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Brought to you by Penguin. Cosy up with the gorgeous novel from Sunday Times Number One Bestselling author, Katie Flynn Liverpool, 1939: Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent step-father in the middle of the night, and finds herself stranded on a station platform...

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.

He was gorgeous, older and guarded. I knew he was trouble from the moment we locked eyes. We met at work, on my first day as a barista. He smiled, I melted...then he tasted my coffee and threw it away. Again, the next day, and the next. He hated the coffee, yet still came back. I knew his game. He called my coffee death in a cup. I called him god’s gift to women. I wasn’t lying.

Young Betty Cantrel is just 14-years-old when she reluctantly leaves her troubled family home to take up a position as companion to Frances Crawley, the ailing daughter of Eben and Mary Crawley. As her friendship grows with Frances, Betty accompanies her to London, where she glimpses another world – a world full of art, music, and freedom, and she begins to dream of a different kind of life.

Three failing families. Two different continents. And one creaky old barn that heals them. With her marriage over and her kids (mostly) excited about moving to another continent, Natalie’s finally en route to Ireland. There’s a lovely and expansive estate waiting for them in southern Ireland. Samantha’s bags are packed (again) and she’s ready to jet across the pond as well. She’s said all her goodbyes, and she’s ready to fall in love with new horses in Lismore.

Cameron Cox has mastered the art of keeping secrets. His talent for computer hacking means he’s been recruited for highly classified jobs since leaving the military. He travels the world, risking his life. But his biggest secret isn’t from a government job or a foreign spy. It’s Maggie O’Callaghan. He’s loved her from afar, always standing by as the friend. He’s been her rock through the hardest days of her life. But after his dangerous past comes crashing into his life and threatens the only woman he’s ever loved, he has a choice to make. Give up the secrets and win her heart.

Alles beginnt, sogar das Ende, als Lajos von Lázár, das blonde Kind mit den wasserblauen Augen, zur Welt kommt. Seinem Vater, dem Baron, wird der Sohn nie geheuer sein, als ob er dessen Geheimnis ahnte. Mit Lajos’ Geburt im Waldschloss bricht auch das 20. Jahrhundert an, das das alte Leben der Barone Lázár im südlichen Ungarn für immer verändern wird. Der Untergang des Habsburgerreichs berührt erst nur ihre Traditionen, aber alle spüren das Beben der Zeit, die schöne Mária ebenso wie der geisterhafte Onkel Imre.

Princess Eleanor has had it up to her royal eyeballs. She’s surrounded by suitable men, each more rude and obnoxious than the last. None of them are worthy of her heart—not to mention her virginity. So what’s a girl to do? Flee to Montana to stay with her brother, lay low, and avoid both the media and the men, that’s what. Liam Cunningham is the head of security in Montana for the royal family. For a man who has seen the worst of human nature in the Army, being in Cunningham Falls is a balm to his tattered soul. Princess Eleanor, on the other hand, is a royal pain in the butt.

Заключительный роман «Саги о Форсайтах» рассказывает о крушении брака Клер и Джеральда Корвена. Со стороны они выглядят благополучной и счастливой парой, но на самом деле все далеко не так. Муж леди Клер - настоящий тиран и супруга терпит от него постоянные побои и унижения. Но однажды ее терпению приходит конец, и она принимает решение разорвать эти нездоровые отношения. Вот только муж и не думает так просто сдаваться и требует немедленного возвращения непокорной жены домой.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the darkest hours of World War II, courage flares brightest. As the storm of war intensifies, Clyde finds himself in the thrumming heart of the action. While his valor is tested on the battlefields of Leyte Gulf, Mindoro, and Corregidor, an...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Flung to the far corners of the earth, the Cooper family fights for survival in a world devastated by war. Locked in a gut-wrenching struggle against a desperate and relentless enemy, Clyde Cooper and his team of vaunted paratroopers engage in a bloody...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. As WWII surges forward, the Cooper family struggles to survive on the front lines…and on the home front. Clyde Cooper and his fellow paratroopers have returned to Australia after a highly successful operation in New Guinea. But the respite is brief as...

1937. Shy but determined Tilly Truscott leaves her Hampshire home to train as a nurse at the Royal County Hospital on the Isle of Wight, where she finds an unexpected friend in vivacious Fliss Marcheson. She also catches the eye of handsome Dr Jonathan Burrows. Meanwhile, Tilly's beloved nephew Ronnie begins an apprenticeship at a local aeronautical company, but dreams of becoming a pilot.

England, 1947: In the rubble-filled streets of post-war London, nineteen-year-old Audrey is devastated to lose her job when the men return from war. But her mum needs her more than ever since she was injured in the bombings, and her beloved fiancé Martin wants her to focus on building their life together, so her future seems set. Yet Audrey can't help but wonder if there's more to life than keeping a home and raising a family. And when she hears about a chance to train as one of England's first airline stewardesses, her heart leaps.

For eighty years, Israel forgot who they were. But Ehud never forgot who they were meant to be. Raised in the shadow of compromise and silence, Ehud, a quiet, left-handed boy from the tribe of Benjamin, watches his people drift from Jehovah who once delivered them. As Moabite rule deepens its grip, the land grows darker—and so does the burden in Ehud’s soul. He never asked to lead. He never wanted to be seen. But Jehovah’s judgment is love. And when the time comes, His praise will rise through an unlikely man.

Wie bekämpft man eine Angst, deren Ursache im Verborgenen liegt? Jennifer lebt isoliert gefangen in einem Strudel aus Panikattacken und Todesangst. Als ein physischer Zusammenbruch sie ins Krankenhaus zwingt, trifft sie auf ihren Bruder Bennett – doch die Begegnung ist nicht auf beiden Seiten von Wiedersehensfreude geprägt. Während er ihr psychologische Hilfe nahelegt, schlägt das Schicksal zu: Der gemeinsame Vater stirbt – ohne Aussprache nach dem Jahre zurückliegenden Kontaktabbruch. Nach Miles' Tod zieht Jennifer zurück in ihr Elternhaus. Doch sie ist dort nicht allein.

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luchan por el dominio durante generaciones. Una atmósfera única para una lectura adictiva. Un retrato realista con toques sobrenaturales. Escritura magistral y visual en un ambicioso proyecto entre el pulp y HBO. Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada.

Les aigües fosques i glaçades del riu Blackwater inunden Perdido, un petit poble al sud d'Alabama. Allà, els Caskey, un clan de rics terratinents, intenten fer front als danys causats per la riuada. Liderats per la Mary-Love, l'omnipotent matriarca, i l'Òscar, el seu fill obedient, els Caskey treballen per refer-se i protegir la seva fortuna. Però no compten amb l'aparició de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una jove bonica però molt parca en paraules que només sembla tenir un objectiu: apropar-se als Caskey costi el que costi.

A score of years after he first walked into the histories of Men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years. Wielding more power than even the greatest sorcerer, Kellhus now leads a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying the stronghold of Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.