Novedades

Fin da bambino Ferdinando ha odiato la morte al punto da fare della salvezza la sua ossessione di medico. Ma una vocazione così grande, scontrandosi con le iniquità subite, non può che fallire e trovare casa nella follia. Olga, nella sua infanzia a Rostov, ha dovuto misurarsi proprio con l'alienazione materna, quintessenza di Storia e fragilità. Unico scampo da essa la fuga, frenata da una radice nascosta sotto la neve e dalla zoppia, che diventa destino e comunione con l'imperfetto. Ma si può vivere a un passo dall'ideale?

Morgan Michael a chaplain who does the hospice circuit. This is the first published journal of what happened one day on the job. If you are up for mystery and people making the most of their final moments and the choices, they make. Naturally the stories include the best and worst of the human experience, so we have conspiracies, murder, mayhem, rape and revenge. The members of “The Society”, all have contracted the exact same lethal non-communicable cancer. For the last 50 plus years they have been fighting the battle against ecological degradation of the planet in their own way. They ...

John Quincy Adams is the missing link in the classical era of American history which began with the Revolution and ended with Emancipation. Between these bookends lies the absorbing yet overshadowed epic of a new nation spearheading liberty's cause in a world skeptical of freedom arriving at all, much less in slaver's garb. M. B. Zucker takes listeners back to that adolescent country in the care of an enigmatic guide, John Quincy Adams, heir to one president by blood and another, Washington, by ideology.

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches.

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

La fama siempre tiene un precio. Julien Meadow era el chico de la eterna sonrisa, el que cantaba en el garaje con su hermano y el que se enamoró de unos ojos valientes ocultos tras una mecha rosa, los de Crysta. Nunca hubiera esperado que, a raíz de un vídeo subido a YouTube, le llegaría la fama. De repente, su voz inunda el mundo y su cara protagoniza todas las noticias. Julien debe hacer frente a un nuevo universo lleno de altibajos, lujo, descontrol y poder. Uno en el que te vuelves adicto a focos que queman y a palabras que muerden.

Hitler. Conversando con el Führer” se encuadra dentro de los trabajos de la autora englobados en “Entrevistas con la Historia”. A través de las conversaciones entre la autora y el propio Adolf Hitler y, gracias a la consulta de una bibliografía exhaustiva, así como al acceso a los últimos hallazgos relativos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y a la biografía del Führer, conocemos la historia real de Hitler, desterrando mitos, desmintiendo falsedades, explorando las razones últimas que le empujaron a hacer lo que hizo, llegando, en fin, al fondo de lo que de verdad ocurrió. Estas ...

They say some people have all the fun­— Sunshine Blake was one of those people. When Sunshine was a teenager she made a promise to herself to see the world and live a glamorous life. Nobody believed she could do it. Why would they? She was abused and abandoned by her parents and shuffled from foster home to foster home in the poorest part of the country. Yet Sunshine accomplished everything she set out to do—and then some. She traveled the world, succeeded in real estate, founded a cosmetics company, hung out with Hollywood’s elite, married in Morocco (and later escaped), appeared on...

In the depths of winter, Sir Ralph Percy holds the castles of Dunstanburgh and Bamburgh for the Lancastrians. Queen Margaret of Anjou has fled into Scotland, and no one knows if or when she will return with another army. Supplies are low and the snow is falling. Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, brings his forces to Dunstanburgh first, circling the fortress in a ring of steel. He attempts to cajole Ralph into a surrender with the promise of a second pardon from King Edward. Ralph is not certain...and he is not ready to surrender just yet... A short story 10,000 words long, based on true ...

Goin' Up To Cripple Creek is historical western fiction of the Cripple Creek Mining District, and the men who established it, and mined its gold. The time period is from the discovery and settlement of this alpine valley, through the establishment of the town of Cripple Creek, to the fires of 1896. This is the first work in The Gold Trail Series. Filled with action and romance, it is a well researched and historical fiction of an exciting time. Starting with the settlement by Levi Welty, and the discovery of gold by Bob Womack, it tells the story of the establishment of the District. A ...

Mila Beldarrain, autora, ente otras novelas, de El Templario y La Verdad de Moctezuma, se adentra ahora en la vida de Napoleón Bonaparte. A través de un diálogo apasionante con el mismo Napoleón, gracias a la consulta y lectura de una bibliografía exhaustiva, tanto actual como de aquellas obras que escribieron aquellos que le conocieron, vamos conociendo la verdadera historia de Napoleón, desterrando mitos, desmintiendo falsedades, explorando las razones últimas que le empujaron a hacer lo que hizo, llegando, en fin, al fondo de lo que de verdad ocurrió. Este tú a tú de Napoleón ...

