Ergebnis für "Free:" in 20. Jahrhundert

Bloomsbury presents Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, read. by Allison Hiroto. * The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating...

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Two childhood best friends. Torn apart by tragedy. Reunited by their search for the truth. Even if finding it means losing each other forever... A SWEEPING COMING-OF-AGE TALE, AN EPIC LOVE STORY AND A SEARING THRILLER - ALL UNFOLDING ON A VAST CANVAS *****...

Brought to you by Penguin. From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to...

Bloomsbury presents The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough, read by Nicolette McKenzie. An endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds. The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron, nestled in the Blue Mountains, for...

John and Sylvia are desperately in love with the same man. Three days before VE Day, that man is shot out of the sky, leaving them shattered and clinging to one another. Fulfilling a promise he made to Nicky in the trenches, John marries Sylvia so her baby will not be born out of wedlock.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Fatal Inheritance, written by Rachel Rhys, read by Charlotte Hamblin and Roy McMillan. ‘A Fatal Inheritance is GLORIOUS! Hugely enjoyable escapism, featuring The South of France, film stars, gorgeous villas, lavender-scented air, ex-Nazis...

“‘But who are we, if we forget everything that came before?’ Roza wonders in The Jilted Countess. This moving story of one woman finding a new life and new love in the aftermath of WWII answers this question, in the process taking on themes of PTSD, communism, and the plight of being an...

This white-knuckled conclusion to The Brilliance of Stars takes readers on a breathless adventure from the speakeasies of America to the Horse Guards Parade in London, an ancient cemetery outside Paris, and back to the Eastern European strongholds where the Vales’ tragedy first began. “Fate...

France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation, Temple is fiercely devoted to Cherokee traditions and her lover, The Blade Stuart, a visionary committed to a new future for the tribe.

Marion Crawford is just 22 years old when she becomes governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose in 1931. As their beloved 'Crawfie', she is instantly confided in, trusted and immersed in the lives of the royal family. As World War II finally comes to an end, it's clear that Princess Elizabeth has fallen in love. Now heiress presumptive to the British throne, no one believes that Prince Philip of Greece is a suitable husband for the future queen of England. No one, that is, except for Crawfie.

“The story of true innocents caught up in the machinery of war. Exquisitely researched, beautifully told, this tiny corner of Scotland came alive for me in all of my senses and I found myself rooting for the central characters with all my heart.” —Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes...

A stunning atmospheric novel in the great tradition of DEATH ON THE NILE and Patricia Highsmith - tells of a young girl's journey on a cruise liner from England to a new life on the brink of the Second World War. 'Thrilling, captivating. Simply stunning' Daily Express 5 ***** 'An exquisite tale...

Orkney, 1940. Five hundred Italian prisoners-of-war arrive to fortify these remote and windswept islands. Resentful islanders are fearful of the enemy in their midst, but not orphaned twin sisters Dorothy and Constance. Already outcasts, they volunteer to nurse all prisoners who are injured or fall sick. Soon Dorothy befriends Cesare, an artist swept up by the machine of war and almost broken by the horrors he has witnessed. She is entranced by his plan to build an Italian chapel from war scrap and sea debris, and something beautiful begins to blossom.