Résultats pour "Orlando" dans Biographies et mémoires

Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet - at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who inhabited them. It is also the story of why, 30 years later, he is still exploring. It's the story of a journey back to a clouded mountain in New Guinea to find a man called Korsai who had once been a friend, and to fulfil a promise made as young men. It is also a story of what it is to be 'lost' and 'found'.

In 1946, after five years as a prisoner - first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee in the Arctic Gulag - 29-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years, the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag.

"Le donne, i cavallier, l'arme, gli amori" cantati da Italo Calvino, con la sua lettura chiara, appassionata e lucida di un classico della nostra letteratura. Calvino propone una ricca scelta di strofe non rispettando la divisione in canti, ma seguendo le vicende dei singoli personaggi. Si alternano perciò parti di commento, narrazione, quasi di anticipazione, a versi del testo originale, in un vero "racconto" in cui sembra quasi di sentire la voce.

While Pilot Officer Geoffrey Myers was caught up in the Battle of Britain, his French wife and two half-Jewish children were trapped in increasingly dangerous circumstances in Nazi-occupied France. In intimate, frank, and powerful letters, Myers kept a record of his war, his deep love for his wife Margot and their children, and his heart-wrenching fear for their safety as they tried to escape. Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story is an incredibly rare personal account of some of the major turning points of WWII.

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A NEW YORKER, ECONOMIST, AND TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer In development as a...

A childhood memoir that recalls events from the life of a Cuban boy in 1950s Havana, Cuba, this book is a chilling account of trust and achievement, deceit and failure, and faith in the noble life lessons learned from his family. The author relates his tale through the filter of magical realism. He describes a young life lived amongst circumstances involving a wealthy family navigating life demands in mid-20th century Cuba, a country at civil war.

Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. Despite injury, she competed at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and retired from the sport at the age of twenty-one as one of the top ten gymnasts in the world.Her incredible story is one of struggle and strength. Through it all, her family and friends watched the sport consume her; and every person that came into her life was affected by the constant fight for perfection, and the mental and physical exhaustion

È la sera di Capodanno. Nicole e la sua famiglia stanno ascoltando il discorso del Presidente della Repubblica, ma all'improvviso tutti ammutoliscono: Sergio Mattarella sta parlando proprio di Nicole... "Che ho fatto?" chiede lei, spaventata. Ma Niki non ha combinato nulla, viene citata perché è una campionessa del mondo, ma una campionessa un po' speciale: è nata con la sindrome di Down. Un problema? Non per lei. La sua vita è come correre i 100 metri controvento: ci mette un po' di più ma taglia sempre il traguardo.

Personaggio trasgressivo e rivoluzionario, Andy Warhol ha saputo interpretare la società dei consumi con uno sguardo freddo e critico, ma senza giudizio. La sua opera mostra come il consumismo svolga nella società un doppio ruolo di identificazione con gli oggetti-segni e di sublimazione della paura della morte. Attraverso l'uso dei codici massmediali, Warhol ha realizzato delle opere che sono diventate icone dell'immaginario contemporaneo, ma la sua grandezza non sta tanto nella citazione, quanto nella capacità di rendere lo spettatore consapevole del linguaggio dei mass media.

🍷 Un podcast tra cucina italiana e piccoli misteri da gustare lentamente. Mi chiamo Orlando: coltivo un orto, cucino, scrivo e racconto. Ogni settimana una nuova storia con il Commissario Mereu e sua moglie Soby, tra profumi di sugo, ricette autentiche Indagini leggere ambientate nei primi anni 2000. Ti accompagnerò tra ingredienti genuini, storie ironiche e il piacere del tempo lento. 👉 Segui il podcast per non perdere i prossimi episodi. 🎧 Ascolta. Assapora. Rilassati Benvenuto a casa Mereu: qui si cucina, si racconta, si vive. Buon Ascolto

In this powerful memoir, Charles W. Wright—legendary frontman of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band—recounts a journey that cuts deep into America’s racial past while climbing toward artistic greatness. With raw clarity and poetic grit, Wright chronicles his youth in the Jim Crow South, the family struggles that shaped him, and his early coming-of-age battles with schoolyard injustice, poverty, and police brutality in 1950s Los Angeles.

For over a century, the Bruno-Scarfo crime family reigned over Philadelphia before a series of internal and external events led to their downfall. Such was the power that the family possessed that they had close connections with the Five Families of the New York Mafia.