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Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than 60 years.

Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.

London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’ world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about to upend Josie’s life again.

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato l'opera piú bella di Pavese, "La luna e i falò" è il suo ultimo romanzo. Il protagonista, Anguilla, all'indomani della Liberazione, torna al suo paese delle Langhe dopo molti anni trascorsi in America e, in compagnia dell'amico Nuto, ripercorre i luoghi dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza in un viaggio nel tempo, alla ricerca di antiche e sofferte radici. Storia semplice e lirica insieme, costruita come un continuo viavai tra il piano del passato e quello del presente, "La luna e i falò" recupera i temi civili della guerra partigiana.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl’s disappearance captivates the city. If Liz can break the story, it’s her way into the newsroom. She already has a scoop: Her best friend Marisa is a police officer who is assigned to the case. Liz follows Marisa to Dorset, where they make another disturbing discovery. Over two decades earlier, three girls disappeared while evacuating from London. One was found murdered in the woods near a train line. The other two were never seen again.

Soline Roussel é bem experiente no ramo dos finais felizes. Por gerações, sua família manteve um requintado salão de noivas em Paris, onde a magia é feita com agulha e linha. Dizem que a noiva usa um vestido Roussel tem garantida uma vida de alegrias. Mas perdas arrasadoras durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial deixam o mundo e o coração de Soline em ruínas, e sua fé no amor, abalada. Ela encaixota as lembranças e as guarda, junto com os sonhos destruídos, determinada a esquecer.

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

Dans un climat de méfiance, Alice vit des jours moroses alors que se profile à l’horizon la fermeture du laboratoire, et donc la fin de l’emploi qui justifie sa présence en ville. Pire encore : sa grande amie Deborah repart dans sa famille et Frédéric Lucas, dont elle est tombée follement amoureuse, disparaît. S'est-il enfui? Et si oui, pourquoi?

¿Dispuesto a unirte a la búsqueda de uno de los objetos más legendarios de la historia? Clarice ha decidido ayudar a John Campbell y a su amiga Sally...

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

Jeder in Großbritannien kennt die Williamson-Schwestern Penny und Josephine. Mit über 90 Jahren sind die beiden exzentrischen Damen die letzten lebenden Kriegsveteraninnen des Königreichs. Für den Galleristen Archie sind sie die geliebten Großtanten, von denen er alles Wichtige im Leben gelernt hat. Vom Fliegenfischen und Reifenwechseln bis hin zum Rezept für den perfekten Martini. Als die beiden Ladies in Paris geehrt werden sollen, packt er kurzerhand seine Koffer, um sie zu begleiten.

A 20 anni dalla nascita del progetto Il treno della memoria e a 80 anni dall'apertura dei cancelli di Auschwitz, un libro a due voci che racconta l'Olocausto e riflette sull'importanza di tramandarne la storia ai ragazzi Lorenzo Tosa e Paolo Paticchio ripercorrono il viaggio di milioni di ebrei deportati, in capitoli che seguono le tappe del treno della memoria: Cracovia, Il Ghetto Ebraico, la Fabbrica Schindler, l'arrivo ad Auschwitz- Birkenau, la vita nel campo di concentramento, la Fuga e la Marcia della Morte.

Una prima ballerina. Due soldati della sanità americani. Una bambina ebrea di cui non si conosce il nome... In questo romanzo ambientato nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale e basato su eventi reali, un'improbabile banda di eroi raduna le forze per salvare numerosi ebrei italiani nei giorni più cruenti dell'occupazione nazista di Roma.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Verano de 1943. Todos los países de Europa han ido cayendo bajo el dominio nazi. El viejo continente, reducido a escombros, se ha convertido en un animal herido que agoniza víctima de los bombardeos y el fuego de artillería.

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters—each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next—dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.

Opium fürs Volk. Berlin im aufregenden Jahr 1925. Die Sass-Brüder, ehemals Kleinkriminelle, die sich ganz nach oben gearbeitet haben, planen den nächsten Coup. Mit einem chinesischen Partner wollen sie Opium in die Hauptstadt bringen. Ihre Rechnung scheint aufzugehen. Der Stoff wird ihnen förmlich aus den Händen gerissen, doch immer wieder werden Überfälle auf ihre Transporte verübt. Offenbar sind auch andere Kreise an den Drogen interessiert. Und dann taucht auch noch ein zwielichtiger Politiker auf, der von Franz Sass Informationen will und auch vor Erpressung nicht zurückschreckt.

La trahison qui a ébranlé les services secrets britanniques. Tout est invraisemblable dans ce récit aux allures de roman. Et pourtant, tout est vrai. Au milieu des années 1930, les maîtres-espions de Staline recrutent cinq étudiants de la prestigieuse université de Cambridge. Des jeunes pousses qui s'appellent Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean et Kim Philby.

Definito "la prima memoria scritta della shoah italiana", 16 ottobre 1943 è la testimonianza letteraria della retata nazista nel Ghetto di Roma. In poche ore di una mattina d'autunno, le SS agli ordini del maggiore Kappler rastrellarono oltre mille ebrei italiani per indirizzarli verso i campi di sterminio. Queste pagine, scritte a pochi mesi dai fatti, rappresentano una delle rare avventure narrative di Giacomo Debenedetti, critico prolifico, studioso di Proust e Joyce e del romanzo novecentesco, editore e Saggista.

À Berlin assiégé, la femme la plus puissante du IIIe Reich se terre avec ses six enfants dans le dernier refuge des dignitaires de l'Allemagne nazie. L'ambitieuse s'est hissée jusqu'aux plus hautes marches du pouvoir sans jamais se retourner sur ceux qu'elle a sacrifiés. Aux dernières heures du funeste régime, Magda s'enfonce dans l'abîme, avec ses secrets. Au même moment, parmi les colonnes des survivants de l'enfer des camps, marche une enfant frêle et silencieuse. Ava est la dépositaire d'une tragique mémoire : dans un rouleau, elle tient cachées les lettres d'un père.