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Great Plumstead is buzzing with news that the American GIs have arrived on the nearby aerodrome. However, when a serious accident forces Thea to step back from her work, she must focus her full attention on Rookery House. There is an impossible amount to get done - and a new arrival to accommodate. Will she manage to keep things afloat? Prue is as busy as ever, finding homes for evacuees while worrying about her sons, Jack and Edwin, who are involved in key Allied battles overseas...

After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O'Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make. Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe factory to challenge Eliot Tyson's monopoly over the workforce, regardless of whether or not he is the father of her children...

Una mattina di aprile, in uno chalet in mezzo alle montagne, un uomo si sveglia, abbraccia la sua amante, si infila il costume e va a fare la solita nuotata. La donna si alza, prepara la colazione, caffè, formaggio, pane, poi lancia uno sguardo verso lo specchio d'acqua lì davanti e vede una sinistra macchia bianca. Corre fuori, si tuffa, è una pessima nuotatrice, raggiunge il corpo a fatica, lo trascina a riva, ma la sua pelle è di ghiaccio. Un istante prima M. era vivo, adesso è morto.

Con la protervia della bellezza giovane, Chéri irrompe nella vita di Léa, donna leggera e sapiente, «cortigiana danarosa e buona figliola a cui la vita aveva risparmiato le catastrofi fascinose e i nobili dolori» – ma glieli aveva risparmiati per concentrarli tutti in una sola storia, che la colpisce quando ha l'età «in cui è lecito concedersi qualche piccolo piacere». Nel triangolo amoroso apparirà qui il rivale più temibile: il Tempo, nel suo ruolo di corruttore dei corpi.

After their dreams of starting a family are crushed, Philippa and her husband Marco need a fresh start. Focusing on repairing the crumbling walls and leaking roof of the Cotswolds house they impulsively bought seems easier work than repairing their relationship. When Philippa finds a hidden memorial hidden deep in the garden, the discovery only pushes them further apart. But as Philippa determines to uncover the truth behind the memorial, could the secrets it reveals be the key to finally putting their heartbreak to rest?

Im renommierten Pensionat am Holstentor sind Nora, Agnes und Lotte nur noch zu dritt, nachdem Fanny den viel älteren Kaufmann Jan Riklof geheiratet hat. Doch die Ehe steht wie befürchtet unter keinem guten Stern. Grafentochter Nora bekommt ihre Jugendliebe, den Hafenarbeiter Karl, nicht aus dem Kopf. Und auch ihr Bruder, Graf Henry, und die junge Lehrerin Gesche Petersen lieben sich heimlich. Doch gesellschaftliche Konventionen verhindern das Glück beider Paare.

Illegitimate. Ruined. Two harsh words that leave two lost souls in search of belonging... Christian Milnes can think of nothing besides meeting the four Graham siblings who share his blood. Ever since he learned of their existence, he cannot pass a stranger without wondering if they could be his family. Meliora Williams is unwed with a baby on the way and no one to turn to except the dishonorable man who broke her heart. Determined to find her own way in the world, she boards a train headed west to Montana.

Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order - from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice has to admit it’s been an odd week. Not only has her belligerent neighbor, Mr. Daldry, suddenly become a surprisingly agreeable confidant, but he’s encouraging her to take seriously the fortune-teller who told her that only by traveling to Turkey can Alice meet the most important person in her life. What’s more, the peculiarly insistent Mr. Daldry has even agreed to finance Alice’s trip - one that against all reason seems to be predestined.

At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance. But this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to change forever as the O'Shay and Murphy families, along with their friends the Dwyers, are caught up in the theatre of war and their fates become intertwined.

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice love their life working at the Beach Hotel together and each is thrilled to have finally found a sweetheart. Yet the path of true love never did run smooth and they soon find themselves facing conflict and strife. Could love come between them and the bond they share?

Cornwall, heute: Nach einem beruflichen Rückschlag flieht Samantha zu ihrer Tante nach Cornwall. Dort findet sie auf dem Dachboden einen geheimnisvollen Verlobungsring, der sie zu einem Rätsel aus der Vergangenheit führt. Maxwell Trevenian, der arrogante Erbe des altehrwürdigen Familienanwesens, versucht ihre Nachforschungen zu verhindern. Zwischen den rauen Klippen und dem endlosen Meer begegnet sie dem eigensinnigen Fischer Lowen, der ihr Cornwall von einer ganz anderen Seite zeigt. Doch je tiefer sie in die Vergangenheit eindringt, desto brisanter werden die Geheimnisse, die sie aufdeckt.

A recent widow, Lady Arabella Grey hires the young and unconventional Zandra Lancaster as governess to her children. Despite Zandra's impressive recommendations, Arabella is skeptical and unimpressed by Zandra's youth and artistic nature. But Zandra is brilliant with her daughters, and Arabella's inexplicably drawn to her.

Warsaw, 1939. The Nazi invasion shatters the city, as Nazi banners rise, hunger gnaws, and walls create a ghetto. SS patrols prowl and trains stand ready for “resettlement” camps of Treblinka. Granted access to the ghetto as a “public health specialist,” Irena Sendler steps through the gates with forged papers and begins with the smallest, most dangerous act: smuggling children out and away from certain death. With help from a group of rebels, Jewish residents, and her lover, Irena builds a pipeline under the occupier’s nose, using any means necessary, including the city’s sewers.

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

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Berlin, 1922. Der Anhalter Bahnhof am Askanischen Platz ist eines der prächtigsten und verheißungsvollsten Gebäude der Stadt. Täglich verreisen von hier aus Tausende in alle Welt: Menschen auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat, Menschen auf der Suche nach dem großen Glück. So auch die Passagiere, die an diesem Abend den Nachtzug nach Paris besteigen: ein falscher Baron, ein Industrieller auf der Flucht, eine Haushälterin mit Fernweh, ein heldenhafter Kondukteur, ein heimliches Liebespaar und ein Dieb.