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Con questo romanzo inizia il futuro di Jole e Sergio, figli di Augusto e Agnese De Boer, coltivatori di tabacco a Nevada, in Val Brenta. Vent'anni lei, dodici lui, dopo tante vicissitudini i due fratelli sono pronti ad affrontare la più grande delle sfide: lasciare la propria terra, che nulla ha più da offrire, per raggiungere il Nuovo mondo. Un'avventura epica che ha in sé l'incanto e il terrore di tante prime volte: per la prima volta salgono sul treno che li porterà fino a Genova dove, vissuti da sempre tra i profili aspri delle montagne, vedranno il mare - immenso, spaventoso.

Gujaareh, la città dei Sogni, è afflitta dal dominio imperiale del Protettorato Kisuati. Una città in cui l'unica legge era la pace ora conosce solo violenza e oppressione... e incubi. Una mortale e misteriosa pestilenza perseguita i cittadini di Gujaareh, condannando gli infetti a morire durante il sonno tra urla strazianti. Assediata da sogni oscuri e crudeli signori, la città e tutta la sua gente languiscono nell'ardente desiderio di sollevarsi, ma Gujaareh conosce la pace da troppo tempo. Qualcuno dovrà mostrare loro la strada.

"L'Oversight è più pericolosa quando è in difficoltà. Ci sono molti morti o dispersi che non ricordano..." I membri dell'Oversight di Londra hanno fatto giuramento per millenni di impedire al mondo naturale e quello soprannaturale di darsi la caccia a vicenda. Ora che sta attraversando il suo momento più difficile, con la sede distrutta e gli ultimi membri sparsi chissà dove, questa società segreta dovrà combattere per la sopravvivenza e affrontare il nemico più insidioso che abbia mai incontrato: sé stessa.

Horace was 10, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in, fed them cocoa and put them to sleep in his bed. A few days later he found that - somehow - he had become the unofficial guardian of Horace and Ethel.

Una patrulla se aproxima a la prisión conocida como El Castillo. En la parte trasera del vehículo viajan dos presos: Mario, de 19 años, y otro asesino, ambos condenados a muerte. En ese trayecto, Mario nunca llega siquiera a imaginar los veinte años que será capaz de sobrevivir en la zona de condenados a muerte.

Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion. Dirk’s life was exactly how he wanted it. Until it wasn’t. The moment Merit Eden showed back up in Hamilton, Montana, everything was turned upside down. Life changed immediately, and then tragedy struck.

Einen Schritt vor, zwei zurück: Die fast hundertjährige Matriarchin Luzie Mazur hat sich Zeit gelassen mit dem Sterben. Doch nun ist sie doot bleeven, und hinterlässt ihrer Familie kaum mehr als einen abgewetzten Koffer voller Erinnerungen auf dem Kleiderschrank und fast ein Jahrhundert "Mazur’sches Schweigen", das besonders ihrer Enkelin Johanne, selbst längst in ihren Fünfzigern, in den Ohren dröhnt. Es lässt ihr keine Ruhe, was damals war, als ihre junge Großmutter Luzie Krusenbusch sich in den "Fremdarbeiter" Jurek verliebt hat.

Tim Parkes was three when his parents were killed in a train crash and he went to live with his aunt May, first in New Cross and then to Walworth, where the living was cheaper. They managed splendidly - and then came the war. Tim Parkes became Gunner Parkes and Aunt May spent most of her nights in the Walworth air raid shelters with Tim keeping an eye on her whenever he was able.

When fiery Bridget Cummings advertised for a lodger, she did not expect a policeman to apply for the room. She wasn't fond of the coppers, believing them to be traitors to the poor of Whitechapel, but her younger brother and sister moved PC Fred Billings in the moment Bridget's back was turned, and she seemed to have little say in the matter. Still, she had to admit that she was glad of his company in the walk back from her late-night washing up job, particularly when a young girl was found in a nearby street with her throat cut.

