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Fifteen-year-old Mercy Faulkner is hit with the hardest blow of her young life when her beloved father is killed in an accident. Now, she must leave all she knows to move with her mother, a hard woman that she feels like she barely knows, to the small mountain town of Wynter, Colorado. Her mother has been offered a job there and a place to live and start over for the two.

Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard Cottage Hospital, striving to improve the medical treatments on offer to the community. After successfully establishing a mother and baby clinic, Frances is determined to move with the times and add family planning advice to her roster – but are the residents of Norton Dene ready for such progress or will she face opposition?

En una aldea gallega demasiado alejada de su Madrid natal, se enfrentará al reto de educar a sus alumnas con métodos novedosos que despertarán recelos entre los padres. También pondrá en marcha la escuela de adultas, ganándose la amistad y confianza de las mujeres.

Esta es mi historia: la de una mujer que encontró el amor en el lugar y en el momento menos indicados. Después de todos estos años, todavía deslizo la mano hasta mis labios y los acaricio con la punta de los dedos, con el conocimiento de que lo encontraré allí. Noto que aún me arde la boca a causa de sus besos, y es entonces cuando los ojos se me inundan de lágrimas.

Nueva York, víspera de Acción de Gracias de 1945. La guerra ha terminado y la fiesta de Eric Smythe está en pleno auge. Todos sus amigos de Greenwich Village, en el corazón bohemio de Manhattan, están ahí. También su hermana Sara, una joven independiente y despierta que empieza a abrirse camino en la gran ciudad. La irrupción de Jack Malone, un periodista del ejército estadounidense recién vuelto de Alemania, marca el inicio de una vertiginosa historia de amor.

Relato histórico de amor y de espionaje ambientado en la Guerra del Pacífico. La presente es una edición revisada de esta novela, cuyo éxito –más de un millón y medio de ejemplares vendidos– se debe a lo bien documentada y al estilo apasionado de la narración.

Jersey, 1940. In the quiet of the English Channel, war is brewing. When the Nazis first set foot on her island home, 16-year-old Marcy comes to realize that nothing will ever be the same. Fueled by the devastating disappearance of the man she loves and in defiance of her distant mother, Violet, she joins forces with fellow islander Louisa to aid Jersey’s secret resistance.

New York City, 1922. Millie Carpenter is in the business of mercy. Two years as a field nurse during the Great War taught her much about suffering. Still, when she returns to Manhattan, she employs her mercy in the impoverished tenements of the Lower East Side, where she serves as a Visiting Nurse to Italian immigrants. Millie's passion for helping people is powerful. But when Maria, a pregnant patient, is suddenly murdered at the hands of her abusive husband, Millie knows what she must do to stop him.

Rose Barlow has loved and lost. She has done her fair share during the war and seen her dreams shattered. As the British class system crumbles Rose is determined not to return to service at Trenwith Estate instead, she’s keen to pursue new opportunities and her own happiness now the war is over. Luke Trenwith survived the war and has returned home as the next Trenwith Baronet. But the life he once accepted as his fate feels cold and empty. He is left wanting more. But has the world changed enough to allow him to live his dream?

A comienzos de 1936, Gabriela Valier tiene 17 años y está enamorada de su primo, compañero de la infancia y de su misma edad. El romance incipiente y secreto queda trunco por la mudanza de su familia desde Paraná a Córdoba. Aquí conoce al capitán Diego Venturi y a su esposa Candela, una pareja que despierta la admiración y el romanticismo de Gabriela. Sin embargo, Candela muere y queda al descubierto que la pareja no era tan feliz como aparentaba.

Durante la dictadura militar argentina, un activista político y un homosexual comparten la celda de una cárcel bonaerense. Para paliar la soledad y el continuo miedo a la tortura, ambos presos conversan largamente. Mientras el activista político rememora su pasado y fantasea sobre su futuro, el homosexual se aferra a una realidad diferente, romántica y soñadora, evocando el argumento de películas vistas años atrás, explicando al detalle las escenas de una ficción que hubiera deseado vivir. El Beso De La Mujer Araña es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimización.

Una conmovedora historia de amor en el marco de la Revolución maderista. Es un relato apasionante que recoge algunos de los hechos más importantes de la primera década del siglo XX de la historia de México.

Boston, 1919. Laura McKerrigan-Montero conoce el destino de cualquier chica de su posición: casarse con un buen partido que convenga al negocio familiar. Pero Laura tiene un sueño: aprender alta repostería con el afamado maître pâtissier del hotel Taormina. Y, con la excusa de estudiar francés, convence a su severo padre para que le permita residir en Nueva York durante tres meses.

Wie geht man einen neuen Weg, wenn alles anders ist als erwartet? Kristiansund, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Emmas Talent als Schneiderin hat sich in der Stadt herumgesprochen. Dennoch sehnt sie sich auch weiterhin danach, Malerin zu werden. Während Emma versucht, ihren Weg zu finden, muss sie auch mit der Sorge um ihren Liebsten, Olav, leben – denn er arbeitet für seinen Onkel Kåre Dal, dem Emma wegen seiner zwielichtigen Kontakte zutiefst misstraut. Auch zuhause auf dem Hof von Emmas Familie geht es unruhig zu: ihr ältester Bruder weigert sich, den Hof zu übernehmen.

Thea welcomes her best friend, Violet Steele, to Rookery House. Violet has been in charge of an ambulance station in London's East End during the Blitz, and is in need of a holiday. Will a week in the countryside give her the rest she deserves? VAD nurse Evie Jones receives unwelcome news that stirs up her past and forces her to make an uncomfortable decision. Though she has a surprise when her friend Ned Blythe returns to start a new job in the hospital gardens. Can Evie let go of the past and give her future happiness a chance?

It's 1909 and Mary Richards has worked hard to gain an education and become a teacher in her close-knit, picturesque village in the Cotswolds, but not everyone approves of her modern ways. When her sister Emily becomes engaged to David Christmas, it seems fate will intervene in the form of the best man: his eligible brother Johnathon. Mary finds herself in danger of falling for this handsome, almost too perfect stranger, only married women have to give up their careers as soon as they're wed and there's no way Mary is going to sacrifice her dreams for a man.

I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor. Kept by a Nazi SS officer, outwardly she barely resembles my beloved Justine anymore. But I guessed her secret. About her beautiful, fragile little child. The baby she’ll do anything to protect. And I believe that deep down she still knows what is right. As the Nazis threaten everything we ever held dear, I know I have one chance. I must convince her to betray the evil she seems to have chosen. I need her to find her true self once more.

Britain is in the throes of war, but Katharina Valentine feels sidelined. Employed as a shorthand-typist in the War Office, she is transferred to the basement below – having had no idea that this dark, airless, underground maze, home of the top-secret Cabinet War Rooms, even existed, let alone what her work will entail. Unexpected staff shortages present an opportunity to work directly for Winston Churchill himself, and Katie jumps at the chance. And as she grows closer to Wing Commander Baxter Edwards, things start to look up…

Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on the remote Cornish island of Aoife’s Bay – despite the bone-chilling allegations surrounding his late wife Elizabeth’s death. In James’s company, Violet begins to feel the love that has been missing all her life. But when anonymous letters start to plague the bay’s residents, threatening to expose what really happened to Elizabeth, Violet feels the hostility towards her grow.

The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence. For bookshop owner, Jana, doing the right thing was never a question. So when opportunity comes to help the resistance, she offers herself – and her bookshop. Using her window displays as covert signals and hiding secret codes in book marks, she’ll do all in her power to help.