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Otlakçı'daki öyküler doğaya, insanlara arı duru bir sevgiyle bakan; gerilimleri bile sevecenlikle karşılayan bir anlayışın ürünüdür. Soyuttan arınmış gözlemleri, alabildiğine derin ve gerçekçi boyutlarıyla, her dönemin yapıtı olabilecek öyküler bırakmıştır Memduh Şevket Esendal. Esendal, içinde yaşadığı dönemin kişilerini, o günlerde oluşan olayları alaysamalı bir anlatımla sergilemekte ve eleştirmektedir.

Navigating the ins and outs of an absent father and a traumatized mother, and marked by choices made around religious zealots, drug addicted family, and growing up with his gay siblings in suburbia. We discover that as we grow, we become collectors of memories, keeping the ones that matter and throwing out the ones that don’t. Our choices rely heavily on how we interpret our past, and what meaning that we give to those memories.

Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumour growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again — and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children — she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights and always buying that dress when she sees it.

Discover excitement and romance in To Seek for Eldorado—a heart-racing adventure and love story that spans the vast geography of Canada and takes you through the depths of the human soul. In this book, listeners will experience the joy and heartbreak of young love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the power of determination in the face of adversity.

1934 Young Kathleen Carver dreams of becoming a movie star despite her fathers warnings that she wouldn't want that life. As she grows, she becomes more determined and her strong personality and independent soul won't let her give up. After college, she stays out east and works in the theater. Then her big break comes—Hollywood is calling—and she goes home to California to become the star she always knew she'd be. But there are bumps along the highway to stardom, heartbreak, losses, and scandals. And secrets—so many secrets to keep.

When a health scare forces Orla, 29, to move in with her secretive father, she decides it's time to swap family drama for sun-soaked Greek beaches. After checking into a charming B&B, she realises the turquoise sea isn't the only eye-catching sight. Her neighbour, brooding writer Georgios, is in dire need of inspiration – and Orla seems to be the muse he's been waiting for. But over candlelit dinners and Greek wine, he persuades Orla to share her past. As soon as she does, however, Georgios abruptly ends their rendezvous.

Quando Juliana é inesperadamente nomeada para ensinar na escola municipal, o primeiro dia de aula começa com um bilhete de boas-vindas anônimo. Conforme Juliana trabalha, os bilhetes tornam-se cada vez mais críticos em relação às suas práticas pedagógicas, exigindo que ela ensine seus alunos a ler e escrever em um tempo impossivelmente curto. À medida que a pedagoga enfrenta o desafio, ela descobre os segredos de ensinar leitura e escrita usando estratégias de consciência fonológica baseadas em evidências.

Rumi vive nas ruas, preso ao seu passado doloroso, até que conhece Malu. Nessa troca de amizade e afeto, sua vida se ilumina para novas possibilidades. Uma história sobre como, no encontro com o outro, acabamos encontrando nós mesmos. "Uma leitura doce, que sacode a alma da gente e faz possível sentir a pulsação da vida que insiste em viver, mas que figura uma das faces mais severas do desequilíbrio social." Lorrane Benedicto "Adorei Rumi. Me fez pensar em algumas leituras sensíveis, importantes para sairmos de nosso confortável e privilegiado lugar.

If you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip. In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone. Over the next six days, she receives a marriage proposal, pulls an all-nighter, saves a life or two, crashes a high-society event, meets a kindred spirit, faces a former rival, makes a new friend, takes a stroll with a future movie mogul, advises a troubled newlywed, and reflects upon a life well lived: her own!

Scènes de la Vie de Bohème d'Henry Murger, initialement publiées en 1851, offre un portrait vivant de la vie bohème à Paris dans les années 1840. Cette œuvre, bien qu'il ne s'agisse pas d'un roman traditionnel, se compose d'histoires interconnectées se déroulant dans le Quartier Latin, romantisant le style de vie insouciant et artistique des bohèmes.

The author of this book captures the listener's attention from the start by weaving a tale of a son's grief over the loss of his mother, which is intensified by the coincidental alignment of his mother's burial with his birthday. The man's memories of his mother and the special ritual they shared on his birthday provide a lens through which the listener can explore the anthropological phenomenon of a woman's transition into motherhood.

Tecla e Laura hanno una cosa in comune: il compleanno. Sono nate entrambe il primo gennaio, ed è proprio quello il giorno in cui si incontrano per caso sulle scale del palazzo in cui entrambe abitano. Qui, però, finiscono le somiglianze perché Tecla ha tredici anni ed è alle prese con la tesina per l'esame di terza media, mentre Laura di anni ne ha novantacinque ed è alle prese solo con i suoi ricordi. Solo? In realtà non è poco, perché quella non è un'anziana signora come tante.

Rivka Ganuke, barely surviving her birth, was thrust into a conflicted world at the onset of the 20th century, a world of want, poverty and danger, a misogynistic world which had forever deprived women of equality. She rebelled at the obligation to fulfill age-old roles steeped in superstition and was denied the right to continue her education despite her brilliant mind.

Elizabeth wasn’t born to be queen. But when her uncle abdicates and her father steps in as king, everything in her life changes. There is one thing that never wavers, however: her endearing love of her Corgis—especially the new puppy Susan, a gift for her eighteenth birthday. Susan is by her side during Elizabeth’s WWII service, falling in love with Philip and getting married, the death of her father King George VI, her accession to the throne, the birth of her first child, and the early struggles with running a country—an ever-present reminder to find the balance between self and crown.

Ein Jugendlicher aus Böhmen war von einer Ideologie fasziniert, die ihn völlig in Beschlag nahm. Er wurde unmerklich zu einem Diener der Meister, für die er bereit war, alles zu opfern. War er wirklich so wichtig für sie, wie er dachte? Oder war er nur einer von vielen Bauern, die am Ende mit nichts dastehen? Das Buch basiert auf dem Tagebuch eines deutschen Soldaten.

Desire Minter was a passenger on the famous Mayflower voyage of 1620. But who was she? And why did she make that journey? Winds of Change is a short novella introducing a character from Running with the Wind and The Winter Years.

In 1887, young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum that looms on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to document—and expose—the wretched conditions faced by the patients.

Friedrich "Fritz" Mandl es un joven austríaco que se hace cargo a sus 19 años de la destruida fábrica de armas de su padre. En apenas una década, llega a amasar una de las fortunas más grandes del planeta. Durante la preguerra, en los años 30, entre su cartera de clientes cuenta con Mussolini, Hitler y Franco, entre otros. En 1933, al ver la película Éxtasis, donde la actriz Hedwig Kiesler interpreta el primer desnudo total femenino y el primer orgasmo en la pantalla grande, se enamora de ella.

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone...she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance.

Cesare Borgia, former cardinal, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, has been a figure of awe and scorn for generations. Seemingly compelled to explore this fascinating historical figure's true nature, Rafael Sabatini brought Borgia life as no one had before. Drawn to the passion, suspicion, betrayal, and ambition of Borgia's brief but exciting life, Sabatini penned seven short stories set during the Italian Renaissance: "The Honour of Varano", "The Test", "Ferrante's Jest", "Gisimondi's Wage", "The Snare", "The Lust of Conquest", and "The Pasquinade". These stories are collected here.