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Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a novice nun sent to teach a widowed baron's sickly child. Yet much of Maria's life will have to be reinvented for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When Maria sees the script that is supposedly based on her life, she becomes so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein in person. Told that he's busy, she is asked to express her concerns to his secretary Fran instead. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life.

Amidst the vast, sunlit cornfields of Portugal, Maria Lucilia receives a letter. The note is from her husband, Benedito da Silva, who is in exile – serving a punishing seven-year sentence as a fisherman with the White Fleet. But Bene cannot read or write. In the icy port town of St John’s...

This collection contains Book 1 - Undercurrents, Book 2 – Drowned Voices, and Book 3 – Emergence.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the...

Eva has spent her life as an outsider. Now, she is trapped in a world that sees her as something much worse—a monster. When Eva is dragged into the world of a book, she is met not with the fantasy she always dreamed of, but with chains. Imprisoned on accusations of unleashing terrifying creatures upon the people of Abhaile, she is forced to strike a deal to untangle the truth behind the portals letting them in. As she journeys through its mystical lands, the injustices of this world come to light.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days. I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver’s...

From the bestselling author of The Time In Between comes a sweeping historical saga of an immigrant’s rags-to-riches journey as she struggles to anchor herself in foreign land across three tumultuous decades. Deeply harrowing circumstances force Cecilia Belmonte to leave her impoverished...

'A rare novel.' - S. HAREESH 'A must-read!' - DAISY ROCKWELL Following the death of her grandfather, Maria has stopped speaking - not because she can't, but because she doesn't want to. Now in a psychiatric hospital, as she begins the process of 'reconnecting with reality', Maria recalls her...

Efraín abandona la casa de su infancia. Junto a su familia, ha quedado también María, la niña y mujer que encenderá su vehemente amor. Sin embargo, las más hondas desdichas asomarán a la vida de los jóvenes amantes.

«Digámoslo sintéticamente: literatura de calidad.» Ricardo Senabre, El Culturalde El Mundo Una vez al mes, María se viste con su mejor ropa para acompañar a su madre al médico, desde la colonia industrial a las afueras de Madrid hasta la ciudad, donde vive su tía Amalia. Con ella...

Le piccole donne di Maria Lazar sono Grete, Anette, Ulla e l'anonima narratrice che parla in queste pagine. La sua confessione, concitata e rapinosa, suscita in noi un crescente turbamento, perché la sua voce si mimetizza con le altre. Una presenza, che lei chiama «l'Estranea», la spia dagli specchi e dalle finestre, e si fa via via sempre più ardita e invadente.

The spirited story of Mary Evans, an extraordinary woman from colonial Charles Town who finds a place for herself in St. Augustine after Spain relinquishes Florida. In this captivating tale, Eugenia Price paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous historic and political events that shaped the life of Mary Evans, a remarkably independent woman in the colonial south. Born in Charles Town, South Carolina, Mary, a skilled midwife, accompanied her first husband, British soldier David Fenwick, when his regiment fought the Spanish in Cuba.

Friedrich Schillers Drama Maria Stuart erzählt vom Machtkampf zweier Königinnen, von politischem Kalkül, persönlicher Schuld und der Frage nach moralischer Verantwortung. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Maria Stuart, die gefangene schottische Königin, und Elisabeth I. von England, deren Entscheidungen über Leben und Tod bestimmen. Die Nacherzählung folgt dem dramatischen Verlauf des Originals, macht die politischen und persönlichen Konflikte klar nachvollziehbar und bewahrt die emotionale Intensität des Stücks – auch für Hörerinnen und Hörer ohne Vorkenntnisse.

Hui de un crimen involuntario. Hui de los hombres que no me quisieron. Hui de una guerra. Esta es mi historia, entre España y Orán, junto al Mediterráneo. Orán. Años 20, siglo xx. En esta ciudad africana de origen árabe, pulso español y administración francesa desembarca una joven con el...

For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. “This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were...

Emilie väntar otåligt, och med stigande oro, på att få höra vad väninnan Birte har att berätta. Kommer hennes farhågor visa sig vara sanna? Karen tror att det är kyrkvaktmästaren Salomon som står bakom ryktena om att Elias inte är gudfruktig nog att vara präst. Hon vill få ordning...

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 9 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including James Joyce; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; W.B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; and more.

The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's entertaining and hilarious Professor von Igelfeld series Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is not just any German professor - he is the author of that great work of scholarship, Portuguese Irregular Verbs. His eminence in language studies is widely...

Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize Winner of Colombia’s National Novel Award This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds. In Only a Little While Here...

Det enda Monica önskar sig i femtioårspresent är en sommar utan golf. Stugan på Österlen är bokad sedan flera månader tillbaka och det där hon kommer fira sin femtioårsdag. Hon och maken ska umgås på riktigt igen och förhoppningsvis hitta tillbaka till varandra. Men när maken släpper bomben att han ska tillbringa sommaren på annat håll inser Monica att deras äktenskap har större problem än hon velat erkänna tidigare.