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Début 1944, Anne, la fille aînée de Peggy Reilly, est partie s'installer dans le Somerset, au sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, avec ses deux enfants. La vie de la jeune enseignante y est moins dangereuse qu'à Cliffehaven, le village côtier où réside sa mère et que survolent de nombreux avions de combat. Pourtant, Anne vit dans l'angoisse de ne jamais revoir Martin, son époux. Pilote et formateur dans la RAF, il multiplie les missions de plus en plus risquées en territoire ennemi.

A love story taking place during WW2 in Denmark. In the summer of 1944 the work for the resistance movement takes all Helene's time and energy. There are indications that they have an informer in the group and Helene is under suspicion. At the same time, she is very much in love with a German...

“La gente semplice non desidera fare cose straordinarie, ma lasciarsi cullare dai ritmi, dai profumi delle stagioni e vivere i propri sogni. Che cosa saremmo se non avessimo i nostri sogni? La vita si nutre di sogni!”. Ambientato negli anni Quaranta, il romanzo è una nenia di fiducia per chi, nonostante la guerra (e le tante guerre quotidiane), continua a fare progetti, attingendo a un serbatoio di energie che viene dal lavoro delle proprie mani, dalla creatività, dalla voglia di difendersi dalla crudeltà.

Helene's War is a tense historical romance about a girl's difficult choice between love or duty in World War II Shy Helene dreams of studying at university, finding love and getting married. A chance encounter leads her down a dangerous path with increasingly desperate choices to make in order...

Porstmouth, mars 1943. April, qui s'était engagée avec son amie Paula dans les forces féminines de la Royal Navy, est contrainte de quitter la base militaire et l'armée, où elle avait trouvé une mission qui lui plaisait et l'amour dans les bras d'un séduisant GI. Rejetée par sa mère et confrontée à un avenir incertain, elle se réfugie à Cliffehaven, sur la côte sud-est de l'Angleterre, où son oncle Stan est chef de gare. Sur place, elle emménage à la pension du Bord de mer.

Nimic nu părea să o predestineze pe Inés Suárez, o croitoreasă spaniolă frumuşică şi modestă, unei vieţi ieşite din comun. Însă Inés se hotărăşte să-şi regăsească soţul, plecat la război dincolo de Ocean, şi astfel tânăra ajunge în Americi, unde o aşteaptă o nouă iubire, dar şi o viaţă plină de lupte grele şi rare momente de fericire. Alături de căpitanul Pedro de Valvidia, această eroină a Spaniei de care istoria s-a ocupat atât de puţin ajunge adevărata întemeietoare a Regatului Chile.

Johanna Neumann, a once-acclaimed pianist, is forced to leave her high-society life in Berlin to support her military husband, the newly appointed Kommandant of Erstein. With her son enlisted in the Hitler Youth and her dreams of music silenced by the clamor of conflict, she grapples with the harsh realities of her new existence in a place where she is neither welcome nor trusted. Haunted by loss and loneliness and disillusioned by her husband’s transformation, she yearns for an end to the war so she can go back to her beloved homeland before her daughter is recruited into the Nazi regime.

هي حقّا رواية بطعم الفاكهة، تبدؤها فإذا أنت متورّط فيها حدَّ المتعة، تنال من كلّ حواسّك و تسحبك إلى عالمها فلا تملك منها فكاكا قبل أن تقرأ الجملة الأخيرة. قد يعتقد...

Set in 1928 in Victoria, Australia. The Thornton family made its money in the goldfields during the 1850s and the antiques trade. Their principal home is Thornton Park, a lavish mansion close to Melbourne. They also own a home and a goldmine in Daylesford, where their close friends, the Bassetti family, are part of a thriving Swiss-Italian community.

