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  • - A Novel
    von Jennifer Robson
    28,00 €

    An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over.Spring, 1924Recovering from a broken wartime engagement and a serious illness that left her near death, Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr vows that for once she will live life on her own terms. Breaking free from the stifling social constraints of the aristocratic society in which she was raised, she travels to France to stay with her free spirited aunt. For one year, she will simply be Miss Parr. She will explore the picturesque streets of Paris, meet people who know nothing of her pastand pursue her dream of becoming an artist.A few years after the Great Wars end, the City of Light is a bohemian paradise teeming with actors, painters, writers, and a lively coterie of American expatriates who welcome Helena into their romantic and exciting circle. Among them is Sam Howard, an irascible and infuriatingly honest correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Dangerously attractive and deeply scarred by the horror and carnage of the war, Sam is unlike any man she has ever encountered. He calls her Ellie, sees her as no one has before, and offers her a glimpse of a future that is both irresistible and impossible.As Paris rises phoenix-like from the ashes of the Great War, so too does Helena. Though shes shed her old self, shes still uncertain of what she will become and where she belongs. But is she strong enough to completely let go of the past and follow her heart, no matter where it leads her?Artfully capturing the Lost Generation and their enchanting city, Moonlight Over Paris is the spellbinding story of one young womans journey to find herself, and claim the lifeand loveshe truly wants.

  • von Melina Marchetta
    14,00 €

    Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Kirkus Best BookJellicoe Road is a dazzling tale that is part love story, part family drama, and part coming-of-age novel. Described by Kirkus as a beautifully rendered mystery and by VOYA as a great choice for more sophisticated readers and those teens who like multifaceted stories and characters. Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn't a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs, the boy who might be the key to unlocking the secrets for Taylors past, is back in town, moody stares and all.In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her; Hannah finding her; Hannahs sudden departure; a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear; a boy in her dreams; five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago; and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does.If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she just might be able to change her future.

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    von Julia Quinn
    32,00 €

  • - From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump
    von Robert Dallek
    25,00 €

    The award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian considers the vast array of triumphs and failures of Americas modern presidents that paved a path to Donald Trump, offering an understanding of our current moment and hope for a way back to true leadership.The struggle to preserve the Republic has never been easy or without perils. The rise of conflicting political parties, which the founders opposed, and President John Adams Alien and Sedition Acts repressing First Amendment rights made Franklins observation at the conclusion of the Constitutional Conventiona republic, if you can keep itseem prescient.In the twentieth century, America endured numerous struggles: economic depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-contra scandal, the war in Iraqall of which gave rise to demagogues, as did the growth and reach of mass media. But this wasnt the Founding Fathers vision for our leadership. The resistance to putting a demagogue in the White House survived the anti-Communist agitation of the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. But the latter opened the way for Richard Nixons election in 1968 and Watergate, which again tested our democratic institutions and the rule of law. Nixons resignation in August 1974 moved Vice President Gerald Ford, his successor, to declare, My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.But was it? Donald Trumps 2016 election has presented a new challenge. How did past politics and presidential administrations pave the way for this current assault on American democracy? Our nations history provides reassurance that we will restore our better angels to government. Yet it must be considered that earlier administrations and public outlook facilitated the rise of such an un-presidential character as Trump in the first place. In How Did We Get Here?, Robert Dallek considers a century of modern administrations, from Teddy Roosevelt to today, shining a light on the personalities behind the politics and the voters who elected each. His cautionary tale reminds us that the only constant in history is change, but whether for good or ill the choice is Americans to make.

