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Uma família aristocrática francesa, uma propriedade lendária e segredos com o poder de destruir duas gerações divididas entre o dever e o desejo. Na Londres de 1943, Constance Carruthers é recrutada como espiã e chega à Paris ocupada pelos nazistas no auge da guerra. Poucas horas depois de chegar à França, seu contato é preso pela Gestapo. Com isso, a jovem é acolhida no seio da rica família La Martinières e acaba envolvida numa rede de segredos e mentiras.

1941. Maisie yearns for a family of her own. Raised as a charity orphan in a Catholic convent in Ireland, she believed she was all alone in the world. But when she is twelve, her world is turned upside down by a shocking revelation. She is uprooted from the only life she has ever known, and transplanted against her will to Plymouth, England. Family might not be all it's cracked up to be. But Maisie is resilient. She surrounds herself with a family of her own making. Then war breaks out across Europe and a horrific tragedy occurs during one of the worst nights of the Plymouth Blitz.

Andra världskriget slut och Brunos personliga nederlag är ett faktum. Vännerna är borta och ingen vill längre kännas vid honom för hans tidigare sympatier för nationalsocialisterna och Hitler. Romanen utspelar sig under två dygn då Bruno tänker tillbaka på livet med Clary, hans livs kärlek som han gång på gång svek. Den här allra sista gången ska han inte göra det. Hennes och sin egen ära ska han prisa. Även om det så är det sista han gör.

On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever. As the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate. Handsome landscaper Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden. Isaac begins to secretly teach her how to cultivate the gardens, so when he and all the young men are called away to war, Cordelia takes over.

Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds - but the undeniable spark between them quickly burns into a deep and passionate relationship, played out against their post-war city, and Vincenzo's family's beautiful vineyard. New York, 2017. Cassandra and Luca are in love. Although neither quite fits with the other's family, Cass and Luca have always felt like a perfect match for each other.

October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris.

In a world marked by transience, envy, and rootlessness, committing to staying put is a radical, unusual act. Hungry for rootedness, Courtney Ellis and her family decided to truly commit to a place and a people God had given them for a season, to grow some deep roots and discover what it would mean to be “all in.” Through winsome storytelling, Courtney demonstrates that there is tremendous growth when we stop holding a community at arms’ length and open ourselves to the blessing of stability, the grace of limits, and the joy of presence.

Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.

June 1940. It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jersey doctor, whose idyllic world is shattered when Britain abandons the Channel Islands which are invaded by the Germans. Forced to choose between conflicting loyalties, he sends his pregnant wife to England, believing their separation will be brief. It's a fateful decision that will affect every aspect of his life.

Tre engelske piger med vidt forskellig baggrund, og mere eller mindre opfyldt af patriotiske følelser, sendes i 1941 på krigsarbejde ude på landet. Agatha, en jordbunden, flittig studerende fra Cambridge, Stella – sværmerisk, usikker og uselvstændig, Prue med de lange, rødlakerede negle og et ualmindelig godt blik for mænd. De deler et lille, klamt loftskammer og spiser grød kl. 5 om morgenen, før de skal i stalden for at malke og muge ud! I løbet af få dage har Prue ikke længere lange negle, og Stella er for træt til at drømme.

Opowieść o człowieku, który dla odnalezienia zaginionego ucznia gotów był poświęcić wszystko, a zarazem przewrotna biografia Gliwic – miasta o dwóch tożsamościach, które dzieli czas. Lato, 1932 rok. Do niemieckiego Gleiwitz w pogrążonej w kryzysie Rzeszy przyjeżdża młody nauczyciel. Martin Weber szybko zdobywa zaufanie dyrektora szkoły i sympatię uczniów, wśród których są synowie gliwickich fabrykantów i miejscowej śląsko-niemieckiej elity. Jednak gdy naziści dochodzą do władzy, konflikt w szkole jest nieuchronny.

