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Die neue Reihe der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin und Historikerin Julia Kröhn. Frankfurt, 1965: Zwanzig Jahre hat Ella erfolgreich das "Bücherreich" geführt, doch nun herrscht Zwist: Ihre deutlich jüngere Schwester Luise hat die schnulzigen Bücher satt. Ihr Kopf ist voller neuer, unerhörter Ideen, zu denen sie der charismatische und politisch aktive Student Thilo anstiftet. Zunächst steht Ella diesen ablehnend gegenüber. Doch dann bringt Luise sie dazu, ein dunkles Kapitel ihrer Vergangenheit aufzuschlagen.

Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

When war threatened Europe, my parents sent me from our vineyard in France to safety in America, where I found a new life, with friends who become family. But even in a land untouched by the bombs, the shadows of war loomed over my heart. As secrets from my past emerge and the world around me is torn apart, I must confront the grief of loss, the weight of duty, and the delicate balance between love and loyalty.

Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her home in rural Ireland in 1886 after being accused of incest, endures a treacherous voyage across the Atlantic alone to an unknown life in America. From the tenements of New York to the rough alleys of Chicago, Mary Agnes suffers the bitter taste of prejudice for the crime of being poor and Irish.

L'odyssée tragique et sublime de deux petites filles rescapées du génocide arménien. 1915, non loin d'Erzeroum, en Arménie turque. Araxie, dix ans, et sa petite sœur Haïganouch, six ans, échappent par miracle au massacre des Arméniens par les Turcs. Déportées vers le grand désert de Deir-ez-Zor et condamnées à une mort inéluctable, les deux fillettes sont épargnées grâce à un médecin qui les achète comme esclaves, les privant de leur liberté mais leur laissant la vie sauve. Jusqu'à ce que l'Histoire, à nouveau, les précipite dans la tourmente.

Manchester, 1941. Kept apart by war work, bombs and blackouts, Lorna and her beloved George cherish every precious moment together. George's vital role working for the War Office keeps him in London, while Lorna rolls up her sleeves to do her duty each day at the Manchester Salvage Depot, alongside her dearest friends, Sally and Betty. When George proposes, Lorna is happier than she could ever have imagined. But her high spirits are soon dashed when she hears that the War Office is sending George to America.

Amidst the Luftwaffe’s relentless bombings, Isla Donahue finds solace in her love for Rory, best friends Meg and Sophie, and her rewarding work with the WAAF. Until one day, without any warning, cruel figures from the girls’ past return to threaten the world they have worked so hard to build. To add to Isla’s turmoil, Rory is convinced that a ghost from his previous life has followed him to Liverpool intent on settling old scores. With her friends scattered by a war that shows no sign of ending, can Isla draw on her grit and determination to build a brighter future?

Der Auftakt zur bewegenden Familiensaga um eine mutige junge Frau auf der Suche nach Glück und Selbstbestimmung im exotischen Flair Sansibars. Samtig-warm wehte der Duft der Vanille über die Zuckerrohrfelder durch die Nacht. Sansibar, 1880: Voller Hoffnung, ihr altes Leben für immer hinter sich zu lassen, verlässt Elisabeth den Überseedampfer, der sie aus Lübeck hierhergebracht hat. Die Gewürzinsel, ein quirliger Marktplatz für den Handel mit Nelken, Zimt, Orangen, Elfenbein und Vanille, scheint ihr wie ein Märchen aus Tausendundeiner Nacht. Aber die Realität auf der Insel ist hart.

Возвращение на улицу Светлячков — продолжение знаменитого романа, который стал бестселлером и получил киноадаптацию Netflix. Более тридцати лет Талли и Кейт были неразлучны. "Лучшие подруги навеки" – так они себя называли, вместе деля все радости и печали. Обе они добились исполнения своей мечты: Талли хотела стать звездой телевизионного эфира, Кейт мечтала о скромном семейном счастье. Но, к сожалению, ничто не вечно, даже самые преданные друзья. Кейт не стало. Перед смертью она взяла с лучшей подруги обещание позаботиться о ее детях.

Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her dreams. Neither woman wants to return to the New England island they left behind and its complicated emotional ties, but Meredith has one last chance to sober up and salvage her big comeback, and where else but discreet, moneyed Winthrop Island can a famous actress spend the summer without the intrusion of other people?

After my twin sister’s betrayal, I started fresh in America working on a dude ranch in the middle of nowhere. The last thing I need is a cantankerous rancher with an attitude looking at me with disapproval in his eyes. My chattiness and optimism clearly irritate him, so I take the high road and choose to ignore him. But when Soren Moon offers to rent me a room in his house, I can’t refuse. A broke English girl doesn’t have that many options in Bluefern, Montana. Even though that leaves me alone with him way too often.

Set against the backdrop of a changing America, from the aftermath of the Civil War to the dawn of new technologies like the telephone, Sin Eater paints a vivid picture of a society in transition. It delves into the customs and superstitions of the era, particularly the practices of sin eating and professional mourning, using these as lenses through which to explore deeper human experiences of grief, guilt, and redemption.

Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. But snatches of her old life are sure to follow her, when Tom unexpectedly moves nearby for work. As Claire is thrown back into a love she thought she’d left behind, she questions if Tom has come for her or for himself.

Lorry Scott has faced a tumultuous life as a single mother and sole owner of her family’s historic hotel ever since her father’s death. Burned by her ex-husband’s betrayal and at odds with her teen daughter, Tammy, Lorry feels trapped in a web of emotion and isolation. Her stress only compounds when her mother insists that the hotel needs new renovations. Lorry tries to resist, not wanting to dig their debt even deeper, but she’s unable to stop her mother before she hires a contractor named Tom Barnes.

Eine verbotene Liebe und die Chance auf neues Glück in Paris. Die verschwundene Tochter ist der 5. Familiengeheimnis-Roman der romantisch-dramatischen Familiensaga Die verlorenen Töchter. Paris, 1939. Mit zitternden Händen hält Evelina den Brief ihres Geliebten, während ihr Blick über die glitzernde Skyline schweift. "Ich weiß, dass ich dich nicht verdiene, mein Schatz, aber ich bete, dass du deine Meinung änderst. Dir gehört mein Herz, und ich hoffe, dass uns nichts mehr trennen wird …". London, heute.

In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas. At the heart of this story is Seese, an enigmatic survivor of the fast-money, high-risk world of drug dealing—a world in which the needs of modern America exist in a dangerous balance with Native American traditions. Seese has been drawn back to the Southwest in search of her missing child.

Belle is an American descendant of the world famous Müritz family. Just as she is about to go on her gap year, Belle receives a locket and a photo album, both of which once belonged to her late grandmother; both items hold a clue to a hidden family history. Inspired by the secrets they hold, Belle decides to follow in the footsteps of both her grandmother Elizabeth and her great-great-grandmother Johanna. Belle's historical and physical journey of discovery takes her from nineteenth century Vienna to the hippy trail in the 1960s as she tries to unravel the secrets of the Müritz women.

Mit Wärme, sprachlicher Kraft und feinem Witz erzählt Katharina Hagena von drei Menschen, drei Schicksalen – und zwölf Frühsommertagen an der Elbe ...

In her first few months on the Lorynthian throne, Tamyr Thimpor survived internal assaults to her reign, including two assassination attempts. Just when the internal difficulties have been brought under control, an external threat manifests. Tamyr is kidnapped and transported to the Badlands where she is held captive by a witch and seven demons who intend to take her to Nyv'ral, the mountain city, where she is to be executed.

Lake Como, New Jersey: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life she dreamed of. Divorced and residing in her parents' basement, the most joy she finds in life is helping her Uncle Louie with his marble business. But when things take a turn in Louie's life, and family secrets come to light, Jess learns that her family made choices over the years--choices that stifled her dreams. Furious, and determined to start living, Jess heads off on an adventure--to her family's ancestral home.