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1942. Trahie par son propre mari parce qu'elle est une résistante allemande, Orli n'a plus personne au monde lorsqu'elle trébuche du camion à bestiaux sur le terrain gelé d'Auschwitz. Elle est arrivée croyant être condamnée à une mort certaine mais au lieu de cela, elle est affectée à l'infirmerie pour assister le Dr Josef Mengele. Très vite, Orli apprend que Mengele est connu comme l'Ange de la mort, et qu'il est l'homme le plus redouté d'Auschwitz. Depuis l'infirmerie, elle va tenter de sauver secrètement autant de déportés que possible.

Paris, 1944. Louise Basset arbeitet als Hausmädchen im legendären Hotel Ritz. Niemand ahnt, dass Louise jedes Gespräch, jedes Flüstern belauscht und alles an die Résistance weitergibt. Als ein junger alliierter Pilot verletzt ins Hotel geschmuggelt wird, gerät Louises gefährliches Doppelleben ins Wanken. Zwischen Angst und Sehnsucht, zwischen Pflicht und Liebe steht sie vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben – und das vieler anderer – für immer verändern wird. Jahrzehnte später stößt ihre Enkelin Nicole auf eine Spur, die Louise in einem völlig neuen Licht erscheinen lässt.

Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in seedy Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia—a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the porn industry growing in the shadows of the motion picture mainstream. When a series of grisly murders take place across the city, Bill and his granddaughter are pulled into events as tricky and tangled as anything this side of The Big Sleep.

Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944. Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life.

Porfirio Díaz ha gobernado durante más de tres décadas; decidiendo el destino del país desde la silla presidencial. Pero la llegada de un nuevo siglo conlleva otras ideas; conflictos latentes y personas que claman por libertad. Francisco I. Madero; un hombre guiado por los espíritus y sus visiones de democracia; descubre en una inquietante sesión espiritista una profecía sobre la maldición que yace en la silla presidencial: sólo con la muerte del último caudillo; México encontrará la paz.

Things are heating up for the archaeologists digging at Hamblin's Fort, an ancient Native American settlement in Arkansas. The local sheriff tries to involve them in his drug dealing. A mysterious black dog is shadowing their excavations. The marriage of "Boss Man," the crew chief, is unraveling, and Cecelia, one of the crew, claims she can see a menacing dark red energy vortex flowing up from the temple mound.

A homesteader living alone in the Northwestern Territory of the 1820's, Roy knows his land as well as the back of his hand. But when times get tough, is that enough? Good Stock, a satisfying story of solitude during an understated period in American history, shows us what it takes to survive when there's little to live for.

Suecia, 1434. En una época de conspiraciones y secretos oscuros, una familia se enfrenta a su destino. Dinamarca, Suecia y Noruega llevan un siglo fusionadas en la Unión de Kalmar, pero ahora está a punto de desmoronarse. Puede que el rey Erico controle los reinos escandinavos con puño de hierro, aunque hay muchas familias reales que recuerdan su antigua grandeza y tienen dificultades para tolerar su yugo. Entre ellas, el linaje de Sten Bosson, con su blasón de azur y oro, sueña con recuperar su antiguo esplendor.

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When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she travels to Southwell to find out how her sister ended up at such a place. Haunted by her sister's ghost, Hester sets out to uncover the truth, when the official story reported by the workhouse master...

Nazi Germany has been crushed, but is the war really over? Klara, Hitler's personal cook, swears she glimpsed him fleeing the Berlin bunker via a secret tunnel. The world needs undeniable proof of the Fuhrer's death, but it's not that simple. While Allied intelligence agents scour Europe to find such proof, and a Hitler double—"the Wolf"—lays a false trail across two continents, the real Hitler hides out in a Polish monastery, desperate to find his gold train so he can fund the Fourth Reich.

Escócia, 1766. Condenado à miséria e à escravidão nas brutais minas de carvão, Mack McAsh inveja os homens livres, mas nunca teve esperança de ser como eles. Até que um dia ele recebe a carta de um advogado londrino que lhe revela a ilegalidade da escravidão dos mineiros e um novo horizonte se abre aos seus olhos. Porém, para realizar seu sonho, Mack precisará enfrentar todo tipo de opressão das autoridades que não estão acostumadas a serem questionadas. Mack logo descobre que se trata de uma mera mudança de continente, não de ares sociais.

1914: A Alemanha se prepara para a guerra e os Aliados começam a construir suas defesas. Ambos os lados precisam da Rússia, que enfrenta graves problemas internos e vive na iminência de uma revolução. Na Inglaterra, Winston Churchill arquiteta uma negociação secreta com o príncipe Aleksei Orlov, visando a um acordo com os russos. No entanto, o anarquista Feliks Kschessinsky, um homem sem nada a perder, está disposto a tudo para impedir que seu país envie milhões de rapazes para os campos de batalha de uma guerra que nem sequer compreendem.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Liberation Day written by Gareth Rubin, read by Nicola Walker and Gareth Rubin. 1952. Soviet troops control British streets After the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only rescued by Russian soldiers arriving from the...

Read by the charismatic Christopher Lee, this collection of three of Holmes’ cases tells of a missing diamond, a missing war hero and a savage yet faithful wolfhound. Contains: The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The...

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing...

Fernando, joven editor hijo de un republicano represaliado, decide huir de una España abatida por la Guerra Civil junto a sus amigos Catalina y Eulogio. Los tres son esclavos de los secretos que los acompañan y que los empujan sin remedio a vivir lejos de los suyos.

From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a thrilling short story that delves deep beneath the city of Paris to a dark necropolis, where the only means for escape is…The Skeleton Key. Seichan is ripped out of the Sigma series for an adventure all her own—but can she survive?...

Another audiobook in the Tommy & Tuppence series. It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ‘the enemy within’ – Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints...

Abridged edition, read by Martin Shaw (The Professionals) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as...