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Wie der Erste Weltkrieg den Alltag des Hamburger Geldadels zerrüttete. Der Erste Weltkrieg setzt dem unbekümmertem Leben der Hamburger Familie Bramfeld, die in der Villa am Feenteich residiert, ein jähes Ende. Frederike, die Tochter des Bankiers Bramfeld, versucht verzweifelt das Erbe zusammenzuhalten. Der einzige Lichtblick: Ihre aufkeimenden Gefühle zu Martin Stelling, den sie über ihre Freundin Viktoria Stelling kennenlernt.

Eine steife Brise aus dem Hamburg des 19. Jahrhunderts! Johannes Stelling wacht mitten in der Nacht von einer Alarmglocke auf. Ein riesiges Feuer lodert am Hafen und kommt dem Familienhaus bedrohlich nah. Auch die Handelsspeicher der Stellings brennen lichterloh. Die Familie entkommt der Katastrophe nur knapp über den Wasserweg – mit Viktoria, der Jüngsten am Steuer. Doch wie soll es weitergehen? Können die Stelling-Kinder den Ruf der Familie retten? Zeit für einen Neubeginn!

Im Fortsetzungsroman, der auf den ersten Teil Die Stellings folgt, dreht sich alles um die Höhen und Tiefen der hanseatischen Familie. Auf der 70-jährigen Geburtstagsfeier von Viktoria Stelling-Brennicke kommt es zum Skandal: Viktorias Schwester, die unverheiratete Patrizia hat ein Kind. Klar, dass es dem unehelichen Sohn Patrick nicht leicht fällt, sich in die Familie zu integrieren. Dafür könnte es in der Liebe klappen. Christa Kanitz versetzt uns gekonnt ins kulturelle, politische und wirtschaftliche Leben im Hamburg des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Gosport, 1943. Rita, Amelia, Ruby and Dorothy are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work at Priddy's munitions factory, is dangerous and gruelling, but undoubtedly necessary. However, when an explosion at the factory almost kills several of the workers, the girls decide it's time to find another way to contribute. Amelia sees an advertisement in the Evening News, seeking Hop Pickers in Kent, accommodation provided. Weeks later, they leave Gosport, ready for a new adventure.

La saga phénomène aux 700 000 auditeurs continue… Un délice ! 1949. Betty célèbre ses 30 ans entourée de ses proches. Heureuse gérante d'une librairie et d'une maison d'édition, elle se prépare à passer son permis de conduire. Mais le malheur n'est pas très loin. Les soucis financiers s'accumulent, Viola met brutalement fin à leur amitié, et son plus jeune frère lui donne du fil à retordre, Olof souffre d'un mal dont il refuse de reconnaître l'existence et Martin Fischer, le père biologique de Martina, réapparaît.

When the well-liked local farmer, William Crow, unexpectedly dies on the operating table during a common surgery, the lives and secrets of those living in the rural Tasmanian town of Albert Falls completely unravel.

In Edinburgh’s rain-swept streets, Grace thought she had found her forever in Jamie—until a devastating betrayal shatters their marriage and forces her to question everything she believed about love.

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.

Eine Porzellanmanufaktur in Scherben. Ein im Krieg verschollener Bruder. Eine Familiendynastie zur Zeit des Wiederaufbaus. - »Sie stand jetzt in der Verantwortung. Für sich, für ihre Liebsten. Und für die Arbeiter in der Manufaktur und ihre Familien.« Selb, die Heimat des weißen Goldes, 1947: Als der Familienpatriarch Ludwig Thalmeyer überraschend verstirbt, muss Marie als älteste Tochter die traditionsreiche Porzellanmanufaktur übernehmen. Mühsam arbeitet sie sich in das Geschäft ein, wird jedoch als junges Fräulein kaum ernst genommen.

All alone, following her mother's death, seventeen-year-old Eden Murray returns to her deceased father's fishing village in search of her roots and a future. Eden has worked in the fishing industry since the age of twelve and is soon employed by local businesswoman Euphemia Ross. Much to Euphemia's annoyance, Eden and her son Lewis Ross strike up a friendship. But Euphemia has grander plans for her son and is hostile towards Eden in preventing them ever having a future together.

After tragically losing her husband at sea, Eppie Watt must support herself, her daughter Charlotte and mother-in-law and sets to work packing and selling herring in Portsoy Harbour. When her mother-in-law passes, poor Charlotte is sent home to be cared for by Eppie's family. Eppie is thrilled when offered a housekeeper position to Alexander Geddes, a wealthy widower, businessman and father to headstrong Duncan and cloistered Lydia. But Andrew's mother, old Mrs Geddes is set against Eppie and as her interfering intensifies Alexander is left with no choice but to ask his mother to leave.

