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1957. El destino elige a veces caminos insospechados. Criado en un orfanato durante los duros años de la guerra, Hueso es un buscavidas que sobrevive en las calles de Palermo a base de pequeños timos y escaramuzas. Siempre lleva consigo, como un talismán, el misterioso camafeo que las monjas encontraron junto a él cuando fue abandonado a las puertas del hospicio. Él no lo sabe, pero ese colgante contiene la clave de sus orígenes: un legado que se remonta varios siglos atrás.

Dos hermanas. Un país dividido. Un amor imposible. Estefanía y Selina,. hijas de una familia acomodada de Oviedo, viven sus días entre las imágenes religiosas del taller familiar y los. sueños de un matrimonio ideal. Pero en la Asturias de los años treinta,. el amor nunca es solo amor: es clase, es política, es destino. Fani se enamora de un guardia civil. Lina, de un joven minero comprometido con la lucha obrera. Entre el incienso y la dinamita,. sus elecciones marcarán el rumbo de sus vidas y el de toda una familia.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people”. Even before he reaches home, he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.

Pommern, 1886: Die junge Adelige Charlotte liebt das Abenteuer, ihre wilde Stute und das raue Land ihrer Heimat. Ihre Liebe zu Pferden führt sie immer wieder in die Ställe von Gut Rosenthal, wo sie auf den Stallmeister Johann trifft. Mit ihm erlebt sie eine Freundschaft und Verbundenheit, die sie von ihrem eigenen Ehemann nicht kennt. Cida muss einfach herausfinden, ob ihre Schwester noch lebt. Pommern, 1939: Als jüngstes von drei Kindern ist Hannah behütet auf dem Gestüt ihrer Eltern aufgewachsen.

From the award-winning “master of the short story” (The New York Times Book Review)—nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly changing, and dreaming of a return to the wooded shores of their youth

Au premier jour suivant son quarantième anniversaire, Dolorès a une vie plus tumultueuse que jamais. Alors qu’elle jongle avec ses responsabilités et ses différents legs familiaux, un face à face avec le passé de sa mère entraîne des révélations et des complications aussi douloureuses qu’insoupçonnées.

A heartfelt historical saga from Mary Wood, Proud of You is a page-turning novel with a compelling mystery at its heart. Alice, an upper-class Londoner, is recruited into the Special Operations Executive and sent to Paris where she meets Gertrude, an ex-prostitute working for the Resistance...

When all is lost, can she find the strength to start again? It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. Compelled to use her skills for the war effort, she travels to the Somme, where she is confronted with the horrors at the front. Yet amongst the bloodshed on the...

It is 1941, and the world is at war. Young Theresa Compton is left devastated after giving up her illegitimate child and joins the Special Operations Executive, an organisation of undercover agents working behind enemy lines. Her mission is to assist a Resistance group run by the handsome Pierre...

Jess has just waved goodbye to her darling son, off backpacking to Oz. She's left with two teenage daughters and husband Matt - all of whom find themselves regularly featured in her popular and lighthearted newspaper column in which she conveys to her readers an enviably cheery muddle of family life.Things become less rosy when Matt, after twenty years with the same firm, is made redundant. Only Jess sees the potential calamity in this.

A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War. Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annabel, shall marry into the nobility. A fish merchant and...

1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease, polio. Distraught at her side, her mother, Violet, wonders if this is her punishment - for Carol is the love child who should not have been born . . . Family of Women is the story of three...

Shortlisted for Historical Romantic Novel in the Romantic Novelists Association Books Awards Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles . . . Rose Southgate is trapped in a loveless marriage. Shy and...

Set in the midst of WW2, Soldier Girl follows a woman on her journey of courage, determination, loss, and resilience – the sequel to A Hopscotch Summer from Annie Murray. Read by Penelope Freeman (Her Wartime Secret) Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her...

Un amore finito, un impiego insoddisfacente lasciato indietro e una vita che, a 39 anni, non ha ancora messo radici e sta tutta in una valigia. Come quella con cui Julia arriva a Barcellona, nella lussuosa villa di Pedralbes che lei e le sorelle sono costrette a vendere dopo la morte della madre Gloria. Fra i ricordi di un padre autoritario e severo, complice della dittatura franchista, e i segreti di famiglia occultati fra le pareti delle stanze deserte, Julia ritrova anche una fotografia della madre da giovane, abbracciata a un bellissimo sconosciuto.

La novela ganadora del premio de los libreros independientes italianos. El libro revelación del año en Italia con más de 450.000 ejemplares vendidos. Una saga familiar con una protagonista inolvidable: una mujer fuerte e independiente que se enfrenta a una realidad hostil. Una apasionante historia de coraje y emancipación femenina. En Lizzanello, un pueblecito de unos pocos miles de almas, un autobús de línea se detiene en la plaza mayor y baja una pareja: él, Carlo, es hijo del sur y está contento de regresar a casa; ella, Anna, su esposa, nacida en el norte, está triste y preocupada.

A consecuencia de un turbio incidente con el hijo de un poderoso político, Rocco Schiavone, subjefe de la policía de Roma, ha sido «desterrado» a una pequeña ciudad del valle de Aosta, en los Alpes italianos. Para un romano sofisticado y amante de la buena vida, no es la mejor noticia. El frío, las botas de nieve y el provincianismo de los autóctonos estimulan la natural tendencia de Rocco a las malas pulgas, así que, visto el panorama, un caso difícil le vendría de maravilla.

Una grande saga famigliare dagli anni Venti ai nostri giorni. Un padre una madre e due figlie che si troveranno a impersonare due diversi destini, quello dell'impegno politico antifascista l'una, quello della docilità e della sconfitta l'altra. E una miriade di altri personaggi a comporre il vasto tessuto: un'attrice protetta dal Regime e che diventerà delatrice, una sarta fascista, una sprovveduta servetta di campagna, un genero di un'altra classe sociale, zii, cugini...

The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs is widowed and left to manage the property, she finds costs spiralling out of control. In order to stay in their beloved home, she and her daughters will have to sell part of it off - a decision that drives a wedge between Vanessa and her mother-in-law. The new owners of the north wing are Laurence Sturridge and his father, Marcus. Both of them long for an escape: Laurence from the monotony of his City career; Marcus from the grief of losing his wife.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...