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Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820–91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of financial ruin.

From invasion to liberation, September 1939 to April 1945, as Renee was marched from ghetto to camp, there was one constant. One hand that clutched hers—her mother's. Every day for nearly six years, mother and daughter were bound together in hell. From Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen-Belsen, they were a powerful source of solace and hope for one another. A Mother's Promise is a love letter to a mother eighty years in the making.

Als am 29. April 1945 die Amerikaner das Lager Dachau befreien, stoßen sie zu ihrer größten Überraschung auf sieben Frauen mit Babys. Ein Wunder wird bestaunt inmitten der Zerstörung. Das Buch von Eva Gruberová und Helmut Zeller erzählt die unglaubliche Geschichte von Eva und Miriam, zwei dieser sieben jüdischen Mütter, die verschiedene KZs durch viele glückliche Zufälle überstehen konnten und heute in Kanada und der Slowakei leben. Das Buch beginnt mit den frühen 40er Jahren, als die beiden jungen Frauen in Ungarn hoffnungsvoll ihr Leben planen und sich verlieben.

இந்நூல் காஞ்சி கைலாச நாதர் கோவில் மற்றும் மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரை அரங்கன் கோவில் கட்டப்பட்டது பற்றியது. அவற்றில் பொதிந்துள்ள சிற்பச் செல்வங்களையும், அவற்றைச் செதுக்கிய ராஜசிம்ம பல்லவன் என்ற அரச சிற்பியைப் பற்றியும், அவனது அரசிகளான ரங்கபாதகதேவி, மைவிழி செல்வி பற்றியும் இந்நூல் மேலும் விவரிக்கிறது.

When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war.

யாராவது இப்படி வாழ்ந்ததுண்டா?' அடால்ஃப் ஹிட்லர், எப்போதும் உணர்ச்சிகளைத் தூண்டும் ஆளுமை போதுமான அளவு பேச முடியாத ஒரு அசாதாரண வாழ்க்கை. நீங்கள் எந்த கோணத்தில் அணுகினாலும் பிரமிக்க வைக்கும் ஒரு கதாபாத்திரம். எதிர்கால சந்ததியினரை நடுங்க வைக்கும் ஒரு கொடூரம்.

يحكي الراحل عم فكري الخولي عن رحلته منذ طفولته في مصنع غزل المحلة,وعن الحالة السيئة للعمال في ذلك الوقت,وعن نضال الطبقة العاملة في مصنع غزل المحلة,كاشفا حقيقة الطبقة الرأسمالية في ذلك الوقت وتحالفاتها مع القصر لضرب الحركات العمالية(طلعت حرب وعبود باشا كمثال),موضحا حقيقة الصراع وابعاده الطبقية والاخطاء القاتلة ممن يعتبرون رموز للحركة الوطنية في تلك الفترة(سعد زغلول)وخيانتهم لتلك الطبقة بإصدار قانون قمعية وتعسفية ضد الطبقة العمالية من وجهة نظر المؤلف.

Heinäkuun 14. päivänä 1876 keisari Aleksanteri II lähti omassa junassaan Pietarista Helsinkiin tutustumaan suuriruhtinaskuntansa Suomen ensimmäiseen taideteollisuusnäyttelyyn. Mukaan matkalle tulivat hänen puolisonsa keisarinna Maria, tyttärensä Edinburghin herttuatar Maria, poikansa kruununperijä Aleksanteri ja hänen vaimonsa Maria Fjodorovna (Dagmar). Seurueeseen Pietarissa liittyvät Venäjän opetusministeri Dimitri Tolstoi ja kansanrunouden kerääjä Daniel Europaeus.

Tampa Vice takes listeners into the smoky backrooms, bustling streets, and clandestine gambling dens of early 20th-century Tampa, revealing a sprawling underworld that shaped the city’s destiny. Against the vibrant backdrop of Ybor City—home to Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants fueling a booming cigar industry—this deeply researched account explores the ambition, corruption, and cultural collisions that drove Tampa’s rise and descent into vice.

Tess Chakkalakal gives listeners the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing.

In this revelatory biography of one of Canada's most internationally celebrated writers, Mary Henley Rubio looks far beyond Montgomery's own published journals and draws on years of primary research and interviews, as well as a wealth of previously undiscovered material. The result is an account of a fascinating life that is certain to surprise. This comprehensive account of Montgomery's life, all set in rich social context, has taken its place as the definitive biography of this Canadian literary icon.

En 15 lecciones conocerás la vida de la monarca más longeva de los últimos tiempos. ISABEL II fue la monarca inglesa más longeva y ostenta también el récord del reinado más largo de la monarquía británica: 70 años y 127 días. Durante su regencia, en la que desfilaron 15 primeros ministros —desde el célebre Winston Chruchill hasta Liz Truss, el mandato más corto en la historia del Reino Unido—, fue testigo y protagonista de momentos cruciales, como la descolonización del Imperio británico o la modernización de la monarquía en la era digital.

Fr. Augustine Tolton (1854-1897) was the first black priest in the United States. Born into a black Catholic slave family, Father Tolton conquered almost insurmountable odds to become a Catholic priest, and at his early death at 43, this pioneer black American priest left behind a shining legacy of holy service to God, the Church, and his people.

Isabel, tal como a sua mãe, D. Filipa de Lencastre, casava tarde. E a ideia de deixar Portugal, o pai envelhecido, os cinco irmãos em constante desacordo, e Lopo, irmão de leite e melhor amigo, para partir para um país longínquo e gelado atormentava-lhe o coração. Era a terceira mulher de Filipe, já duas vezes viúvo, esperava vir a dar-lhe o herdeiro legítimo de que Borgonha tanto precisava. A sua fama de mulherengo atravessava fronteiras… Mas Isabel sabia que nascera para cumprir um destino, ser a Estrela do Norte, que firme no céu indica o caminho.

Esta es la historia de una mujer excepcional, cuyo atrevimiento al pisar esferas de poder reservadas a los hombres acabó costándole la vida. Una mujer a quien la historia y sus fuentes oficiales, escritas por y para hombres, han malinterpretado y vilipendiado sistemáticamente. Emma Southon rescata a Agripina la Menor, hermana, sobrina, esposa y madre de emperadores, y le devuelve el histórico papel central que efectivamente tuvo en cuatro generaciones de la política romana.

Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

Un profilo di un uomo straordinario. Una interpretazione originale di una delle figure più controverse della storia. Il libro è già stato tradotto e ha suscitato interesse di pubblico e di critica in Germania, Francia, Spagna, America, Brasile. Luciano Canfora insegna Filologia classica all'Università di Bari.

Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered.

Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight—and survive.

Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his family are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp.