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After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas. Enslaved by men who treat her body as their property, she eventually escapes, marries, becomes a mother, and realizes her dream of having a small farm. But she must fight and kill to keep it—even if it does mean welcoming others who have been shunned or forgotten by society. Living and laboring together, will these outcasts find the strength and community they need to survive and flourish?

Kent, 1939. Soon to marry her childhood sweetheart, Eliza thinks her life is set. But when war breaks out, everything changes and, while helping the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, she bumps into Lewis, an unforgettable stranger from her past. Eliza’s in-laws’ country home becomes a cell for code breakers receiving messages from the French Resistance, with Eliza as translator. When Lewis is assigned to head up the team, the pair fall dangerously in love. But with the enemy watching across the Channel and rumours of spies in their midst, Eliza is torn between passion and duty.

Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste with a successful TV show. Since her long-ago divorce, she’s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New York’s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks can’t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.

Rancher Caleb Stone needs a full-time, live-in nanny to help with his two little girls. And while sparks fly between him and impulsive, determined, tempting Tamara Coleman—she can’t risk her position, and he doesn’t dare risk his heart. Can they fight their way past fear and find a way to forever?

I’d given up everything to fight for the Resistance. But nothing prepared me for discovering my sister was a traitor. Kept by a Nazi SS officer, outwardly she barely resembles my beloved Justine anymore. But I guessed her secret. About her beautiful, fragile little child. The baby she’ll do anything to protect. And I believe that deep down she still knows what is right. As the Nazis threaten everything we ever held dear, I know I have one chance. I must convince her to betray the evil she seems to have chosen. I need her to find her true self once more.

After graduating from Stanford, Camille Lammenais returns to Napa Valley to help manage Chateau Joy, her parents' renowned winery. Then, their fairytale suddenly ends with her mother's death. Six months after losing his wife, the devastated Christophe is easy prey, and Camille is shocked by the news that her father intends to remarry. Quickly, she begins to see past the mysterious Countess, while her innocent father is trapped in her web.

Izzy Lane was everything I never deserved. Sweet and kind. Beautiful in a way that stole my breath. I started crawling through her window when I was just a boy to escape the brutality of my father. She became my best friend. My safe haven. The girl I’d do anything to protect. Only what she really needed protecting from was me.

Jake Skye has one focus: building High Water Ranch with his brothers, a tribute to his late stepfather’s legacy. Disillusioned by corruption in his former workplace and the wreckage of a failed marriage, trust doesn’t come easily. Jake thrives on control and order, but when Tansy Fields—vibrant, impulsive, and irresistibly free-spirited—enters his world, everything he thought he needed starts to unravel. Opposites attract, and Tansy is everything he shouldn’t want but can’t resist.

1931. When businessman Charles Blackmore takes down the stones on the Scottish headland, he soon finds his fortune lost, his wife dead and his four daughters torn apart. Iris, the eldest daughter, is the first to leave, making for Ceylon in search of a long-lost uncle who might help keep the family together. Promising to return as soon as she can, her journey takes her from the exotic beauty of Ceylon to the vast Australian outback, but will it ever take her home?

Otaki, Isla Norte, 1880. Aroha crece felizmente en la escuela que dirige su madre Linda. Pero, un día de septiembre, su existencia cambiará radicalmente cuando se convierta en una de las víctimas del gran accidente de tren de Nueva Zelanda y sufra una horrorosa experiencia. En Rat Station, la granja de ovejas de su familia, se restablecerá y recuperará la ilusión. Con ayuda del soñador Robin y de su prima, la temperamental March, se atreverá a dar un gran paso y conocerá a alguien que dará un giro insospechado a su vida.

Begin a BRAND NEW heartwarming wartime saga series from BESTSELLER Patricia McBride. If you loved The Library Girls of the East End , be the first to listen to Patricia McBride's brand new series!

Spring, 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned, it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones to say a fond farewell to Rookery House and seek a new home in Great Plumstead. When an unusual opportunity arises, will it be all she hopes for? Marianne is visited by her husband's sister, stirring up bad memories from the past. Scared that Alex's family will once again try to take her young daughters away, Marianne vows to do all she can to keep them safe and living with her at Rookery House.

May, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their lives forever. While the country reconstructs in the post-war boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie – and nothing can remain hidden in a small town.

Große Träume, Rebellion, vertraute Feinde und das Schicksal einer Familiendynastie. Jana Thalmeyer, die Tochter der Porzellanmanufaktur-Geschäftsführerin Marie Thalmeyer, zieht es zum Jura-Studium nach München. Dort wird sie von einer neuen Zeit mitgerissen: Anti-Establishment-Proteste, Demonstrationen und Drogen bestimmen die neue Welt, in die die junge Frau eintaucht. Jana genießt die scheinbar unbeschwerte Zeit, doch schon bald gerät sie im wilden, glamourösen Schwabing in gefährliche Gesellschaft – Menschen, die Gewalt befürworten, Sabotageakte durchführen und sogar Attentate planen.

Exuberant and riveting, a sly commentary on truth and beauty and fulfillment that resonates with our times, Lidie delivers a panoramic portrait of a volatile era and the headstrong women trying to live an honest life in it.

De klassieker aller klassiekers Honderd jaar eenzaamheid van Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez is voor het eerst verfilmd; Cien años de soledad is vanaf 11 december 2024 te zien als 16-delige serie op Netflix 'Een brok superieure literatuur dat zich als een trein laat luisteren.' de Volkskrant over Honderd jaar eenzaamheid In 1967 verscheen Gabriel García Márquez' meesterwerk Honderd jaar eenzaamheid , waarmee de Latijns-Amerikaanse literatuur definitief op de wereldkaart werd gezet.

The next instalment in the BRAND NEW gripping historical saga series from Chrissie Walsh

Es gibt keinen Weg, der nicht irgendwann nach Hause führt Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird mitten in Deutschland ein kleiner Junge gefunden, der nichts über sich selbst und seine Herkunft weiß. Sein Alter wird geschätzt, er bekommt den Namen Hartmut und wächst in einem katholischen Kinderheim auf, in dem viel Ordnung und noch mehr Zucht herrscht. Dort lernt er die etwas ältere Kriegswaise Margret kennen, die ihn schon im Heim zu beschützen versucht. Die beiden werden zu einer unverzichtbaren Stütze füreinander und beschließen, sich nie wieder loszulassen.

Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.

Kitty Wilson, who, after losing her father, rejects the unsuitable suitor her mother has chosen. Abandoned by her mother, Kitty faces the challenges of navigating life alone. Amidst the turmoil, Kitty finds solace and support from friends, securing a promotion at Harpers Emporium. However, tragedy looms, threatening to shatter her newfound stability. Sally and Ben Harper face their own challenges. A decision by Ben regarding the restaurant, made without consulting his partner Jack Burrows, jeopardizes not only their friendship but also the stability of Harpers itself.

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.

Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, 21-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different, but both are beautiful, modern, and carefree...until the day their father tells them he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.

For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters.

Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne.

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

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.

With Emma hidden on Earth for her safety, Queen Lila holds the power to Emma’s throne, and she’s using it for genocide. She has the magical strength, she has the political power, and the only woman who could stop her is thousands of lightyears away.

Essere cresciuto con Faye, però, non è certo un vantaggio per lui. Faye Matthews, infatti, è l'ultima donna sulla faccia della Terra che Dion vorrebbe avere al suo fianco, figuriamoci sposare… eppure il terzo dei fratelli Windsor lo sa: non c'è modo di sfuggire alla bellissima pianista a cui è promesso sin da quando erano bambini. Faye, dal canto suo, è stata cresciuta con un unico obiettivo: diventare la perfetta moglie di un Windsor.

Der Kampf um die Familie, ein Fall von Spionage, das Wirtschaftswunder und eine erbitterte Fehde zwischen Rivalen – die Geschichte einer Familiendynastie in der neuen Bundesrepublik. - "Manchmal bedurfte es eben eines gewissen Risikos, um etwas völlig Neues zu erschaffen." Selb in den 50er Jahren: Marie Thalmeyer hat es geschafft, das Sorgerecht für ihre Tochter zurückzuerlangen, doch die Freude hält nicht lange. Die Porzellanmanufaktur steht nach einem Betrug kurz vor dem Ruin und die DDR öffnet die Grenzen für das Meißner Porzellan.