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A sweeping debut novel illuminating the inner life of Merle Oberon, an Old Hollywood actress who made history while safeguarding a necessary secret Slim, dark-haired, nineteen. The year is 1929 and Estelle Thompson pores over magazines inspecting the local beauties in Bombay who look nothing...

The author of West Heart Kill returns with an original, gripping, and atmospheric novel of moral complexity set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris in World War II “McDorman’s knowledge is abundant, as is his cleverness.” —The New York Times Book Review Paris, 1942. The German...

تدور أحداث الرواية حول جون، جندي بريطاني في الحرب العالمية الثانية، الذي يجد نفسه مضطراً لقتل أحد الجنود الألمان بناءً على أمر من قائده. تبدأ الرواية بتساؤل جون عن مبادئه الإنسانية بعد أن أزهق روحاً بريئة دون وجه حق، ويستعرض الكاتب صراعه الداخلي وتأثير هذا الفعل على حياته. تتوالى الأحداث لتكشف عن عواقب هذا الفعل على جون وعلاقاته الشخصية.

Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward. The family’s remarkable matriarch Lucilla is still with them, though she’s facing the dark night of the soul. All is turned on its head with the arrival of Sebastian, another survivor of WWII. He has a story far more painful than any of the Eliots. While with them, he wrestles with questions about his own disconnected existence.

The War had left him a shattered man, but its toll was not nearly so great as losing the love of his life. Few understand Elliot’s anguish at losing Nadine. He came back from the War a shattered and lonely man. But his return to the Eliot family refuge on England’s Hampshire coast is gradually pushing back the dark waters of soul and spirit.

A gripping historical novel of love, divided loyalties, and the price of silence. War’s Labyrinth follows two American sisters and one British agent through the moral fog of World War II and the Cold War, when secrets dramatically changed lives. In 1940s Washington, D. C., Vera Taskinen works inside the Roosevelt White House, navigating wartime politics and a romance with a British agent named David.

In World War II France, the future Madeleine Perrin and Daniel Raymond hope for is in grave peril when the Nazis imprison Daniel, a courier for the Resistance network. But a centuries-old law soon paves the way for a Christmas Eve wedding that becomes both a celebration and a daring rescue.

The war in the water is intensifying… Europe, 1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson are serving their country at sea: Rom as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and Remmie in the Merchant Navy.

Zerrissene Familienbande: drei Geschwister zwischen Verantwortung, Kollaboration und Flucht 1933: Die drei Manthey-Erben finden sich in einer Welt im Umbruch wieder. Während Vicki als Reporterin im Prager Exil gegen die neuen Machthaber in Deutschland anschreibt, sucht Fritjof in New York nach Möglichkeiten, aus der Ferne gegen das Nazi-Regime zu wirken. Währenddessen steuert Alexander in Berlin das Zeitungsimperium geschickt durch die neuen Machtstrukturen.

Berlin, 1945: Nach zehn Jahren kommen die Geschwister wieder in Berlin zusammen. In den Trümmern der Stadt wollen sie eine neue Zeitung gründen. Während Fritjof nach unbelasteten Journalisten sucht, erkennt Vicki, dass es in ihrer Hand liegt, wie sich die neu gegründete Republik entwickelt – und dass ihr Bruder Alexander sein skrupelloses Streben nach Macht nicht verloren hat. In einer Zeit, die von Neuanfängen und alten Lasten geprägt ist, müssen die Geschwister entscheiden, was Vergebung bedeutet und wie sie die Zukunft ihres Landes mitgestalten wollen.

Poland, 1944. Devastated by the loss of her beloved father, twenty-three-year-old Wanda vows to follow in his footsteps and join the resistance against the German occupiers. Her father lost his life protecting innocent people from Nazi cruelty—she will risk her life too. Under the cover of shadows, Wanda slips down cobbled streets and past spired buildings to meet an informant who could provide crucial supplies for their fight. But the sight of the man waiting turns Wanda's blood to ice. She instantly recognizes him as the soldier who killed her father.

Петербург, 1914 год. Юная провинциалка Даша Булавина приезжает к старшей сестре Кате. Девушки молоды и наивны, они с энтузиазмом посещают приемы, влюбляются, ошибаются и ищут свое место в жизни. Однако мирное лето сменяется лихой осенью. Разразившаяся Первая мировая, а следом за ней две революции и Гражданская война раскидывают родных, друзей и близких по всем уголкам огромной страны…. "Хождение по мукам" — потрясающая по своим масштабам эпопея, над которой Алексей Николаевич работал более двадцати лет, неоднократно редактируя и переписывая текст.

Brought to you by Penguin. Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile’s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the...

Against the turbulent backdrop of the 1930s, Douglas Tulloch navigates the treacherous terrains of India's Northwest Frontier and the early tremors of World War II in France. Thrust in the middle of tribal rebellions, covert missions and old-school rivalries, Tulloch grapples with the true essence of leadership. The repercussions of his decisions will follow him from the alleys of Brussels to the shores of Dunkirk.

Februar 1933: Adolf Hitler ist an der Macht, damit beginnen gravierende Veränderungen im Leben der Familie "von Dannenburg", die in Pommern nahe Greifswald lebt und ein Pferdegestüt betreibt. Otto von Dannenburg, der Patriarch der Familie sieht mit Unbehagen in die Zukunft, vor allem, da sein Bruder, Walter, überzeugter Anhänger der NSDAP ist. Große Sorgen macht sich Otto insbesondere um seinen Sohn, Peter, den er nicht an die Nationalisten verlieren will, der zudem der einzige Nachkomme der "von Dannenburgs" ist.

'I loved Meet the Newmans! . . . I appreciated the subtle feminist twist and the humor. Jennifer is always good but this is one of her best' – JUDY BLUME You've seen the show. Now meet the woman behind the scenes . . . From No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about...

From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row. 1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around...

She built an advertising empire on Madison Avenue. Then she walked away. Manhattan, 1962. Josephine "Jo" Carmichael is the modeling world's reigning it-girl--until her career collapses and she's forced back to New York for her estranged father's funeral. When she discovers his prestigious...

"I promise to write only what I saw and lived through, not hide anything from you. I'll tell you even the worst things I experienced, which may seem crazy or impossible... I remember them well. It all happened in the world we left behind." 1942, Lvov. Bina Krakowski is almost seven when the...

In this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial violence shocks the community. On a farm in Tzaneen, an Afrikaner town in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, Maluka, a young...