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After graduating as the first and only woman on her university course, orphan Beata is set on joining the Cipher Bureau. She's determined to save her country from invasion by cracking the Enigma code. But as gunfire rings across the rooftops of her hometown and Nazi boots sound on the cobblestones, Beata and her team are forced to work in secret.

In der Stadt der Liebe atmet sie die Luft der Freiheit – doch ein Sturm naht heran … Als Fleur Durand 1939 nach Paris kommt, erhofft sie sich einen Neuanfang. Über ihre tragische Vergangenheit hat sie einen Roman geschrieben, der das Interesse des großen Verlegers Maurice Mouret geweckt hat. Die Veröffentlichung soll ihr endlich das selbstbestimmte, freie Leben ermöglichen, das sie sich so lange gewünscht hat. Gleichzeitig findet sie in Maurice einen einfühlsamen Mann, der sie auf diesem Weg begleiten will.

With tears in her eyes, Giulia listens out for bombers flying overhead. When Tori Coleman discovers that her mother was adopted, her whole world shatters. Just as Tori is getting closer to answers, an unexpected call from Jeremy stops her in her tracks.

Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She makes herself invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, listening in on conversations she can't fully comprehend. Then she meets Dr. Asperger, a man who lets children play all day and who recognizes the importance of matchboxes. When the Nazis march into the city, a new world is created and difficult choices must be made. Why are the clinic's children disappearing, and where do they go?

Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe—not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. Her father has been hiding Jewish refugees on their family's vineyard in Chianti, but now Gianna is bringing the fight directly to the enemy.

North Atlantic Ocean, 1942. Fifteen-year-old Connie is leaving war-torn England for the safer shores of America, looking after a nine-year old orphan boy with sad blue eyes. But the ocean is rife with Nazi vessels. And when their boat is torpedoed, in the fear and chaos Connie can’t stop thinking about handsome Jack, who stayed behind in London. Will the orphans survive, and will Connie ever be reunited with her first love? Back in London, 16-year-old Jack desperately misses Connie, his brave, kind friend, after their tearful goodbye when her ship set sail.

Un viaggio a ritroso che porterà il lettore a Berlino alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, poi in Provenza, fino al Campo di concentramento di Fossoli e in seguito a quello di Alberobello, la Casa Rossa. Fino a quando, ai giorni nostri, Sara decide di portare la nonna ad Avignone, dove riceverà una sorpresa inaspettata.

Le vite parallele di due ragazzi nati agli albori del Novecento e costretti a una vocazione forzata: Marcello proviene da una famiglia piemontese di pastori, Francesco è figlio di un armatore genovese e di una contessa che, per punire il marito seduttore, costringe alla tonaca il figlio da lui prediletto. Malinconico e fragile il primo, avventuroso e dalla straordinaria bellezza il secondo. Ormai adulti, si incontrano in Vaticano, dove Marcello assiste Francesco, divenuto cardinale, nella traduzione delle encicliche papali. Tra loro nasce una profonda e inaspettata amicizia.

Pompeo crede nel fascismo, si arruola volontario e combatte con le Camicie Nere. A casa, a Villa Potenza, sua moglie Dina lotta contro le difficoltà di sopravvivere con il proprio duro lavoro, di crescere i figli da sola, di fronteggiare il nemico tedesco e l'ostilità crescente dei suoi compaesani.

La nipote di una anziana donna slovena, morta da poco, torna da Parigi per svuotare la casa di sua nonna Ivana, quando trova una foto di lei, visibilmente incinta, che stringe fra le braccia una bambina: "Ma come" si chiede, "non era figlia unica mamma?". La donna si mette alla ricerca del significato di quell'immagine, stridente come un bianco e nero privo di grigio. Una fotografia che il Secondo conflitto mondiale sembra aver lasciato proprio perché fosse lei a scoprirlo.

Mala, matricule 19880, comprend qu'elle vient d'arriver en enfer au moment où elle descend du wagon à bestiaux à Auschwitz. Edward, matricule 531, est un ancien combattant du camp et un prisonnier politique. Quand ils se rencontrent, l'ombre sombre d'Auschwitz est illuminée par une lueur d'espoir. Une promesse est faite – ils s'enfuiront ensemble ou ils mourront ensemble.

Plunging listeners into the untold stories of the Atlantic theater, George Wallace and Don Keith’s Argentia Station is a sweeping tale of bravery, brotherhood, and sacrifice. Great for fans of Tom Clancy and Lee Jackson.

1933. A body has been found on a luxury airship en route from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Police Detective Bruno Brückner, travelling on board, is immediately asked to investigate—and soon discovers that the murdered man was not the proud Nazi he claimed to be. What's more, he was carrying a stash of banned 'degenerate' material. As Brückner interviews his fellow passengers—a wealthy baroness, an antisemitic doctor, a debonair Englishman—he realizes that each of them has something to hide.

Cia, mère de trois garçons, découvre un document oublié dans un vieux recueil de musique qu'on lui a offert des années plus tôt. Ce fragment du passé, signé du Conseil national de la Résistance, réveille le souvenir de Céleste, son arrière-grand-mère inconnue. Qui était-elle ? Que lui a-t-on tu ? De la baie de Somme au Canada, Cia se lance à la recherche de la vérité entre les silences familiaux et le tumulte du quotidien. Dans ce premier roman, Domitille Cauët tisse un récit émouvant qui interroge l'engagement.

Dans quelques jours, il arrivera, il tendra de nouveau les bras vers elle, et quand il les aura fermés, cette fois-ci, il ne les rouvrira plus. Marie appuie contre l'arbre sa joue d'abord, puis tout son corps. L'écorce est rude et fraîche contre la peau de son visage. Elle ferme les yeux.

Will Christmas bring them happiness or heartache? Don't miss the heartwarming new novel from the author of Secrets for the Three Sisters and The Three Sisters of Victory Walk. ___________________________________ It’s 1942 on Victory Walk in East London, and the Harrison sisters are wishing for...

The final installment in The Red Cross Orphans series from the Globe & Mail bestselling author! When the war is over, what will remain? With six hard years of war behind her, former nurse Kitty McCarthy should be facing a bright future. But her husband Michael shatters her peace in an instant...

Julia Esdaile is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor—the grounds of which are now an abandoned snarl of bramble and weeds—to their original splendor. For the enigmatic lady of the manor, ninety-two-year-old Margaret Clarke, the reason for the restoration is the deeply private story of a promise made a lifetime ago, and a vow to keep it before she dies.

Dimenticate tutto quello che sapete sul nazismo. Preparatevi alla verità. Settembre 2015. Germania, Foresta Nera. Karl Jerzyck, professore di criminologia di Monaco, scopre casualmente delle ossa in un borgo vicino a Karlsruhe. I resti appartengono a persone scomparse venticinque anni prima in circostanze mai chiarite. Jerzyck e Arno Schultze, ex ispettore della Kripo che al tempo aveva seguito il caso, riprendono a investigare. Si trovano coinvolti nelle trame di alcuni gruppi neonazisti legati a sette esoteriche e occulte.

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is...