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Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over 70 years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis from conversations with both the Duke of Windsor and the Queen Mother.

A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While some perished beneath wind and sea-spray, others flourished, creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness. Modern Nature is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life.

Conversas que não tive com minha mãe não é um audiolivro sobre melancolia, mas sobre lembranças e experiências de saudade e afeto. Mesmo quando a tristeza surge, existe uma ….

Funny, poignant and reflective, The Weight of a Cherry Blossom is a fable of rootlessness and belonging in the modern world. It is equal parts a story of urban loneliness and self-discovery and of the healing powers of kinship and love. Revisiting the awkwardness of adolescence and the chaos of growing up, it looks the foibles of adulthood irreverently in the eye.

Yeva Skalietska lebt ein normales Schülerinnen-Leben im ukrainischen Charkiw, als der Angriff der russischen Armee am 24. Februar 2022 ihrer Kindheit ein brutales Ende setzt. Denn fortan bestimmen Kriegsgeschehnisse ihren Alltag. Die Heimatstadt wird zerstört, Treffen mit Freundinnen sind nicht möglich, ein normaler Alltag existiert nicht mehr. Yeva ist zutiefst verstört und hält ihre Eindrücke seit Beginn des Krieges in ihrem Tagebuch fest.

Il diario di una vita divisa in quattro lati, come un quadrato perfetto. Ogni lato influenza gli altri, con cesure inevitabili. Lina, arrivata all’ultimo quarto, racconta i suoi anni con irresistibile ironia: è impicciona, libera, disobbediente anche agli acciacchi della vecchiaia. Il rapporto complicato con la figlia, l’amore per i nipoti che vuole far crescere liberi, la passione per il giornalismo, le nuove tecnologie sempre più complicate, i disastri, le dimenticanze.

Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California’s best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left his legacy on the landscape and on paper. But the celebrity of John Muir does not tell the whole story. In Essential Muir, for the first time, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man.

Zwölf Mädchen. Sie alle schreiben 1968 in das Poesiealbum von Pascale Hugues. Die Adjektive, mit denen sie dichten, lauten klein, süß, bescheiden. Niemals stolz, mutig, ehrgeizig. Diese Eigenschaften sind nur für Männer vorgesehen. 50 Jahre später macht sich Pascale Hugues auf die Suche nach diesen Mädchen, erzählt von ihren Leben als Frauen.

Este es un audiolibro sobre la escritura de García Márquez y cómo esta evolucionó y cambió con el tiempo.

This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

MicroDosis es un diario escrito durante los dos últimos años en el que Enrique Bunbury decide experimentar en su conciencia la ingesta de microdosis de psilocibina. El género elegido por el autor para narrar este viaje interior es la poesía. De esta forma Bunbury consolida su incursión en la literatura tras la aparición en 2021 de su primer poemario Exilio Topanga (La Bella Varsovia) sumando a los rasgos estéticos presentes en aquel una atmósfera de psicodelia y una crítica a "la norma mental" del sistema.

All'improvviso, un vecchio baule: bell'inizio, per la storia di un attore. E in effetti il "tesoretto" di lettere e diari di sua madre Gigliola e di sua nonna Titina, ritrovato in una soffitta, si trasforma per Massimo Lopez in un vero e proprio viaggio, non solo nella memoria. Decide infatti di ricostruire tappa per tappa il passato della sua famiglia vagabonda, che girava di città in città seguendo il lavoro del padre. Cosa è rimasto delle case che ricorda?

Rapidi, pastosi, materici come le pennellate di un pittore informale, i capitoli che compongono questa autobiografia, attraversano il Novecento più colto e avventuroso. Fra una risata irriverente e qualche nostalgia, Ezio Frigerio ricorda la sua lunga esistenza con una sorprendente lucidità sentimentale. Nato da famiglia benestante comasca durante il fascismo, l’autore non esita a sorridere malignamente della buona borghesia locale.