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Die Fortsetzung der Familiensaga um eine große Liebe zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn. Du hast mich gefunden, doch schon beginnt der Sommer, lange Schatten zu werfen... Berlin, 1914. Isa und Henning träumen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft, doch die Wirklichkeit schiebt sich unbarmherzig zwischen sie. Die gesellschaftlichen Schranken der Kaiserzeit prägen das Leben in der Hauptstadt und der Krieg fordert erste Opfer. Aus Pflichtgefühl verlobt die Arbeitertochter Isa sich mit ihrem Freund Viktor.

Die Birken des Nordens. Oldenburg, 1914: Luise reist nach Estland, wo die adelige Wilhelmine einen jungen deutschbaltischen Baron heiraten soll. Nicht wissend, dass es sich um den Zukünftigen ihrer Herrin handelt, trifft Luise auf Julius und verliebt sich in ihn. Die beiden Frauen fassen einen verwegenen Plan, aber ihr Glück steht auf Messers Schneide, denn schon bald bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus.

The first installment of Ford Madox Ford's acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy. There is a hard brightness overlying the emotion and the human suffering and the human passions Mr. Ford achieves not only what is probably his own best work but what is certainly one of the ablest of recent English...

A heartfelt wartime saga from million-copy bestseller Rosie Clarke continues the Trenwith Series Caught between enemy lines – can they survive? 1914, Hampshire Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war...

Una artesana de libros desafía los límites de su época para labrarse un nuevo futuro. Después del éxito de El diccionario de las palabras olvidadas, con más de 500.000 ejemplares vendidos, la nueva novela de Pip Williams aboga por el poder transformador de los libros y del conocimiento. Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, 1914. Cuando el frente reclama a los hombres jóvenes, las mujeres deben mantener el país en marcha. Dos de ellas, las gemelas Peggy y Maude Jones, trabajan en la sección de encuadernación de la editorial Oxford University Press.

Austria 1914. Il giovane Trotta, nobile per nomina, conduce la stessa vita leggera e vuota del resto della decadente nobile gioventù viennese, finché non conosce il cugino caldarrostaio Joseph Branco e l’amico di questi, il vetturino ebreo Manes Reisiger. Persuaso di trovare in loro la concretezza che ritiene gli manchi, allo scoppio della guerra si arruola nel loro reggimento e li segue fino in Galizia orientale, oggi Ucraina ma allora parte dello sterminato Impero austroungarico, e quindi in Siberia, che nel romanzo di Roth è una magica e remota isola di moralità e bontà.

The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a cafe in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers, so too does Karl's business empire, and he rises to become the proprietor of Europe's finest and most luxurious hotel. Situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Hotel Quadriga is a glorious monument to Imperialist Germany.

The next book in the Beamer Street series set around Liverpool's Docks, from bestselling author Sheila Riley. A women and child looking for a safe haven - can Beamer Street keep them safe from evil? Liverpool 1924 Trapped in an abusive marriage to Lord Caraway with her beloved daughter Melissa...

The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now… Sixteen-year-old Tasha Ancel turns to take one last look at the imposing place that stole her freedom and her childhood. She has no idea how she continued to live when so many others did not. For the first time in months, her heart beats with hope for her future and that of the smaller children who cling to her now.

As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.

Dr. Wolfgang Pike would love nothing more than to finish the requiem hes composing for his late wife, but the ending seems as hopeless as the patients dying a hundred yards away at the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis sanatorium. If he cant ease his own pain with music, he tries to ease theirsbut his...

Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger ist von diesem Mann fasziniert und nimmt sich seiner an. Ottos Version der Weltgeschichte beginnt im Oktober 1912 in Konstantinopel. Das Osmanische Reich droht auseinanderzubrechen. Albanien nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, erklärt sich unabhängig und sucht einen König. Otto und sein Kumpan, der Schwertschlucker Max Hoffmann, riskieren einen waghalsigen Coup: Albanien sucht einen König?

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel, now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectations, Helen and her team are doing marvellously, despite the shortages brought by war. Even the exacting Lady Blackmore agrees. But then the calm is shattered when poison pen letters are sent to prominent townsfolk and Helen finds herself the target of a police investigation. Is someone trying to ruin Helen, and the Beach Hotel? And can she rely on the handsome but taciturn Inspector Toshack to help her?

July, 1914: In their sunlit Hampshire workshop, Alice Dalton mixes paints for the stained-glass artwork she and Edmund are working on, pausing only to joyfully cradle the soft swell of her stomach. But the looming war threatens her hard-won happiness. A knock at the door announces the arrival of Victor, her estranged brother, returning after six long years in America. But her elation at being reunited is short-lived as she realizes he still hasn’t forgiven her for her part in the heartbreak that sent him abroad. 

Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D, el mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Sin novedad en el frente es una novela antibélica escrita por Erich Maria Remarque, publicada por primera vez en 1929. La historia sigue la vida de Paul Bäumer, un joven soldado alemán que, junto a sus compañeros de clase, se alista voluntariamente en el ejército durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, influenciado por el fervor patriótico y las promesas de gloria de su maestro. A lo largo de la novela, Paul y sus amigos enfrentan las duras realidades de la vida en las trincheras y la crueldad de la guerra.

Der bewegende Auftakt zu einer fesselnden Familiensaga um die Freiheit zu träumen, den Mut zu handeln und die Kraft zu lieben. Eine starke Frau in einer Welt voller Konventionen. Ein Traum, den sie niemals aufgibt. Berlin 1904: Gegen den Widerstand ihrer Eltern verbringt die Jüdin Hannah viel Zeit in der Arztpraxis ihres Großvaters. Heimlich träumt sie davon, Medizin zu studieren. In Tübingen soll das auch für Frauen möglich sein. Doch das schickt sich nicht für ein Mädchen aus gutem Hause – anders als eine Hochzeit.

Roman de guerre, roman d’amour, Le Soldat désaccordé ne laissera personne indifférent. La quête d’un disparu de la Grande Guerre entraîne le narrateur dans une histoire échevelée, traversée de personnages tantôt effrayants, tantôt fabuleux.

Brought to you by Penguin. As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one year old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin...

Bloomsbury presents Library for the War-Wounded by Monika Helfer, read by Kristin Atherton. From Monika Helfer’s award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time. ‘We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa...