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Första delen i feelgoodserien Livet runt Klocksjön! När andra världskriget pågick mobiliserades många unga kvinnor till Luftbevakningen. Deras uppdrag var att iaktta allt som skedde i Sveriges luftrum och rapportera varje avvikelse, dag som natt. En av dem var Vibeke Holm, som tjänstgjorde i trakten kring Klocksjön. Drygt åttio år senare söker hennes dotter Mary-Lou upp platsen där mamman varit krigsplacerad.

When war broke out, 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk, where she was wanted and needed. So why had she joined up? Come to that, why had Meg from Cheshire, and Sue, very much the big city girl from Liverpool, and Shanna, the life-toughened product of a broken home in Glasgow? Mixed reasons. Very mixed backgrounds.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She built something that could not be stopped. They found a way to stop it. Hollywood, 1940. George Antheil is an avant-garde composer better known for scandal than success when he meets Hedy Lamarr at a dinner party — and discovers that the most...

May 1910. As Halley's Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days. Charlie McCracken continues his mail route up Sand Mountain, caring for an elderly Cherokee woman who...

Russian Grand Duchess or Impostor? In an enthralling new feat of historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50 year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she...

Germany, 1945. Tiptoeing across rows of symmetrical vines, my linen dress no protection against the whipping breeze, my heart plummets when I hear a scream. And by the time I see the soldier, it’s already too late… Present Day. Reeling from the loss of her beloved grandmother, Matylda...

A sweeping, haunting story of a postwar spy, two women's search for a missing friend, the hunt for a secret diary and the medieval castle high in the Austrian Alps that ties them together, decades apart. By the author of The Last Secret, an instant national bestseller. October 1945 By day and...

A generation fed to the machine.Thomas Elsdon trades the quiet predictability of a shipping clerk’s life for the chaos of the Western Front. But as the patriotic fervour of the wars beginning fades into the mud of the Salient, he realizes the war is not a crusade, but a vast, unfeeling factory...

Inspired by a real Victorian crochet book – and the secret language of women who crafted their way through a war. Paris, 1943. Marguerette Touissant has lost almost everything. Illness has stolen the voice that made her a star at the Moulin Rouge; the war has taken her father, the celebrated...

When her ex-husband reappears after decades of being presumed dead, a foreign diplomat will have to unravel the mystery of what really happened on the fateful night that ripped them apart, from the New York Times bestselling author of An Infinite Love Story Julia Winters joined the foreign...

Hotels sind wundersame Orte Für die meisten eine Unterkunft auf Zeit, für andere ein Arbeitsplatz, für einige wenige sind sie gar ein Zuhause. So auch für Martha, Inge und Karola, die als Direktorinnen in unterschiedlichen Epochen das Hamburger Traditionshotel Reichshof leiten. Auf der Suche...

Un romanzo sui sentimenti taciuti che portiamo nel cuore, sulla bellezza capace di resistere allo scorrere del tempo, sulla possibilità di volare in alto anche quando tutti ci pensano condannati a rimanere a terra. Palermo, 1914. Nella cornice di una città piena di profumi, in cui il fervore del Liberty sta spazzando via la polvere del tempo e negli alberghi approdano viaggiatori da tutto il mondo, si incrociano le ambizioni di Giulio Jacona e Irene Scordato.

Nel 1942 a Lisbona, un rifugiato disperato ottiene due biglietti per l'America da uno sconosciuto, Josef Schwarz, in cambio di ascoltare la sua storia per un'intera notte. Attraverso i caffè e i bordelli, Schwarz racconta la sua drammatica fuga dalla Germania nazista e la ricerca disperata della moglie Helen. Il racconto rivela un'odissea di amore, persecuzione e morte, culminando all'alba con il passaggio dei documenti al protagonista.

Elena Moreno Scheredre regresa con una gran novela sobre la emigración vasca a América. Un conmovedor e inolvidable relato sobre la nostalgia, el valor y el amor contra todo pronóstico. Domingo Arsuaga, marinero en Lekeitio, emigra, sin palabras que pronunciar, al oeste americano que le...

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler è un bambino ebreo di sei anni il cui padre scompare durante la Notte dei cristalli, quando la sua famiglia perde tutto. La madre, per salvarlo, lo mette su un treno che lo porterà dall’Austria all’Inghilterra. Per Samuel inizia così una nuova fase della sua...

April, 1945. Alle spüren, dass der Krieg und die fürchterliche Ideologie der Nationalsozialisten kurz vor dem Ende stehen. Doch in der Nacht vom 28. auf den 29. April 1945, zwei Tage vor Hitlers Selbstmord, ereignet sich das dunkelste Kapitel der damals noch jungen Stadt Penzberg in Bayern. Denn während der einst von den Nazis abgesetzte Bürgermeister zurück ins Rathaus zieht, erlässt die Wehrmacht den Befehl, alle Widerständler sofort hinzurichten. Und zwischen allen Fronten stehen die Jugendlichen Marie, Schorsch und Gustl.

A moving and nostalgic saga from Pam Evans, set in London during wartime. Perfect for readers of Katie Flynn, Kitty Neale and Dilly Court. It is autumn 1940 and, as the bombs rain down on London, a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the local post office, Bessie Green does her...

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny in Sons of Fortune. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Moving' Daily Mail 'It will stay with you' Independent 'Profound' Irish Examiner ____________________ A moving new novel from the beloved author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven When the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece...