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Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

Rentrée Littéraire d'Hiver 2022. 19 avril 1945. L'Armée rouge marche sur Berlin. Adolf Hitler et Eva Braun sont réfugiés dans leur bunker. La fin de règne approche. Hitler a déjà planifié son suicide, mais pourquoi Eva, sa douce ingénue, devrait-elle subir le même sort ? Le Führer orchestre alors la fuite de sa maîtresse. Et rien ne se passera comme prévu.

Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.

At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma, a forty-four-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose.

Europe, on the eve of the Second World War, and a Jewish family feels the Nazi danger closing in. Led by their indomitable mother, Marie, the Reesers make a daring escape from under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo, fleeing their comfortable home in Czechoslovakia to safety and a new life in Canada. Their lives are saved, but all else is lost, including four beautiful and valuable paintings that Marie loved.

Nach dem verheerenden Schul-Amoklauf, bei dem auch ihre beste Freundin getötet wurde, will Sina kein Abi mehr machen, einfach weg und nur vergessen. Selbst ihre enge Bindung zu Liam, ihr einziger Halt, gibt sie auf. Als sie Tom kennenlernt und sich verliebt, fühlt Sina sich wieder geborgen. Doch Toms Verhalten wird immer toxischer. Er kontrolliert und gaslightet sie, sodass absolute Wachsamkeit, um keinen falschen Schritt zu tun, zu ihrer Überlebensstrategie wird. Bis sie Liam nach Jahren wiedertrifft. Er macht ihr klar, dass Tom Gift für sie ist. Aber kann Liam sie noch so lesen wie früher?