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1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father's wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob, Mum's youngest brother, a charismatic Catholic priest who feels his new responsibilities deeply.

Dr. Johnson may have been correct in saying that “Rousseau was a very bad man,” but none can argue that his ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. It was Rousseau, the father of the romantic movement, who was responsible for introducing at least two modern day thoughts that pervade academia. The Confessions is Rousseau’s landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature.

La correspondencia que la autora de Eichmann en Jerusalén o Los orígenes del totalitarismo mantuvo a lo largo de veinticinco años con Mary McCarthy, una de las novelistas y ensayistas norteamericanas más brillantes del pasado siglo, constituye, en efecto, un diálogo inteligentísimo, edificante, ameno e iluminador sobre la historia y la cultura de....

Im "Buch der Jugend" beschreibt Ludwig Ganghofer seine Ausbildungs- und Studienzeit. Am Ende des Buches beschreibt er auch seine Vorstellung eines idealen Staatswesens in allen Einzelheiten. Einzelne Ideen könnt man auch heute noch herausgreifen und weiter verfolgen, doch im großen und ganzen spiegeln seine Vorstellungen den Zeitgeist jener Zeit wieder. Zum Beispiel wenn er unterschiedliche Bildungswege für Mann und Frau beschreibt.

Joining us at Audible Studios is actor Colin Morgan. Morgan has been appearing on stage and television since 2007, performing at The Globe Theatre and The National Theatre and starring in programmes such as Merlin, Doctor Who, Humans and The Fall. He spoke to us about his amazing career so far, as well as his experience of the audiobook world after reading The Worldship Humility by R R Haywood.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1926. Josephine Baker trifft im Februar in Berlin ein. Mit ihr und um sie herum werden die Zwanziger Jahre in Berlin wild und golden. Viele Berichte zu spätnächtlichen Vergnügungen unter Künstlern und anderen "halbseidenen" Persönlichkeiten (einschließlich Politikern). Dagegen ist das von einem faszinierten Graf Kessler beschriebene Portrait Elsa Brandströms ein angenehmer hoher Ruhepunkt.

2019 National Book Award Finalist "Reading it will change you, perhaps forever.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time.” --Margaret Atwood What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice...

Chico Xavier viveu seus 92 anos no limite. Com um pé na Terra e outro no além, fechou os olhos e pôs no papel poemas, crônicas, mensagens. Em mais de 500 livros publicados, mortos ilustres e anônimos consolam os vivos, pregam a paz e propagam o equilíbrio e a solidariedade. Para seus...

Kate Mosse, international best-selling author of the Languedoc Trilogy and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, as well as cofounder and chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, brings us the first instalment of her new and highly anticipated series, The Burning Chambers, set in 16th-century Languedoc. In it, religious wars begin to take hold as a young Catholic girl and a Huguenot believer find themselves in possession of a priceless treasure.

Anton Tschechow (1860-1904) ist einer der größten Dramatiker der Weltliteratur. Seine Werke, darunter Die Möwe, Onkel Wanja und Der Kirschgarten, sind Tragikomödien über das lächerliche, fürchterliche Dasein, über Begehren und Enttäuschung. Ohne jede Sentimentalität blickte er auf das Leben, das, so schrieb er seiner Frau, nicht zu erklären sei, so wenig wie eine Mohrrübe.

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019), from Maple Heights, OH, was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States.

Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de "una limpia cocina literaria", en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada.

Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely 50 years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: “You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.

Was bleibt und was nicht – in seiner Bilanz erzählt Hanno Rinke von einem so ungewöhnlichen wie selbstbestimmten Leben und von den verschlungenen Pfaden der Familiengeschichte von 1870 bis 2024 … Der eine Großvater preußischer Offizier, der andere polnischer Jude. Die Mutter ledig, der Vater im Gefängnis. Was wird daraus? "Es ist schön, zufrieden zu sein, dort, wo man ist. Noch schöner ist es, dort sein zu wollen, wo man sein könnte.

What if, before you were born, you created a Sacred Contract with yourself, laying out all your intentions and preferences and plans for this lifetime? And what if every year of your life, you built on that contract and made choices according to your plan.

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically...

Anlässlich des 200. Geburtsjahres von Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) wird hier eine Würdigung des Schweizer Dichters durch die deutsche Schriftstellerin Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) als Hörbuch vorgelegt. Bei aller Differenziertheit des Urteils der Autorin werden einige Formulierungen manchem allzu hymnisch erscheinen, aber vielen Keller-Freunden wird das 1904 erschienene Lebensbild aus der Seele sprechen. Einige uns Heutigen befremdlich deutschtümelnd erscheinende Äußerungen müssen aus dem Geist der Zeit verstanden werden, in der diese Biografie entstand.Huch (1864-1947) als Hörbuch vorgelegt.

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters....

A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was...

In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult.