検索キーワード： 20世紀

Immediately upon his release from a twenty-five-year prison sentence, former veterinarian Trevor Westmore gets his first surprise as a free man: A guard gives him a German shepherd puppy. While Trevor anxiously tries to build a new life, his dog, Libby, provides the routine and responsibility he...

A family, their liquor store, and the clash of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments in 1920s St. Paul The Kaner brothers were getting by well enough running Kaner’s Fine Wine and Spirits in St. Paul, Minnesota, until Prohibition took effect in January 1920. With their liquor store...

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE Named a Most Anticipated title by: People.com, Minnesota Star Tribune...

The brand new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel. Tatra Mountains, Poland, 1942. Tamar Varga joins the Polish Resistance Movement to take whatever revenge she can against the Nazis - having watched in horror as her Roma...

Under den tyska ockupationen av Nederländerna dras tobaksägaren Henri Osewoudt med i motståndsrörelsen. Han rekryteras av den handlingskraftige Dorbeck och ges farliga uppdrag som han utför utan att tveka. Han framkallar illegala mörkrumsfilmer, samarbetar med brittiska spioner och likviderar oönskade motståndare. Han grips av tyskarna, flyr, fångas igen–det blir allt svårare för honom orientera sig i tillvaron. Han har själv flera namn. Vilket är hans riktiga?

“Hay’s tightly woven plot unfolds at an addictive pace, and the twists come in all the right places." —Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of The Housekeepers comes a glossy, dark, page-turning mystery to rival The White Lotus–unfolding over twenty-four fateful hours in...

Two spies. One mission. No way out. Budapest, 1948. The Soviet stranglehold on Eastern Europe tightens as paranoia and fear sweep the streets. When seasoned operatives Will Shaw and Thomas Jacobs are sent to extract a brilliant Hungarian cryptographer, they expect a dangerous but routine mission...

Paris, 1942: From the far side of the cobbled street Sadie locks eyes with a thin woman wearing a yellow star and clutching a newborn baby. Her eyes carry a pleading message that Sadie cannot ignore. As the woman is hustled onto a bus by cold-eyed soldiers, she calls out a desperate appeal. Moments later, Sadie hears the tiny cry. Scooping the abandoned baby under her jacket, she runs to where she works: La Maison Bleue. A place of glittering chandeliers and velvet armchairs, beloved by the German soldiers. A dangerous place for a young girl to hide a Jewish child.

Singapur, Anfang 1945: Das japanische Kriegsgefangenenlager Changi ist die Hölle auf Erden. Unter extremen Bedingungen – geplagt von Hunger, Tropenkrankheiten und der Willkür der Wachen – kämpfen tausende alliierte Soldaten ums bloße Überleben – und doch bestehen die alten Hierarchien und Rivalitäten fort. Nur dem »King«, einem amerikanischen Korporal, ist es gelungen, einen florierenden Schwarzhandel aufzubauen, womit er die hierarchische Ordnung auf den Kopf stellt und was ihn zum gefürchteten und meistgehassten Mittelpunkt des Lagers macht.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. La vida de William Henley no ha sido fácil. Aunque pertenece a una de las familias más renombradas del país, nunca conoció el amor de una madre o un padre, y ahora, cuando piensa que podrá tomar las riendas de su futuro, descubre que su...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. "Cualquiera de esos hombres te merece mil veces más que yo" Arianna Goodwin es una joven perteneciente a una familia distinguida pero venida a menos que cifra todas sus esperanzas en un matrimonio de conveniencia para conservar su estilo de...

SOLA Jennifer Lavender fue una niña solitaria. Siempre se sintió en segundo lugar y ansiaba desesperadamente el amor de sus padres. Cuando se entera de que fue adoptada, todo encaja. Pero su sueño de encontrar a su verdadera familia nunca podrá cumplirse: su madre murió sola al dar a luz...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Leah Johnson carece de un título de enfermera. Sin embargo, acaba como voluntaria en un buque de la Cruz Roja que se dirige hacia las playas de Dunkerque. Cuando empieza a arrepentirse de haber tomado esa estúpida decisión, conoce al apuesto...

En mitad de la guerra que desgarró al mundo, una madre quiere un hijo y una hija necesita a una madre. Invierno de 1939. Danusha y su familia se ven obligados a huir de su hogar cuando los nazis invaden Polonia. La madre de Danusha, Anna, se cambia el nombre y consigue un puesto como ama de...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Lagos, 1939 Con el anuncio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y un cambio que conmociona a su familia, Kehinde se ve obligada a dejar de lado sus sueños de escribir y convertirse en la tercera esposa del señor Ogunjobi. Kehinde se gana la vida...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Tiene juventud, belleza y fortuna, pero ha debido renunciar al amor. Helen, la hija de un rico comerciante, es obligada por su padre a contraer un matrimonio de conveniencia con Ashley Cadoux, el heredero del Vizconde Maynard, a quien su cojera...

When newlyweds Iris and Harrison are separated by the draft less than a month into their marriage, both are forced into battles they never expected. A dentist by trade, Harrison is thrust into the unforgiving realities of combat medicine, carrying his limited skills from the beaches of Normandy through the brutal winter of the Ardennes and into the haunting aftermath of Dachau liberation. Each step farther south into Europe pulls him away from the man Iris once knew.

When the Germans invade his peaceful French home, a loyal Irish Terrier races into the chaos of World War I searching for his young master. Wounded and alone in the deadly stretch of No Man’s Land, he is rescued by a brave British sniper named Private Rice. The soldiers name him Army. From that moment on, the little terrier never leaves Rice’s side—through the mud of the trenches, the terror of battle, and the quiet moments of friendship among the men.

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

In 1913, two brothers are sent into the forest to fend for themselves, forging a bond through hunger, freedom and endurance. Before the summer is over, a decision fractures that world, leaving a scar that will mark their family for generations. The wondrous, magical and deeply moving debut novel by one of Norway's finest artists, Lars Elling… Nineteen-year-old Filip spends his days playing football, listening to music on his Walkman and drawing, searching for something he cannot yet name.