Roman Biography

Taking us far beyond the headlines, The Girl reveals a 13-year-old who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable. By telling her story in full for the first time, Samantha reclaims her identity, and indelibly proves that it is possible to move forward from victim to survivor, from confusion to certainty, from shame to strength.

Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighbors of their small town in western Poland greet the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika flags. Within days, the family home had been seized, 12-year-old Roman had become a slave of the local SS chief, and, returning from an errand, he silently witnessed his Jewish classmates being bayoneted to death by soldiers at the edge of town. So began his remarkable six-year journey through some of the darkest caverns of Nazi Europe....

Romana Wilhelmiego znaja wszyscy. I nic w tym osobliwego. Ten charyzmatyczny, charakterystyczny aktor stworzyl tak wspaniale kreacje teatralne, filmowe i serialowe, ze stal sie legenda juz za zycia. I oto przed Panstwem niezwykla ksiazka o nim. Marcin Rychcik zdolal stworzyc nie tyle biografie, co literacki portret wielkiego aktora i pelnokrwistego czlowieka. Efekt powiesci wieloglosowej osiagnal, pozwalajac innym wypowiedziec sie o Romanie Wilhelmim. I tak zobaczymy go oczyma kolegów po fachu, rezyserów, krytyków i pisarzy. Znakomita lektura nie tylko dla fanów.

Alexander the Great changed the world that he knew—but how he did it, and how much of his story is truth and how much is invented, is hard to tell. One of our most important sources for his achievements and personality is Plutarch's Life of Alexander, and this is the first detailed commentary on it for over fifty years, along with a thorough introduction and translation. It is a sister volume to the author's 2011 edition (also in the Clarendon Ancient History Series) of Plutarch's Caesar, the Life paired with Alexander in Plutarch's series of Parallel Lives.

A harrowing journey inside the hidden world of drug cartels by one of the top criminal informants in US law enforcement history. The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or CS 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. In Confidential Source Ninety-Six, Caribe tells the extraordinary story.

From the time she first felt called to its gates as a high school student fascinated by Dante and Italian thanks to a life-changing teacher, Rome has been a fixed star around which Alizah Holstein’s life has rotated—despite the fact that she bears no Italian heritage, and has never lived there long enough to call it home. In this kaleidoscopic yet intimate memoir, her shifting relationship to a vibrant city layered with human history becomes a lens on why we look to the past, on the mysteries of affinity and desire, and on what it means to grow up.

With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped out of the war of soldiers and into the war as lived by Italian civilians - many of whom risked their lives to help him. The year was 1943 and Captain Miller had been in captivity for over a year. Italian anti-fascists harboured and fed him, first in a remote mountain village, then in Rome itself.

Si hay un escritor que con su literatura, en una metáfora de guerreros, magos, elfos, gigantes y bestias inverosímiles, haya logrado retratar los horrores de dos guerras mundiales, el desenfreno de la industrialización, la ambición desmedida del poder y el deterioro ambiental del presente, ese es John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, más conocido universalmente como J. R. R. Tolkien. Gracias a la magia del cine ha llevado El señor de los anillos a la pantalla.

Berlin 1989, Wendezeit. An der durchlässig gewordenen Mauer entlang gehen zwei alte Männer, der Bürobote Theo Wuttke, genannt Fonty, und sein "Tagundnachtschatten" Hoftaller, der ewige Spitzel. Ihre Erinnerungen reichen über große Distanzen, beiden ist die Vergangenheit so nahe und gegenwärtig wie die sich überstürzenden Tagesereignisse. "Ein weites Feld" entwirft ein Panorama deutscher Geschichte von 1848 bis heute, es ist Berlin-Roman und Fontane-Biographie.

In 1933, Johann Trollmann won Germany's light-heavyweight boxing title. The Nazis would not accept him as the winner because he was Sinto. Many Sinti and Roma (or "Gypsies") had long been involved in the sport, but Nazi ideology demanded that only Aryans excel as fighters. Trollmann used his visibility in the ring for shocking and aggressive protest, turning boxing into politically charged performance art. He fought for his country, and against its prejudice.

A little over 2000 years ago a man named Julius Caesar changed the world. Even if you have never heard of him, his lasting legacy has no doubt had an impact on your life. Even the very calendar that you use is based upon the system he created, with the month of July bearing his name. So who was this man that single-handedly changed the course of history? This audiobook follows the life and legacy of the man whose life stood between Republic and Empire.

Niels Aage Barfoeds roman fortæller den sande historie om den danske pietist og salmedigter Hans Adolf Brorson (1694-1764), der var biskop i Ribe fra 1741-1764. Vi hører om hans studier i København, der fejlede på grund af overanstrengelse og sygdom, og hvordan han kom til hægterne igen i de fredelige omgivelser hos sin bror Niels, der var sognepræst i Bedsted. Bogen fortæller om Hans Adolf Brorsons åndelige vækkelse og vejen til den prestigiøse position som biskop i Ribe.

Le petit Rital de la rue Sainte-Anne a grandi. Septembre 1939 : il vient d'avoir seize ans. Une année mémorable. Les six qui suivent sont pas mal non plus. Pour lui et pour beaucoup d'autres. Cette fois encore, c'est le jeune gars de ce temps-là qui parle, avec ses exacts sentiments de ce temps-là, ses exacts sentiments tels que sa mémoire les lui fait revivre. Il n'est pas forcément triste là où il devrait l'être, ni joyeux là où d'autres le seraient. La guerre, ça n'a pas le même goût pour tout le monde.

Niels Aage Barfoeds biografiske roman "Verden er et flyvesand" fortæller om den danske digter Ambrosius Stubs (1705-1758) liv og værker. Hvor Ambrosius Stubs digte var smukke, lette og yndefulde, var hans liv og opførsel det stik modsatte. Jo ældre han blev, des mere gik han op i limningen af druk, personlige problemer og sorg over omverdenens manglende anerkendelse af hans digte, som efter hans død vandt stor popularitet.

Marcus Aurelius was an outstanding person and Emperor of Ancient Rome. He was far more concerned with ways of thinking than with warfare. Being a small boy he applied himself to task with education. Marcus preferred others over himself, putting his own welfare aside for the good of other people.

Lauréat du Dayton Literary Peace Prize, un court roman stupéfiant d'intensité, un texte riche, souvent dérangeant, sur un passé qui n'en finit pas de résonner. Je n'ai pas été un nazi. Ce que je veux te raconter ne concerne ni des atrocités, ni un génocide. Je n'ai pas vu les camps de la mort et je ne suis pas qualifié pour en dire un seul mot. J'ai lu le livre de Primo Levi sur ce sujet, comme tout le monde. Sauf qu'en le lisant, "nous, les Allemands", nous sommes obligés de penser : Nous avons commis cela.

Federico a 4 ans. Rubiel aussi. À l'Orphelinat de Medellín, où ils partagent une chambre insipide, ils sont plus que des amis. Ce sont des frères, voire plus, que l'adoption de Federico va bientôt séparer.

Kalf, von Berufs wegen Biograph, wird mit seiner Frau nach New York eingeladen, ein berühmter Verleger will ihn kennen lernen. Eine große Ehre, die sich bald als fatale Falle herausstellt, denn Kalfs Frau wird entführt. Kalf ist völlig schokiert, unfähig, sich dem Entführer zu stellen. Er macht sich auf die Suche nach ihr und verstrickt sich immer weiter in die Vergangenheit eines gewissen Meerkatz...

Michel Butor est un magicien, un exhausteur de saveurs, qui savamment juxtapose découpes, couleurs, textures et nous laisse circuler entre ces blocs, ces univers, de séduction en surprise... Il renouvelle ici en 28 entretiens les perspectives sur son travail et son univers de création, et nous révèle la subversivité et l'engagement au quotidien de son alchimie langagière - avec le partage, l'émancipation, qui en sont l'horizon.

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