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When Millie Hudson is introduced to Dr. Winston Felton, it’s love at first sight. She can hardly wait to become his wife and eagerly makes plans for their new life together. However, days before their wedding, her new mother-in-law, Mother Nola, announces she’s moving in. And everything changes.

There are moments when a single choice can define an entire life. Haiwen and Suchi are teenage sweethearts in 1940s Shanghai; their childhood friendship has blossomed into young love, and they believe that they are soulmates. But when Haiwen secretly decides to enlist in the army to keep his brother from the draft, their shared future is shattered. Their paths take them far afield from each other, with the exception of one pivotal chance encounter on the Hong Kong ferry in 1966.

Apesar disso, o clima na Vila dos Tecidos é de otimismo. Paul Melzer voltou do front e, após a morte do patriarca da família, assume a administração da fábrica, determinado a fazer com que ela volte aos dias de glória. Marie também pode finalmente realizar um sonho antigo: ter o próprio ateliê de moda. Até Elisabeth parece ter deixado o ressentimento de lado e estar mais animada com a vida – e com um novo amor.

Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes, when Dar is involved in a devastated accident at the docks and Peggy’s world crashes around her. With Dar seriously ill in hospital Peggy’s reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over her family’s head having to revisit the hardships of her youth that she dearly wanted to escape from.

In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world … Maureen was the movie star, whose role as Tarzan’s Jane helped rewrite the rules of cinema censorship. Sonia was the aspiring writer who became George Orwell’s wife and the guardian of his literary legacy. And Vivien was the actress as iconic as the roles she played, from Cleopatra to Scarlett O’Hara. Together their careers encompassed glamour and tragedy, triumph and scandal.

It’s 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. He can’t wait to see his wife, Jessie, their son, Billy, and the new baby daughter he hasn’t even laid eyes on. But life back home wasn’t easy, especially once Jessie’s army pension was stopped after Tom deserted. So when she was told to put her infant daughter Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was for the best. But how will Tom take the news?

Santander 1930.Inés Calleja se ve obligada a huir de su casa después que su novio la abandonase para casarse con otra. Humillada y rechazada por la sociedad, conoce durante el viaje a Lucía Madrazo, que también ha abandonado su pueblo dejando atrás un doloroso pasado. Juntas abrirán un negocio en Sevilla, donde triunfarán.Pancho Madrazo, hermano de Lucía, regresa a España desde México, donde ha hecho fortuna.

Aoife Kerr lived a simple life in Donegal. The forgotten county at the northern tip of Ireland. Surrounded by friends and family, she never thought much about life beyond the port city where she was born. But one never knows what the sea wind will blow their way. David O'Brien and his brother take positions on a sailing crew, making deliveries along the western coast of Ireland. After a challenging trip from Galway to Killybegs, David finds himself inside the shop of a master tailor and his stunning young assistant.

On a cold February morning in 1966, Hannah arrives at Eight Mile Point on Lake Simcoe to ice fish for freshwater herring. She and her father visited the lake a few times as a child; a tradition cut short by her parent’s untimely death. Unable to focus on the manuscript she is supposed to work on, Hannah instead finds herself ruminating on what has brought her here after all these years.

Début 1944, Anne, la fille aînée de Peggy Reilly, est partie s'installer dans le Somerset, au sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, avec ses deux enfants. La vie de la jeune enseignante y est moins dangereuse qu'à Cliffehaven, le village côtier où réside sa mère et que survolent de nombreux avions de combat. Pourtant, Anne vit dans l'angoisse de ne jamais revoir Martin, son époux. Pilote et formateur dans la RAF, il multiplie les missions de plus en plus risquées en territoire ennemi.

In the summer of 1944 the work for the resistance movement takes all Helene's time and energy. There are indications that they have an informer in the group and Helene is under suspicion. At the same time, she is very much in love with a German soldier, but she is very afraid that he informed the authorities about a certain bomb attack. She decides to find the informer herself...

“La gente semplice non desidera fare cose straordinarie, ma lasciarsi cullare dai ritmi, dai profumi delle stagioni e vivere i propri sogni. Che cosa saremmo se non avessimo i nostri sogni? La vita si nutre di sogni!”. Ambientato negli anni Quaranta, il romanzo è una nenia di fiducia per chi, nonostante la guerra (e le tante guerre quotidiane), continua a fare progetti, attingendo a un serbatoio di energie che viene dal lavoro delle proprie mani, dalla creatività, dalla voglia di difendersi dalla crudeltà.

