Títulos en Ficción biográfica

Anna Roth, jeune documentaliste à Princeton, a une mission : rencontrer Adèle, la veuve de Kurt Gödel, l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du XXe siècle, afin de récupérer les documents laissés par le grand mathématicien. Par petites touches, Adèle dévoile peu à peu l'histoire d'amour improbable, l'horreur nazie, le génie et les folies de son mari Kurt Gödel.

"Il m'est venu l'envie d'écrire un livre doux. Pas vraiment sur les bêtes mais plutôt autour, à propos des rapports que nous avons avec certaines d'entre elles." Anny Duperey.

Zadziwiające, jak często bagatelizowana jest rola uczuć w historii. Poznaj sekrety romansu, który w znaczący sposób wpłynął na dzieje naszej ojczyzny! Książka Iwony Kienzler - znanej autorki bestsellerów biograficznych opowiada o związku Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego i wielkiej księżnej Katarzyny, późniejszej carycy. Ich miłość dała Polsce króla Stasia, ale też w konsekwencji zabrała naszej ojczyźnie niepodległość. To fascynujący romans, który zmienił bieg historii Polski. Zapraszamy do lektury!

"Je rêvais de retrouver la trace et l'image d'un saint Louis à l'humanité sensible, un saint Louis de chair, à figure humaine. Le temps, en l'élevant au-dessus de nos natures, lui a peut-être rendu un mauvais service. Il m'a imposé d'aller puiser aux sources les plus authentiques."

When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.

Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city - and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality and living a lie, every day bringing the danger of discovery closer. When Hitler’s right-hand man moves in and makes her his pet, she sees an opportunity to help the Resistance - and draw closer to Jack, her contact, whose brusque instructions may be a shield for something more....

Dominique, surnommé "Toubabou", "Le Blanc", par tous à Tombouctou, est un adolescent né des amours d'un aristocrate français officier de méharistes et d'une jeune nomade berbère. Son père ayant dû rentrer en France à sa naissance, au moment de l'indépendance du Mali, et sa mère étant morte accidentellement peu après, il a été élevé à l'africaine par un couple de Songhaï.

Pepi cree que sus lentes gigantescos, su exuberante cabello, su sonrisa con frenillos y su abultada cintura no le favorecen. Y por ese motivo prefiere el mundo anónimo del internet que el peligroso y expuesto mundo real. Sin embargo, de un momento a otro su tranquila vida sufre un vuelco: mientras navegaba por el chat, conoce a un español del cual se enamora completamente. Y, para su sorpresa, a él le ocurre lo mismo. Pero hay un problema, quiere viajar a Chile a conocerla.

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert reimagines the fascinating story of Laura's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, an intrepid world traveler and writer who returned to her parents' Ozark farm, Rocky Ridge, in 1928.

I funerali di Berlinguer e la scoperta del piacere di perdere, il rapimento Moro e il tradimento del padre, il coraggio intellettuale di Parise e il primo amore che muore il giorno di San Valentino, il discorso con cui Bertinotti cancellò il governo Prodi e la resa definitiva al gene della superficialità, la vita quotidiana durante i vent'anni di Berlusconi al potere, una frase di Craxi e un racconto di Carver.

She was the mother of Henry VIII and wife of Henry VII, but who was Elizabeth of York? Raised as the precious eldest child of Edward IV, Elizabeth had every reason to expect a bright future until Edward died, and her life fell apart. When Elizabeth's uncle became Richard III, she was forced to choose sides. Should she trust her father's brother and most loyal supporter or honor the betrothal that her mother has made for her to her family's enemy, Henry Tudor? The choice was made for her on the field at Bosworth.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

England, 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, waits in Windsor Castle to meet his new mistress, the beautiful and lonely Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V. Her infant son is crowned king of England and France, and while the country simmers on the brink of civil war, Owen becomes her protector. They fall in love, risking Owen's life and Queen Catherine's reputation, but how do they found the dynasty that changes British history - the Tudors?

Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew - the wife of Virginia’s first two governors - puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. A transporting and evocative story, The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew is a fiercely hopeful novel - a portrait of two intrepid women who choose to live out their dreams of a future more free than the past.

È l'estate del 1939, Miranda ha dieci anni e il mondo è sull'orlo dell'abisso. Ma lei non lo sa. Quell'estate sarà la più bella della sua vita. Miranda parte con sua madre da Firenze per raggiungere Villa Ada, la casa del nonno paterno, il marchese Ugo Soderini, sulle colline pistoiesi. Suo padre è altrove. La cascina del nonno e il bosco misterioso che la circonda sono il teatro perfetto per le avventure spericolate insieme con Lapo, il nipote del fattore, le scorribande in bicicletta, le scoperte pericolose, il primo, innocente bacio.

In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family’s reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength.

Un'anziana e taciturna signora dai capelli bianchi vende fiori in una strada di Praga tra l'indifferenza dei passanti. Ad accorgersi di lei sembra essere solo un giovane giornalista che, spinto dal desiderio di aiutarla, compra spesso quell'unico mazzetto di tulipani che la donna offre. Presto, però, il giovane scoprirà che dietro quegli occhi azzurri e assenti, la "Signora dei tulipani" nasconde una storia incredibile e toccante iniziata al tempo dell’'ccupazione nazista della Cecoslovacchia e della Shoah.

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

Chi c'è dietro la maschera di Anne Sexton, la poetessa bellissima e dannata, straordinaria figura letteraria del Novecento? Come superarne lo stereotipo di donna volubile, egoista, dolce, furiosa ed erotica, per arrivare al nocciolo della sua identità e ricostruire la complessità di una vita così estrema e contraddittoria? Attraverso sottrazioni e tentativi, costeggiando nel romanzo una nuova forma di verità.

"La Vita è una startup" è un romanzo che pone al centro il valore del qui e ora e delle priorità nella vita di ognuno di noi. Molti individui hanno un lavoro, magari anche prestigioso, eppure spesso privo di un reale significato personale. Sono persone che hanno dimenticato quali siano gli aspetti importanti della loro esistenza e che si trovano di fronte a una duplice scelta per comprendere come l'attività lavorativa possa essere parte di una vita vissuta a pieno: meglio una carriera gratificante per noi o un percorso lavorativo apprezzato dagli altri?