Annalisa Carena Knihy

La vita di Pam cambia inesorabilmente in un giorno di giugno, quando Jantsen, suo figlio quindicenne, muore all’improvviso. La placida esistenza della famiglia viene sconvolta. Oppressa dal dolore, Pam precipita in un baratro che pare inghiottirla. Sprofondare o reagire. Così lei, che non ha mai varcato i confini del Missouri, accetta di andare in Vietnam con alcuni amici. Quello che vede la travolge. Dietro le immagini da cartolina del turismo, si cela un mondo in cui migliaia di bambini vivono per strada, abbandonati a se stessi. Costretti a mendicare. A fare lavori pesantissimi. O peggio ancora, esposti al pericolo di essere rapiti e venduti sul mercato del sesso. E negli orfanotrofi la situazione è solo di poco migliore: non ci sono fondi, e sul viso dei bambini si legge il vuoto di chi non ha affetto né prospettive. In fondo al cuore, Pam sente riaccendersi una fiamma. Eccolo il dono di Jantsen. Occuparsi di quelle bambine e di quei bambini, in Vietnam, in Cambogia, in Africa. Strapparli alle malattie e all’inedia, a una schiavitù che li costringe a lavorare anche quindici ore al giorno, come Mark. Per riportare sui loro visi la luce del sorriso. Non è facile, ma ora niente la può fermare.

Ein Leben, das für drei reicht: erschütternd, unfassbar, herzergreifend. Kurz vor ihrem fünften Geburtstag wird Marina aus ihrem Dorf in Kolumbien entführt und im Dschungel ausgesetzt. Ein kleines Mädchen, ganz auf sich gestellt, eigentlich chancenlos in der Wildnis. Völlig verängstigt irrt sie umher, bis sie auf ihre Retter trifft: Kapuzineraffen, die sie in ihren Clan aufnehmen und von denen sie schließlich alles lernt, was sie im Dschungel braucht. Je mehr Zeit sie mit den Affen verbringt, desto mehr vergisst Marina ihr Menschenleben. Doch dann, nach etwa fünf Jahren, wird sie von Wilderern entdeckt und an ein Bordell verkauft. Es gelingt ihr, den schrecklichen Verhältnissen dort zu entfliehen, und nach einer langen Odyssee findet sie schließlich Freunde, die ihr ein normales Leben in der Menschenwelt ermöglichen.

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.

Persoonlijk verhaal van een Soedanese tolk en gids die in Darfur voor westerse journalisten werkte en om die reden bij herhaling werd bedreigd en vastgezet.

Jane Hawking, divorced wife of the 20th Century's most brilliant astrophysicist and mother of his three children, has written an extraordinary memoir that relates the story of a marriage born of optimism, despite Stephen's motor neuron disease, and ending with collapse, provoked by his love affair with a nurse.The author tells of the difficulties of dealing with Stephen's incredible fame and the attention he needed as a wheelchairbound father and husband, and of the trials dealing with three small children. Her writing is candid, poignant, and often humorous. She discusses the effect of power and money on their lives and the strange and terrible juxtaposition of her husband's debilitating disease.This biography is of interest to readers of Hawking's Brief History of Time, scientists, those with crippling diseases, women, and the general reading public.

Listening 6 hours and 52 minutes'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish slice.'Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was The Satsuma Complex. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers.And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life…A page-turning story with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Satsuma Complex is the brilliantly funny first novel by bestselling author and comedian Bob Mortimer.

The gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. Dr. Marcel Petiot was eventually charged with 27 murders, although authorities suspected the total was considerably higher. The trial became a circus, and Petiot enjoyed the spotlight. A harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.