Bienvenue chez les Vivaldi, où le cirque est une affaire de famille. Le pari paraissait simple pour Autumn, artiste dans le cirque familial : quitter le nid, trouver un logement pour 6 mois, et tout ça dans la semaine. Mais rien n'aurait pu la préparer à devoir cohabiter avec Keith, meilleur ami de son frère et séducteur notoire. Keith, quant à lui, recherche une nouvelle colocataire durable qui saurait résister à ses avances, cette fois ! Malgré les secrets de chacun et contre toute attente, une amitié naît entre les deux colocataires. Mais, attention !

Ein schroffer, verschwiegener Rancher. Eine zurückgezogen lebende junge Frau. Ein Sohn, der es zu mehr bringen will als sein Vater. Ein Verbrecher auf der Flucht vor seiner Vergangenheit. Der erste Band der fesselnden und emotional mitreißenden Familiensaga der New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Jodi Thomas entführt die Hörerinnen und Hörer nach Crossroads am Ransom Canyon im Westen von Texas und stellt die Frage: Was bedeutet Familie? Welche Verbindungen zählen – die familiären oder die selbst gewählten?

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born, and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians.

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives, and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife, Karin, from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus while his wife, Emma, completes her 10 years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.

When Margaret Hale moves with her father from the comfort of the south of England to the industrial north, she is at first repulsed by what she sees; and then when she discovers the conditions under which the workers are forced to live, she is outraged. But this throws her into direct conflict with the powerful young mill-owner, John Thornton. Using personal passions to explore deep social divisions, North and South is a great romance and one of Elizabeth Gaskell's finest works.

In Danielle Steel's 48th best-selling novel, a Hollywood wedding sets the scene for a vivid portrayal of a prominent family whose hopes and fears are as real as our own.

From strangers to rivals, four men embark on a journey for the highest stakes of all - the keys to No. 10 Downing Street. Unfolding over three decades, their honor will be tested, their loyalties betrayed, and their love of family and country challenged. But in a game where there is a first among equals, only one can triumph.

London, 1935. Ruby is always hungry, but she will go without if it means her young brothers can eat. 1930s Bermondsey might be called the larder of London, with its pie, pickle and jam factories, but for the poor working classes, starvation is often only a heartbeat away. When Ruby's neighbour suggests she ought to go to the Methodist Mission for free food, Ruby knows her father will be furious, but she has no other option.

This is a romantic, historical adventure novel, based in Central Asia and Northern India in the 1800s. The story is revealed through the journals of the central character and his family, seen through the eyes of descendants from the point of view of 1938.

A modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the complex and damaging family legacy they share. Moving between the sparkling glamour of New York City and the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy’s masterwork.

El día que la joven Aurora se vio obligada a trabajar en la mina tras el accidente de su padre, se juró a sí misma hacer lo que fuera necesario para salir de aquel infierno.

A British officer FILIP arrives in Shyamli village, who has to get his sick wife treated and for the treatment, he brings Ravikant with him, who is a Tantrik and has power to treat Filip’s wife. After Filip’s arrival, teenage girls start disappearing from the village, whose first periods have come. Later it is revealed that Ravikant himself is trying to cure Filip’s wife by sacrificing those girls. Ravikant takes help of his father Badrikant, who has a deep knowledge of Tantra Vidya.

「武家の庭に椿があるのは珍しいのですが、お父上が、白藪椿がお気に入りでね、わざわざ下男の佐吉に植えさせたのですよ」出奔なのか、それとも陰謀なのかー

In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for - his wealth, his property, his livelihood as a star investment banker. And then it gets worse. The stock market crash not only plunges Peter into joblessness, it causes a rift in his marriage that he cannot repair. Stripped of everything, he has only one place to retreat to: a lakeside cottage he inherited from his parents, who left most of their modest estate to Peter's twin. With no other choice, the prodigal son goes home.

The second book in Jeffrey Archer’s highly acclaimed The Clifton Chronicles, The Sins of the Father takes the reader on a breath-taking journey from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan.The book opens in New York, 1939. Harry Clifton, under the new identity of Tom Bradshaw, finds himself arrested for first degree murder.

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than 20 years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?

They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother.

In Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII's courtiers. But the bloody theatre of Cromwell's ascension will leave no one unscathed. This collection includes expertly adapted versions of Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light alongside The World of Wolf Hall.