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L'INCREDIBILE VICENDA DI ROSALIND FRANKLIN LA SCIENZIATA CHE HA SCOPERTO LA STRUTTURA DEL DNA. LA SUA SCOPERTA CAMBIÒ PER SEMPRE LA SCIENZA EPPURE FURONO DUE UOMINI A PASSARE ALLA STORIA AL SUO POSTO. Londra, King's College, inizio anni '50. Rosalind Franklin è tra le poche ricercatrici donne e, anche se non sono in tanti a riconoscerglielo, tra le menti più brillanti. Per lei la scienza non è solo materia di studio: è l'unico modo - il più bello, il più intimamente poetico - di interpretare il mondo.

Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

It’s Ruth’s dream to be the world’s greatest female pilot. It’s Amelia—Lady Lindy herself—who achieves it. At first competitors, Ruth soon recognizes they share a passion for the skies and for supporting trailblazing female pilots everywhere. Together they form an all-women flying group, the Ninety-Nines, and over the years their achievements become more groundbreaking, their risks more personal, and their friendship closer than ever, until the day their best-laid plans come crashing down.

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club...

Gracias a su pasión por los libros y gusto exquisito, Belle da Costa Green se ha vuelto, con tan solo veinte años, la bibliotecaria más joven de la prestigiosa universidad de Princeton. Sin embargo, un golpe de suerte mayor está por impulsar su carrera: el famoso millonario J. P. Morgan la...

Ella cambió el mundo de la ciencia. Tres hombres se llevaron el crédito Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahí da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está segura, cambiarán el mundo de la ciencia. Lo único que ensombrece ese universo perfecto son sus...

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.

EL 26 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1926 AGATHA CHRISTIE DESAPARECIÓ. Al día siguiente encontraron su auto abandonado cerca de un estanque helado y profundo. Ni su esposo, un excombatiente de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ni su hija saben nada de ella, las únicas pistas son las huellas de unos neumáticos y...

Londres, 1909. La joven y recién casada Clementine Hoizer desciende los escalones de un tren del brazo de su marido, Winston Churchill. En medio de la muchedumbre que lo aclama, surge una mujer furiosa que empuja a Winston hacia las vías en el preciso momento en que un tren está por pasar...

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of...

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's...

This fierce collection from New York Times bestselling historical fiction authors sweeps readers back in time with exhilarating short stories of unforgettable female characters. Spanning decades, these indelible women broke through barriers in disparate worlds of art, war, science, love, and injustice and paved the way for other women to follow. Strike a match and blaze a trail.

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters—each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next—dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.

Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : Le Noël de la cigale et la fourmi; Un Noël parfait ! ; Lettres au Père Noël ; Ensemble pour Noël ; Le plus beau de tous les cadeaux ; La lune pour Noël ; Les lutins de l'armoire. Le magazine de référence qui éveille les enfants aux contes des souvenirs de lecture pour la vie ! À l'âge où l'enfant ne sait pas lire, il a besoin d'histoires mettant en mots et en images ce qu'il ne saurait dire ou appréhender autrement, et de récits pour se représenter le monde et ses émotions.

Der neue Roman der Bestsellerautorin widmet sich den berühmt-berüchtigten Mitford-Schwestern. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die tapferen Bemühungen der Schriftstellerin Nancy Mitford, die Nazis daran zu hindern, Großbritannien einzunehmen. Sie muss sich entscheiden, was ihr wichtiger ist: ihre eigene Familie oder das Weltgeschehen? Zwischen den Weltkriegen dominieren die sechs Mitford-Schwestern die politische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Szene Englands - eine schöner, brillanter und exzentrischer als die andere.

“A charming tale weaving in historical events, epic adventure, and a coming-of-age story that readers will devour.” —Gayle Forman, bestselling author of Not Nothing From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and Courtney Sheinmel comes a historical adventure about a young girl...

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Mystery! This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton. "Narrator Bessie Carter...captures the personalities of the most famous women novelists of the golden age of detective...

Marie Benedict widmet sich einer weiteren klugen Frau, die die Weltgeschichte entscheidend geprägt hat und deren Namen wir dennoch nicht kennen. Rosalind Franklin fand nach jahrelanger Forschung die Doppelhelixstruktur unserer DNA, doch für diesen Coup geehrt wurden fälschlicherweise drei Männer... Rosalind Franklin war schon immer eine Außenseiterin - brillant, aber anders. Sie fühlt sich der Wissenschaft am nächsten, den unveränderlichen Gesetzen der Physik und Chemie, die ihre Experimente leiten. Sie wird beauftragt, das Geheimnis unserer DNA zu entschlüsseln.