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Mitreißend und emotional - der fulminante Abschluss der Bestseller-Trilogie. St. Peter, 1958: Anni hat dem Hotel "Seeperle" eine neue Bestimmung gegeben, die nicht überall auf Zustimmung stößt - die lokale Presse reagiert sehr verhalten. Ihre Freundinnen unterstützen sie weiterhin, so gut sie können, doch die Ärztin Helena hat mit eigenen Problemen zu kämpfen, und Edith scheint von ihrem größten Geheimnis eingeholt zu werden. Nun muss sie kämpfen - um ihre Zukunft genauso wie um ihre Liebsten. Und dann bekommt auch noch Anni unerwarteten Besuch, der ihr Leben auf den Kopf zu stellen droht.

Von der Ruhe vor dem Sturm: Teil 2 des historischen Familienromans "Die Chronik der Familie Laverne" erzählt vom Neuanfang und aufziehenden Wolken zwischen den Weltkriegen. 1930: Der 1. Weltkrieg ist überstanden, die Schwestern Luise und Victoria Laverne wagen einen Neuanfang, nachdem der Tod ihres geliebten Bruders Franz in der Schlacht an der Somme die Familie in eine tiefe Depression gestürzt hatte. Victoria geht gegen den Willen der Familie nach Berlin und feiert in der lebenshungrigen Hauptstadt erste Erfolge als Kostümbildnerin für Shows und Filme.

Die mitreißende Saga über die Frauen von Bloomsbury. Hogarth House bei London, 1922. Virginia und ihr Mann Leonard Woolf haben einen Verlag gegründet, mit dem sie erste Erfolge feiern, und auch mit ihrem Schreiben findet Virginia immer mehr Anerkennung. Dann lernt sie die so glamouröse wie abenteuerliche Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West kennen, die für ihre einzigartige Gartenkunst bekannt ist. Für Virginia ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick, während Vita sich von Virginias kritischem Intellekt zunächst infrage gestellt fühlt.

In 1960s Marrakech a young girl travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence’s childhood threatens to expose everything she has built a life to hide.

Jennifer Cloud is sure of three things: Women are just as capable as men of catching a thief. Traveling back in time is not all fun, games, and vintage Italian leather grosgrain shoes. And saving the woman who turned your life upside down can get you killed....

Anna and Ingrid have survived World War II. Now they must live through the Berlin airlifts. Evocative and unforgettable, CHILD OF THE RUINS is set during the Berlin air lifts of 1948 and written by one of the most brilliant writers of historical fiction in the UK. People are disappearing. I...

JAK TO PIĘKNIE, ŻE W TYCH PODŁYCH CZASACH ZDOŁALIŚCIE OCALIĆ COŚ TAK DELIKATNEGO I DOBREGO JAK MIŁOŚĆ. Kiedy Helena i Antoni brali...

When I came back to Charleston, I intended to take back my future and my one true love, Asa Calhoun. Life had different plans for me. As I try to move forward in my life, years of memories and passion between us refuse to stay buried in the past, leading me back to Asa. But many things changed me over the past six years, including both love and betrayal. If I don't face these truths, I might lose myself, and Asa, forever.

For decades, the Campbell women have reunited at the family’s rambling seaside cottage known as Beech House to celebrate life’s many occasions. But this year, they will be called back to Martha's Vineyard for a celebration of a different sort: their beloved matriarch Cora is getting remarried. And all the town gossips are calling him the one who got away, years ago.

MIŁOŚĆ I NADZIEJA SĄ POTĘŻNIEJSZE NIŻ NIENAWIŚĆ I GNIEW. Gdy Jurij Santacruz przyglądał się paradzie z okazji mianowania Adolfa Hitlera na kanclerza Niemiec, nie mógł przypuszczać, jak bardzo ten dzień odmieni jego życie. Do Berlina przyjechał kilka miesięcy wcześniej, po tym, jak z częścią rodziny uciekł z Sankt Petersburga przed skutkami bolszewickiej rewolucji, która pozbawiła ich wszystkiego. Jurija pozbawiła także matki i młodszego brata – rosyjskie władze nie zezwoliły im na opuszczenie kraju.

Brought to you by Penguin. THREE LOST SOULS. A LONG-BURIED SECRET. THE TRUTH THAT COULD SET THEM FREE... ----- London, 1915: Tarot reader Katerina is trying to hold her life together amid the wartime chaos. When she opens a bakery that offers divination alongside sweet treats, she is hailed as a...

PIĘKNA OPOWIEŚĆ O ŻYCIU W CIENIU WOJNY, O ZNISZCZONYCH MARZENIACH I O MIŁOŚCI, KTÓRA ZWYCIĘŻA WSZYSTKO. W 1937 roku Iza i Janek zakochują się w sobie. Niestety niedługo potem wybucha wojna, która sprawia, że ich plany obracają się w gruzy. Janek angażuje się w walki powietrzne i traci kontakt z ukochaną. Tymczasem los nie oszczędza Izy. Kobieta wraz z małą córeczką zostaje zmuszona do podjęcia decyzji, która na zawsze zaważy na jej przyszłości. Próbuje przy tym żyć nadzieją, że gdy skończy się wojna, Janek wróci i uratuje ją z rąk oprawcy. Nie wie jednak, że stawką jest nie tylko ich miłość, ale i życie.

"Hele mit liv er jeg blevet ramt af lynet. En enkelt gang rent bogstaveligt." En opdagelsesrejse, et møde mellem to bemærkelsesværdige kvinder, en forunderlig tid og et særpræget sted, er baggrunden for Tracy Chevaliers fængslende nye roman. I starten af det 19. århundrede vrimler den vindomsuste engelske kyst med fossiler for folk med blik for dem. Fra det øjeblik, hvor Mary Anning som barn rammes af lynet, står det klart, at hun er udvalgt til noget stort.

Angela Hogan is a pilot. A good pilot, and one of the few female flying aces of the 1930s. Struggling to make a living while the Great Depression rages, Angela has no problem running a small business and competing with men who believe a woman’s place is in the home. She has a plan to bring in business. All she needs to do is break the record for flying from Newfoundland to Havana, and that’s exactly what she plans to do.

Madison Simcoe has had enough. She’s a cold, lonely workaholic who’s been harassed one too many times by a fellow worker, it’s Christmas and the spirit is gone, and she feels like a stranger in her own life. A little retail therapy should cheer her up. Macy’s is huge, a giant store full of wonders, and Madison’s happy place. So when she decides to indulge herself, pushing through the big doors on a cold afternoon in December, she’s not expecting to suddenly find herself in 1947, unable to leave the huge building.

A small garrison of Australian soldiers is left to defend a town and its people against the might of the Japanese forces. This is a story of those who were left behind and those who waited for them to return.

From author Linda Sheehan, who's part of a Napa wine dynasty, comes a story of grapes, wine, first crushes, and juicy redemption. Dreading the desk job that awaits her after high school, 18-year-old Vivian Goodyear takes off for pre-World War II Paris, where she supports herself as an artist's model.

1942. When Helda Dahlstrøm flees her abusive husband and Nazi-occupied Norway with her eight-year-old son she doesn't know if they'll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety she'll find safety on the rocky shores of the Shetland Islands, rescued by Canadian Flight Sergeant Bill Gauthier. As WWII's destruction rages at their doorsteps, can love find its way through the rubble?

A riveting story of one woman’s courage and perseverance, set against the backdrop of World War Two. 1940. Clever and fiercely loyal Ena Dudley is working in a factory in Lowarth, England at the height of the war, living with the ever-present dangers of her job and the constant threat of air...

Pauline Kermadec et Nathalie de Tresnel ont grandi ensemble. A dix-neuf ans, malgré des personnalités opposées, elles sont inséparables. Pauline, fille de diplomate réservée, pose un regard curieux et angoissé sur une Europe au bord du gouffre. Nathalie, issue d'une famille désargentée de la noblesse, lutte avec panache contre les préjugés et les convenances de son milieu. L'actualité de l'été 1938 les rattrape. Pauline doit suivre son père à Berlin, au chevet d'une paix toujours plus fragile.

