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Fourteen-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing winter, Moshe has seen more than his share of tragedy. At Buchenwald, the new arrivals are assigned to their barracks. Kinder Block 66 is to be Moshe’s new home, but he doesn’t yet realize just how significant this will turn out to be. For just a short time later, the Germans decide to destroy the camp—but they are not prepared for Buchenwald’s secret resistance.

During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports. But Rika's covert activities aren't the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth.

Midnight, June 13, 1942: Peter Burger stands on a foggy beach, ears primed as a submarine hull scrapes the sandy sea bottom. He has endured seventeen months in a Gestapo prison and seventeen days on a Nazi U-boat only to have landed on American shores with six boxes of explosives and no escape. After slipping into New York City, Peter finds himself at a massive military parade where he meets Grete Baum, a German-Jewish refugee grappling with loneliness and loss. Grete is drawn to Peter’s brooding vulnerability, and the pair instantly bond.

Genova, 1968. Maria Viani, universitaria fuori sede, scopre che Elisabetta, la sua bellissima coinquilina, è scomparsa. L’aiuteranno nel difficile compito di ritrovarla l’ispettore Sergio Cantini, vecchia conoscenza di Maria, e il fratello della ragazza. L’impresa, però, si rivelerà più difficile di quanto possano immaginare. Maria Teresa Valle, nata a Varazze (SV), risiede attualmente a Genova. Giallista di successo, ha pubblicato con Fratelli Frilli Editori numerosi romanzi, tra cui le due serie di successo con protagonisti Maria Viani e Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino.

Het jaar is 1815, Napoleon is verslagen en Europa ligt in puin. Op het congres van Wenen komen koningen, prinsen en diplomaten samen om de toekomst van Europa te bespreken. Een van hen is Prins Metternich, een Oostenrijks-Hongaarse prins, die eropuit is om de Russische tsaar land afhandig te maken. Dan ontmoet hij de straatarme maar bloedmooie Wanda Schonborn. Maar niets is wat het lijkt, want de wantrouwige tsaar heeft in zijn plaats de Engelse spion Richard Melton gestuurd.

كان عمر "زهرة البستان" ستُّ سنوات عندما رأتها عيناي آخر مرة قبل خروجي في رحلتي الأخيرة مع جمالي الثمانين من بغداد إلى البصرة أيام الخليفة هارون الرشيد... سألتني...

NASA’s race with the Russians to land a man on the moon. The meteoric rise of the Beatles, considered by many to have revolutionized the music industry. In the postwar era, each stood as an unprecedented cultural watershed. Together they captured the heady zeitgeist of the 1960s, and ignited the imagination of - just about everyone on the planet.

Hertigen av Selchester var ett under av perfektion. Allt i hans tillvaro var välordnat in i minsta detalj. Han söker en lika perfekt hustru, men möter istället Verena, som drar in honom i en rad äventyr. Till råga på allt avskyr hon just -- hertigen av Selchester! Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer. Kärleken är häftig mellan de passionerade hjältarna och vackra hjältinnorna, men gång på gång går de igenom prövningar. Men äkta kärlek är alltid starkast och det finns ingenting den inte kan besegra.

Even in the darkest of times, love conquers all . . . From Mary Wood, bestselling author of the Jam Factory Girls series, A Lasting Promise is a gripping historical novel – full of powerful, heartfelt emotion, set around the Second World War. France, 1943. As war casts its shadow over Europe...

Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots’ bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed...

Der Fremde aus Indien ist eine geheimnisumwobene Gestalt, die eines Tages in der "alten Hauptstadt" auftaucht. Sie wird immer mehr zum Widersacher des unheimlichen "Hauptmanns", dem zahllose Verbrechen anzulasten sind, und allmählich klären sich weit zurückliegende Ereignisse zugunsten eines unschuldig Bestraften.

1969 im Frühjahr, ich bin zwanzig Jahre jung, habe Freunde, Bekannte und einen guten Job auf der Werft. Trotzdem bemerke ich an mir eine, mich seit längerem mehr und mehr beschäftigende Perspektivlosigkeit. Ich bin genervt, gelangweilt von den sich immer wiederholenden, bedeutungslosen Ereignissen in meinem Alltag und völlig unschlüssig, was ich zukünftig daran ändern könnte. Meine große Sorge ist, dass mein Leben so verlaufen könnte, wie ich es bei älteren Bekannten und Kollegen miterlebe. Auf der Werft arbeiten, heiraten, Hochzeitsreise nach Tirol, Kinder. Und die Zeit plätschert so dahin bis zur Rente.

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。—十兩から上の泥棒は首を斬られたこの江戸の時代に「――その命がけで溜めたお金が九百九十兩、誰かに盜まれてしまひました」･･･編集/三好達也

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。—飛鳥山の花見歸り、谷中へ拔ける道で「親分、引つ返して下さい。山で敵討がありましたよ」花見の茶番芝居の敵討のはずだったのでした。が･･･編集/三好達也

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。——このところ年寄りや女子供まで斬って歩く辻斬野郎が、神田一円を荒し廻っております。「銭形とか平次とか大層顔の良いのが居たって、辻斬へ指も差せねえようじゃ案山子ほどの役にも立たねえ‥」　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。貴顕紳士も夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください―。無残、紅に染まって倒れた娘。「明日という日を、あんなに楽しみにしていたじゃないか」鬼子母神様門外の茶店の娘お菊は、大名植村土佐守に見初められ、下屋敷にあがるのを翌日に控えていたのでした・・・　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。――ガラッ八いわく「近頃大黒屋は恐ろしい左前で」大黒屋の評判の小町娘お関が、江島屋の評判の馬鹿息子のもとに嫁ぐことになった。結納はなんと三千両。その小判がそっくり砂利に化けていた…　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

Quando Justin, o alto e belo Marquês de Alton, ampara a jovem Sylvina e seu cão ferido, ele se sente instantaneamente cativado por sua beleza e inocência. Essa jovem desconhecida é tão diferente das moças ardilosas e maliciosas da alta sociedade de Londres... Imensamente agradecida pela bondade do cavalheiro desconhecido, Sylvina ainda não sabe que seu salvador é o estimável Marquês de Alton! Enquanto os dois descansavam na floresta, ele ficou consternado ao perceber que ela estava aterrorizada com a ideia de conhecer o Marquês.