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When war is declared, Lily sees an opportunity to escape her domineering father: she will join the Great Western Railway factory to win her financial independence and move out of home. Maggie doesn’t want to simply follow in her sisters’ footsteps and work in the laundries at the GWR. So, when the chance comes to volunteer for men’s work in the machine shop, she’s the first to raise her hand. Catherine, a clerk in the GWR office, has been helping with London’s evacuation efforts, organising trains to move children out of the city.

¿Dispuesto a unirte a la búsqueda de uno de los objetos más legendarios de la historia? Clarice ha decidido ayudar a John Campbell y a su amiga Sally...

"الحب في المنفى" رواية خيالية بأحداث واقعية تدور في بداية الثمانينات قبل وبعد الاحتلال الإسرائيلي لبيروت، تُحكى بلسان صحفي مصري ناصري في الخمسين من عمره، صُدم في ما آلت إليه بلاده بعد رحيل عبد الناصر نفسه، وانتقال البلاد من زعيم إلى قائد... مر بعدة اضطرابات في حياته الزوجية انتهت إلى الطلاق من زوجته منار، سافر بعدها إلى سويسرا حيث عمل مراسلا لصحيفة لم تعد تنشر له أي شيء، لأنه لا يزال مواليا لعبد الناصر!

Verrat, Mut, Liebe und Verlust im Schatten der Berliner Mauer. Die packende Fortsetzung der Löwenthal-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Iris KrumbiegelBerlin, 1975: Jana Faber hat sich dem sozialistischen System angepasst und träumt von einer Karriere als Physikerin – bis sie auf ein düsteres Familiengeheimnis stößt und erfährt, dass die Menschen, denen sie vertraut, sie all die Jahre belogen haben. Doch erst Jahre später, längst im Visier der Stasi, entdeckt sie, dass ihre Herkunft mit einem besonderen Erbe verbunden ist – und dass ihre Karriere im DDR-Regime einen hohen Preis fordert.

After receiving a desperate letter reporting her father to be gravely ill, inveterate matchmaker Melody Merriweather leaves college and rushes back to her small hometown of Merriweather, Wisconsin—only to discover that she’s expected to take over the running of her family’s general store, the Merc, until he recovers.

Zwei Frauen aus unterschiedlichen Zeiten, die ihren Träumen folgen, auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und wahrer Liebe. "Für die schönste und wertvollste Rose. Deine Liebe lässt mich alles Dunkel vergessen." Mit all ihrer Leidenschaft ist Hannah dabei, ihren großen Traum zu verwirklichen: Ihr Café "Zur Schokoladen-Symphonie" in der Nähe des Bayreuther Festspielhauses. Beim Stöbern auf dem Dachboden stößt sie auf ein mit Rosen und zwei verschlungenen Initialen verziertes Holzkästchen, ein Tagebuch aus den 1920er-Jahren und eine Mappe mit Klaviernoten.

Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling the effects of war like never before. Years of being told to be a ‘good girl’ by her mother, Freda has always done what’s been expected of her. But, even though she’s proud of her work nursing soldiers and victims of war, she can’t help but wonder if there’s more for her in life. And her secret desire to become a journalist feels increasingly like a calling she can’t resist.

Looking for a new start after her father’s death, Lara Hope arrives in Lisbon in search of a family she’s never met. As war storms across Europe, Lara finds solace and belonging in her landlady’s tranquil bookshop in one of the most beautiful corners of the city. But when she witnesses a customer secretly swapping a book, she realises the bookshop is not all it seems. Lara is plunged into a labyrinthine world of mystery and facades, encountering new friends, an unexpected romance, and even royalty…

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep, along with a note begging her to 'take care of little Rose'. Who is the mother? Victoria, Naomi and the Churchwood bookshop organising team set about trying to identify her, concerned for her welfare and hoping to give her a chance to reclaim her baby. As they piece together the heartbreaking story, all sorts of surprises emerge. But they can't keep the baby a secret for long: can they reunite the little family before the authorities take Rose away?

1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned, with no means to return home. Afraid and alone, she faces prejudice and rejection… until she finds her way to an Irish-run boarding house on West India Dock Road and meets Jack, Charity and a host of unexpected friends.

It’s 1968 and it’s cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course - and meet a suitable man. She is already missing her home in Provence and her father and his new wife and their extended family. But it’s only for a year she tells herself - and then she can go back to France and do what she really wants and become a painter. And then she bumps into Oliver who is quite the most interesting young man she has ever met.

When faced with the inequities of college life for women in 1965, first-generation college student Ramona Bronson must decide whether she's willing to risk her education for the possibility of better. As fall term begins, Ramona is reassigned to the night shift waitressing at Dusty's Drive-In, which closes after the female-only campus curfew. Panicked because she needs her job to pay tuition, Ramona petitions to appeal the curfew on the advice of her friend Dimitri.

Nach einem Schicksalsschlag, der ihre Karriere als Straßenmusikerin beendet, flüchtet Loreena zu ihrer Familie nach Eden Fields – einer idyllischen Farm in den irischen Wicklow Mountains. Hier hofft sie auf einen Neuanfang und stößt dabei auf die Spuren von Gwendolyn McEala, einem jungen Dienstmädchen, das 1911 unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwand. Bis heute ranken sich Gerüchte um ein Verbrechen auf Eden Fields und um ein Herz, das sich nie bändigen ließ.

Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family’s peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatening the lives of the city’s Jewish population, including Reuven and Zelda, the girl he loves.

A great building boom spread across America in the 1920s and the Fawcett Construction Company of New York has many projects in the pipeline. Carol Berkley, private secretary to the company's president, keeps track of them all and is particularly concerned about the lack of progress in a building out west. When two men who appear to have something to do with the project arrive to talk to her boss, she overhears them discussing plans to swindle the company. Their scheme is to share the spoils with the project's engineer, Philip Duskin.

As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe safe from German bombs…for the moment at least. And with the safe arrival of baby Grace, family life at Harbour House seems to be settling down. But Emily Roby finds life stifling. She’s not keen on her new baby sister, doesn’t like her new school and feels as though sometimes her parents still treat her as a baby, but also a grown up when it suits them! Emily’s only friend is Nancy, the new girl working at Harbour House.

After the Bolsheviks seized power, Lenin entrusted the security officers Dzerzhinsky and Blumkin with a secret operation to prevent the possibility of restoring the hereditary monarchy in Russia and destroying any evidence of cooperation of the new government with Russia’s enemy in the Great War, the German Empire.

Una enriquecedora visión de la España del siglo XX gracias a dos personajes de orígenes totalmente opuestos, a los que la casualidad une en Barcelona antes de la Guerra Civil. Rosario y su hermana Remedios dejan Algeciras para trasladarse a Barcelona huyendo de una vida encorsetada y sin futuro. El sueño de Rosario, una joven inquieta y ambiciosa, es convertirse en una cantante de éxito en una ciudad que respira vida y diversión.

Obstacles and adventures await the young couple as they navigate the winding road called life. Through the ever-changing landscape of their love story, two constants remain: their faith in God and their love of family.

Una tarde de otoño en Barcelona, a Violeta, la madre de la autora, le comunican la muerte de su hermano Víctor. Y con la noticia llega la gran revelación: Víctor era adoptado. En 1942, Elsa, viuda de un aviador de la Luftwaffe y madre de seis hijos, entre ellos Violeta, regresa al pueblo de Baviera en el que pasó los veranos de su infancia. Desea alejar a sus hijos de la guerra, pero a su llegada se encuentra con la mansión familiar reconvertida en hospital militar y tiene que acomodar a su familia en una humilde cabaña en el monte.