting adventures!