Resultados para "Montag" en Siglo XX

Londra, 1937. Alessandra Durante sta cercando di superare il dolore per la perdita dell'adorato marito inglese, quando riceve una notizia inaspettata: è diventata l'erede della villa tra le colline toscane posseduta dai suoi avi italiani. Decisa a voltare pagina, Alessandra parte insieme a sua figlia Diana, con la speranza di ricominciare una nuova vita in mezzo alla natura. Ma gli effetti dell'imminente conflitto mondiale si fanno sentire anche in mezzo alle vigne e ai cipressi: infatti la villa diventa un ricovero per tutti coloro in cerca di un rifugio.

Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the loss of their beautiful little daughter, grief has created a distance between them that feels impossible to bridge. Marina knows leaving Italy is the only way they will be able to move on, but Thorncliffe Hall, Hugh's family home in England, is so grey and unwelcoming.

The Silent Hen is fiction based on actual events of WWII, written by Helen Montague Foster as a tribute to her parents and other courageous men and women of the OSS, whose secret struggles and relationships continue to impact the world. This morally complex story follows a Jewish child sheltered by a Muslim couple in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, and a Virginia woman named Lucy whose conscience compels her to enlist in the OSS, forerunner to the CIA, for service in Egypt.

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to spy on the Duchess of Windsor for her alleged Nazi sympathies and finds much more than she bargained for!...