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After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a much-needed escape, but when she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in the arms of a Nazi officer, Gillian's life gets even more complicated. Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past..... Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past....

Brought to you by Penguin. They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Two years before the events of Stranger Things Season 4, Eddie Munson-Hellfire Club leader, metalhead, and Hawkins outcast-has one shot to make it big. Hawkins, Indiana-for most, it's simply another idyllic, manicured all-American town. But for Eddie Munson it's like...

Drei Generationen, eine Geschichte voller Geheimnisse und Liebe. Anna hat in ihrer Kindheit bereits mehr durchstehen müssen als andere Menschen in ihrem ganzen Leben. Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt sie zum ersten Mal von ihrer Großmutter Belle, bei der sie von nun an leben soll. Doch auch wenn Belle sich alle Mühe gibt, ihr ein liebevolles Zuhause zu schenken, hat Anna ihre Schwierigkeiten, sich dem neu gewonnenen Familienglück zu öffnen. Zu oft wurde sie bereits enttäuscht, zu oft verletzt. Und schon bald muss Anna feststellen, dass Belle tatsächlich etwas vor ihr verbirgt.

A family secret. A century of heartache . . . The Girl on the Cliff is an evocative, moving story of family, loss and hope, from Lucinda Riley, the international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series. After a devastating loss, Grania Ryan flees her life as an artist in New York and...

Nascida e criada num vilarejo nas charnecas de Yorkshire, Leah trabalha com a mãe na casa da influente e complicada família Delancey. Mais bonita a cada dia que passa, ela chama a atenção de Madelaine Winter, dona da agência de modelos mais bem-sucedida da Europa, e sua vida se transforma totalmente.

Mosel, 1919: Magdalena glaubt, endlich angekommen zu sein: frisch verheiratet, erfüllt von Liebe und Hoffnung. Doch schon bald spürt sie, dass der Alltag im Haus der Gronaus ganz andere Pläne für sie bereithält. Zwischen der strengen Schwiegermutter, endloser Arbeit und einem Mann, der ihre Sorgen nicht sehen will, droht ihre junge Ehe zu zerbrechen. Als sie erkennt, dass niemand außer ihr selbst ihr Glück verteidigen kann, fasst sie einen mutigen Entschluss, der ihr Leben – und ihre Ehe – auf die härteste Probe stellt.

Riga, 1943. Cycling the streets to deliver fresh loaves, Zenta passes empty houses, curtains open, doors unlocked, their occupants forced out by Russian or German hands. Above the newly built town hall, a Nazi flag waves in the breeze. Since her brother became a soldier and her sister joined the resistance, Zenta is all her parents have left. Then one morning her sister returns. Tired, worn, with a newly rounded belly, Estere is as determined as ever to fight for their freedom.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK / AUDIOBOOK READ BY MERYL STREEP “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”—The Guardian In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself...

"Tempête en juin" décrit par le menu l'Exode, et ce traumatisme qui arracha le masque social de bien des gens, dévoilant veulerie ou courage, égoïsme ou générosité. Dans "Dolce", l'auteur dissèque le calme apparent régnant dans la petite ville de Bussy, l'ambigüité des liens qui lient sa population et les occupants, puis les tensions nées des premières actions de la Résistance.

À 85 ans, Clara s'éteint dans sa propriété provençale. Chef de clan et gardienne de la tribu Morvan-Meyer, elle a toujours surmonté les deuils, les mensonges, les trahisons ; elle a maintenu l'honneur et l'unité de la famille en dépit de tout. Elle a surtout fermé les yeux sur la tragédie qui déchira le destin de ses deux fils trente ans plus tôt. Pour elle, ses cinq petits-enfants ont respecté la loi du silence. Les voici désormais seuls, face à eux-mêmes et à leurs propres démons...

The Beauty of Individual Things follows Margot Andrews, a young American woman swept from New York high society into the dazzling yet fractured world of 1920s London. When the transactional demands of privilege collide with betrayal and violence, leaving her disillusioned and adrift, she escapes...

The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure—from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955...

Flo Butterworth and the village singing group are asked to perform a carol concert at the local hospital. This stirs up bad memories for Flo, who lost her family at Christmas in the Blitz. VAD nurse, Evie Jones, is faced with a dilemma that throws her life into turmoil. Will Evie find a way to solve the problem and keep all she holds dear?

Die Vergangenheit wirft ihre langen, dunklen Schatten voraus... Der mitreißende Kriminalroman vor stürmischer Nordsee-Kulisse. In Wilhelmshaven wird der einflussreiche Immobilienmagnat Hartmut Meckenwald ermordet aufgefunden – und das ausgerechnet von seinem Enkel Carsten. Der Tote wurde erhängt, und sofort wird Kommissarin Petra Erdmann auf die Aufklärung des Mordes angesetzt.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail The amazing second Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. ---------------------------------------- Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering...

Abridged edition. At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain and – thousands of feet in the air – find themselves facing grave danger. Night Over Water is a masterful historical thriller from Ken Follett. The Eve of...

Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French—a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges... Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS . . . Narrated by Josh Dylan (The Buccaneers), Stephen Mangan (The Split), Gemma Whelan (Gentleman Jack) and Raffey Cassidy (The Brutalist). It's the summer of 1985 and the residents...

Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from the author of The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. Discover this reimagined novel from an author loved by millions of readers worldwide. You can’t alter destiny . . . Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors...