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Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples—Tillie and Ruth, and their best friends, James and Ernesto—trying to navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they are in just by being who they are. The novel jumps between the twenties and thirties and the early nineties and a young woman named Thea. Thea is dealing with the onset of her grandmother's dementia, and discovers secrets hidden away that her grandmother never intended for her to uncover.

Каждому свое — заключительная часть художественно-документальной трилогии Елены Съяновой, посвященной истории фашистского Третьего рейха и судьбам его вождей. Казалось бы, с документальной основой этого романа проблем не было — огромный массив материалов Нюрнбергского процесса исследователям доступен. Самая интересная их часть — это стенограммы допросов и записки американского психолога Гилберта, работавшего с подследственными. «Но, — пишет автор, — эти записки имеют мало общего с подлинником, не прошедшим цензуру и перевод». Елена Съянова работает с подлинниками.

Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war. Despite their differences sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband, Antoine, and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight, and Viann finds herself isolated, so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength are tested.

After Grand-mere Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, the Orchires fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival. And when their youngest daughter comes of age, magic flows anew. The lineage continues, though new generations struggle not only to master their power, but also to keep it hidden. But when World War II looms on the horizon, magic is needed more urgently than ever.

Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the woodcutter’s wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl.

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story, from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others, and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love.

It's 1940, and for newlywed Daisy Turner, Kew Gardens is a haven away from the bombs that are falling nightly on her East End home. She grew up around plants - her parents met when they were gardeners at Kew in the last war. And her work on the Dig for Victory campaign at Kew keeps her occupied while her husband, Rex, is away in the RAF. Beth Sanderson works with Daisy at the gardens, but she dreams of being a doctor while juggling her gardening job with nursing shifts. And there's the added complication of her forbidden romance with her colleague, Gus Campbell.

London, 1943: war and dwindling resources are taking their toll on the staff of Partridge Press. The pressure is on to create new books to distract readers from the grim realities of the war, but Partridge's rising star, Alice Cotton, leaves abruptly and cannot be found. Alice's secret absence is to give birth, and although her baby's father remains unnamed, Alice's mother promises to help her raise her tiny granddaughter, Eadie. Instead, she takes a shocking action. Theo Bloom is employed by the American office of Partridge.

Tomi est indomptable. Espiègle, têtu, malin, rebelle, bref, Tomi a 14 ans. Du haut de son arbre préféré, il rêve de filles, d'avenir, de gloire. Mais nous sommes en Hongrie et en 1944. L'adolescent, juif, est déporté avec son père et son meilleur ami. Pour échapper à la mort, il se dit tailleur : le voilà affecté au raccommodage des uniformes rayés. Son coup de bluff se transforme alors en coup de foudre : Tomi tombe fou amoureux de la couture, vocation qui sauvera sa peau et illuminera son destin.

January 1939. Two months after Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass), sisters Elsie (7) and Rose (5) are torn from their mother’s arms and placed on the Kinder transport to London—a promise of safety that becomes a journey of unimaginable loss.

The residents of Chateau Ten, nestled on the edge of the nine villages, have always known not to answer the call of the dead soldiers from the Battle of Verdun… Until now. When the glamourous Gaultier couple takes up residence in the west wing of the chateau, paying in full in advance and asking only for complete privacy, proprietress Vianne feels a spark of hope for the first time since the start of this horrible war.

Juin 1943. Alors que la paix ne semble plus qu'une illusion lointaine, Albane profite d'une parenthèse de bonheur. Après des mois d'attente, elle épouse enfin Raphaël. Mais la fête tourne court, interrompue par des soldats allemands. Ils viennent d'arrêter une fillette qui affirme connaître Albane. Il s'agit de Louisette, la fille illégitime de Louis Molinier. Touchée par le sort de cette orpheline, Albane décide de l'accueillir. L'enfant, qui cache un lourd secret, rejoint ainsi le rang des opprimés et des persécutés pour qui le château est devenu un refuge.

Anna, Bernie en Elica sluiten een verbond om voor altijd vriendinnen te blijven. Maar zal hun vriendschap de verschrikkingen van de oorlog doorstaan? Het verraad van mijn zus is deel 2 van de Oorlogszussen-serie. De oorlog raakt iedereen, zo ook de bloedzussen. In de hoop herenigd te worden met haar man Daniël, loopt de wanhopige Elica het gevreesde hoofdkwartier van de Gestapo binnen. Ze is bereid alles op te offeren voor hun liefde. Anna en haar familie zijn overgeleverd aan de grillen van Ulf. Krijgt zijn obsessie voor Anna de overhand, of blijft hij loyaal aan de Führer?

The BRAND NEW instalment in Rosie Clarke's heartwarming Blackberry Farm saga series.

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story—it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again . . .

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.

January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is.

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert’s birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world – and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life.

Charlie Matters’ life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the Germans. He miraculously emerges unscathed from the Blitz, but there’s no telling when the next bomb will fall, and whether it will be the one to end his life.