Titres dans XXe siècle

New York City, 1921. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is struggling to make her mark in a man’s world. She’s penniless, she’s unemployed and her marriage is on the rocks when she starts a bridge group with three extraordinary women—but will they be able to save her from herself? When tragedy strikes, and everything Dorothy holds dear is threatened, it’s up to Peggy, Winifred and Jane to help her confront the truth before it’s too late. Because the stakes may be life or death.

In Nazi-occupied Poland, Sofia cannot look her father in the eye. Sofia’s mother, her papa’s cherished wife, is Jewish—how dare he work as a doctor for the SS? She cannot forgive him, even if the bargain was made to spare their lives. In the middle of the night, Isaac emerges from a packed train with hundreds of others. Beneath Auschwitz’s barbed wire, the SS decide prisoners’ fates on the spot—and Isaac is chosen to work. Every breath feels like it could be Isaac’s last, so when he sees a beautiful auburn-haired girl peering out of the farm window, it feels like a dream.

The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one...

Nel tranquillo paesino di Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac saluta il marito Antoine che si sta dirigendo al fronte. Non credeva che i nazisti avrebbero attaccato la Francia, ma di punto in bianco si ritrova circondata da soldati tedeschi, carri armati, aerei che scaricano bombe su innocenti. Ora che il Paese è stato invaso, Vianne è obbligata a ospitare il nemico in casa sua: da quel momento ogni suo movimento è tenuto d'occhio, lei e sua figlia sono in costante pericolo.

From the internationally bestselling author of the “fascinating epic” (Associated Press) Between Love and Honor comes a rich, sweeping tale based on the captivating true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly upheaval of the...

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

Erst ein dramatischer Unfall, dann die waghalsige Flucht aus der DDR: Im Tatsachenroman "Mit dem Mut zur Liebe" erzählt Nummer-1-Bestseller-Autorin Hera Lind die wahre Liebesgeschichte der Artisten Dieto und Johanna. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als sich Johanna und Dieto 1957 in Dresden zum ersten Mal begegnen. Ihre Väter waren zusammen in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft, und beide bringen ihren Kindern die artistischen Kunststücke bei, die ihnen den sicheren Tod im Arbeitslager erspart haben.

Berlin, 1858. Das Hausmädchen Sophie wird unehrenhaft entlassen und steht vor dem Nichts. Der Sohn der Familie hat sich in Sophie verliebt, doch die Schuld gibt man ihr. Sophie bleibt nur, es ihrer Kindheitsfreundin Bertha gleichzutun und das Geld zum Überleben auf der Straße zu verdienen. Als Bertha und Sophie sich eine der grassierenden Geschlechtskrankheiten einfangen, bringt man sie in die Charité. Statt dort Hilfe zu bekommen, werden die beiden Frauen jedoch unwissentlich Teil eines grausamen Experiments.

Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather in his idyllic shoreside villa. When she arrives in 1936, she believes the long, hot weeks ahead will be no different to so many that have gone before. But someone else is visiting the island that year too: a young German man called Otto. And so begins a summer of innocence lost, and love discovered; one that is finite, but not the end.

Look for Pam Jenoff’s new novel, The Society of Forgotten Wives, a sweeping novel of missing husbands and buried secrets. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A mesmerizing tale of love, female friendship, and heroism." —Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author A Parisian department store...

Spring, 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned, it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones to say a fond farewell to Rookery House and seek a new home in Great Plumstead. When an unusual opportunity arises, will it be all she hopes for? Marianne is visited by her husband's sister, stirring up bad memories from the past. Scared that Alex's family will once again try to take her young daughters away, Marianne vows to do all she can to keep them safe and living with her at Rookery House.

A deadly epidemic. A bitter betrayal. A dangerous path to redemption. When lovely but shallow Kitty Garstin rushes into a loveless marriage with Walter Fane, a reserved bacteriologist stationed in 1920s Hong Kong, she expects an escape from her overbearing mother. Instead, she finds herself...

When his plane crash-lands in the Mexican desert, Walter Faber experiences the first of several remarkable coincidences that lead him almost unconsciously on a personal journey into his past. Faber is a truly dedicated technologist-engineer: he distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable. Yet it is by a series of totally incalculable events that he encounters a lost friend, a former lover, and a daughter he has never known, until gradually he is caught in a tragedy of starkly classical horror.

Anna Roth, jeune documentaliste à Princeton, a une mission : rencontrer Adèle, la veuve de Kurt Gödel, l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du XXe siècle, afin de récupérer les documents laissés par le grand mathématicien. Par petites touches, Adèle dévoile peu à peu l'histoire d'amour improbable, l'horreur nazie, le génie et les folies de son mari Kurt Gödel.

Von der Autorin der gefeierten »Die sieben Schwestern«-Saga Sorcha OʼDonovan wächst behütet in Ballymore an der Südküste Irlands heran. Als sie 16 Jahre alt ist, verliebt sie sich unsterblich in den Musiker Con Daly, einen Einzelgänger, der in einer Hütte am Strand lebt. Es beginnt eine...

Wild whispers abound the Yorkshire Moors where someone means trouble… Penrith, Yorkshire Dales 1901 Tor Hardy has prospered in Cornwall but remains tied to the Pennines and the troubled mine at Penrith Scar. When a strike erupts, he returns to help his friend Jonathan Crossley, only to uncover...

When Hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British war effort than file paperwork. Alongside her childhood friend, French-born Rose, she quickly rises up the ranks of the freedom fighters. For Rose, the Resistance is a link to her late husband, and a way to move forward without him. What starts out as helping downed airmen becomes a bigger cause when they meet Sophia, a German escapee and fierce critic of Hitler who is wanted by the Gestapo.

Fabulous family saga of secrets held through two generations, set against the atmospheric background of the Lake District at Christmas. The year 1936 is drawing to a close. Winter grips Wetmoreland and causes a rare phenonmenon: The lakes freeze. For two local families, the Richardsons and the Grindleys, this will bring unexpected upheaval, as the frozen lake entices long-estranged siblings and children to return home for the holiday season.

Cornwall, 1920: A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lies the terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?

Nicole Galland, author of The Fool’s Tale, turns her clever pen toward re-imagining the famous legend of Lady Godiva in this expertly crafted historical novel set in Anglo-Saxon England. A 12th-century noblewoman, Lady Godiva is infamous for riding naked through Coventry to relieve her people...