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Helen, a war bride from England, journeys with her infant son to an unfamiliar continent on the hope of a promise - a promise that is, at times, hard to hold on to. While Canadian citizens face their private battles at home, Helen determinedly perseveres as wife to a suffering veteran and mother to their son. Her resolve to fight for her family and make the vast, distant prairies her new homeland reveals the strength and power of a war bride’s heart.

It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable hardships in her homeland as she fights to save her family from the Soviet Union's iron grip. Barely escaping the Terror-Famine, she washes up alone on America's distant shores. Fate throws Finn and Isabelle together just as the stock market crash causes a devastating collapse of his world.

Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life – even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright criminal. When war begins and Tom is called up almost at once, Jessie is left to cope with the baby alone. Meanwhile Jessie’s twin, Hannah, has been recruited to help at Bletchley Park. Immersed in her work decoding German messages, she has no idea of Jessie’s increasing desperation.

Meg Turner is finally doing the job she loves, but life as a sheep farmer proves tougher than she anticipated. She is a woman trying to prove herself in a man’s world against the backdrop of a brutal war. With her faith being tested in her work, she also fears that the man she loves will betray her again. Meg struggles to allow herself to love baby Lissa when her mother may return to claim her at any moment. Meanwhile, Kath faces new challenges in the WAAF, but cannot stop thinking about her child. Can she ever get over the guilt of leaving her child behind?

After a whirlwind romance, usherette Connie is swept off her feet when projectionist Charlie proposes in a film reel added to the final frames of Casablanca. Her job at the Tivoli cinema in Tiverton has been a refuge from her violent and alcoholic father, Frank. But that night, Connie disappears, not only from Charlie's life, but from her own as well.

For the first time in her adult life, Nicole Tate is without a job after being "let go" from her position as a fifth-grade teacher. She suddenly finds herself alone in Chicago with no real friends, no family, no job, and no love life. Wanting to tear up the town after being a quiet teacher for months, she heads to the local club where sex, drugs, and disco reign. There, she meets Dex Holden, owner of the hottest dance studio and school in the city, and he also happens to be the hottest man Nicole has ever seen.

Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community, but when the Japanese invade she’s interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends seventeen-year-old Charles, who is half Chinese, and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Meanwhile, forty miles away in Portuguese Macau, thirteen-year-old Sofia’s suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner.

Nueva York, 1953. Liv Joyner y Oscar Hancock compiten por el proyecto de la remodelación interior del hotel Edén de Manhattan. Un proyecto que a Liv la consolidaría como decoradora y por el que Hancock estaría dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa. Cuando la dueña del hotel, Heidy Brinicombe, se decide por el de su más odiado competidor, sin siquiera haber tenido ocasión de presentar sus ideas, Liv comienza a sospechar que Hancock consigue los clientes más interesantes con malas artes, así que decide contratar a Jack Bradley, un detective privado, para que lo investigue.

Durante la primavera de 1921, Helen McKerrigan-Montero viaja a Nueva York para acompañar a su hermana Laura, a punto de dar a luz. Debido a una absurda confusión, se convierte en el objetivo de una banda de gángsters de los bajos fondos. Para su sorpresa, el responsable de su protección es alguien a quien no ha podido olvidar.

East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake. But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking tragedy shatters Ruby’s world, suddenly she is at odds with everyone - her family, her friends, and even her sweetheart. And when the hospital is threatened with immediate closure, she’s not sure who to trust.

Berlin Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die junge, aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammende Lulu Schneider träumt davon, Tänzerin zu werden. Als sie eines Tages sehnsüchtig durch die Fenster des nahe gelegenen Ballhauses Sternberg das glamouröse Treiben beobachtet, lernt sie David kennen, den Sohn des jüdischen Besitzers. Mit viel Fleiß und der Unterstützung der Sternbergs, die ihr Talent erkennen, steigt Lulu in den rauschenden Goldenen Zwanzigern zur Startänzerin auf. Doch dann kippen die politischen Verhältnisse im Land, und bald sind das Ballhaus und alle, die Lulu liebt, in großer Gefahr.

