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Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.

New York Times best-selling author Amanda Quick returns to the exclusive seaside community of Burning Cove, where more than one person with a dark past has gone to reinvent themselves. But some secrets are just too deadly to stay hidden, and some pasts can never stay buried.

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.

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.

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.

1941 - Amid the bombs falling over London’s East End, the residents of West India Dock Road endure wartime with courage, defiance and a good dose of humour. From nights spent sheltering together in the Underground station to sharing gossip, pastimes and meals, they lean on each other as their world is turned upside down.

È il 1929. Isabelle è fuggita dall'Ucraina meridionale, tra villaggi di pietra e campi di grano stecchiti, dove la fame mordeva e il domani era un'incognita. Sopravvissuta all'affondamento della sua nave, arriva a Boston con un bagaglio di vestiti sbiaditi e una speranza timida. Finn, giovane banchiere, la assume come domestica nella sua villa: tra salotti che si specchiano nei lampadari, dame in abiti di seta e uomini intenti a discutere d'affari tra una portata e l'altra, Isabelle spazza i corridoi, presenza silenziosa e distante, priva della raffinata bellezza di Vanessa, la moglie di Finn.

The captivating new novel from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Steele is a spellbinding book club read, set in the glittering French Riviera in the dangerous days leading up to the outbreak of WW2. Nestled into the pine-dusted coastline of the Cap d'Antibes is the dazzling white Chateau...

Inspired by one of the first real-life female columnists at the New Yorker, this enticing historical mystery follows Freddie Archer as she solves crimes while reporting on the glamorous world of the rich and famous in 1920s Manhattan. This writer just found her next scoop . . . and it’s deadly...

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

أول سلسلة رومانسية اجتماعية في الوطن العربي مصرية مائة بالمائة لا تشوبها شبهة تقليد أو اقتباس، السلسلة الوحيدة في الثمانينات و التسعينات التي كان لا يجد الأب أو الأم حرجا من وجودها بالمنزل بختم د. نبيل فاروق و ضمان روايات مصرية للجيب وشركة سلاح التلميذ.

Berlin, 1922. Der Anhalter Bahnhof am Askanischen Platz ist eines der prächtigsten und verheißungsvollsten Gebäude der Stadt. Täglich verreisen von hier aus Tausende in alle Welt: Menschen auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat, Menschen auf der Suche nach dem großen Glück. So auch die Passagiere, die an diesem Abend den Nachtzug nach Paris besteigen: ein falscher Baron, ein Industrieller auf der Flucht, eine Haushälterin mit Fernweh, ein heldenhafter Kondukteur, ein heimliches Liebespaar und ein Dieb.

Isla de Man, 1938. En un rincón remoto del mar de Irlanda, donde el viento arrastra ecos de guerra y las carreteras se enredan entre acantilados y secretos, Mila Kovac, una joven piloto española, llega para participar en unas pruebas automovilísticas. Ha dejado atrás la muerte de su marido, el célebre Anton Behra, y un pasado lleno de heridas aún abiertas. En torno al circuito se reúnen los grandes pilotos del momento, hombres y también mujeres.

Lizbet Fontaine will do anything to keep her family together, even leave behind the only life she’s ever known to journey to the West. But as the jitney rumbles away, holding tightly to her little brother’s and sister’s hands, she knows something is wrong. Her stepfather has summoned an associate with a predatory glint in his eyes, and Lizbet knows she needs to save them all. She just doesn’t know how…until a kind man points out the Silver Hills Boarding House.

In a Seattle sorority in 1936, two university students lost their lives. Seventy years later, the house has become an assisted-living facility, and Lina Zuendel moves in to work as a nurse, but soon discovers the house does not easily let go of its past. Items move on their own, unseen hands shove her, lights go out by themselves, and sounds echo from empty rooms. She tries to ignore the unsettling events and focus on her growing attraction to Ren Schultz, a quiet young man who works in the kitchen.

In the aftermath of a personal decision, Shea O’Byrne has retreated to Melbourne, abandoning her career as a vet nurse to counsel women through pregnancy loss - a pain she understands all too well. When her father’s genealogical research uncovers a long-buried scandal involving the family’s forgotten ancestor, Samuel O’Byrne, Shea reluctantly agrees to help investigate.

Beth Calloway has always longed for a family, but after a childhood marked by loss, she’s learned to live quietly—typing reports at the Boise Foundling Home and keeping her heart carefully tucked away. Until one snowy night, a baby is left on her doorstep. With no room at the orphanage and no one else to help, she takes the risk…never expecting the handsome wounded soldier next door to take notice.

1992. Elisavet, a Serbian refugee haunted by loss, finds work on Island Farm Avenue. There, three older women – Cora, Megan, and Gladdie – meet regularly on the old footbridge, a quiet place where stories are shared and wounds are gently laid bare. As they begin to open up about their memories, Elisavet is drawn into their past and the healing power of female friendship. 1944 During the war, a young Cora forms a forbidden bond with Frank, a German prisoner held at Island Farm Camp. A fleeting smile.

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...