Rok 1942, na świecie toczy się krwawa wojna. W Indiach, w okolicy wsi Balachadi, pojawiają się białe dzieci budzące zdumienie tym, że najchętniej biegają na bosaka, czego nigdy nie zrobiłby żaden mały Anglik. Wygłodzone i w łachmanach docierały do formującej się na terenie Sowietów Armii Andersa i dzięki temu po opuszczeniu przez polską armię ZSRS znalazły się w końcu w Indiach. Maharadża Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhji zaprosił młodych uchodźców, by zamieszkali w wybudowanym specjalnie dla nich osiedlu. Mieli odtąd dach nad głową, zapewnione wyżywienie, ubranie, naukę i opiekę lekarską.

Maremma toscana, novembre ’43. Le Case è un borgo lontano da tutto. René è il ciabattino del paese. Tutti lo chiamano Settebello, nomignolo che si è tirato addosso in tenera età, dopo aver lasciato tre dita sul tornio. Oggi ha cinquant’anni – schivo, solitario, taciturno. Niente famiglia. Ma c’è Anna, l’amica di sempre, che forse avrebbe potuto essere qualcosa di più... René non ha mai avuto il coraggio di dichiararsi. Poi ecco la guerra, che cambia tutto. Ecco che Settebello scopre la Resistenza. Possibile che una rivoluzione di questo tipo possa partire addirittura dalla suola delle scarpe?

Im Januar 1944 halten vier Menschen das Schicksal der Welt in ihren Händen: ein amerikanischer Arzt, eine deutsche Krankenschwester, ein zionistischer Attentäter und eine junge jüdische Witwe. Im Auftrag des britischen Premierministers Winston Churchill sollen sie eine Mission erfüllen, die ihnen allen den Tod bringen kann. In einem Gefangenenlager in Mecklenburg arbeiten die Deutschen fieberhaft an der Herstellung von Giftgas, dessen Einsatz den Krieg entscheiden soll.

Keen to rehearse, the company heads to the Seagate Theatre under the tutelage of the company's owner, Ed Forsyth. This is Ed's last hoorah before retiring and he's keen to leave on a high. But his son, Cal, has absconded, leaving his twin sister, Evie, to help manage the company after their mother's death. Hoping to display her best trapeze performance ever, she's also desperate that the entire troupe should succeed. If only her father hadn't brought in another old-timer...

Single mother Sarah is guilt-ridden when an accident leaves her young daughter Melody seriously injured and their once music-filled lives silent. When she discovers her grandmother Rosalie's old war correspondence, she thinks she might have found a way to save her family, but it will require a leap of faith she isn't sure they are ready to take.

Sylvia is the spoiled only child of an ambitious mother, Lorna Ellis, who runs a dancing school in Blackpool. Approaching 21, Sylvia is under pressure to scoop up prizes by fair means or foul. Pearl is the oldest daughter in a large, chaotic family who all work at the Pleasure Beach. She often sneaks away to watch ballroom contestants in their glittery finery. Joy is an evacuee who lost her parents to the Blitz. Now she lives and works in a shabby boarding house and works as a cleaner. Though shy and modest, she falls in love with the newest dance craze - the American Jitterbug.

1939, London: From McPhail's Passage to Kensington's Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being 'flagrantly foreign' to the locals, she becomes an efficient go-between for the upper-class ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.

As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons William and Gerald, fold Bea seamlessly into their world. She becomes part of this family, learning their ways and their stories, adjusting to their affluent lifestyle.

W wakacje trzydziestego dziewiątego roku na słonecznej, nadświdrzańskiej plaży Basia poznaje Zygmunta. Ma nadzieję, że ta znajomość przerodzi się w piękną miłość. Jednak kilka tygodni później wybucha wojna, która przekreśla wszystkie plany. Warszawa staje w ogniu, budynki obracają się w gruzy, place i skwery zamieniają się w cmentarze. Ludzie głodują, modlą się i walczą. Wkrótce los ponownie postawi Zygmunta na drodze Barbary. To spotkanie odmieni jej życie w niespodziewany sposób.