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In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than 70 nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity. They came from all over war-torn Europe to the mountains of Australia to help realise one man's dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century.

Thirteen years after the railway thundered into the Scottish Borders, life has changed forever. But for the children left behind by the men who built it, some legacies run deeper than iron and steam. Their bond carries them from childhood mischief in the windswept hills to the bustling cosmopolitan cities of Edinburgh, London, and Paris, where love, loss, and the pull of the past shape their paths. As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, Kitty and Marie must decide what endures when everything else changes.

Suite au terrible secret révélé au clan des Neshov, la fratrie se disloque dans de pesants non-dits. Jusqu'au jour, funeste, où ils doivent faire face, ensemble. Dans une chaleur suffocante, Torunn, héritière malgré elle de la ferme familiale et des guerres silencieuses du passé, dénouera leurs destins - traçant une vie nouvelle. Anne B. Ragde convoque tous les démons de la terre norvégienne pour conter cette saga des Neshov cruellement magnifique.

Renny Whiteoak, l’héritier de Jalna, revient d’Europe à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale. Le domaine a été mal géré et ses quatre jeunes frères ne se montrent guère disciplinés. Renny commence par remonter l’écurie. Son rêve, c’est de renflouer la fortune familiale en gagnant des courses.

“Shawna Yang Ryan’s propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country, what the costs are of standing up for one’s beliefs...