Austria, 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienna, amid crowds of cheering supporters. Her embittered ex-husband, now a fervent member of the Nazi cause, is among the cavalcade - he is burning with hatred for Anne, seeing her as a symbol of the old Austrian empire he once served. A chance encounter with a British journalist leaves Anne with a secret that must be smuggled out of the country, and Anne knows that she must forsake her beloved Vienna and with her children flee to Britain.

When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna, the attraction is instant. A whirlwind romance follows, with Vienna bathed in the brilliance of the last days of the emperor. And when James proposes to Sophie it seems a fitting end to that wonderful, enchanting summer.

Jack Andrews was having a tough time. He'd come back from the First World War to find his wife had 'got religion'. She'd got it so badly that she finally went off, left Jim and the three children and joined Father Peter's League of Repenters. She never really came home again. Jack and the children managed as best they could, but things were pretty tough when Aunt Edie turned up. The first thing she did was give her cousin, Maud Andrews, a piece of her mind for running off and leaving her family. But when that didn't do any good, Edie moved in and took over the Andrews family.

La colosal saga familiar de Elizabeth Jane Howard, el último gran clásico de las letras inglesas del pasado siglo, da en este cuarto volumen de la serie un memorable paso adelante hacia su brillante y esperada culminación.

When Jamie Blair, 24, unemployed and back from the trenches, took lodgings at Larcom Street in Walworth, he had no idea he was walking into a trap. The house was owned by Henry Mullins, big, burly and a hard drinker. Henry made life hell for his four stepchildren who looked half-starved and frequently got bashed.

1947: Als Elisabeth Clarkwell erfährt, dass sie ein Gestüt geerbt hat, fällt die junge Witwe aus allen Wolken. Ein Onkel hat ihr das Anwesen in der Lüneburger Heide vermacht - für Elisabeth, die nach dem Tod ihres Mannes hochverschuldet ist, ein Geschenk des Himmels. Doch um den Besitz verkaufen zu können, muss sie sich mit dem zweiten Erben einigen, Javier Castillo y Olivarez. Elisabeth reist nach Navarra, um ihn zu treffen.

After her mother died in a car accident when she was only five, and her father was determined not to show any emotions toward his only daughter, Timberlynn longs for a normal family. What she hadn’t planned on was finding that family in Hamilton, Montana - thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known in Atlanta, Georgia. She certainly didn’t plan on falling for Tanner Shaw, a handsome, charming, cowboy who swept her off her feet the moment he looked at her with eyes the color of the Montana sky.

El de 1937 y el de 1938. Dos veranos inolvidables, a salvo bajo la dorada luz de Sussex, donde los días se consumen en una sucesión de juegos infantiles y pícnics en la playa. Tres generaciones de la acomodada familia Cazalet reunidas en su finca natal. Los quehaceres de dos abuelos, cuatro hijos, nueve nietos, innumerables parientes políticos, criados y animales domésticos que abarcan desde lo cotidiano hasta lo más trascendental.

Maggie Wilson was only 33, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't have managed at all. Constable Harry Bradshaw thought the Wilsons were a gutsy and brave little family.

Everyone liked Sergeant Joe. From the huge jolly Beavis family with whom he had lodgings in Newington Butts, to Mr George Singleton, Charing Cross Road bookseller, who employed Joe in a little lucrative and harmless forgery, Sergeant Joe was a univeral favourite. Quite a few people wondered why he didn't get married. But it wasn't until he bumped into Dolly Smith - quite literally in a London pea-souper - that he met a girl who made an impression on him.

London, 1940. Während der Blitzkrieg über London wütet, setzen die Krankenschwestern des Nightingale Hospitals alles daran, den Krankenhausbetrieb aufrechtzuerhalten. Auch Dora, die inzwischen Mutter von Zwillingen ist, kehrt zurück, um ihre einstigen Kolleginnen bei der kräftezehrenden Arbeit zu unterstützen. Ganz anders als die Hilfsschwestern Jennifer und Cissy, die vor allem zwei Dinge im Sinn haben: schöne Kleider und attraktive Männer. Doch ihre romantischen Träume werden schon bald von dramatischen Ereignissen überschattet.