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Il nonno Konrad è sempre stato un punto di riferimento per Juni. Cresciuta insieme a lui e alla nonna Tekla su un'isola, ricorda bene le ore trascorse a guardare le onde del mare con il nonno ascoltando i racconti dei suoi viaggi. Ex marinaio, è stato proprio lui a insegnarle a respirare al ritmo delle onde. Per Juni è finalmente giunto il momento di scoprire dove il suo amato nonno ha imparato a respirare con il mare.

When intelligence officer Kabir is sent to Rajgir to recover from a personal tragedy, he doesn’t expect to be thrust into a conspiracy that could rewrite the global power structure. A sniper’s bullet, a cryptic inscription, and a murdered archaeologist catapult him into a perilous chase across India’s ancient sites. Teaming up with fiery historian Reeya Ghosh, Kabir uncovers secrets buried for millennia: the legendary wootz steel and its lost connection to the clean and abundant thorium energy.

In World War II France, the future Madeleine Perrin and Daniel Raymond hope for is in grave peril when the Nazis imprison Daniel, a courier for the Resistance network. But a centuries-old law soon paves the way for a Christmas Eve wedding that becomes both a celebration and a daring rescue. 1943...

New York City, 1943. From jazz clubs to back alleys, passion and peril collide in this slow-burn sapphic love story that simmers through every twist and turn. Nightclub singer–turned–OSS spy Kathryn Hammond has a past she can’t outrun and a mission she can’t afford to fail. But when fearless reporter Jenny Ryan becomes her assignment, sparks fly and everything starts to unravel.

Recruited as a codebreaker of enemy ciphers, ex-debutante Osla Kendall spends her days translating Axis military messages and her nights reading mystery novels. When Osla gets her hands on Agatha Christie's most recent work, N or M?, a mysterious signal within its pages catches her eye, and she and her eccentric book club get in touch with the famous but reclusive writer. Osla's outreach is a welcome distraction for Agatha, who feels restless and underestimated toiling away in a London pharmacy.

'You don’t mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror. A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, the subtle mechanics of marriage and love are laid bare through the observation of three of the marital options open to the mid-century woman: unmarried, separated, miserably married.

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

Britain, March, 1944. After a desperate aerial battle over Somerset, a German bomber goes down in flames. When Joan discovers the Luftwaffe pilot hiding in her barn, her first instinct is to turn him in – against her better judgment, she offers him shelter instead. As they work side by side in the fields, a forbidden love begins to flourish. As the walls close in on their unlikely affair, Dieter and Joan's lives become fraught with danger, until passion and patriotism finally collide.

The instant Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting...

Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland.

Kresy w przededniu i w czasie II wojny światowej. Joanna, młoda Ukrainka ucząca polskie, ukraińskie i żydowskie dzieci, ginie, lecz jej opowieść trwa dalej. Jako duch powraca do kluczowych momentów swego życia: rodzinnej wsi, niespełnionej miłości, pracy nauczycielki, wojennej przemocy, aranżowanego małżeństwa oraz narastającej nienawiści między sąsiadami – Polakami i Ukraińcami. Jej narracja łączy historię z poetycką wyobraźnią, a fantazja staje się formą obrony przed okrucieństwem świata i próbą ocalenia pamięci oraz dziecięcej niewinności.

When Sally meets historian Tom in a cemetery on Tamborine Mountain, it's an absurd beginning to a friendship that will change everything. She's there with her elderly grandmother Iris, while Tom is researching a family secret that's haunted three generations. As Tom's research deepens, Sally becomes increasingly involved. As a writer with a love of history, she understands the pull of unfinished lives and unanswered questions.

Neunzehn Treppenstufen, die alles verändern können. Die den Unterschied bedeuten zwischen Freiheit und Verlust, Leben und Tod, Liebe und Leid. London, 1942: Trotz des um sie herum tobenden Kriegs gibt die 18-jährige Nellie Morris alles dafür, um Ruhe und Ordnung in den Alltag ihrer Familie zu bringen. Ihrer Sehnsucht nach einer unbeschwerten Jugend und einem Leben in Freiheit hat sie längst abgeschworen – bis sie den amerikanischen Piloten Ray kennenlernt. Er zeigt ihr, dass es gerade in diesen Zeiten wichtig ist zu träumen und für diese Träume einzustehen.

Ein fesselndes Hörbuch über die Fundamente unserer Heimat. Heimesbach im Hunsrück ist ein fiktiver Ort, an dem sich neunzig Jahre deutscher Geschichte in die Mauern und Biografien eingenistet haben. Es ist eine Gemeinde, die ihre Vergangenheit aktiv verschweigt und zugleich zum Zufluchtsort für diejenigen wird, die hier Geborgenheit suchen.

The Battle of Britain defined the future for Britain, Europe, and America. Bluebirds tells the story of four ordinary young men who are thrown together as Hitler plunges the European continent into its darkest hours. Andrew Francis and Gerry Donaldson were born on different sides of the Atlantic just before The Great War. Together with the mildly psychotic Bryan Hale, they fly Spitfires through the summer of 1940. 

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT, THE BEEKEEPER'S PROMISE AND THE DARK OF THE MOON! Two women, decades apart, are torn apart by grief but brought together through hope. Shetland, 2001: Ruby Reid is running from a decision she doesn’t...

Brought to you by Penguin. This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to...

Brought to you by Penguin. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022** I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving...

The Key to Rebecca is a gripping espionage thriller set during the Second World War, from master storyteller and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Ruthless Spy 1942. Alex Wolff’s goal is Cairo. Following a relentless trek across the scorching Sahara, he arrives in the city...

Pronunciar el nombre de alguien lo mantiene vivo, le permite dar valor a su historia. Todos aquellos que tuvieron que huir de Europa del Este durante la primera mitad del siglo XX tienen una historia que merece ser contada. La vida se volvió imposible y aunque salir implicaba dejarlo todo: casa, bienes, ancestros, comidas, sabores, olores, canciones de cuna, idioma…todo, la opción era morir.