New York 1907: Im Kosmetiksalon ihrer Tante Antonietta erlebt die junge Waise Mirella die faszinierende Welt des Luxus und der Schönheit. Nach Antoniettas Tod baut sie den Salon gegen viele Widerstände zu einem erfolgreichen Unternehmen aus. Als sie dann auf einer Feier den attraktiven Pferdetrainer Nick trifft und sich unsterblich in ihn verliebt, könnte ihr Glück perfekt sein. Doch Nick kann ihre berufliche Unabhängigkeit nur schwer akzeptieren und so muss Mirella für ihre Liebe und ihr Glück kämpfen.

يأخذنا الروائي التركي الكبير الحاصل على جائزة نوبل في الآداب، أورهان باموق في روايته "ذات الشعر الأحمر" إلى بلدة صغيرة على بعد ٣٠ ميلاً من إسطنبول، والمطّلع على...

الأديب التركي أورهان باموق، الحائز على جائزة نوبل للآداب عام ٢٠٠٦، له العديد من الروايات والكتابات الصحفية. تدور أحداث الرواية حول قصة حب مستحيلة تجمع بين "كمال"...

Spring 1939 - Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job — a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for her to marry someone from her own background.

Grace Fitzgerald, a fiery-haired dreamer, longs to escape the confines of her windswept Dingle fishing village. Across the Atlantic, Richard Lewis, heir to a Savannah banking fortune, suffocates under the weight of societal expectations he can't quite understand. When their worlds collide through a twist of fate, Grace and Richard uncover a bond so profound it shakes the very foundations of their existence. As Europe inches towards chaos, they find themselves caught in a whirlwind of discovery, challenging everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other.

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" by James Hilton is a beloved classic that tells the touching story of Mr. Chipping, a gentle and kind-hearted schoolteacher whose long career at an English boarding school leaves an indelible mark on generations of boys. Through his memories, we witness a life filled with warmth, humor, and quiet heroism.

Eldest sister Frances is about to marry her childhood sweetheart. But with Marcus Danby now a fighter pilot, his fate hanging in the balance. Will he return from war for their happy ever after? Meanwhile youngest daughter Emily is swept off her feet by a dashing young officer, but does she really know him? Brother Daniel has joined up, but not before falling in love with a local kitchen girl Alice. Against the backdrop of war is there hope of a future for them?

In finsteren Zeiten bringen drei Künstlerinnen Licht ins Dunkel. Anrührend und hochspannend: Der dritte historische Roman von Charlotte Roths Trilogie Die Wintergarten-Frauen erzählt von den Gefahren für die Freundinnen und das berühmte Varieté-Theater während der Nazi-Zeit. Berlin, 1933. Mit Hitlers Machtergreifung droht dem Wintergarten ein jähes Ende. Denn das berühmteste Cabaret der Stadt ist nicht nur die Bühne der Wunderweiber und der besten Artisten ihrer Zeit – es bietet auch denen Zuflucht, die die Nazis mit aller Macht bekämpfen.

Brought up in Cornwall by her grandparents, Aster thinks often of her parents, who were taken from her at a tragically early age. The only thing she has to remember her mother by is her Flower Book, a journal of pressed flowers that charts Violet’s life and dreams – and keeps all her secrets...On her 21st birthday, Aster receives devastating news that turns everything she knew about herself upside down. Will she finally discover what really happened to her parents?

Rok 1968. Marzenie młodziutkiej Kasi Skrockiej o wielkim świecie spełnia się. Dziewczyna załatwia w nielegalny sposób paszport i zaproszenie, by wyjechać z przypadkowo poznanym Lukasem Stawskim do Londynu. Fascynuje ją ten "inny świat" – pełen kolorów, swobody obyczajów i wolności. Skrocka wierzy, że wspólne życie z przystojnym Lukasem będzie wyglądało jak w bajce. Tymczasem chłopak z czarującego i pewnego siebie amanta szybko przeobraża się w egoistycznego i nieodpowiedzialnego lekkoducha. Kasia musi także zmierzyć się z brakiem akceptacji, a nawet wrogą postawą ojca swojego partnera.

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