Biographical – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 9

Jonathan Bazzi,

Minor Bodies

Minor is the desiring body that runs, rises, gravitates towards larger, brighter, more dazzling bodies, that bestows on other bodies the status of suns and planets, fires to be orbited, the reason for eve…

Kier-La Janisse

House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Edition

HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN has attained canonical status, having ushered in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's acclaimed book is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror …

Heather Redmond

Death and the Sisters

Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating ne…

Deborah Levy,

Was das Leben kostet

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Prix Femina étranger 2020 Wenn sich das Leben ändert, tut es dies meist radikal. Deborah Levy und ihr Mann gehen getrennte Wege, ihre Mutter wird bald sterben. Doch die entstehende L…

Ralf Nürnberger

Canaletto

Ralf Nürnberger zeichnet in seinem sehr sorgfältig recherchierten Roman ein detailreiches Bild vom Wirken Canalettos in Dresden. Von 1747-1767 arbeitete der Venezianer dort als Hofmaler von August III. De…

Carole Boston Weatherford,

Sugar Hill

Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary.

Nadine May

The Self-Employed Housewife

This story is about an immigrant from Holland to South Africa in the 1970s and the relationship between the young wife and mother and her husband, who is a seaman. Every chapter is engaging, chatty dialog…

Sheila Smith

The New Zealand Dream Complete Series

This is a story and account of my life so far. The first book in "The Seeds Are Sown," "The New Zealand Dream" trilogy will take you on my journey from birth, growing up in a beautiful country town, paint…

Patty McWilliams

Belly Buttons

Patty has spent much of her childhood seeing to her older brother Tommy, a hemophiliac who's often confined to bed. When Patty is eleven and Tommy nineteen, he asks her to make a secret pact with him, one…

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Honoré de Balzac,

The Lily in the Valley

"A new translation of one of Balzac's finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess-a relationship that is…

Clare Helen Welsh,

All the Animals Were Sleeping

On the dry, grassy plains of the Serengeti, a little mongoose makes his way home to his burrow. On his way, the mongoose passes giraffes, zebras, monkeys, elephants, storks, lizards, butterflies, and chee…

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

"Unser Deutschlandmärchen" ist eine Familiengeschichte in vielen Stimmen. Frauen mehrerer Generationen und der in Almanya geborene Sohn erinnern sich in poetischen, oft mythischen, kräftigen Bildern und i…

Anne Berest,

The Postcard

"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a po…

Michael Morpurgo,

The Boy Who Would Be King

A TOP 10 CHILDREN'S FICTION BESTSELLER A beautifully illustrated full-colour tribute to King Charles III, published to mark his coronation - from the bestselling creators of There Once Is a Queen.

Jan Nemec,

A History of Light

A unique blend of fiction and biography that explores the fascinating life of early-twentieth-century Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol. Have you ever wondered what a story written by a beam of light…

Michael Morpurgo,

There Once is a Queen

"There once is a Queen ever constant to her people..." From the Nation's Favourite Storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a poetic celebration of our Queen and longest reigning monarch, beautifully illust…

Rabiah York,

The One and Only Rumi

"Rumi's journey from a young refugee to a renowned poet shows how his childhood helped shape his poetry"--

Ion Idriess

Headhunters of the Coral Sea

The story of the capture of the two Lamars (reincarnated natives), as the white boys were called, is one that has been handed down in legend among the Torres Strait islanders. After Idriess, years later, …