Titoli in XX secolo

In 1944, newly married Copper Reilly arrives in Paris soon after the liberation. While the city celebrates its freedom, she's stuck in the prison of an unhappy marriage. When her husband commits one betrayal too many, Copper demands a separation. Alone in Paris, she finds an unlikely new friend: an obscure, middle-aged designer from the back rooms of a decaying fashion house whose timid nature and reluctance for fame clash with the bold brilliance of his designs. His name is Christian Dior.

Germany, 1911. Certain things are expected of a woman. Defiant Mimi Reventlow has chosen to be the woman she wants to be. For now, that’s the resident, if temporary, photographer in Laichingen. Here, against the odds, in a vocation uncommon for her gender, she maintains a struggling studio. She cares for her aging uncle and mentor. She’s captured the affections of a roguish young local. And she dares to engage in a secret affair with Johann, the village’s prodigal son. But when tragedy strikes, Mimi’s world is thrown into a state of flux.

In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved.

From the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest comes a page-turning epic of adventure, suspense, and romance set against the rich and ruthless backdrop of the Klondike gold rush.

1943: Europe is at war - but neutral Ireland is isolated from the storm. In a sleepy coastal village south of Dublin, eighteen-year-old Aileen Sweeney meets soldier Niall O’Rourke at a dance, and the spark between them soon ignites a powerful love. But when Niall makes a life-changing and contentious decision, Aileen’s hopes and dreams fall apart. In an instant Niall is transformed from dashing suitor to social outcast, and the fallout leaves each of them navigating the consequences alone. Putting her innocence behind her, Aileen must make her own tough choices.

Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city - and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality and living a lie, every day bringing the danger of discovery closer. When Hitler’s right-hand man moves in and makes her his pet, she sees an opportunity to help the Resistance - and draw closer to Jack, her contact, whose brusque instructions may be a shield for something more....

Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother’s act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father’s imprisonment. It’s his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty, the harder it becomes.

Daring aviators take the skies by storm in this historical romance filled with unconventional women - and the men strong enough to love them.

With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia’s borders vanish beneath them, they leave their farm and all they know behind for an uncertain future. But Ilse also has Janusz, her family’s young Polish laborer, by her side. As they flee from the Soviet army, his enchanting folktales keep her mind off the cold, the hunger, and the horrors unfolding around them.

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.

The English-language debut of the acclaimed international bestseller - Anywhere but Home crosses continents, cultures, and generations to tell a sweeping story of self-discovery, finding your own place in a new world, and the revelatory mysteries of being a family.

In the autumn of 1940, four children meet on a train. Behind them is London, under heavy aerial attack; ahead of them is a ship bound for the safe shores of Canada. Arthur has promised his mother not to let his little brother, Philip, out of his sight. Pippa and Dora are on their own: polar opposites, brought together by the adventure of a lifetime. But disaster strikes mid-Atlantic, and in the chaos one of the children makes a choice that will determine the course of their lives forever.

The Understudy is the story of Nina Landau, an actress living in New York City in the early ’70s and trying hard to make it on Broadway. We follow her from her Broadway audition nerves to her eventual success on stage. Along the way we discover what goes on backstage during a Broadway show, how actors deal with the mistakes that occasionally occur, and how exciting it is to be at an opening night party at Sardi’s! Nina experiences thrilling triumphs as well as crushing setbacks and has a passionate love affair with her leading man.

Kończy się II wojna światowa, pozostawiając po sobie ruiny domów, tęsknotę i ból po stracie najbliższych. Rozpoczyna się gehenna codziennego życia pod rządami rosyjskich wyzwolicieli. Rodzina Apolonii próbuje przetrwać powojenny chaos i terror nowej władzy. Gabrynia nie potrafi się odnaleźć w rodzinnym domu w Olendach, wraca więc do Łukowa. Mija dzień za dniem i dziewczyna powoli przyzwyczaja się do nowej rzeczywistości. Współtworzy bibliotekę z ocalałych z wojennej pożogi książek. Marzy o miłości, rodzinie, dzieciach.

Corre el año 1943 y el ejército japonés, que controla la ciudad de Shanghai en su totalidad, establece el único gueto judío del mundo que no está en manos de los nazis. Leon y Norah Blumenthal, un matrimonio de judíos llegados a Shanghai en 1939, cuando la ciudad era puerto franco y aún conservaba intacta toda su fascinación, son recluidos en esta "área determinada para apátridas". Sin embargo, no todo está perdido, puesto que cuentan con la ayuda del cónsul de España en Shanghai, el doctor Martín Niboli. Éste tiene que enfrentarse al coronel Fukuda, el jefe de la policía secreta japonesa. Para ello cuenta con Nube Perfumada, una antigua esclava sexual del ejército japonés, quien se convertirá en la clave de esta emotiva y apasionante novela.

La vida del llamado "Papa Luna" podría ser perfectamente el argumento de una novela, llena de aventuras, intrigas y pasiones. Y es precisamente esa vida, la Claudio Borja quiere plasmar en una obra que permita a todo el mundo conocer la valía del Papa Luna, del que en realidad es descendiente. La vis romántica, surge de lleno en la novela, narrando la relación sentimental entre Claudio Borja, un joven poeta valenciano y Rosaura Salcedo una dama argentina viuda y adinerada, a la que el joven enamorado seguirá, abandonándolo todo por ella.

Audiollibre de l'edició commemorativa amb motiu del 50è aniversari de la seva publicació, narrat per l'actriu Clara Segura. El juny de 1969 Edicions 62 publicava en el número 59 de la col·lecció El Balancí la nova versió d'Aloma, l'única novel·la d'abans de la guerra que Mercè...

1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets - and the complicated history of their friendship - to the surface.

Schyłek carskiej Rosji. Lena i Aleksander pochodzą z różnych światów, a ich losy zdają się przesądzone. Dziewczyna, wychowywana przez ojca alkoholika i brutala, ucieka z domu i tuła się po niebezpiecznych i ubogich zakątkach Petersburga, by zapewnić byt sobie i młodszemu bratu. Aleksander pochodzi z bogatej arystokratycznej rodziny i robi karierę wojskową. Pewnego dnia drogi tych dwojga przecinają się w dramatycznych okolicznościach, a wybuch rewolucji październikowej zmienia losy nie tylko ich, ale i całego kraju.

Read by Miranda Raison (Lessons in Chemistry) Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . . From Lucinda Riley, the international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a breathtaking historical romance about love, war and, above all, forgiveness...