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Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew. READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS! "Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book as i love family saga books. Loved that it...

Introducing the Polish master of espionage with a gripping international thriller about the final crumbling of the USSR and the dawn of Putin’s reign... October 1990. With Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm, glasnost and perestroika are reshaping the USSR, and the Cold War is drawing to an...

Der drohende Krieg überschattet London, doch die Frauen aus der Mulberry Lane kämpfen mit ihren ganz eigenen Sorgen ... 1938, Mulberry Lane, London. Maureen Jackson fühlt sich wie eine Gefangene. Drei Jahre zuvor war ihre Welt noch in Ordnung. Sie wollte Rory, den Mann ihrer Träume, heiraten und mit ihm eine eigene Familie gründen. Aber seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter muss sie sich um ihren Vater kümmern, der ihr das Leben zur Hölle macht. Nun schuftet sie Tag und Nacht in seinem Lebensmittelgeschäft.

A Distant Shore, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

Een dochter van een Holocaust-overlevende en een Amsterdamse vrouw groeit op in een verscheurd gezin en zoekt wereldwijd naar haar eigen identiteit en bestemming. Een op waarheid gebaseerd familieverhaal.

Bintang Estate, Malasia, 1945: la familia de Cecily Alcántara corre un gran peligro: su hijo de quince años ha desaparecido, su hija mayor está cada día más enfadada y la pequeña está escondida en el sótano para evitar que se la lleven a uno de los burdeles de guerra para soldados japoneses. Cecily sólo está segura de dos cosas: que todo es culpa suya y que su familia nunca debe saber por qué.

Berlin, 1938. It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

Petersburg, Alaska. 23 de julio de 1918. Un fiscal federal llega a bordo de un caza-submarinos con órdenes de cerrar el barrio rojo del pueblo. Esa noche, con whisky confiscado sacado de las evidencias, él y dos oficiales navales pasan cuatro horas en las casas que vinieron a clausurar. El tabernero que los denuncia ante el mariscal de la ciudad es acusado de sedición tres semanas después. Roberto es un novelista histórico radicado en Port Townsend, Washington, conocido por reconstruir archivos de la Jefferson County Historical Society.

A blistering tale of sapphic obsession and an extreme first love set in 1960s Australia. Aspiring artist Lilith has been dragged to her father’s homeland of Australia, a place in which she never feels at home, following a scandal she refuses to talk about. Her one saving grace amidst the...

Isabel ist Mutter zweier Teenager, Ehefrau und Unternehmerin - und fühlt sich in ihrem Leben angekommen. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie bei einer Entrümpelung im Haus ihrer verstorbenen Tante auf handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen ihrer Mutter Anne stößt, in denen diese von ihrer Kindheit während des Zweiten Weltkriegs erzählt. Isabel realisiert mit Schrecken, welch tiefe Not und traumatische Verluste ihre Mutter als kleines Mädchen durchleben musste, und beginnt ihre Familiengeschichte mit neuen Augen zu betrachten.

In 1913, fifteen-year-old Kate Linton’s life is upended when her father dies suddenly and her mother becomes too ill to care for her. Sent to live with wealthy relatives she has never met, Kate arrives at Brockmere House in Cambridgeshire, a world far removed from her old life. As she slowly adjusts to her new life, she forms a close bond with the charming Harry Redfern, a relationship which soon deepens. But during a visit to London, Kate is startled to see a woman she is convinced is her mother leaving an elegant dress shop.

'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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and rubbing shoulders with everyone from Truman Capote to James Baldwin, Gore Vidal...

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.

This audiobook is read by a full cast, led by actress Pauline Chalamet (The Sex Live of College Girls, The King of Staten Island). From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and The Librarians of Rue de Picardie comes a charming and cinematic multi-cast audiobook following a...

"England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x". Ruby Summers is a tapestry of memories, her ninety-six years laced with both love and loss. The echoes of a wartime Norfolk summer, where young Ruby's heart entwined with Edmondo's under orchard skies, are as vivid as ever. Yet a single, haunting secret - born from a love tested by war and a betrayal that shattered her - remains locked within her.

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.

August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war-ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding refuge in a seemingly abandoned house in a secluded woodland. But the house is far from vacant. Stefano wakes at the arrival of its owner, Erich, a former German soldier, who invites the travelers to stay until they can find safe passage home. Stefano cautiously agrees, intrigued by the disarming German, his reclusive neighbor Rosalind, and her traumatized husband.

1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant.