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Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed...

December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was...

Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his orphanage. As the noose tightens around the ghetto...

In 1930's China, the all-male Peking opera was luxurious entertainment for the privileged class—but only children from the poorest families were sent to opera schools to train as actors. Abandoned by his mother—a prostitute who can no longer care for him—Xiao Douzi is brought to an opera school. With seeds of bitterness in his soul, the nine-year-old boy endures hardships and misery to learn and perfect his craft.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh, read by Katherine McEwan. Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home. But when Rachel reaches the family farm at...

Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress.... Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer’s block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos.

Deutschland 1945, der Krieg hat viele Träume zerstört. Auch die von drei Freundinnen in Tübingen: Helene will Ärztin werden, Charlotte hatte von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin geträumt, und Eleonore will einfach an der Seite eines geliebten Mannes ein gutes Leben führen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass sie von dem marokkanischen Besatzungssoldaten Amir schwanger ist, steht sie vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Ihre Freundin Eleonore hat dasselbe Problem. Der Roman erzählt kenntnisreich eine Geschichte von Aufbruch, Verleugnung und Enttäuschung. Aber auch von Hoffnung und Zuversicht.

Bloomsbury presents The Wedding Dress Maker by Leah Fleming, read by Cathleen McCarron. A warm, compelling historical story of love, loss and triumph. Yorkshire, 1945: Netta Nichol lives in the shadow of a terrible disgrace. After bearing a son out of wedlock, Netta was banished from her beloved...

Manchester, 1920. As a mannequin in an exclusive fashion salon, Kate Hunter lives for the moments she can step into a beautiful gown and leave her worries behind. But when Kate is cheated out of her home and then suffers a terrible accident, she suddenly loses everything: her job, her...

Eine berührende Geschichte über zweite Chancen, verborgene Schicksale und den Mut zur großen Liebe. Von Bild-#1-Bestsellerautorin Karin Lindberg. Schottland, heute: Nach einer schmerzhaften Trennung flieht die Tischlerin Lea in die schottischen Highlands, um das altehrwürdige Braemar House zu renovieren.

Das mitreißende Finale der historischen Saga von Bestsellerautorin Sibel Daniel über Widerstand, Verrat und die Kraft der Liebe in den dunkelsten Stunden Europas Stockholm, 1944. Johanna von Fehrsburg versucht, ihrer Tochter Leah im neutralen Schweden ein sicheres Leben zu ermöglichen. An ihrer Seite ist Sven – und mit ihm die Hoffnung auf eine Zukunft fern von Krieg und Angst.

Lancaster, 1943. As the war rages on, the Red Cross girls will do whatever it takes to bring their boys home. But can they find happiness in such troubling times? When Livvy receives her orders for war work, she’s desperate for a new beginning. Most of her friends have been sent to munitions factories, so she is delighted to be working for the Red Cross, who are making secret packages that can help prisoners of war escape.

Can she overcome her past to find love again? Belfast, 1939. When World War Two is declared, Maisie Canavan is working as a newly-qualified midwife in Belfast's Royal Maternity Hospital, helping women and babies across the community - no matter what their families' background is. She's just...

From Sunday Times bestseller Katherine Webb. A long-buried crime. A marriage built on lies. Could the truth be a second chance? England, 1902. More than a decade has passed since a wrongful accusation sent a young man to the gallows, an injustice that shattered the lives of those left...

Alla fine degli anni sessanta, mentre l’uomo sta per mettere piede sulla Luna e il divorzio non è ancora legge, Elena Spina Torcellan gestisce da sola la Fornace dell’Est, nell’isola di Murano. È una donna in un mondo di uomini, che spesso le sono ostili, ma è anche competente e...

Inspired by true events, Christy Hall of Fame author Cathy Gohlke delivers a powerful new historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin―a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine―and one woman’s brave fight to cling to her family and hope against unspeakable odds. New...

Narrated by actress Catriona Balfe. 'She lifted me high, high up into another world, and then let me fall . . . Daphne du Maurier stole my life.' A dramatic story of forbidden love, from enduring bestseller Rose Tremain Mrs Danowski – known as Danni – is the housekeeper of a grand mansion on...

A literatura argentina tem em "O matadouro" ("El matadero", no original), de Esteban Echeverría (1805-1851), escrito entre 1838 e 1840, o que é considerado o primeiro texto literário argentino. A obra versa sobre o regime de Juan Manuel de Rosas, que...

O jovem Antonello Bianchi é um italiano indolente, egoísta e metido a conquistador. Sua única ocupação é atrair clientes para o restaurante em que trabalha em Florença (ou para si, quando for una bella donna). Mas essa vida de aventuras amorosas...