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In Umbrien entdeckt die Autorin das Haus ihrer Träume: einen halbzerfallenen Palazzo am Rand eines kleinen Dorfes. Das Haus ist hohl und löchrig, es fehlen Fußböden und Türen, Abflußrohre und Wasser. Dennoch stürzt sich Lisa unbeirrt mitsamt ihrer britisch-schrulligen Familie, sechs Klavieren und zwanzig Katzen hinein in das Projekt Italien. Die Dorfbewohner wundern sich, die Handwerker sind nicht immer wohlgesonnen, Banken endlos bürokratisch, Träume in jeder Hinsicht extravagant. Der schottische Maler-Ehemann stolziert in Highland-Montur über das Anwesen, um den Fortgang der Bauarbeiten zu inspizieren, während die hübsche Tochter Iseult sämtlichen Jungen im Dorf den Kopf verdreht …
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In Umbrien entdeckt die Autorin das Haus ihrer Träume: einen halbzerfallenen Palazzo am Rand eines kleinen Dorfes. Das Haus ist hohl und löchrig, es fehlen Fußböden und Türen, Abflußrohre und Wasser. Dennoch stürzt sich Lisa unbeirrt mitsamt ihrer britisch-schrulligen Familie, sechs Klavieren und zwanzig Katzen hinein in das Projekt Italien. Die Dorfbewohner wundern sich, die Handwerker sind nicht immer wohlgesonnen, Banken endlos bürokratisch, Träume in jeder Hinsicht extravagant. Der schottische Maler-Ehemann stolziert in Highland-Montur über das Anwesen, um den Fortgang der Bauarbeiten zu inspizieren, während die hübsche Tochter Iseult sämtlichen Jungen im Dorf den Kopf verdreht …
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Roberto Cotroneos dritter Roman ist mehr als die Schilderung einer verbotenen Liebe zwischen einem Lehrer und seiner Schülerin. Der Protagonist ist ein »Mann ohne Eigenschaften«, der eine Geschichte erlebt, die größer ist als er selbst. »Denn Liebe ist stark wie der Tod und Leidenschaft unwiderstehlich wie das Totenreich.« Sind Bibelworte wie diese wirklich dazu angetan, eine brave Kirchengemeinde keusch an ihren seelischen Bund mit Gott denken zu lassen? Und sind die Pforten der Hölle nicht sehr nah, wenn man außerdem die kräftigen Zeilen entdeckt: »Dein Schoß ist wie ein runder Becher, dem es nimmer an Saft mangelt«? Nach seiner Ankunft in Sizilien gibt ein junger Lehrer ein Zeitungsinserat auf, mit zwei Zeilen aus dem Hohenlied als Erkennungszeichen für Francesca. Doch in seiner Unterrichtsklasse sitzt deren jüngere Schwester, Nunzia, eben sechzehnjährig. Vom spröden Charme des Mädchens betört – sie ist dunkel wie Sulamith -, beginnt er, ihr das Hohelied vorzulesen, und diese Art der Verführung findet ihre Erfüllung schon bald in den Gemächern des Palazzos. Ein Skandal in der sizilianischen Provinzstadt im Jahr 1959, zu deren Alltag die Moralgesetze der Kirche ebenso gehören wie die immer wieder siegreichen fleischlichen Versuchungen unter einer südlichen Sonne. Ausgerechnet die heiligen Worte des Hohenliedes dienen der Verführung einer Minderjährigen und verwandeln Nunzia in eine Frau, bei deren Anblick die ganze Stadt den Atem anhält. Der Franziskanermönch, dem Nunzia ohne Reue gebeichtet hatte, predigt leidenschaftlich über die religiöse Bedeutung des Hohenliedes. Für ihn versinnbildlicht der Satz »Da bin ich geworden in seinen Augen wie eine, die das vollkommene Alter hat« keineswegs den Körper einer jungen Frau in voller Blüte, sondern den Bund Gottes mit der menschlichen Seele. Die Versetzung des jungen Lehrers ist unausweichlich.
Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music. Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to integrated audiences in an era of segregation. When Time magazine chronicled the folk revival in November 1962, her portrait was on the cover. Her voice was “as lustrous and rich as old gold.” She has mentored generations of singer-songwriters, most famously Bob Dylan. But Joan Baez has always been much more than simply a singer. Even before she joined Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. on the podium at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, she had used her gift to bring solace and hope to people who had little of either. In words and deeds, Baez has consistently championed social justice, nonviolence the guiding principle of her life, and the causes for which she has campaigned are legion. Whether playing to integrated audiences in the American south during the years of segregation, in Latin America during the years of brutal dictatorships, or Sarajevo under siege, Baez offered “an act of love, sharing, witness and music”. Approaching 80, she has stepped down from the stage following a worldwide farewell tour and a final, Grammy-nominated album. She is now embarked on a new chapter of life—painting.Drawing on interviews with long-time friends and musical associates, and on conversations across four decades with Baez herself, Joan Baez: The Last Leaf is a celebration of a timeless figure whose music and influence will endure long after her voice is silenced. The Discography is by Grammy-nominated music historian Arthur Levy. "I don t think it is an exaggeration to say that this is a book destined to become the definitive word on the life and times of Joan Baez; put it on your list of this year's essential reads."Americana UK Author Elizabeth Thomson has written articles and interviews in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Times and MOJO. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, Thomson is also the editor of Conclusions on the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan and the co-editor of The Dylan Companion.
Voted second-best artist of the 2000s by the readers of Rolling Stone, Radiohead is recognised as not only one of the most eminent alternative rock bands, but also one of the most forward-thinking and experimental. After gaining attention with the slow-burning success of their single "Creep", the band have continued to ceaselessly move forward, rejecting the “MTV eye-candy lifestyle” set out for them and choosing to alter and refine their sound with every subsequent release.Three-and-a-half decades later, the band manages to remain one of the most prominent names on the music scene. However, when they formed as On A Friday in 1985, they were considered musical outliers from the detached and indistinguishably instrumented era of shoegaze, with their earlier work earning mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike. It was a long road until the group scored the international attention and acclaim that they can boast today. Author John Aizlewood writes for Mojo, Q and Classic Rock. During a 25-year career, he has written about music for The Guardian, Blender, The Observer, Melody Maker, Sounds, FHM, The Sunday Times and a host of others. His books include Love Is The Drugand Playing At Home; he is a critic on the widely acclaimed Rock Icons series and lives near London.
Mark of Odin: The Awakening is the first issue of the transmedia literary saga of Mark of Odin where Norse mythology meets modern warfare and science fiction in a way that will surprise you. Introduces a new literary model where you will be able to enjoy the fusion of a reading experience with the potential of an online platform with gamification features. All supported by a transmedia universe of extended content for all readers that want more once they finish the book.After reaching more than one hundred thousand readers worldwide, now Mark of Odin saga’s first book is available in English. Are you ready to accept the challenge and awake to your real fate?SynopsisThe year is 2012, Luis Oden is about to graduate as an Aerospace Engineer and he expects to be chosen to participate in the ambitious Project Hermes, to develop a new generation of space shuttles in the new European Aerospace Center of Seville, Spain. His life is seemingly perfect until he begins to suffer recurring nightmares where mighty beasts, that seem to come from the Norse mythology, assault and torture him urging him to wake up. But wake up to what?Meanwhile, Jack Preston, a Lieutenant Colonel from the USAF and responsible for the tests of the X-56 Phoenix, a prototype of an orbital superiority combat jet fighter, is sent together with his crew to Seville to review the development of the Hermes program. There he will meet Luis when they are chosen to star the parachuting exhibition for the Columbus Day.Both Luis and Preston ignore it, but a dark menace is coming and only their choices will be able to give a chance to humanity to survive.
Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning and including the author’s first-hand experiences on set and interviews with Scott himself, this book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain’s greatest living director.Telling the stories behind Alien and Blade Runner, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and many more, it also goes in search of the themes and motifs that unite such different films, and the methods and madness of Scott’s approach to his medium.This is the account of a director who has never been less than stubbornly, brilliantly, unforgettably his own man. Author Ian Nathan is one of the UK’s best-known film writers. He is the author of eight previous books, including Alien Vault, the bestselling history of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, and Terminator Vault. He is the former editor and executive editor of Empire, where he remains a contributing editor.
The Demon CountIn a world of grandeur but also nightmarish evils, his dangerous passion drew her to him . . . As soon as she arrives in Venice, golden-haired Charlotte Morrow is pursued by the city's most dashing and celebrated men. Young and reckless, the orphaned English ward of a mysterious guardian expects a life of parties and adventure. Instead she finds herself little better than a bird in a gilded cage at Edentide, her guardian's immense palazzo on the Grand Canal. A "Ghoul of Venice" is terrorizing the city, draining beautiful young women of their blood. To Charlotte's horror, her handsome, brooding guardian, whom she secretly calls the Demon Count, is considered a prime suspect. Every night in his mansion is a spine-tingling battle between passion and fear, as he draws her to him with irresistible desires and dark cravings. Is he protecting her from the Ghoul, or savoring the prospect of her seduction and murder? The Demon Count's Daughter: A love for danger is bred in her blood. Her willful passion sends her into the arms of a stranger. It's impossible for a young woman with Luciana's passionate bloodlines to lead a boring, sheltered life in London. With her parents away on holiday, she and a small entourage escape to Venice, where the mystery, danger and romance of her mother and father's early years have always beckoned. Tall and raven-haired, the beauty is on a secret mission and is expecting to meet with compatriots. But the dangers surround her far more than she imagined, and her father's aged palazzo is not the sanctuary she hoped for. Her only protection is an irresistible but mysterious stranger who captures her heart. His secrets tell him to keep his distance. But Luciana will get what she wants. She is, after all, the Demon Count's daughter.
