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Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

Mutig und unbeirrbar – eine Frau und ihr Lebenstraum. Am Bodensee, es ist 1913. Anna muss als älteste Tochter die Familie verlassen, da ist sie noch keine vierzehn. Doch sie ist zielstrebig und selbstbewusst genug, um ihr Schicksal in beide Hände zu nehmen. Und als sie August kennenlernt, der sich auf der Stelle in ihren Humor verliebt, scheint ihr Glück perfekt. Bald stürzen die beiden sich in ein großes Abenteuer und kaufen sich einen alten Gasthof am See: ein Abenteuer, von dem sie nicht ahnen, wie groß es werden wird. Denn die Familie wächst – und es kommen Inflation und Krieg.

“Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel.""— Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz A gripping historical novel that tells the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the...

On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be listened to one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl.

La Toscana, 1943. Varada en una Italia devastada por la guerra, el sueño de Beatrice de pasar un año sabático en Italia dando clases de inglés se ha ido al traste. Por fortuna, le ofrecen refugio en la casa de Edoardo y Francesca, una preciosa villa con un jardín que guarda un laberinto en su interior. Sin embargo, ella no es la única que busca refugio en la villa, sino los propios hijos del matrimonio y otras personas. Y según la guerra se acerca… los residentes se verán obligados a ver y hacer lo impensable.

Paris sous l'Occupation. Claire attend son chef de réseau, dont le retard laisse présager le pire. Elle devrait quitter l'appartement. C'est la règle. Mais elle reste et tape à la machine, inventant sa vie avec cet homme qu'elle aime en secret : les baisers sur les toits, l'amour fou, les enfants, la mer, la vieillesse heureuse, et tous les miracles ordinaires d'un temps de paix. Dans l'urgence de cette nuit où l'existence ne tient qu'à un fil, Claire se sauve par les mots et crée sur le papier l'espace d'une vie entière.

Drugi tom bestsellerowej Trylogii szczecińskiej, historii o pamięci, która żyje w opowieściach, o trudnych rozmowach, które budują i o tym, że najgłębsze prawdy ukryte są w ciszy, spojrzeniu i niedopowiedzeniach. Magdalena z uwagą i przejęciem słucha wspomnień dziadka, Ludwika Starkowskiego. Jego opowieści, sięgające czasów wojny i powojennej rzeczywistości, są pełne dramatów, trudnych decyzji i emocji, które nie tracą na sile, mimo upływu lat.

Opowieść o sile rodzinnych więzi, o znaczeniu pamięci i o tym, że nie da się pójść naprzód bez zrozumienia tego, co było. Magdalena już wie, że jej rodzinna historia jest skomplikowana, bo wojna odcisnęła na niej swoje piętno. Z zapartym tchem słucha wszystkiego, o czym opowiada jej dziadek, Ludwik Starkowski, a z jego wspomnień buduje obraz rodziny nieidealnej, lecz prawdziwej.

Marzec 1945 r. Nastał armagedon. Kiedy na Gdańsk spadają radzieckie bomby, zamieniając go w gruzy, Rita wspomina przeszłość i opłakuje bliskich na oliwskim cmentarzu. Janek opuszcza partyzancki oddział i przedziera się do płonącego miasta. Czy Otto przeżył Stalingrad? Co się stało z Anielą, która pewnego dnia wyszła z domu i słuch o niej zaginął? Czy w ruinach miasta Rita i Janek odnajdą nareszcie siebie i miłość, którą przerwała wojna?

Twice torpedoed during the Battle of the Atlantic, LT. Tony Colombo USNR, a former merchant marine officer, is appointed to command a new Navy ship, PC-450. After a period of escorting convoys up and down the Atlantic coast, Tony finds himself escorting ships loaded with Marine Corps equipment to New Zealand and Australia. Once arrived, he is ordered to begin escorting convoys up and down the Australian coast. Some weeks later, Tony and PC-450 engage in battle with a Japanese submarine attempting to penetrate Brisbane Harbor.

September 1940. As Nazi forces sweep across Europe, the wealth of nations vanishes into the desert. The gold reserves of France, Belgium, and Poland—a treasure so vast it could determine the outcome of World War II—have been hidden in the badlands of French West Africa.

“‘But who are we, if we forget everything that came before?’ Roza wonders in The Jilted Countess. This moving story of one woman finding a new life and new love in the aftermath of WWII answers this question, in the process taking on themes of PTSD, communism, and the plight of being an...

Still struggling with personal loss and haunted by the memories of her near-death experience at the hands of the Nazis, dazzling singer Hattie James desires to leave her past behind and focus on reviving her career and rising in the ranks of the glamorous Brazilian music scene. But when she discovers that her mother’s new suitor, Swiss diplomat Frederick Ziegler, is associated with SS leader Heinz Baumann, Hattie’s suspicions ignite..

History offers few records of war as vivid, haunting, and evocative as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. As enthralling to twenty-first century audiences as it was to those who first encountered the book in 1928, Remarque’s landmark tells the story of a young German volunteer who, with his comrades, moves from idealism to fatalism witnessing the horrors of mass killing and the intimate deaths of friends or the disfiguring survival of young men languishing in field hospitals.

Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets.

Parigi, 1940. Michel Bonnet ha solo vent'anni e vive arrangiandosi con lavoretti rimediati alle fiere di cavalli alla periferia della città. Ma quando Parigi cade in mano ai nazisti, Michel sale clandestinamente sul primo treno diretto verso sud. È un viaggio che gli cambierà la vita per sempre.

The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times)...

"Il entra dans ma vie en février 1932 pour n'en jamais sortir [...]. Je puis me rappeler le jour et l'heure où, pour la première fois, mon regard se posa sur ce garçon qui allait devenir la source de mon plus grand bonheur et de mon plus grand désespoir."

In 1914 Paul Bumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed.Here, he tells their story. A few years after publication, the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.