Biographical Fiction – alle Bücher, MP3-CDs und CDs, Seite 10

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
A Founding Mother

In time for the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the United States comes a sweeping, intimate portrayal of Abigail Adams---wife of one president and mother to another---whose wit, willpower, and wisdom h…

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Gish Jen
Bad Bad Girl

L.A. TIMES 15 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME "100 BEST" • RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.…

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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette,
When Water Became Blue

Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman's obsession with a painter - and a river.A woman is on an artists' retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from h…

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Ben Yagoda
Alias O. Henry

"[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry's most cherished stories, Yagoda presents a vivid, witty, and delectable tale of crime and creativity." --Booklist"Alia…

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Colette,
The Pure and the Impure

Allusive and sometimes obscure, yet precise-The Pure and the Impure has elicited equal parts consternation and praise since its publication nearly 100 years ago. Through strikingly vivid and evocative por…

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Jack Hilton
Caliban Shrieks

'Witty and unusual' George Orwell 'Magnificent' W H AudenA lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br…

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Carson Markland
Men Like Us

Bobby Kennedy was never meant to matter.The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that earned him a fo…

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Édouard Louis,
The End of Eddy

The celebrated debut novel from Édouard Louis: the "equal parts frank, provocative and compelling" (Financial Times ) coming-of-age story about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.…

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Carson Markland
Men Like Us

Bobby Kennedy was never meant to matter.The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that earned him a fo…

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Colombe Schneck,
Swimming in Paris

Penguin Publishing Group

A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick "Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes who…

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Anthony Passeron,
Sleeping Children

"An intimate, captivating, and prizewinning first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis"--

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Ken Miller
High Finance

Discover the novel called a "brilliant read, funny and poignant, with an insider's knowledge of Wall Street" that plunges readers into the financial sector's ruthless heart, where fortune, ambit…

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Werner Herzog,
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Sein Leben ist ein Jahrhundertleben, seine Erinnerungen sind ein literarisches EreignisEin immerzu hungriger Junge, mit der Mutter aus dem bombardierten München in ein bitterarmes Nest in den Alpen gefloh…

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Édouard Louis,
History of Violence

A gripping autobiographical novel from literary sensation Édouard Louis, "both brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the damaging realities i…

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Daniel Poppick
The Copywriter

A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can'…

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Hussein Barghouthi,
The Third Bank of the Jordan River

A dreamlike novel from Palestine that traces a restless soul's journey through landscapes of memory, longing, alienation, and exile.In this profound and evocative novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Husse…

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Robert Graves
The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to John Milton

With impressive literary power, the acclaimed historical novelist and critic Robert Graves tells the story of the tragic and eventful life of Marie Powell, who, at the age of sixteen, was pushed into marr…

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Mary Costello
A Beautiful Loan

My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life-my adult life, that is-which, from this vantage point of forty-five years, I often find baffling. . . .I…

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Shelley Noble
The Sisters of Book Row

From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York's famed Book Row.1915: Manhattan's Book Row, an eclectic jumble…

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John Boyne
The Weight of Angels

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed?When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name…

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