La historia de Roger Tur, cónsul honorario de Francia en Zaragoza. Corre el año 1972 cuando tres activistas de extrema izquierda provocan un incendio en el consulado francés de Zaragoza, causando la muerte, por accidente, de Roger Tur, cónsul honorario. Años más tarde, en una desclasificación de los archivos de la CIA, se sabe que el cónsul fallecido fue un agente doble durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, espiando a los nazis que pasaban por Zaragoza y enviando escuetos informes a los aliados, a través de la embajada de los Estados Unidos. Esta es su historia.

"My Faults: Love, Affair, & Destiny (The Story of Revenge)" is a fictional autobiography that explores the intricate layers of love, betrayal, and justice through the perspectives of its characters. Centered on Deb, a man caught in a turbulent emotional journey, the story delves into his troubled relationship with Piya, an ex-student with whom he shares a forbidden, complex bond that blurs the lines between mentorship and romantic desire. The narrative critically examines societal norms, family dynamics, and the consequences of emotional addiction, guilt, and unfulfilled longing. As Deb's ...

The last shot of world war two has been fired and a boy is born, destined for life in a beautiful fishing village in South West Cornwall. He is surrounded, there, by friends and a loving family and his is a childhood that dreams are made of. But in this village they chain up the swings on Sundays, and as he grows, he finds that puberty and its consequences are hushed up and must never be spoken of.

Working in industry as a Chemical Engineer boring...who says it is? Most people consider working in the Industrial world to be fairly mundane and boring. Well, I am able to contradict that erroneous belief. My forty years in industry have been far from ordinary and unexciting. In fact, those years have been so eventful and exhilarating, I felt compelled to put events, incidents and a plethora of eclectic, fascinating characters into print and write about my career as a Chemical Engineer from the late sixties to the beginning of the eighties.

Maria Eriksson bor i en mellansvensk stad och arbetar på bank när hon möter mannen med de svarta ögonen. Hon blir oerhört förälskad, förlovar sig och föder deras dotter Emma. Men förhållandet spårar ur. Mannen blir alltmer våldsam. Han hotar, slår och våldtar. När Mia träffar en annan man och gifter sig blir det ännu värre. Familjen hamnar i en mardröm av misshandel, terror och mordförsök. Myndigheterna står handfallna. Till slut tvingar man Mia och hennes familj att gå under jorden.

Erik är van att få stryk. Hans farsa slår honom varje dag. I plugget är Erik ledare för ett gäng som begår brott. När gänget åker fast måste Erik börja i internatskolan Stjärnsberg. Och här är våldet värre än hemma, mycket värre.

An unexpected call from Riverton, Manitoba in 2007 forced Janet Berg to confront the life and death of her father, Daniel. A farmer found him dead in a field with a shotgun and the forty-year-old scientist needed to explain why. From her home in Seattle, half a continent away, she sifted through musty boxes and her own memories to piece together what happened to Daniel over his last twelve years of estrangement. Poring over scribbled notes and emails, police reports, and her father’s well-worn Bible, she uncovered a life that ended in one of two ways.

Funny and piercing essays, short stories that move and satisfy, Van Heyden has mastered the art of communicating via the written word, Here's a wealth of good writing to prove it. The opening story: Not Going My Way traces the sudden departure, reasons and painful results for Michael Sherbourne who leaves the priesthood of the Holy Roman Catholic Church in exchange for membership in a local biker club. The essays range from topical food faddism to real life thrilling paranormal experiences. His poetry is succinct and devastatingly accurate. - Frank A. Carlyle

Una versión diferente del conocido como crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla. En 1952, las hermanas Encarnación y Matilde Silva Montero fueron asesinadas en el interior del estanco que regentaban en la ciudad de Sevilla. La policía no tarda en detener a los tres autores: Juan Vázquez, Antonio Pérez y Francisco Castro, siendo condenados a pena de muerte mediante garrote vil. El verdugo, Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana, coincide unas semanas después de la ejecución con un amigo suyo, un guardia civil jubilado, y le cuenta una terrible verdad: los acusados eran inocentes. El guardia civil ...