Shy Helene dreams of studying at university, finding love and getting married. A chance encounter leads her down a dangerous path with increasingly desperate choices to make in order to survive in this time of war and crisis.

Nimic nu părea să o predestineze pe Inés Suárez, o croitoreasă spaniolă frumuşică şi modestă, unei vieţi ieşite din comun. Însă Inés se hotărăşte să-şi regăsească soţul, plecat la război dincolo de Ocean, şi astfel tânăra ajunge în Americi, unde o aşteaptă o nouă iubire, dar şi o viaţă plină de lupte grele şi rare momente de fericire. Alături de căpitanul Pedro de Valvidia, această eroină a Spaniei de care istoria s-a ocupat atât de puţin ajunge adevărata întemeietoare a Regatului Chile.

Porstmouth, mars 1943. April, qui s'était engagée avec son amie Paula dans les forces féminines de la Royal Navy, est contrainte de quitter la base militaire et l'armée, où elle avait trouvé une mission qui lui plaisait et l'amour dans les bras d'un séduisant GI. Rejetée par sa mère et confrontée à un avenir incertain, elle se réfugie à Cliffehaven, sur la côte sud-est de l'Angleterre, où son oncle Stan est chef de gare. Sur place, elle emménage à la pension du Bord de mer.

رواية بطعم الفاكهة تورطك فيها حد المتعة وتسحبك إلى عالمها. رغم قلة أحداثها وشخصياتها، تتلخص في نيرودا على فراش المرض وحواره مع ساعي بريده "ماريو خيمينث". تتميز بلغة ساحرة هي النسيج واللباس والرائحة، تمزج الواقع بالخيال حتى تلتبس الأحداث والشخصيات فيصبح الكل بطلاً. هي علامة في تاريخ الأدب العالمي، تحولت إلى فيلم ومسرحية ونالت جوائز عالمية، وتنساب متعتها كخدر الحب في العروق.

Johanna Neumann, a once-acclaimed pianist, is forced to leave her high-society life in Berlin to support her military husband, the newly appointed Kommandant of Erstein. With her son enlisted in the Hitler Youth and her dreams of music silenced by the clamor of conflict, she grapples with the harsh realities of her new existence in a place where she is neither welcome nor trusted. Haunted by loss and loneliness and disillusioned by her husband’s transformation, she yearns for an end to the war so she can go back to her beloved homeland before her daughter is recruited into the Nazi regime.

Set in 1928 in Victoria, Australia. The Thornton family made its money in the goldfields during the 1850s and the antiques trade. Their principal home is Thornton Park, a lavish mansion close to Melbourne. They also own a home and a goldmine in Daylesford, where their close friends, the Bassetti family, are part of a thriving Swiss-Italian community.

New York 1907: Im Kosmetiksalon ihrer Tante Antonietta erlebt die junge Waise Mirella die faszinierende Welt des Luxus und der Schönheit. Nach Antoniettas Tod baut sie den Salon gegen viele Widerstände zu einem erfolgreichen Unternehmen aus. Als sie dann auf einer Feier den attraktiven Pferdetrainer Nick trifft und sich unsterblich in ihn verliebt, könnte ihr Glück perfekt sein. Doch Nick kann ihre berufliche Unabhängigkeit nur schwer akzeptieren und so muss Mirella für ihre Liebe und ihr Glück kämpfen.

يأخذنا الروائي التركي الكبير الحاصل على جائزة نوبل في الآداب، أورهان باموق في روايته "ذات الشعر الأحمر" إلى بلدة صغيرة على بعد ٣٠ ميلاً من إسطنبول، والمطّلع على أعمال هذا الكاتب يلاحظ ولعه الشديد بمدينة إسطنبول. يستخدم باموق في هذا العمل أسلوب استرجاع الماضي القريب من ثمانينات القرن العشرين، وما شكلته هذه الفترة المشتعلة بالأحداث السياسية من انقلابات وصراعات على الحكم.