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'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII's much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen...

A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place. Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand.

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Removed from the shadow of death as the Queen of King Henry VIII, Anna of Cleves revels in her new life as the King's "good sister". A new Queen has risen, the young Catherine Howard, and as court and country try to pit Anna against Catherine, the Lady of Cleves strives to show only friendship and support to the new Queen and the royal family.

Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521. Nestled deep in a land rich in myth and fairy-tale, within the changing politics and religion of the Holy Roman Empire, a young girl grows to adulthood, watching war and faith tear the world she knows asunder.

November 1539. Sent as a bride for the much-married King of England, Anna of Cleves has left her homeland and family behind to travel to England. There to be wed to a man who has killed one wife, and perhaps caused the deaths of two more, Anna fears her marriage and husband, yet she has been promised to Henry VIII to secure alliance for her country, and safety for her people. But will there be safety for Anna? Into a court of scandal and cutthroat politics she is thrown, and only by her wits will she survive.

She called herself Silent Anna, because she couldn’t tell anyone about what happened between her and her stepfather. Many years later, Anna breaks the silence to reveal the sexual abuse she suffered, its impact on her life and how she has finally managed to overcome it. This is the story of a young girl’s determination to survive and to overcome her traumatic childhood.

Verfolgt und um ihr Leben fürchtend muss Anna Seghers 1941 Europa verlassen. Fortan lebt sie bis 1947 im mexikanischen Exil. Hier schreibt sie ihre großen Romane, erlebt die Veröffentlichung und den Erfolg von "Das siebte Kreuz", hier trifft sie auf schillernde Personen wie Pablo Neruda und Frida Kahlo. Mit den anderen Exilanten Egon Erwin Kisch und dem Verleger Walter Janka teilt sie die Sorge um die Daheimgebliebenen und die um die Lage in Europa.

Anna Politkovskaja è una giornalista russa uccisa, a quarantotto anni, nel 2006 a Mosca. Con i suoi capelli grigi e gli occhialini in metallo, è diventata un'icona della libertà di espressione. Nella sua vita ha raccontato molte storie, ma nessuno aveva ancora raccontato la sua. Ora, eccola. Quella di Anna è, prima di tutto, una storia d'amore. A diciotto anni incontra Sasha, che diventerà un giornalista di successo.

A young immigrant is abandoned in Dawson at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. She’s penniless and unready to be among 100,000 stampeders. Circumstances soon force her to move to the cribs of Klondike City to survive.

Heinrich Berlingen, Baron von Satten, braucht einen Erben für seinen Titel und sein Lebenswerk, aber will sich nicht binden. So kommt Niklas von Altenmark, ein siebenjähriger preußischer Krautjunker zu dem ruhelosen älteren Herrn, und das, obwohl er doch niemals von daheim fort wollte. Unter den Fittichen des Barons reist Niklas über Berlin ins vorrevolutionäre Paris, erlebt die letzte Blüte des Rokokos, bevor der Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution sie nach London treibt, und von dort über den halben Kontinent.

Ein bewegender Roman über Anna Freud und ihre Arbeit mit Kriegswaisen und traumatisierten Kindern SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Laura Baldini erzählt gewohnt einfühlsam von Anna Freud und ihrer unschätzbaren Arbeit für die unschuldigsten Opfer des Krieges: die Kinder. Sie kamen aus der Hölle...

"Je m'appelle Anna Livia" est le récit âpre, tendu entre noir et lumière telle une tragédie grecque, de l'irracontable, l'inceste. Deux voix - celle d'une femme depuis longtemps partie du domaine, la mère d'Elisabeta, qui questionne ; celle du serviteur Josefino qui revit la découverte, un matin, du corps suicidé de son maître -, et un silence hanté : "Ainsi c'était déjà là. C'était là avant que de se faire. Comme dérivant à la surface d'un rêve obscur. Avant même qu'elle ait pu penser. Un jour peut-être."

Kaluszyn, 1939. Nine-year-old Joanna is determined to enjoy her childhood despite growing up without her mother. She is surrounded by her loving grandparents, sweet father, and loyal friend Aleksander. Together, Joanna and Aleksander navigate Kaluszyn and explore what life has to offer. However, neither of them can foresee a series of events that will shatter their lives.