  • von Soman Chainani
    10,00 €

    Soon to be a major motion picture from Netflix!In this sixth and final installment in Soman ChainanisNew York Timesbestselling epic fantasy fairy tale series, the School for Good and Evil, Camelots crownand the fate of the Endless Woodsare up for grabs.Beyond Good and Evil. Beyond Ever Afters. The tale of Sophie and Agatha comes to a dramatic conclusion. Prepare yourself for the End of Ends.The first test was passed.Excalibur pulled from the stone.A new king named.But two claim the crown.The sword returns to the stone, for only one is the true king.Who? The future I have seen has many possibilitiesSo by my will, none shall be crowned until the Tournament is complete.The Tournament of Kings.Three trials.Three answers to find.A race to the finish.My last coronation test.Excalibur will crown the winner and take the loser's head.The first test is coming. Prepare . . . King ArthurGreat for summer reading or anytime! ATodayshow pick for 25 childrens books your kids and teens wont be able to put down this summer!"e;

  • - A Novel
    von Jess Walter
    10,00 €

    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another literary miracle (NPR)a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two brothers swept up in the turbulent class warfare of the early twentieth century.The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.Dubious of Gigs idealism, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle, even if you cannot win the war?An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps, suffragists and socialists, madams and murderers, it is a tour de force from a writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors (Boston Globe).

  • - A Novel
    von Susan Wiggs
    35,00 €

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the pastand the promise of the future.Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, shes pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isnt the only thing shes lost.Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.Family Tree is the story of one womans triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.

  • - A Novel
    von Giordano Mario Giordano
    21,00 €

    There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif ... or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth.

  • von Carrie Vaughn
    21,00 €

    "Questland is a thrill ride . . . Richly imagined, action-packed, maximum fun." ? Charles Yu, New York Times bestselling author of Interior ChinatownYOU FIND YOURSELF IN A MAZE FULL OF TWISTY PASSAGES . . .Literature professor Dr. Addie Cox is living a happy, if sheltered, life in her ivory tower when Harris Lang, the famously eccentric billionaire tech genius, offers her an unusual job. He wants her to guide a mercenary strike team sent to infiltrate his island retreat off the northwest coast of the United States. Addie is puzzled by her role on the mission until she understands what Lang has built: Insula Mirabilis, an isolated resort where tourists will one day pay big bucks for a convincing, high-tech-powered fantasy-world experience, complete with dragons, unicorns, and, yes, magic.Unfortunately, one of the island's employees has gone rogue and activated an invisible force shield that has cut off all outside communication. A Coast Guard cutter attempting to pass through the shield has been destroyed. Suspicion rests on Dominic Brand, the project's head designer?and Addie Cox's ex-boyfriend. Lang has tasked Addie and the mercenary team with taking back control of the island at any cost.But Addie is wrestling demons of her own?and not the fantastical kind. Now, she must navigate the deadly traps of Insula Mirabilis as well as her own past trauma. And no d20, however lucky, can help Addie make this saving throw.?Gamers rejoice! Carrie Vaughn has conjured up a fun and fast-paced story filled with elves, d20s, and Monty Python riffs.? ? Monte Cook, ENnie Award-winning creator of the Numenera roleplaying game

  • - And Other Stories
    von Italo Calvino
    21,00 €

    The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection-one of Calvino's earliest-take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller's later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits-and his life-when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Throughout, Calvino delights in discovering hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. Stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.

  • - Short Fictions and Wonders
    von Neil Gaiman
    10,00 - 24,00 €

    A prodigiously imaginative collection.New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceDazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.Washington Post Book WorldFragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novel series. A uniquely imaginative creator of wonders whose unique storytelling genius has been acclaimed by a host of literary luminaries from Norman Mailer to Stephen King, Gaimans astonishing powers are on glorious displays in Fragile Things. Enter and be amazed!

  • - Short Fictions and Illusions
    von Neil Gaiman
    10,00 - 24,00 €

    In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonderswhere an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "e;Pest Control,"e; and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality, obscured by smoke and darkness yet brilliantly tangible, in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.

