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Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the "stream of consciousness" technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions. "The Good Anna" follows a stern but kind German immigrant, "Melanctha" the tragic life of an African-American woman of the same name, and "The Gentle Lena" a dreamy and unopinionated servant whose passiveness becomes her undoing.

Roaming India in 1939 and the early 1940s, two flawed but extraordinary men latch onto each other with shocking consequences as each follows an ill-fated quest for “enlightenment.” Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

Evan had a hit single, but that was 10 years ago. Thirty-one now, hes drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Now, 14 years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son hes never known. Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty.

Tout au long de ses livres, Marguerite Duras a étendu sa recherche aux dimensions ignorées ou méconnues du désir, pierre angulaire de son œuvre. Avec "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein", elle nous entraîne dans la quête acharnée et troublante des splendeurs de l'amour fou entrevues par son héroïne. Suivant le sillage d'une parole sobre et mystérieuse, l'auditeur se laisse emporter jusqu'à l'horizon de cette magnifique histoire qui brille d'une inoubliable intensité. Envoûtant récit auquel Fanny Ardant prête sa voix exceptionnelle.

When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it's a wrenching return to her past. The hometown of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay Resort, where Jenna's young son, Bobby, disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. The quest for the truth behind her son's disappearance is about to pull her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss.

I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around six o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.

As a vampire, Anna Strong has an immortal life...but now she’s running out of time.

Anna’s relationship with shape-shifter Daniel Frey has given her hope for a future with him and his son - especially when Frey proposes.… But just when Anna starts to think her life couldn’t be better, she must fly to France to be at the side of her dying mother. There she learns that not every vampire accepts her Chosen One status. And one such vamp is about to go rogue - by leading his followers in a fight to usurp humanity….

Conxa ist gerade dreizehn, als ihre Eltern, arme Bauern in den katalanischen Pyrenäen, sie zu einer kinderlosen Tante bringen. An Arbeit mangelt es auch hier nicht, und für Gefühle kennt die Tante keine Worte, aber das Mädchen ist zumindest versorgt. Als sie einige Jahre später ihre große Liebe Jaume heiratet, erlebt Conxa sogar ein bescheidenes Glück. Doch der Krieg hält brutal Einzug in die Abgeschiedenheit des Dorfes und reißt auch Conxa mit sich wie einen Stein im Geröll.

When Kate Campbell is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won’t be home for long; she’s got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she’s lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman - aka “The Prince of Sea Point” - has also returned home to prove to his mother that he’s capable of taking over the family business, and he’s promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time.

Lisy hat alles, was sie sich gewünscht hat: einen Mann, zwei wundervolle Kinder und einen erfüllenden Job. Ihrem gut laufenden Innenarchitekturbüro kann selbst die Pandemie nichts anhaben. Bei einem neuen Auftrag trifft sie auf Stefan, den Mann ihrer Kundin. Diese schicksalhafte Begegnung stellt ihr Leben auf den Kopf und wirbelt ihre Gefühle durcheinander.

Wyatt Hartford, Earl of Windborne, spends his days running a smuggling operation under the noses of his political enemies. Twenty years prior, Wyatt and three other young, orphaned aristocrats fled war- and weather-ravaged Earth for the Martian city-state of Utopia. Now the four friends—nicknamed the Lords of Dystopia—use their money and influence to champion citizens’ rights and progressive reforms. To the downtrodden, they are leaders. To the noble scions of Queen Victoria’s empire, they are a threat.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

Three Lives was written in 1905/06 and published in 1909 at the author’s expense. The work consists of three independent novellas: The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Lena. Each of the titular characters lives in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.

Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a Manhattan apartment, and an easy-on-the-eyes bedroom buddy—just the kind of no-strings relationship she wants, even if it’s less than her best friend, Mo, thinks she deserves. But when Eliza’s dad dies unexpectedly, her beloved aunt Claude arrives at the shiva with a letter from her mom—to be opened only after her father’s death. Inside the letter? A bombshell.

Bau unser Haus. Statte es aus mit all deiner Liebe. Fülle es mit deinem Herzen und errichte es aus den Steinen deiner Gedanken. Ich bin bei dir. Ich baue mit dir. Die deutsche Historikerin Annika Strehlow verlässt ihr Anwesen in einem Fischerdorf Portugals. Nur so kann sie seelisch Abstand von ihrer großen Trauer finden, sich mit ihrem Schmerz und der Sehnsucht nach Barbara auseinander setzen. Für ihren Neuanfang kehrt sie in ihre Heimatstadt Berlin zurück.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.

In 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the past he had sworn to leave behind. A best seller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction account with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best.

At thirty-one, Callie Dressler is finally comfortable in her own skin. She loves her job as a preschool teacher, and although living in her vacant childhood home isn’t necessarily what dreams are made of, the space is something she never could have afforded if she’d stayed in New York City. As if adjusting to this new living situation isn’t enough, the universe sends Callie another wrinkle: her college boyfriend—who Callie dumped ten years earlier for reasons known only to her—has a film coming out, and the screenplay is based on their real-life breakup.

Adam Wright ist Drehbuchautor, ein Workaholic. Und er ist gesichtsblind, kann weder Freunde noch Familie erkennen. Nicht einmal seine eigene Frau. Amelia Wright ist Einzelgängerin. Sie arbeitet mit ausgesetzten Tieren und fühlt sich von ihrem Mann nicht wahrgenommen. Hat ihre Ehe überhaupt noch einen Sinn?Jedes Jahr an ihrem Hochzeitstag schreibt seine Frau Adam einen Brief. Und behält ihn für sich. Bis zu diesem Jahr.

In The Diary of a Broken Father, Garrison James shares his story from his own perspective of what his life is like since he decided to go into AA in the hopes of changing his life.

He shares the accounts of his daily struggles since his daughter Sara has left his side, and what it meant for him to lose her.

He is haunted by her loss and is also haunted by the memories of his beloved wife Lila, whom he lost to cancer.