Recently widowed, Sheila is determined to run the Porthcurno shop on her own, despite family opposition. Seeing villagers facing hard times, she’s desperate to help but not sure where to even start. When her soldier beau breaks off their engagement to marry someone else, Land Girl Selina is devastated. Will going to the aid of her struggling sister restore her faith in human nature?

Kent, 1953. The Woolworths Erith store, a beloved cornerstone of the community, faces closure if the December turnover fails to increase. And, as if store manager Betty Billington doesn't have enough on her plate, personnel shortages and a troublesome new employee add to the strife. With Christmas on the horizon, Betty and her staff must strive to find solutions to improve business and keep the store running – from special events for late-night customers to a festive group trip into central London.

Tammy and her mother, Grace, are desperate to escape Tammy’s violent bully of a father. But when an unforeseen tragedy strikes, mother and daughter must flee Scotland in the dead of night. To survive the severest of penalties, they leave behind everything they know and love – including one another. Under new identities, Tammy and Grace must start afresh. Tammy joins the services and there she meets a dashing officer who begins to break her guard down. But can the course of love ever run smooth with Tammy unable to reveal her true self?

Una lluviosa tarde de domingo, poco después de haber enviudado, Laura Palfrey llega al Claremont para iniciar una nueva vida. En el hotel la esperan cuatro huéspedes permanentes, días ordenados en torno a las rutinas de las comidas y los programas de televisión. Solo modifica el tedio la visita esporádica de algunos familiares. Pero nadie va a ver a Laura. Cuando de pronto conoce en la calle a Ludo, un joven a quien desvela el deseo de ser escritor, juntos elaboran un plan para compensar la soledad a la que la tienen sometida.

Der berührende dritte Band der fesselnden Sternberg-Saga über die Macht der Träume, die Kraft der Liebe und die Suche nach Freiheit.Eine couragierte Frau, die die Zuversicht auch in dunklen Stunden nicht aufgibt.Zürich, 1932: Die junge Jüdin Lucie ist fest entschlossen, das neue Leben nach der Flucht in die Schweiz mit Leichtigkeit zu meistern. Und das, obwohl sie ihre große Liebe Paul in Berlin zurücklassen musste. Auch Hannah, Alma und der Rest der Familie hoffen auf einen glücklichen Neuanfang.

For the townspeople of Poole on the Dorset coast, the war feels like it's right on their doorstep. And with more and more men leaving to fight, one fisherman’s daughter is determined to do whatever she can to help. Peggy volunteers to use her skills on the water to work with the flying boats alongside the RAF based in the harbour. But when she is asked to undertake a special mission, she will have to make a terrible choice – between her duty to her country and her only chance of happiness.

Jane Carter sees an advertisement for a live-in shop assistant and jumps at the chance to leave her old life behind. After Chadwick the draper takes her on, Jane learns all there is to know about fabrics and dressmaking. She proves a talented saleswoman and befriends Maggie and Lily, the other employees. The girls struggle under exploitative conditions: meagre pay; tiny portions of food; the boss cheating them out of commissions. When the young man Maggie is seeing falls in love with Jane, a bitter falling-out results in Maggie threatening to leave Chadwick’s.

Una historia real, la búsqueda de los orígenes de la raza aria en España, y la convierte en una emocionante novela de amor y amistad. Un amor prohibido. En octubre de 1940, Heinrich Himmler, uno de los principales líderes nazi, realiza una visita a España. Durante esta visita, una de sus colaboradoras, la bella antropóloga Meike, descubre un obrero rubio de ojos azules, Herminio Cáiser, que podría demostrar la pervivencia en España de una cepa pura de la raza aria.

Frahona Aknin es una joven judía-sefardita que sumerge sus narices en una librería cada que puede y sueña con viajar por diferentes lugares para conocer a escritores, pintores y grandes pensadores.