  • von Tahereh Mafi
    12,00 €

  • - The Surprising Science to Being Smarter, Stronger, Happier
    von Peter Lovatt
    24,00 €

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    - How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
    von Rosalind Miles
    15,00 €

  • von Aldous Huxley
    25,00 €

  • - Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
    von Douglas Brinkley
    27,00 €

    Douglas Brinkley has written a sweeping, blow-by-blow account of the struggle to preserve the last great remnants of American wilderness. An engaging appraisal of the crucial skirmishes in the battle over wild Alaska,The Quiet Worldis populated not only by the requisite luminaries like John Muir and Ansel Adams, but also by a cast of quirky, unexpected characters.The Quiet Worldis a fascinating and important read. Jon KrakauerIn this follow-up to hisNew York TimesbestsellerWilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaskas wilderness.Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaskas wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic refugefrom Klondike Gold Rush prospectors to environmental disasters like the Exxon-Valdez oil spilland documents environmental heroes from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and beyond. Not merely a record of Alaskas past,TheQuiet Worldis a compelling call-to-arms for sustainability, conservationism, and conscientious environmental stewardshipa warning that the land once called Sewards Folly may go down in history as Americas Greatest Mistake.

  • von Angie Sage
    10,00 €

  • von Fanny Rodriguez & Alejandra Green
    13,00 €

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    - The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
    von Yuval Noah Harari
    19,54 €

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    - Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life
    von Gary John Bishop
    16,00 €

    Compelling and straight-shooting wisdom for coping with whatever challenges life throws at us from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself.In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop taught millions of readers how to silence the negative, self-sabotaging voice in their head to thrive. InWise As Fu*khe expands on his ideas, redefining what it means to be wise and showing how to tackle problems and improve our lives and those of others.When the shit storms of life hit us, many of us dont know what to dowhether its losing a job, suffering a broken heart, or just feeling a lack of purpose. We need wisdom to help us navigate forward. While the internet is full of seemingly good advice, it isnt helping us actually change our lives.Wise As Fu*kbreaks through the bullshit, providing insight to inspire us in the four areas we need it most: love, loss, fear, and success.Written with his widely admired no-nonsense style,Wise As Fu*kprovides a welcome fresh perspective to help us transform how we approach a variety of lifes problems. But Bishop makes clear, the work doesnt stop there. Now that youve unfu*ked yourself and and are wise as fu*k about these touchy areas, you can apply the lessons to make a positive impact on the world.

  • 12% sparen
    - New Poems
    von Margaret Atwood
    18,00 €

    InDearly, Margaret Atwoods first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.While many are familiar with Margaret Atwoods fictionincluding her groundbreaking and bestselling novelsThe Handmaids Tale,The Testaments,Oryx and Crake, among othersshe has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry.This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.

  • - A Novel
    von David Hopen
    29,00 €

    A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himselfAri Edens life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of lifes pleasures. When the academys golden boy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the schools most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and defiantespecially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the shadow of his mothers death. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in unconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and careening toward a perilous futureone in which the traditions of their faith are repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends. Mesmerizing and playful, heartrending and darkly romantic, The Orchardprobes the conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of youth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed desires.

  • von Iva-Marie Palmer
    20,00 €

    One part Judy Blume, one part Amy Schumer, Gimme Everything You Got is incredibly warm, bracingly frank, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I didn't want the game to end. Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days It's 1979the age of roller skates and feathered bangs, Charlies Angels and Saturday Night Feverand Susan Klintock is a junior in high school with a lot of sexual fantasies . . . but not a lot of sexual experience. No boyat least not any she knowshas been worth taking a shot on. That is, until Bobby McMann arrives. Bobby is foxy, hes charming . . . and hes also the coach of the brand-new girls soccer team. Sure, hes totally, 100 percent, completely off limits. Sure, Susan doesnt stand a chance. But that doesnt mean she cant try out for the team to get closer to him, and Susan Klintock has always liked a challenge. Between the endless drills and grueling practices, Susan discovers something else: She might actually love soccer. But being a part of the first girls team at school means dealing with other challenges.As friendships shifts, she finds her real passions might lie in places she didnt expect when the season beganand that discovering who she is will mean taking risks, both on and off the pitch.Love. Lust. Soccer.Acclaimed author Iva-Marie Palmer returns with a fresh, funny, feminist coming-of-age comedy about learning to take your shot on the things that truly matter.