A sumptuous “palazzo” unveiled for the first time in this book, and one of the finest testimonies of Sicilian architecture and decorative arts. After the death of the Marquis of Castelluccio, one of the last great Sicilian aristocrats such as those who inspired Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa for The Leopard, his abode was forgotten and started to fall part, like a metaphor for a world that was no more… Half a century later, Jean-Louis Remilleux falls in love with this exceptional 18th century palace in ruins and sets out to restore it. The owner himself guides us through the awe-inspiring rooms full of splendors only Sicily can offer.
"If you’re looking for yet another photography-led coffee table showpiece of New York’s skyline, look away. NYPD police inspector Tom Miller’s book has — like most of the buildings it explores — much more substantial foundations." National Geographic Traveller Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, Seeking New York investigates the back stories of Manhattan’s architecture and monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues: the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls. Meet Dorothy Parker, S.J.Perelman, Talullah Bankhead and Irving Berlin at the Algonquin Round Table; Maisie Plant, who persuaded her husband to sell his Fifth Avenue palazzo to Cartier for $100 and a pearl necklace; James and Abby Gibbons, whose Chelsea home was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad by which fugitive slaves found their way from the South to Canada. Perhaps you would rather not meet Jack the Rat, who for a dime would bite the head off a live mouse (for a quarter he’d do the same to a rat); or Ivan Poderjay, who left his bride’s apartment for their honeymoon – with her body in a steamer trunk. Here the ever-changing face of Manhattan is captured through the structures and their stories.
New York is a town of more quartiers and arondissements than Paris, more souks and bazaars than Ciro, a place of havens from overwhelming energy and of studios where that energy is generated. Above all else it is where everyone wants to make a mark. And for a lot of New Yorkers the biggest mark of all is the place they live in – no matter where that is in the infinite diversity of the astonishing tumbling ziggurat that is New York, spilling across its parks and rivers and neighbourhoods. The grand, spacious apartments that line Fifth Avenue across from Central Park on the East Side have an entirely different feel from those opposite, on Central Park West, pinned in its middle by the legendary Dakota building. From the great mansions of Frick and Harkness in Manhattan to the buildings on the flanks of Morningside, from the hipster apartments of Williamsburg and Dumbo to the delightful Victorian houses on Park Slope, every concept of living from gracious to frenetic is to be found in the fabulous five boroughs. This book looks at a cross-section of these great spaces for living created by New Yorkers. It’s about the art of architecture and the art of living in this seething city; it’s about the ambition and zest of New Yorkers for their surroundings and it’s about the stories connected to them – from the Morris-Jumel House, the oldest house in the borough of Manhattan and once George Washington's headquarters to the chutzpah of Julian Schnael perching a copy of a Venetian palazzo atop a Lower East Side building and the ingenious and beautiful ways of living an eco-existence in Brooklyn, this is visual and literary feast of great houses and apartments of New York past and present.
A series dedicated to the wonders of the world, to be discovered through precious and peculiar books, filled with sensational illustrations. Not only for the contents, these books are “wonderful” also in their binding, with surprising elements on the cover andfor their evocative illustrations.A journey in discovery of the 15 most amazing places of the world created by humankind, which will enchant children and grown-ups: Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Cheope’s Pyramid and many others. For each place, there will bea suggested itinerary for a guided tour, a legend, the story of the construction and many more curiosities.
The October Revolution described through the incredulous eyes of a noble Moscow woman who sees her whole world collapsing in an instant. And her determination to try to save at least her family and her dignity in the midst of the disaster. Alessandra Jatta gives us an unusual perspective on some of the most dramatic moments in Russian history over the last century, revealing the thoughts and concerns of an entire social class at the moment of its decline. A true story, in which the use of photos, excerpts from diaries and documents belonging to the author’s direct ancestors adds value to a narrative that will leave you breathless.
Set in 15th century Italy and Antwerp, the loves and adventures of Lorenza di Montalbino.
