Titoli in XX secolo

The stories of two very different women, linked by the secrets and lies of history, merge together as past and present weave together in this stunning story of love, loss and resilience. 2016. Kitty, fleeing from a devastating revelation in her own life, finds herself at her...

Lwów, początek XX wieku. Młodziutka hrabianka Anna Lipińska, która debiutuje na salonach, zwraca uwagę pułkownika Michała Dukajskiego. Śmiałej i nie bojącej się wyrażać własnych opinii Annie wpada jednak w oko przybyły niedawno z Paryża przemysłowiec, Adam Małaszewicz. Niestety, nie wszystko potoczy się po myśli hrabianki…

In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose...and rocks. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help.

After her beloved grandfather's death, Emmaline Moore is shocked to discover that her deceased father is actually living in Canada. Having no other family, Emma decides she must find him, so she embarks on a journey across the ocean, accompanied by her best friend, Jonathan. Unfortunately, Randall Moore and his well-to-do family aren't thrilled by her arrival, fearing her sudden appearance will hinder his chance at becoming mayor of Toronto in 1919. Despite everything, Emma remains determined to earn their affection.

Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession - one she has hidden from her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbours sweet memories too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in order to save hers.

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley - and a new life she never wanted nor expected. In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz - and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind.

Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking one patient with her. Fifty miles away, the surrendering soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are shot dead by the advancing Germans. Beneath the pile of bodies two men survive, crawling to the safety of a nearby farmhouse, where sisters Elise and Adelaide risk their lives to take them in.

The final novel in The Seven Sisters series is here. Narrated by Richard Armitage and Tuppence Middleton. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning...

Told in dual POV and set in 1913 Boston, a middle class girl and a Greek immigrant defy her parents and buck society by eloping, but when tragedy rips them apart they give up everything, including each other, for their love and for their child.

Quinten Aspinall is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father to keep his family together. To do so, he must travel to Canada to find his younger siblings, who were sent there as indentured workers while Quinn was away at war. He’s also solicited by his employer to look for the man's niece, Julia, who ran off with a Canadian soldier. If Quinn can bring Julia back, he will receive his own tenant farm, enabling him to provide a home for his ailing mother and siblings.

Ambientato nella Parigi di fine secolo, Marco giovane professore d'archeologia, in occasione dell'inaugurazione di un famoso reperto messicano al museo del Louvre, incontra Clarisse splendida donna dal fascino latino. Incontro fortuito o programmato? Successivamente Clarisse si scopre una ladra perfetta, su commissione di Aquilar, uomo di spicco nella malavita messicana, qualche notte dopo subentra al museo ed asporta il Chupicaro.

1941 - Amid the bombs falling over London’s East End, the residents of West India Dock Road endure wartime with courage, defiance and a good dose of humour. From nights spent sheltering together in the Underground station to sharing gossip, pastimes and meals, they lean on each other as their world is turned upside down.

Inspired by one of the first real-life female columnists at the New Yorker, this enticing historical mystery follows Freddie Archer as she solves crimes while reporting on the glamorous world of the rich and famous in 1920s Manhattan. This writer just found her next scoop . . . and it’s deadly...

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.

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.

Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else's honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live an impoverished, secretive life to save the family from public shame. When the paths of these people from two very different worlds collide, Jane begins to hope for a different future, but their new friendship is shattered by jealousy, misunderstanding, duty and treachery. But a chance meeting with a young boy will inspire Jane to defy the powers working against her and prove she is no woman to be outcast.

The captivating new novel from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Steele is a spellbinding book club read, set in the glittering French Riviera in the dangerous days leading up to the outbreak of WW2. Nestled into the pine-dusted coastline of the Cap d'Antibes is the dazzling white Chateau...

In the aftermath of a personal decision, Shea O’Byrne has retreated to Melbourne, abandoning her career as a vet nurse to counsel women through pregnancy loss - a pain she understands all too well. When her father’s genealogical research uncovers a long-buried scandal involving the family’s forgotten ancestor, Samuel O’Byrne, Shea reluctantly agrees to help investigate.