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    - A Simonverse Novella
    von Becky Albertalli
    12,98 €

    New York Times bestseller! Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this highly anticipated epilogue novella. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, the movie Love, Simon, and the new Hulu series spin-off, Love, Victor!Its been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leahs unforgettable night at senior prom.Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story beganon email.Praise for the Simonverse novels: Simon vs. theHomo Sapiens Agenda,The Upside ofUnrequited, andLeah on the Offbeat:Worthy of Fault in Our Starslevel obsession.Entertainment Weekly, on Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens AgendaHeart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I cant stop hugging this book.Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, on The Upside of Unrequited Albertalli has a fantastic ear for voice, and its beautifully on dis-play in Leahs funny, wry, and vulnerable first-person narrative.ALA Booklist (starred review), on Leah on the Offbeat

  • - A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
    von Mitch Albom
    9,00 €

    "e;Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You cant help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic. --Mary Karr, author of The Liars Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Alboms most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chikas arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, No one in Haiti can help you with. Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chikas boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formeda devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.

  • - The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
    von Daniel Gordis
    22,00 €

    From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author ofIsrael, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish lifeRelations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Since Israels founding seventy years ago, particularly as memory of the Holocaust and of Israels early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. Most explanations pin the blame on Israels handling of its conflict with the Palestinians, Israels attitude toward non-Orthodox Judaism, and Israels dismissive attitude toward American Jews in general. In short, the cause for the rupture is not what Israelis;its what Israeldoes.These explanations tell only half the story.We Stand Dividedexamines the history of the troubled relationship, showing that from the outset, the founders of what are now the worlds two largest Jewish communities were responding to different threats and opportunities, and had very different ideas of how to guarantee a Jewish future.With an even hand, Daniel Gordis takes us beyond the headlines and explains how Israel and America have fundamentally different ideas about issues ranging from democracy and history to religion and identity. He argues that as a first step to healing the breach, the two communities must acknowledge and discuss their profound differences and moral commitments. Only then can they forge a path forward, together.

  • - How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
    von Shannon Watts
    23,00 €

    Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents grew into Moms Demand Action, a national movement with millions of supporters and a powerful grassroots network of local chapters in all 50 states. Shannon has been called "e;the NRAs worst nightmareand her army of moms have bravely gone up against the gun lobby, showing up in their signature red shirts, blocking the hallways of congress with their strollers, electing gun sense candidates and running for office themselves, proving that if the 80 million moms in this country come together, they can put an end to gun violence.Fight Like a Mother is the incredible account how one mothers cry for change became the driving force behind gun safety progress. Along with stories of perseverance, courage, and compassion, Wattsshines a light on the unique power of womenstarting with what they have, leading with their maternal strengths, and doubling down instead of backing down. While not everyone can be on the front lines lobbying congress, every mom is already a multi-tasking organizer, and Shannon explains how to go from amateur activist to having a real impact in your community and beyond. Fight Like a Motherwill inspire everyonemothers and fathers, students and teachers, lawmakers, and anyone motivated to enact changeto get to work transforming hearts and minds, and passing laws that save lives.

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    - Her Life and Work
    von Benjamin Moser
    19,00 - 28,00 €

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of the American Centurys most toweringintellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of moneyand when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animatedand underminedher writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevoand featuring nearly one hundred imagesSontag is the first book based on the writers restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portraita great American novel in the form of a biography.

  • von Thanhha Lai
    18,00 €

    Winner of theScott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out Back Again. 4 starred reviews!In the final days of the Vit Nam War, Hng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her armsand Hng is left behind in the war-torn country.Six years later, Hng has made the brutal journey from Vit Nam and is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesnt know how she will find the little brother who was taken from her until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her.Hng is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesnt remember her, their family, or Vit Nam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels greater than ever, Hng has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap.

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