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New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move west to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s, when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernizing world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous.

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to...

A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne,1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Atkins...

Superior saga set in Lancashire and Australia from prize-winner Anna Jacobs. Norah's husband was killed in the Great War, and she's struggling to provide a home for her daughter. Andrew's wife is dead and he wants to make a new life for his two sons. The Australian government is giving...

Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hardworking, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant, endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a viselike hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism.

Kerensa Trelynne's plans to wed her sweetheart, Clem Trenchard, are ruined when Sir Oliver Pengarron makes her grandfather, and guardian, an offer for Trelynne Cove - the land on which Old Tom's cottage stands. Old Tom is wily, and to ensure a secure and stable future for his precious granddaughter, he makes her part of the price for the Cove: Sir Oliver must marry Kerensa.

Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies and the hundred-acre farm she has grown up on and run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Hurt and angry following a fight with her brother, Ella leaves her home and people she cares for and joins her wild cousin Kitty in Dublin. Exiled in the city, Ella is forced to make a new life for herself like the other country girls. She tries to forget the farm, pushing all thoughts of Sean Flanagan, the neighbour she had loved, from her mind.

Seventeen-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed, earning her keep in Miss Chapman's grocery shop. But with her sweetheart, Bill, away fighting and her friends conscripted into the WRENS and WAAF, life has become tedious for Muriel. Then one day an old friend returns from a stint in the Land Army. She is rosy cheeked and looks healthier than ever. Desperate for the chance to broaden her horizons, Muriel signs up to become a Land Girl.

Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer.Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder.

Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children, and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artifact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites her interest in its origins and her uncle’s unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands.

Essex 1941. Unhappy with life at home with her privileged family, Hannah Austen-Bagshaw runs away to join the Land Girls Army, carrying with her a dark and terrible secret. Life on the farm is tough, but when Hannah meets handsome working-class flight lieutenant Jack, they form an immediate friendship. But unbeknownst to Jack, Hannah is sheltering a young German pilot who has crash landed in a nearby field. Torn between her duty and her humanity, Hannah knows she risks being arrested as a traitor, but she cannot see the young pilot suffer.

Gespaltenes Land, gespaltene Herzen - eine Familie, zerrissen zwischen Ost und West. Berlin 1964: Nach der Haft darf Gesine ausreisen, doch die Frage, was mit ihrem Kind passiert ist, lässt sie nicht los. Gesines Schwester Sonja steht wegen DDR-kritischer Aussagen unter besonderer Beobachtung. Dass für ihre Überwachung ein enges und geliebtes Familienmitglied angeworben wurde, weiß Sonja nicht. Und so vertraut sie sich ihren Liebsten an, nicht ahnend, dass sie in eine Falle laufen könnte. Mutter Lotte bleibt mit ihrer jüngsten Tochter Lydia in Ostberlin.

Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but Meg is desperate for more. She finds comfort in her best friend, Kath, and Lanky Lawson, who is more of a father figure to her than her own. Her true source of hope though, is Lanky’s son, Jack, who she loves and hopes to marry one day. However, as war looms on the horizon and the world is thrown into chaos, Meg realises that the only thing she can really count on is the land she loves.

August 1940. As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie. Sally, a feisty blonde from the East End, has never seen a cow before, but she’s desperate to escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours are long and the work hard, Sal quickly becomes good friends with the other girls Daphne and Charlie and enjoys life at Goodwill House. Until Dennis reappears threatening to drag her back to London.

With Christmas days away, the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lottie feels far from festive cheer after her sister's death. But with the help of handsome vicar and injured veteran Matthew, she begins to feel hopeful once more. Then one frosty night, a German bomber plane crashes nearby. A survivor is missing, injured and in desperate need of help. But this is no ordinary German airman: his capture would change the course of the war.

Zwischen politischen Umbrüchen und persönlichem Glück – die Breitenbachs stehen vor großen Herausforderungen. Ein neuer Band der erfolgreichen Familiensaga von Bestsellerautorin Mina Baites. Berlin, 1910. Politische Konflikte und die rebellierende Arbeiterbewegung stellen Felix Breitenbach vor große Herausforderungen. Der neue Geschäftsleiter von Schuherzeugung Breitenbach & Sohn und seine Schwestern müssen das renommierte Unternehmen den sich verändernden Gesellschaftsnormen anpassen. Doch dann erleidet Isa einen schweren Unfall, der das Leben der ganzen Familie für immer verändert.

Ein Band, das niemand trennen kann - Eine Familie, mutige Frauen und ihr Traum von Freiheit. Berlin 1979: Die 19-jährige Lydia Richter besucht eine der renommierten Kinder- und Jugendsportschulen in Berlin, wo sie sich mit Christiane Lindig anfreundet. Die jungen Frauen haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: die Olympischen Spiele in Moskau. Das harte Training bringt sie diesem Ziel zwar näher, führt aber auch zu besorgniserregenden körperlichen Veränderungen, die sich die beiden nicht erklären können.

Für Liebe und Freiheit wagten sie alles - das Schicksal einer Familie im geteilten Deutschland. Berlin 1961: Die Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind Vergangenheit, und die Hauptstadt blüht wieder auf. Die 19-jährige Gesine aus Berlin-Mitte und der Westberliner Student Peter sind frisch verliebt, aber ihnen bleiben nur wenige Monate, bevor der Bau der Mauer der Beziehung ein jähes Ende bereitet. Gesine ist verzweifelt. Ihre alleinerziehende Mutter Lotte versteht den Schmerz ihrer Tochter und versucht, Gesine und ihrer Schwester Sonja trotz der schwierigen Situation in Ostberlin ein gutes Leben zu ermöglichen.

1872: Clara Winterfeld hat Hals über Kopf Berlin und ihre Familie verlassen, um sich und ihre Tochter Celia an Bord eines alten Teeklippers vor dem wütenden Ehemann Franz in Sicherheit zu bringen. Ihr fernes Ziel ist Japan, wo sie mit ihrer großen Liebe Akeno einen Teegarten bewirtschaften und endlich glücklich sein will. Als Akeno nicht wie verabredet im Hafen von Nagasaki auf sie wartet, macht Clara sich auf die Suche nach dem Geliebten – und findet ihn seltsam verändert und abweisend in seinem durch ein Feuer zerstörten Teegarten.

Die vierte Generation von Siedlern lebt mittlerweile in Australien. Doch die Nachkommen der einstigen Sträflinge müssen nicht weniger um das Land kämpfen als ihre Vorfahren. Denn nun ist ein Kampf um Macht und Reichtum entbrannt, in dem manche Konkurrenten nicht einmal mehr vor Mord zurückschrecken. Liebe und Hass liegen in tödlichem Widerstreit.