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Es soll der persönlichste Artikel ihres Lebens werden – beharrlich verfolgt die Journalistin Hanna ihren Plan, über die traumatischen Erfahrungen früherer Verschickungskinder auf Borkum zu berichten, denn auch ihre Mutter hat dort bei einer solchen Kinderkur einst Schlimmes erlebt. Dann wird Hanna das alte Tagebuch einer ehemaligen Kinderbetreuerin zugespielt, aus dem sich Hinweise auf ein vertuschtes Verbrechen ergeben.

Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things – her beauty, and her father, Canny. As a self-made man, Canny has the wealth he dreamed of but not the status and hatches a plan to marry his daughter to local bachelor of note, the Duke of Maudesley. Yet Odilie cannot bear the thought of a life with the ill-mannered Duke, and when the annual summer fair arrives in town for three days she seizes a chance to enjoy the freedom she craves.

When 11-year-old Lizzie Mudie loses her mother in Dundee's darkest disaster, her world is shattered. Forced to grow up too soon, Lizzie uncovers a resilience beyond her years. An unexpected inheritance – Green Tree Mill, crumbling and forgotten – offers a new path. Determined to succeed, Lizzie rises to become its formidable mistress.

World War One might be over, but Elsie, Hetty and Anne still have more than their fair share of drama, romance and secrets to contend with.

„Wie oft denn noch: Dein Vater ist nicht da und darum gilt, was ich sage. Will das endlich in deinen dummen Schädel?“, herrschte ihre Mutter sie an.Anna ist verzweifelt. Der zweite Weltkrieg war gerade vorbei. Nach dem Willen ihrer Mutter sollte sie den unsympathischen Bauernsohn Sebastian heiraten. Ihr Vater, der einzige Mensch, der ihr in dieser Welt von bäuerlichen Traditionen und Konventionen die freie Wahl gelassen hätte, war im Krieg geblieben.Die US-Army hatte ihr kleines, biederes Heimatdorf eingenommen.

Statt ihrem Studium nachzugehen, gründen Felix, Vadim, Julius und Eddie den »Club Casaubon«. Getrieben von ihrer Leidenschaft für Literatur und der Lust am Abenteuer werden sie zu Bücherdieben, spezialisiert auf kostbare, okkulte Bände. Nach dem Krieg arbeitet Felix als Bibliothekar für die Amerikaner, um Millionen von geraubten Büchern zu katalogisieren.

As summer settles over Destin, the Summer House welcomes its smallest—and most life-changing—new arrival. For Jonah, learning to be a father means facing the past he tried to outrun… and building a future he never expected. Tessa is navigating a new chapter—one that challenges everything she thought she wanted. And when Kate returns with her teenagers in tow, her rekindled connection with Eli sparks more than just romance. It stirs up questions neither of them is ready to answer.

The slums of Dublin are a lonely place for Katherine Donovan. Her father is one of the most hated men in the district, notorious for his viciousness. Her one friend is eight-year-old Ceppi, as much an emotional orphan as 18-year-old Katherine. When her father is murdered in the unrest surrounding the docker's strike, Katherine, fearing for her life, flees to Liverpool with her father's money, taking Ceppi with her. She finds a refuge for herself and Ceppi with the Moore family, until the eldest Moore boy's unnatural interest in Ceppi convinces Katherine that they must move on.

The George pub in the backstreets of Liverpool lost its landlord when he ran off with the barmaid. Now his wife Eve runs the pub with the help of her three daughters and together they face up to all that life can throw at them. Warm-hearted, full of nostalgic descriptions of life in an earlier era, Lyn Andrews' latest has all the ingredients that her many thousands of fans look for and find in each new novel.

Maddy Kiernan knows her situation is desperate. With her parents dead, her brother Thomas is left as guardian to her and her sister, Carmel, and Thomas, Maddy is all too aware, only cares about himself. When his plans to marry the daughter of the Protestant canal agent backfire Thomas takes off to Liverpool, leaving the girls to fend for themselves against the lecherous agent. Taking the momentous decision to follow their brother, Maddy leaves for Liverpool. Within days the girls are destitute, reduced to living in a cellar, their money gone. Eventually, Maddy finds work as a maid to an old lady....

Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Mae Strickland is only a few days old when her mother suddenly dies. Her aunt Maggie brings Mae up together with her own children, Eddie and Alice, and the girls become like sisters. In spite of Mae's unhappy start, life feels full of promise. Then, as the First World War looms, everything changes. While the local men - including young Eddie - leave to fight, Mae and Alice train as field nurses. As they travel to the front line in the wake of family tragedy, nothing can prepare them for the hardship that lies ahead.

When best friends Dee Campbell and Jean Williams leave school, in 1959, it feels like every opportunity awaits them. Their families haven't long moved from a rundown part of the city to leafy Kirkby when Jean's father wins the Irish sweepstake and soon Jean's set up her own hairdressing salon, while both girls have fallen for good-looking lads with prospects. It's hard to imagine being any happier. But Dee's father is about to discover a disturbing truth about her fiancé. With one revelation, the Campbells are torn apart. As Dee flees to Ireland, Jean marries Tony, blissfully unaware that she's not the only pretty girl to catch his eye....

Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter in a family of fatherless boys. When her mother dies, she's her brothers' lifeline to survival. So for Tessa the privations of war are just another battle to be fought for a young woman who was born fighting.... Elizabeth Harrison is oppressed by her shopkeeper mother's snobbish expectations and it seems that the coming war could offer her an escape from her family's emotional ties - but at what cost?

Transport yourself to 1920s Liverpool, to be moved and delighted by this wonderful novel from one of the UK's best-loved saga authors. In 1920s Liverpool, Jane, her little brother Alfie and their mother Ellen have faced the horrors of the workhouse together. But when Ellen dies, two very different paths open up for the siblings. Jane is sent to work in the Empire Laundry and builds a new life for herself with the neighbours who take her in.

It's been a good few years since Molly and Bernie left their native Ireland and settled in Liverpool. Now they're both being courted by fine young men, and the future looks bright. But 1945 is rapidly approaching and soon war is changing everything - destroying homes and lives, and snatching away long-held dreams.... The beautifully evoked backstreets of Liverpool are the perfect setting for a tale of grit, friendship - and love.

Angela O'Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don't love her any more. Still, she's well cared for till she's 16, when her uncle starts to take too much of an interest in her. Moving to Liverpool in the early 1960s, she becomes a success in the world of fashion design. The pain of a disastrous love affair sends her home to Ireland just after the death of her aunt. There, among old papers, Angela makes an astonishing discovery....

Hay secretos de familia que merecen ser contados.Esta es la historia de uno de ellos. Una noche de febrero de 1900, recién estrenado el siglo XX, en el pazo de Espíritu Santo llegan al mundo dos niñas, Clara y Catalina, cuyos destinos ya estaban escritos. Sin embargo, una venganza inesperada sacudirá para siempre sus vidas y las de todos los Valdés.

The Last Aloha continues the binge-worthy saga of the Briscoe family. Ava and her children maneuver more changes as they run the pineapple plantation known as Pali Maui amid a myriad of complications. A surprise wedding…a renovation of the golf course fraught with issues, including a formidable lender who causes trouble…a loved one facing a serious illness. All this forces the Briscoes to reevaluate priorities and cling to what is truly important…family. Yet, these struggles pale against the impact of a coming storm with consequences none of them see coming.

La saga historique best-seller en Allemagne enfin publiée en France. Allemagne, 1888. À la mort subite de leur père, Robert, Karl et Georg, ses trois fils, héritent de l'entreprise familiale d'importation de café. Mais l'entreprise est au bord de la faillite. Pour sauver leur fortune et ses proches, Robert, le fils cadet, accepte de quitter l'Allemagne et de s'installer au Cameroun dans une plantation de cacao, le nouveau produit à la mode qu'il compte bien exporter, tandis que ses deux frères s'installent à Hambourg et Vienne.

Hamburg, 1968. Ein Riss geht durch Deutschland, die neue Generation befindet sich im Konflikt mit der alten. Auch Ulrike Casparius, eine angehende Journalistin, sympathisiert mit der Studentenbewegung und rebelliert gegen ihre Eltern. Ihre sensible Schwester Sabine sucht verzweifelt nach Anerkennung und findet sie in einer Gruppe Hippies und Hausbesetzer, denen sie sich anschließt.