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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Nada hacía suponer a Mauro Larrea que la fortuna que levantó tras años de tesón y arrojo se le derrumbaría con un estrepitoso revés. Ahogado por las deudas y la incertidumbre, apuesta sus últimos recursos en una temeraria jugada que abre ante él la oportunidad de resurgir. Hasta que la...

Bloomsbury presents Diva by Daisy Goodwin, read by Lorelei King, Josephine Goddard and Daisy Goodwin. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking...

FonoLibro se enorgullece al presentar María, la obra cumbre de la novela romántica latinoamericana, del prestigioso escritor Colombiano Jorge Isaac. Esta famosa y reconocida novela narra la historia de amor juvenil entre María y Efraín, enmarcada en la zona selvática del Valle del Cauca a fines siglo XIX, en la hacienda "El Paraíso" donde ambos crecieron. Sin embargo el camino de ambos se separo cuando, a la usanza de la época, Efraín fue enviado a Bogota a culminar sus estudios de bachillerato.

'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an...

Nueva York, 1936. La pequeña casa de comidas El Capitán arranca su andadura en la calle Catorce, uno de los enclaves de la colonia española que por entonces reside en la ciudad. La muerte accidental de su dueño, el tarambana Emilio Arenas, obliga a sus indomables hijas veinteañeras a tomar...

Die Rückkehr zum Karlsplatz. Lichterfelde, 1968: Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben reist die junge Tänzerin Maria nach Deutschland, in die Heimat ihrer Mutter Vera. Hier an der Deutschen Oper in Berlin hat sie ihr erstes Solo-Engagement als Ballerina erhalten. Sie taucht ein in die spannende Musikszene der Stadt - und sie macht sich auf die Suche nach den Spuren ihrer Herkunft.

Everyone expects Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy to fix their problems: estate management, endorse a courtship, hide from the Blue Order Council dragons. Some were more difficult that others, but still within the realm of a Pendragon Knight. The mounting dangers to the Blue Order and all of Dragonkind, though, dealing those would require more effort. Perhaps after a strong cup of coffee—not tea, world-ending disasters required coffee.

"Maria entre Tlemcen et Entre-Rios" est un livre audio de la série "Afrique du Nord", c'est une histoire de famille à la fin du XIXe siècle. Joseph émigre en Argentine mais il laisse son épouse Maria et ses cinq jeunes enfants à Tlemcen, en Algérie. Maria aura-t-elle le courage de le rejoindre en dépit des conditions d'une traversée périlleuse vers un nouveau monde inconnu ? Maria était une femme forte comme il en existait à cette époque et la vie en Algérie était douce et facile en 1881.

Pubblicato nel 1912, questo romanzo ebbe un grande successo, non solo perché raccontava lo “scandalo russo”, la storia dell’avventuriera Maria Tarnowska, condannata a 8 anni per aver spinto , con la complicità di un suo amante, un altro suo amante a uccidere il suo futuro marito; ma perché la storia di questa donna la vedeva al centro di grandi passioni e di suicidi (se ne contano almeno due). Maria Tarnowska ebbe una pena mite grazie all’impostazione della difesa che mostrò la sua storia di sposa bambina con un pervertito, e la sua infermità mentale, dovuta anche alla cocaina.

England is overrun by dragons of all shapes and sizes. Most people are blissfully unaware of them and the Pendragon Treaty that keeps the peace between human and dragon kind. Only those born with preternatural hearing, like Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are able to hear and converse with dragonkind.

One would think Anne Elliot, a baronet’s daughter, would find the marriage mart far easier to navigate than a more ordinary woman. One would be wrong. After refusing a poor, but otherwise perfect sailor, on the advice of her friend Lady Russell, Anne finds an unhappy choice before her: marry deathly dull Charles Musgrove or hope against hope that another suitable proposal might come her way before she becomes a spinster on the shelf.

Elizabeth Bennet's father, Admiral Thomas Bennet, assures his daughters his retirement from His Majesty's Navy will be the start of a new life for them all. Little does he know his family's battles have only just begun.