Showing results for "Friend" in Biographical Fiction

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe.

On a Thursday morning in May 1961, a well-mannered twenty-one-year-old named Marlene enters the Fifth Avenue apartment of Lee Radziwill to interview for the position of housekeeper and cook. The stylish wife of London-based Prince Stanislaw Radziwill, Princess Lee is intelligent and creative, with ambitions beyond simply jet-setting. But to the public, she is always First Lady Jackie Kennedy's little sister. As Marlene becomes a trusted presence in the Radziwill household, she observes the dazzling array of famous figures who flit in and out of Lee’s intimate circle

يختبيء "أحمد" لدى رفيقٍ له في مكانٍ مهجور بسبب ملاحقته من قبل العسكر لكنَّ وضعه يُصبح سيئًا عندما يتعرَّض لعضّة كلب فيناقش رفاق الحزب احتمالات مرضه وعلاجه واعتقاله لكنّهم يقررون في النهاية إقامة الحجر الصحي عليه لمدّة أربعين يومًا للتأكّد من عدم إصابته بداء الكلَب، لذلك يبقى أحمد حبيس غرفته طول تلك الفترة فيلجأ إلى رسم خطٍّ على الباب في كلِّ يومٍ ينقضي مسترجعًا ذكرياته الحلوة والمرة ما بين الحياة والملاحقة، عن الجيش العثماني والدولة في نهايتها، عن ذكريات الطلبة الذين جاءوا من مختلف دول العالم وعن حبّه الأول مع أنوشكا الفاتنة.

Easy Does It, the Story of Mac is a biographical novel written by the late Doctor William D. Silkworth MD about an alcoholic named Mac who recovers from alcoholism in Alcoholics Anonymous. Mac seeks help from a church pastor know throughout the text as the Padre. Together they learn all about Mac’s alcoholism and the Padre helps Mac along as Mac finds sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. In the course of the novel the listener learns in depth about alcoholism and alcoholics anonymous in altogether human terms.

In the wake of a major operation, a twenty-eight-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body and prepare herself to leave the routines, comforts, and interiority of her convalescence. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But Frida sees her chronic illness as something to overcome and her body as something to control. She adores the pool and pushes the herself toward an active life, relentlessly pursuing the prevailing narrative of illness.

Author Stephen Harrigan returns to his historical fiction roots, reimagining Abraham Lincoln's early life, when he was a young lawyer and rising politician in Springfield, Illinois. Told from the point of view of Lincoln's best friend, it starts during the Blackhawk War (in which Lincoln served) and ends in the mid-1840s, when Lincoln goes off to Washington after being elected to Congress, and his friend heads west with the Donner party.

Friends Are Thicker Than Water: Tales of a Misspent Youth is the story of two friends sharing their adventures that fabled year. From football to first jobs, from golf to girls, Mike's father thought Ralph was having a "misspent youth" and Mike was going along for the ride. Just like the mandolin they pawned in '55, Mike and Ralph were forever glued together in friendship. Step back in time with Ralph and Mike as they spend that carefree year of friendship living through one riotous situation after another "funny bone first!"

Bootlegger’s Friend is based on the true story of Johnny Lazia, a gifted politician who is admired and respected in 1920s Kansas City. He meets Giovanni Blando, recent immigrant from Sicily and nephew of Lazia’s mentor. Giovanni becomes a bootlegger and Johnny’s closest friend despite their outward differences. The men discover shared interests in liquor, poker, and politics. For a decade, the friends live decadent lifestyles in Kansas City, defy Prohibition, and ignore election laws. But the infamous Union Station Massacre changes everything.

The Ashes weaves in and out between reality and fantasy, between the past, the present and another place in time altogether. Hollywood gets lost in his daydream as he drifts through another dimension to make sense of his friend’s sudden death. Moments in the hospital mingle with dark terror in a far off desert as The Cowboy battles the terrible Fire Serpent in a vain attempt to save his friend The Marlboro Man’s life. In some senses the story is autobiographical, in others it is fictional fantasy.