Resultados para "Magic" en Ficción biográfica

"Das Magic Hotel war ein zweigeschossiges Gebäude. Es gab also oben und unten. Typisch Hollywood: Entweder man schafft es nach oben oder man bleibt unten. Dazwischen ist nichts vorgesehen. Unser Zimmer im Magic Hotel war unten." Und unten blieben die meisten Glücksritter, die sich in der titelgebenden Herberge in Hollywood einquartiert hatten. Auch die beiden Protagonisten der Erzählung, zwei junge Filmschaffende aus Deutschland, warteten dort tagelang auf den versprochenen Anruf des Produzenten.

Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn't know who - or what - she is. But she means to find out. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer.

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be 26th president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley's assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a "perfect bull in a china shop," a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president.

Fame, fortune, and beautiful models - Howard Chandler Christy had them all. Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age, a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsed all of them with his ''Christy Girl'', an idealized woman who redefined beauty, influenced fashion, and inspired generations of women.

A parody for fans of Harry Potter and The Crown, Harry Windzor and the Magic of Monarchy is an irreverent, satirical twist on the life of Prince Harry and the House of Windsor. There are spats between heirs and spares, dodgy deals between the Palace and the press, and so many scandals swept under the rug that even the corgis are suspicious. Maybe this isn’t a satire after all...

“Voces del corazón. Cuando habla el alma el corazón entiende” es el primer libro de la autora colombiana Margarita Marín Gutiérrez. Se trata de una novela corta, autobiográfica, que relata un pequeño fragmento de la vida de la autora, en el que se cruzó con Chombita, una perrita sometida a terribles maltratos, junto con otros animales que anhelaban la libertad.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Stones of Temple David takes twists and turns across various places and cultures. The novel begins in pre-war Poland and then it leads the listener through the dark ages of communism, escape to the free world, love, betrayal, espionage, and the evils of bureaucracy in the US. It also includes hallucinating time-travel.

Comedic memoir of growing up in 1960's Whittier, CA. Part magical realism, but mostly exaggerated realism for adults and young people alike.

In The Woman of Wyrrd, the seventh book in her best-selling Medicine Woman series, follow Lynn Andrews as she travels back in time in a spiritual journey within the sacred Dreamtime to medieval England as a young woman named Catherine, an initiate of the Sisterhood of the Shields. Guided by Agnes Whistling Elk into a world of power and magic, Lynn Andrews enters the sacred Dreamtime and emerges as a young woman, Catherine, in medieval England.