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Questo illuminante testo di Annie Besant espone la dottrina del "Karma" nei suoi punti essenziali e permette allo studioso di farsi un concetto della sua importanza e della sua universale applicazione in tutti i casi della vita.

Gennaio 1946. Mentre Londra sta lentamente riemergendo dal buio della Seconda guerra mondiale, la scrittrice Juliet Ashton riceve una lettera misteriosa: un uomo le scrive dall'isola di Guernsey, dicendo di aver trovato il suo nome e il suo indirizzo all'interno di un vecchio libro.

Ottobre 1963: una studentessa ventitreenne è costretta a ricorrere alle vie clandestine per poter interrompere una gravidanza. L'evento restituisce i giorni e le tappe di questa ricerca disperata: l'apatia, le ambiguità dei medici, la vicinanza di qualche compagna di corso e l'incontro con la mammana, sino al senso di fierezza per aver, in un modo o nell'atro, resistito.

Come accade che il tempo che abbiamo vissuto diviene la nostra vita? È questo il nodo affrontato da "Gli anni", affresco autobiografico e al contempo cronaca collettiva del nostro mondo dal dopoguerra a oggi, nodo sciolto in un canto indissolubile attraverso la magistrale fusione della voce individuale con il coro della Storia. Annie Ernaux convoca la Liberazione, l’Algeria, la maternità, de Gaulle, il ’68, l’emancipazione femminile, Mitterrand; e ancora l’avanzata della merce, le tentazioni del conformismo, l’avvento di internet, l’undici settembre, la riscoperta del desiderio.

La storia di un uomo, di un padre, raccontata con precisione chirurgica, senza compatimenti, dalla figlia scrittrice. Perché quando si tradisce, "scrivere è l'ultima risorsa". La storia di una donna che si affranca con dolorosa tenerezza dalle proprie origini rurali e scrive dei suoi genitori alla ricerca di un ormai impossibile linguaggio comune.

Annie Proulx' Roman ist ein monumentales Epos, das lebensprall, sprachgewaltig und intensiv dreihundert Jahre nordamerikanischer Geschichte einfängt und von der Abholzung der scheinbar endlosen Wälder erzählt, vom ewigen Kampf zwischen Mensch und Natur. Es beginnt mit der Ankunft von zwei Franzosen, René Sel und Charles Duquet, im heutigen Kanada, wo sie über die schier undurchdringliche Wildnis staunen. Sie sind Holzarbeiter und versuchen ihr Glück auf dem neuen Kontinent, und wir begleiten die verschlungenen Wege ihrer nachfolgenden Generationen.

Blood and Guts exists to make women feel less alone in the real, messy, and often unspoken parts of womanhood.Periods. Bodies. Food. Shame. Cycles. Self-love and everything in between.We’re creating a sisterhood where women can share, laugh, learn, and own their stories.Leaving lighter, more connected, and reminded that no woman was ever meant to do this alone.We are not here as experts or gurus.Just two women with lived experience, open conversations, and a whole lot of guts.

Als ihr Bruder einer mysteriösen Studentenverbindung beitreten soll, von deren Existenz niemand auf dem Campus zu wissen scheint, ist Ivys Misstrauen geschürt. Auf der Suche nach Hinweisen gerät sie an den verschlossenen Liam, von dem eine prickelnde Gefahr ausgeht. Er warnt sie davor, weiter nach Antworten zu graben – doch Ivy ist fest entschlossen, das Geheimnis der Bruderschaft zu entschlüsseln.

In Chocolate Girls, read by actress Frances Barber, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen...

It is 1946 in Birmingham: the Second World War is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . . Read by Penelope Freeman (Her Wartime Secret) Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets...

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn...

1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease, polio. Distraught at her side, her mother, Violet, wonders if this is her punishment - for Carol is the love child who should not have been born . . . Family of Women is the story of three...

In 1930s Birmingham, in the impoverished district of Nechells, a young girl bravely endeavours to hold her family together in trying times. A Hopscotch Summer is an emotional journey of determination and resilience from Annie Murray. Read by Penelope Freeman (My Daughter, My Mother) Emma Brown...

Shortlisted for Historical Romantic Novel in the Romantic Novelists Association Books Awards Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles . . . Rose Southgate is trapped in a loveless marriage. Shy and...

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in their lives: Joanne, a sweet, shy girl, is increasingly afraid of her husband. The lively, promising man she married has become hostile and...

Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When the Second World War breaks out, Sylvia is still dreaming of her forthcoming marriage to fiancé Ian while Audrey jumps at the career opportunities the WAAF throws her way. Audrey joins the ranks...

A tale of hardship and social injustice, Miss Purdy's Class by Annie Murray is a heartfelt saga with strong emotional relationships at its heart, read by actress Annie Aldington. In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged twenty-one, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of...

From a tender age little Evie struggled . . . Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much but this never tainted her spirit. If it...

Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness and loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford, a soldier in Ambala, north India and his...

“Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent.”―Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love From the acclaimed Vogue writer and author of Notes on Heartbreak comes a decade-defining romcom: a funny, sweet, and subversive debut novel, reminiscent of Dolly Alderton and Monica Heisey, about...