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Echoes of Forbidden Harmony is a gripping historical fiction novel by David Guthrie that transports listeners to 1938 Berlin, amidst the rise of Nazi Germany. The story follows Lieutenant Hans Belkin, a young and ambitious officer in the Wehrmacht, as he navigates the treacherous political landscape and the horrors of war.

Fresh off the boat from Roaring Twenties Paris, Henrietta “Henri” Adams lands in New York in the midst of the Queer Craze that is taking the city by storm. An art critic by day and lady lover by night, she ventures into the clandestine worlds of speakeasies and drag balls, which free her from the tyranny of the gender binary. Fun-loving slummers crash the party, flocking to see queer performers at the Astor Hotel and the Cotton Club. Broadway stars rub elbows with Harlem Renaissance luminaries at the Hamilton Lodge Masquerade Ball. But the revelry can't last forever.

Джейкоб и Наоми сразу полюбили друг друга, и неважно, что он — наследник богатой семьи Хэмптонов, а она — полуграмотная горничная. Наперекор родным Джейкоб женится на Наоми, однако общество во главе с родителями ополчается против молодой пары. И только Блэкберн Гант, изуродованный полиомиелитом смотритель кладбища, хранит верность своему другу и его юной жене.

Irlande, 1925. Sur les vertes collines de West Cork, le château de Deverill a été brûlé par les rebelles. Mais la jeune et nouvellement riche Celia Deverill est déterminée à rendre sa splendeur d’antan à la demeure de ses ancêtres, et ainsi à restaurer le berceau de tous ses souvenirs d’enfance en compagnie de sa cousine Kitty et de leur amie Bridie Doyle.

Wisconsin, 1931: Mindy Zahn can’t understand why her parents deserted the family farm, leaving her mute younger sister in her care. Until her mother’s cryptic warning to keep her sister safe becomes a life-threatening task.

Vivienne Holland, an enormously talented yet mentally fragile woman, comes of age in mid-century America and dreams of becoming a famous writer. However, trapped by the restrictions of pre-feminist society, a scientifically limited medical system unprepared to cope adequately with her mental illness, and her own tragic family background, she faces daunting obstacles.

Finalist for Best New Fiction at the American Fiction Awards 2024 Aniela Majewska, beautiful daughter of one of Kraków's most respected families, is ready to marry her dashing childhood sweetheart, Henryk Bartosz. But the Nazi invasion of Poland separates the young lovers, as Henryk chooses to fight for their country's freedom as part of the underground resistance and Aniela uses her beauty, wit, and indomitable spirit to navigate the Reich's brutal occupation centralized in her home city, doing whatever it takes to keep her family and her sanity intact.

Newly arrived in the small town of Oberlin, Ohio, Sterling is an enthusiastic young writing teacher trying to break free of his privileged upbringing. Samantha, neglected but brilliant, stays on the fringes of society, living through her books. Neither knows what it means to truly dream big until the summer of 1901, when their lives collide and they learn things about themselves and each other that challenge the ways they view the world.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Imagine you have only a pencil, paper, and your puzzle-solving skills to help end the war Gemma Sullivan lands a coveted office job in the summer of 1943, only to discover that she’s been hired to work in a top-secret codebreaking office in an unsuspecting house along the...

The war continues to rage, but for now, Harbour House continues to keep the Roby family safe from harm. Not so for new lodger Richard Stoneleigh. As one of the few men who can captain a ship, Richard is called to help with the dangerous evacuation of troops from Dunkirk – it’s a perilous voyage that almost costs Richard his life…

Het is oktober 1949 en de Tweede Wereldoorlog is alweer een paar jaar voorbij. Betty wordt dertig en viert haar verjaardag omringd door familie en vrienden. Haar huwelijk met Olof is gebaseerd op vertrouwen en vriendschap en het gaat goed met hun zoon Anders en met Martina, Betty's dochter uit een vorige relatie. Toch is niet alles zoals het zou moeten zijn. Olof trekt zich steeds meer terug en Betty begrijpt niet waarom. Daarnaast wil Martina's biologische vader, Martin Fischer, in contact komen met zijn dochter en haar zangopleiding financieren.

This Side of Paradise is a 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of unfulfilling romances with young women. The novel explores themes of love warped by greed and social ambition.

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried mother, it could have been very different, and she is happy. But when new maid, Susie, arrives at the Beach Hotel, it isn't long before sparks fly. Susie begins to meddle in Fanny's friendships and even in her budding romance with Walter, an American working at the aerodrome. Meanwhile, a flu epidemic starts to spread and as more people fall ill, the hotel is forced to close. Matters come to a head when Susie plots to reveal secrets about Fanny that could spell her ruin.

Don't miss this brand-new WWII historical novel, perfect for fans of Anna Stuart and Daisy Wood. The Philippines, 1941. Rose Williams arrives in Manila on her first assignment as a US Army nurse, enthralled by the new environment and its promise of adventure. Although worlds away from the land...

Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman. Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart should be, Dolly’s mam is in hock up to her ears and in dire need of assistance. But when Jack offers to wipe the slate clean, Dolly just can’t bring herself to trust him. Instead, she takes him on at his own game and in the process endangers everything she holds most dear as a revelation about the past rocks the very foundations of her world.

Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickins meets Harry Holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself. White organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It is party season and the university crowd are celebrating end-of-year exams. Zara loves dancing with the boys and flirting with them, but it's a game to her. Nothing serious. Until Harry. He plans to be a politician once he finishes law. She, a fashion designer, if she can find a way to break out of the secretarial pool.

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war — for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon.

His quest might be the salvation she needs… Cowboy-turned-banker Sam Castlerock arrives in Bear Creek, Wyoming, in a last-chance bid to prove himself to his father. He has one job to do: make the local bank profitable. The last thing he needs is a distraction—but she's the first thing he runs into. Emily Sands has never forgotten the cowboy she fancied as a teenager. And now he's back in town. But she's not the carefree youngster she once was. She's a woman now—with a woman's worries. Top on the list: keeping the family store afloat. Next: caring for her younger sister who needs extra help.

Nineteen-year-old Hedy can't bear her country's neutrality in the face of the ultimate evil. This is not the Switzerland she loves, and she realises she cannot stand by without acting any longer. She joins a group smuggling Jewish children through the forest from France to refugee camps in Geneva. It's dangerous work—there are German patrols everywhere—but finally Hedy feels she is doing something worthwhile.

Ein Neuanfang auf Island, eine Liebe auf Umwegen und ein großes Geheimnis von #1-Kindle-Bestsellerautorin Karin Lindberg. Sommer 2018: Von einem Tag auf den anderen kann Hannah Leopold ihren Traumberuf als Violinistin nicht mehr ausüben. Nach ihrer Scheidung nimmt sie sich ein Jahr Auszeit und reist nach Island. Auf dem Dachboden des kleinen Küstenhauses, in dem sie dort wohnt, findet sie Zeichnungen mit einer Küstenseeschwalbe darauf, die sie tief berühren, weil sie sie an die Kunstwerke ihrer Mutter erinnern.