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The instant Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting...

One of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan—read by Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Sandra Oh. “Stunning.” —New York Times...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She kept the neighborhood’s secrets in a curtain hem. Now the fog is coming for hers. South Philadelphia, 1948. Nine-year-old Netta Marino arrives on Annin Street, a block of scrubbed marble steps where the barber next door sings Puccini through her...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Marseille, autumn 1942. The Mediterranean light is as bright as ever, but the city has gone quiet the way a room goes quiet when someone is listening. Odette Marchand has made gloves in the old Panier quarter since she was a girl, and she is good at the...

The Violet Pact, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

When a cockroach awakens to find himself turned into some pale, horrid creature, he needs to learn how to survive and thrive within the human world. A phantasmic noir for fans of Kafka and Kerouac, of Hammitt and Highsmith and Camus. It is the mid-1950s, and Kockroach, perfectly content with his...

Two sisters. Three decades of silence. One grisly secret. A story of estrangement, ancient rituals, and a reckoning three decades in the making. For thirty years, Nance and Nuala Beaumont—the town’s "Winter Bees"—have lived under one roof in silence. Nuala hasn’t spoken since the day...

Three generations of women connected by an Olivetti typewriter struggle to become writers while navigating love, war, exile, and the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Set across the sweeping backdrop of the twentieth century, The Typewriter follows three generations of women whose lives are...

"A truly engaging, richly crafted narrative." —Kirkus Reviews In December 1941, Amos and Samuel Johnson, brothers from Chicago's Southside, enlist in the US Army, one from a sense of duty, the other seeking adventure and an escape from his family's expectations. But the segregated Army is slow...

Ole Nikolajsen hedder den midaldrende, let blakkede journalist, der har slidt sig fra den jyske hede til det mondæne København. Da han møder sin modsætning, den forfinede og kompromisløst ærlige Karl-Werner Bühler, tvinges han ind i en nervepirrende spionsag, der fører helt tilbage til...

Lucia sidder på plejehjem, lænket til sin kørestol, fortabt i sine minder om manden Andreas. En gang om ugen kommer datteren, Clara, på besøg. En dag finder hun blandt morens gemmer en lille sypude. Indeni er skjult en håndfuld uniformsknapper fra en Waffen SS-uniform. Da Clara...

”Og ligesom skorpionen – ifølge både den yngre Plinius og Albertus Magnus – bærer sit talrige afkom på ryggen og en tid lang beskytter og opretholder det for senere ubarmhjertigt at opæde det, var Skorpionsagen ikke nogen enkelt sag, men en familie af sammenhængende sager, en hel...

Gran Bretagna, marzo 1944. Dopo una disperata battaglia aerea nei cieli del Somerset, un bombardiere tedesco precipita in fiamme. Al sicuro nella fattoria di famiglia, Joan Marsh osserva tre paracadute aprirsi nel cielo notturno, ignara che uno di essi trasporta un uomo destinato a cambiarle la vita per sempre. Quando Joan scopre il pilota della Luftwaffe nascosto nel fienile, il suo primo istinto è denunciarlo; invece, contro ogni logica, decide di offrirgli rifugio. Lavorando fianco a fianco nei campi, un amore proibito inizia a fiorire.

From the pyramids of Cairo to the cliffs of Cornwall, a sweeping, heart-wrenching tale of war, sacrifice and second chances from bestselling author Lorna Cook. Cornwall, present day. When Australian Tilly Hobbs arrives at Trelenna House, she’s not expecting much, just a job in the café and a...

I trebindsværket ”Verden i flammer” følger man ligesom i den foregående trilogi, ”Europa i flammer”, familien Henry: Kommandørkaptajnen Victor, kaldet Pug, hans kone, Rhoda, og sønnerne Warren og Byron, den første bataljonschef, den anden sekondløjtnant og gift med den jødiske...

When She Danced in the Rain is a powerful, #1 internationally bestselling novel based on a little-known chapter of World War II history that explores family secrets, forbidden love, and the deep scars left by war. After inheriting her mother’s house by the sea, June returns to a small island...

The Princess and the First Lady shines a light on the often forgotten story of the “other” Bouvier sister while deftly revealing the darker side of the seemingly picture-perfect Kennedy bride we all think we know. Jackie Kennedy Onassis is an American icon who will forever be etched in...

Domani è il primo giorno. E io sento tutta l'emozione di un primo giorno, non già di scuola, ma di una nuova vita." È il settembre del 1937 quando il giovane maestro Guido Centofanti annota queste parole sul suo diario. Un lungo viaggio lo ha condotto a Morra Terzana, tra le montagne del Cilento, dove lo attende la classe elementare in cui assumerà il suo primo incarico.

Die Vergiftung Ein Roman von Maria Lazar, gelesen von Natalie Nußbaumer. Maria Lazar war Tochter einer vermögenden, zum Katholizismus konvertierten großbürgerlich-jüdischen Familie, die das jüngste Kind zur Ausbildung in die reformpädagogische Mädchenschule der Eugenie Schwarzwald...