Ergebnis für "Son" in Romanbiografien

“This relentless chronicle of authoritarianism emboldened and empowered offers a painful and valuable reminder that democracy is fragile, never to be taken for granted and always in need of committed defense.” —Washington Post The massive international bestseller—an epic historical novel...

First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest speculators who ever lived. Now, almost 90 years later, it remains the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever written. Generations of investors have found that it has more to teach them about themselves and other investors than years of experience in the market. They have also discovered that its trading advice and keen analyses of market price movements rings true.

Marghanita Laski’s novel Little Boy Lost is as enthralling as it is heart-wrenching. A man grapples with questions of emotional responsibility, fatherhood, and memory. Laski describes a much-changed France, struggling to rebuild its morale after the ruin caused by wartime bombing and...

An account of the first major military campaign embarked upon by the future Emperor of the Roman Empire, Marcus Ulpius Traianus, commonly known as Trajan. Follow Trajan and his detachment of the Seventh Legion from Hispania to Germania, meeting friend and foe as they clash and collaborate to save the Empire from rebellion.

Albert Mercier, fils unique, perd sa mère à l’âge de dix ans. Son père, pour le préserver, lui cache cette mort, et Albert s’enferme dans la douleur, seul. Ce livre raconte son adolescence solitaire, nourrie de romans et de films, ses années de lycée, où il trouve ses premiers amis. La politique fait irruption en 1934 dans sa classe, où les esprits se divisent et s’opposent. Viennent les années de Front populaire, Munich, puis la "drôle de guerre". Une fois la France occupée, Albert Mercier, réfugié à Toulouse, s’engage dans la Résistance. Il a vingt ans.

Based on actual events in the author’s life, this compelling coming-of-age journey follows DJ Thompson as he navigates an unusual path of self-discovery. Struggling with both his sexuality and spirituality in a strict southern evangelical black Christian household, he leaves for the Big Apple right after high school to gain clarity and to pursue his dreams of becoming a famous music star.

His name conjures images of the Wild West–of gunfights, gambling halls, and a legendary friendship with Wyatt Earp–but before Doc Holliday was a Western legend, he was a Southern Son. The story begins in Civil War Georgia, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his mother, with his only confidant being his favorite cousin Mattie.

Primo romanzo di Lawrence, pubblicato nel 1913, in parte di ispirazione autobiografica (il personaggio di Miriam è ispirato alla migliore amica della giovinezza dello scrittore), il libro offre descrizioni dettagliate della vita dell’epoca nella zona mineraria di Nottingham. Il tema delle relazioni, sempre centrale nell’opera di Lawrence, che viene qui trattato è il rapporto madre figlio, in cui la eccessiva vicinanza emozionale voluta dalla madre rende il figlio incapace di amare.

After four years of meticulous research, C.D. Baker invites his readers to encounter the Jesus of the Gospels, though in ways they may not have expected. Becoming the Son: an Autobiography of Jesus is a unique, daring, and inspiring novel that reveals the astonishing possibilities of what could have been.

There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them, too. But I am about to tell you a very different story—a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason...as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety is nothing but an illusion. As his candles burn out, a window shatters outside. The room shudders as the synagogue down the street is engulfed in flames.

A bounty hunter is haunted by a painful past he believes is tied to a ruthless villain. A young boy on a spiritual quest finds his future threatened by that same man. In the dense forests of the American Northwest, their fates intertwine in a raw, psychological Western. But the drama onscreen in the forgotten 1951 film Pick Up the Gun, My Son is only half the picture.

"Los deseos no son solo palabras" es una novela basada en hechos reales, sobre la vida de una mujer convencida de las segundas oportunidades. Crecer junto a una bruja alimenta a la protagonista a dejar su Veracruz natal y embarcarse en una odisea que la llevará primero a la ciudad de México y luego a media docena de países diferentes. De la noche a la mañana, con 17 años y una maleta, deja todo lo que conoce para convertirse en la mujer más bella de su país.

1867. Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, hijo de José María Morelos y Pavón, llega a Francia para solicitar la ayuda de Napoleón III con el fin de sostener el imperio de Maximiliano. El enlace entre ellos es un joven y afamado escritor, a quien Almontenarra los grandes acontecimientos de su pasado: el significado de ser hijo del Siervo de la Nación, su participación en algunas batallas por la Independencia cuando era apenas un niño, su posterior estancia en Nueva Orleans, los hitos de su carrera militar y política; así como su relación con Santa Anna, Juárez, Maximiliano, Carlota.

From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about an American family and one man's attempt to understand the many lives of his father. Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises...

Thirty-five Letters is a compilation of found letters written by a mother to her absent son. Spanning from 1972 to the spring of 1980, these letters offer insight into the world of a wife and mother who is trying desperately to keep her life on track and family intact.

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Mortals series brilliantly adapts the life of Judas Iscariot into a dazzling work of fiction—humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal. In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One—the promised Messiah and...

The hands we carry are not our own...the lives we lead today are to honor those from whom we received them. A special story from father to son to father.