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Two women, torn apart by war. One shared belief in the power of books... London, 1939. When war breaks out on librarian Joyce Kindred's doorstep and a call for help rings out across the libraries of London, she's determined to act. Joyce knows only the world of books can offer safety and comfort...

With the Civil War seeming to be never ending, the Warlord and Duke Henry decide on a bold strategy which pits the men of the north against the might of Stephen and his forces. At the same time, a conspiracy of kings and counts attempt to wrest the young duke's lands from him. Betrayed by his own family, Henry becomes the king who in later life will conquer Wales and Ireland. We see the cub grow into a lion and hear him roar.

Jarl Dragon Heart is set to trade and raid in the seas beyond the world he knows. He has to venture, with an ever decreasing number of oathsworn warriors, to face new and terrible enemies. When he finds himself betrayed from within and pressed on all sides by enemies he has to fight not only for his own life but for those whom he loves the most.

Janny Wurts’s epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity reaches new heights in the third volume, now re-released with a striking new cover. Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s...

Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. As he tries to navigate this new city, it becomes increasingly clear he is losing his memory due to dementia. Every day he sinks deeper into old memories of a life in Iraq before the war. Omar arrived in the US with no family. He has run away from Baghdad with a fake identity. As a deserter, he was punished by having an ear cut off, an unmissable mark of shame.

Fleeing her beloved country, her journey was only just beginning . . . 1939. With war imminent in Poland, knowing the dangers her people face, Tamar flees to London while her fiancé, Isaac, must stay and fulfil his duty to his country. He carries with him a silver clasp from Tamar’s bracelet...

صباحٌ يجيء مثقلاً بما لم تنمه المدينة. الجبهة تتأهب، والبيوت تراجع حساباتها، وما كان خلافًا صغيرًا يصير ظلًا أكبر. بين الاستعداد والانتظار، تتكشف هشاشة الأمان. حلقة تمضي نحو المواجهة… فيما يبقى في الصدور ما لم يُقَل بعد.

ليلةٌ لم تعد تشبه أول رمضان. الصوت هذه المرة ليس مدفع الإفطار… بل ما هو أبعد وأقسى. بين البيوت والمستشفى والخندق، تتبدل الوجوه من فرحةٍ إلى يقظةٍ حادّة. المدينة تفهم أخيرًا أن الهدنة لم تكن سوى فاصلة قصيرة… وأن القادم أثقل.

صباحٌ يجيء مثقلاً بما لم تنمه المدينة. الجبهة تتأهب، والبيوت تراجع حساباتها، وما كان خلافًا صغيرًا يصير ظلًا أكبر. بين الاستعداد والانتظار، تتكشف هشاشة الأمان. حلقة تمضي نحو المواجهة… فيما يبقى في الصدور ما لم يُقَل بعد.

جمعةٌ في اللد… بين وعدٍ بالنجدة وأسرارٍ تتكشف على مهل. المدينة تحاول أن تتماسك، فيما تتشابك السمعة والذاكرة والحرب في خيطٍ واحد. قرارات تُتخذ في العلن، وأخرى تُحسم في الخفاء. حلقة يعلو فيها الصوت… قبل أن يعود الإنذار مجددًا.

المعركة تنتقل من الخندق إلى المطار… خطة على عجل، واندفاعة لا تعرف حجم ما ينتظرها. تتصاعد الأصوات، وتختلط الشجاعة بالذهول، وتتكشف فجأة كلفة المواجهة. حلقة قاسية تكشف الفرق بين الحلم بالمعركة… وحقيقتها.

"Everything you want in a story" declares Helen Paris, the acclaimed author of The Invisible Women's Club, and indeed, this captivating historical novel weaves together threads of love, loyalty, and revolution against the haunting backdrop of World War II London. "Immersive...

As the war turns in Britain’s favour, Brin confronts old and new enemies and discovers someone close to him is a British traitor. Jameson finally breaks free of the torturer, Anton Ziegler, but is he walking into even greater danger when the SS takes him captive and extradites him to Berlin? MI5 continues to groom its double-cross agents in the lead up to Britain’s greatest deception against Germany, while the Germans use a legion of British traitors in their propaganda war against Russia.

An der wilden Küste landen die mächtigen Legionen Roms. Für den ehrgeizigen jungen Tribun Gaius Julius Maximus stellt sich erstmals die größte Herausforderung seines Lebens. An der Seite des erfahrenen und unerbittlichen Zenturio Brutus führt er seine Männer in unbekannte Gefilde. Auf der anderen Seite erhebt sich Caratacus. Der charismatische Krieger und listige Stratege will sein Volk vor der römischen Übermacht schützen. Eine gnadenlose Schlacht entbrennt. Disziplin trifft auf Wildheit, eiserne Entschlossenheit auf grenzenlosen Freiheitswillen.

Iryna Fingerova erzählt so bewegend wie authentisch vom Leben einer jungen ukrainischen Hausärztin in Deutschland, während in ihrem Heimatland Krieg herrscht. Von ihrer Trauer, ihren Schuldgefühlen, ihrer Wut und Resignation, bis hin zu dem Versuch, das eigene Leben weiterzuleben, die Ereignisse zu akzeptieren und vielleicht persönlichen Frieden zu finden. Mira Zehmann ist Hausärztin, Mutter, Ehefrau. Sie stammt aus einer jüdischen Familie in Odesa, vor Jahren hat sie zusammen mit ihrem Mann die Ukraine verlassen, um in Deutschland ihr eigenes Leben zu leben – für sich und ihre kleine Tochter.

You may think you know John Dempsey, but not like this! In Scars, Tier One fans get a rare glimpse into Dempsey’s past when he was Jack Kemper, a young Navy SEAL operating in Iraq. Discover the story of Dempsey’s first encounter with Mahmood Bin Jabbar (the villain in War Shadows) and learn how Dempsey got his iconic serpentine scar.

Paris, 1944. Stepping under the dim glow of the streetlamp, Jewish orphan Josette tightens her coat and adjusts her leather satchel. For months, she has been slipping unnoticed past the enemy, carrying important messages for the Resistance inside hollowed-out textbooks. Paul's beloved little sister, Suzanne, has been captured by the Nazis and accused of treason. Fear gripping her, Josette knows that if she and Paul can find a way into the prison by morning, they might be able to save her – but it may cost them everything.

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself.

A nursing orderly in the WAAF, Ruby Morris is keen to stick with her friends Holly and Meg when they volunteer for the air ambulance, and soon all three are moved to RAF Starsden on the outskirts of London. Nervous not only at flying during wartime but also being responsible for life-or-death decisions, Ruby works hard to overcome her fears, helped by her new friendship with pilot Flight Sergeant Laurie Foster. When it seems like Laurie and Ruby could become more than friends, he starts to blow hot and cold, and she worries her feelings aren't reciprocated.

Tauchen Sie in eine packende Geschichte ein, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit Imperium Germanicum eine Alternativweltgeschichte der Extraklasse vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet: Was wäre, wenn …?