The fifth heartwarming instalment in the Cornish Girls saga series perfect for fans of Ginny Bell and Elaine Everest Can love still thrive in the uncertainty of war? Cornwall, Summer 1943 Eighteen-year-old Alice receives a mysterious work summons for a special unit in Bude. Nervous but excited...

Von Sonne, Zitronenbäumen und einer großen Liebe. Die berührende und faszinierende Geschichte einer jungen Frau, die zu Beginn der 1960er-Jahre in Italien das Unmögliche möglich macht, ihren Traum lebt und einen Sehnsuchtsort erschafft: das Grandhotel Fasano. Als die Münchner Kunststudentin Hiki eine Reise an den Gardasee gewinnt, kann sie ihr Glück kaum fassen. Zusammen mit einer Freundin fährt sie über die Alpen und ist augenblicklich verzaubert von den Menschen, der Landschaft und dem tiefen Blau des Sees. Das Grandhotel selbst ist allerdings eher eine Ruine.

Die Tochter eines Schokoladenfabrikanten und ein junger Salzwirker zwischen Aufbruch und Hoffnung. Halle an der Saale, 1950: Als Tochter des Schokoladenfabrikanten Friedrich Mendel wuchs Irene mit dem Duft von Schokolade auf und es gab für sie nichts Schöneres, als ihren Vater zu beobachten, wie er Pralinen anfertigt. Doch seit dem Krieg ist alles anders. Irenes Bruder ist in russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft und ihre Mutter hat sich in ihre eigene Welt zurückgezogen.

Since learning that German troops have murdered her estranged parents in Belgium, Alise's life has descended into poverty, crime, and prostitution and she refuses to be tamed. But continual hardship eventually breeds disillusionment and resentment and she plots a daring escape, fleeing towards the only man she trusts to help her survive—court missionary Robert Elliott.

Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother open a private investigation firm marketed to the elite . . . to spy on the elite. Dubbed The Imposters, Ltd., their anonymous group soon becomes the go-to for the crème of society when they want answers delivered surreptitiously. But the many secrets Marigold learns about her peers pale in comparison to her shock when she and her brother are hired to investigate her best friend's father as a potential traitor.

New York City's Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune . . . Born into one of New York's most respected families, William Sloane is a railroad baron who has all the right friends in all the right places. But no matter how much success he achieves, he always wants more. Having secured his place atop the city's highest echelons of society, he's now setting his sights on a political run. 

Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in England, has grown up running wild through the walled gardens and secret passages of historic Arden House, known to have once been frequented by Shakespeare himself. But centuries of squandered wealth have left the family destitute, and Papa Arden plans to replenish the coffers by securing hasty marriages to the highest bidder for Rosalind and her sisters. Passionate and headstrong, Rosalind is quickly running out of ways to avoid this fate.

New York Times bestselling author Natasha Lester delivers a brilliant blend of feminism, fashion, and history in this bold novel set against the real-life designers’ showdown in Versailles in the 1970s. "Vogue meets Daisy Jones & The Six ... Natasha Lester's most compelling novel yet!" —Kate...

1925 - The Midland Canals. Born on the canals, feisty Beth Dawson, knows danger lurks in the shadows. When she falls victim to a vicious attack and knowing she might be pregnant, she quickly marries a fellow boatman. Her mundane existence is interrupted by the arrival of Anthony Wesley whose mission is to organise the impoverished boatmen for strike action. Anthony makes her feel valued and she wants to help the cause in any way she can. Along the way she makes friends with rebellious Abigail Gatehouse, daughter of the owner of the company. She too is in love with Anthony.

January 1941. As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G.P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work. Charlie likes Dr Willoughby, but she fears that there can never be more between them than just friendship. Because despite her upper-class background, Charlie carries with her a terrible secret that she can never share with James.