Résultats pour "A" dans 20e siècle

In this impactful World War II espionage thriller set in the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, one man must make a devastating choice. With the Nazi war machine in its ascendancy, Luftwaffe flying ace Otto Friedmann is a man on the up. In 1940, everything changes. The Battle of Britain - the...

A renowned pianist returns to his native Iceland to face a family crisis that forces him to examine his own past—the loves that have shaped him, the joys he has known, and the triumphs that have slipped from his grasp. Stefan is back in Iceland after decades working abroad—first as a...

Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them, Daisy's Aunt Jane, who is housekeeper to Dr and Mrs Venables, offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool so that the child can be a companion to her employers' orphaned niece, Cynthia. Daisy is a tomboy, young for her age, self-willed and hot-tempered. In Ireland she was seldom in school but often in trouble.

With war in the village and strife at home, can Elin find hope? Elin is trying to make ends meet, trapped in an abusive marriage with her alcoholic husband, Cai. The country is at war but the men in the village must stay and work in the mines. Conditions are bad and Cai is not afraid of speaking...

With war in the village and strife at home, can Elin find hope? Elin is trying to make ends meet, trapped in an abusive marriage with her alcoholic husband, Cai. The country is at war but the men in the village must stay and work in the mines. Conditions are bad and Cai is not afraid of speaking...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD From the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín's most dazzling and ambitious book yet. When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is...

En cet automne 1942, le domaine de Montillac a bien changé. La vie est dure. Le bonheur a fait place aux deuils, l'insouciance aux privations. Au plus noir de l'Occupation, Léa Delmas découvre la délation, la lâcheté, la collaboration. Ses proches subissent les tortures, d'autres trahissent. Elle choisit farouchement le camp de la liberté : la Résistance. Au mépris de tout danger, dans le Paris des faux plaisirs et des vraies horreurs, elle s'oppose à l'occupant et tente de sauver ceux qu'elle aime...

Returning from Dunkirk, Lieutenant Douglas Tulloch and the Lothian Rifles help defend Britain from the threat of German invasion.Tulloch feels that all is not right with the battalion. When the Lothians are sent to Egypt to prepare for an Italian attack, others share Tulloch’s view, as...

These are the stories Anna first received at her mother’s side, passed down like a quiet flame between the sink and the drying rack, as plates clinked softly in the evening light. They were not fairy tales, not songs of rhyme, but fragments of a life carved from hunger, fatigue, and fear—the...

Pronunciar el nombre de alguien lo mantiene vivo, le permite dar valor a su historia. Todos aquellos que tuvieron que huir de Europa del Este durante la primera mitad del siglo XX tienen una historia que merece ser contada. La vida se volvió imposible y aunque salir implicaba dejarlo todo: casa, bienes, ancestros, comidas, sabores, olores, canciones de cuna, idioma…todo, la opción era morir.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She kept the neighborhood’s secrets in a curtain hem. Now the fog is coming for hers. South Philadelphia, 1948. Nine-year-old Netta Marino arrives on Annin Street, a block of scrubbed marble steps where the barber next door sings Puccini through her...

The Violet Pact, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

When a cockroach awakens to find himself turned into some pale, horrid creature, he needs to learn how to survive and thrive within the human world. A phantasmic noir for fans of Kafka and Kerouac, of Hammitt and Highsmith and Camus. It is the mid-1950s, and Kockroach, perfectly content with his...

Two sisters. Three decades of silence. One grisly secret. A story of estrangement, ancient rituals, and a reckoning three decades in the making. For thirty years, Nance and Nuala Beaumont—the town’s "Winter Bees"—have lived under one roof in silence. Nuala hasn’t spoken since the day...

Three generations of women connected by an Olivetti typewriter struggle to become writers while navigating love, war, exile, and the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Set across the sweeping backdrop of the twentieth century, The Typewriter follows three generations of women whose lives are...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Marseille, autumn 1942. The Mediterranean light is as bright as ever, but the city has gone quiet the way a room goes quiet when someone is listening. Odette Marchand has made gloves in the old Panier quarter since she was a girl, and she is good at the...

'Chilling, tragic, and utterly immersive.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book. Wow, Just, wow! A beautifully written and unforgettable story. I can't stop thinking about it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Occupied France, 1944 In the shadow of the ravaged battlefields of Verdun, where the scars of the First World War...

A British heiress in WWI England must confront her family’s plans for her future as she searches to find her place in a changing world. August, 1914: A few days after Britain declares war on Germany, English heiress Ginger Whitman already senses changes sweeping her town. But nothing shocks...

This book takes you through a different world of mankind. Starting by telling you the story of the creation of man in a way never told by anyone: the Golmaz gods and the Anzul gods; before immersing you in a royal feud between brothers, games of the Dregorian crown of the southern realm. But the question at the end remained, was he who was found guilty of all his inequities, truly guilty of his sins? Will nemesis come back to hunt the Dregorians?

Ukraine, März 1944: Es ist tiefer Winter, als Adeline und Emil Martel mit ihren beiden kleinen Söhnen vor der Roten Armee fliehen müssen. Als Deutsche sind sie in ihrer Heimat nicht mehr sicher und es bleibt ihnen nichts Anderes übrig, als sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg gen Westen zu begeben. Der aber wird von den Nazis kontrolliert. Emil, der als Soldat Gräueltaten der SS miterlebte, muss weiter um die Sicherheit seiner Familie fürchten. Besonders, als Adeline einer Jüdin bei der Flucht hilft und sie alle in Gefahr bringt.