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With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war. Despite their differences sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband, Antoine, and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight, and Viann finds herself isolated, so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength are tested.

London, 1917. Anna ist überglücklich, als ihr geliebter Edward von der Front zurückkehrt. Während die beiden eifrig Hochzeitspläne schmieden, muss ihre Freundin Grace sich gegen ihre Eltern behaupten. Die Pflege verwundeter Soldaten ist nicht das, was diese sich als Zukunft für ihre Tochter wünschen. Dulcie indessen scheint ihr Glück gefunden zu haben, als eine unverhoffte Begegnung sie erkennen lässt: Manchmal begegnet einem die Liebe genau da, wo man sie am wenigstens erwartet.

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.

London, 1934. Das berühmte Nightingale Hospital sucht neue Krankenschwestern. Unter den Kandidatinnen sind drei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten: Während Dora aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammt, ist Millie eine waschechte Aristokratin, die lieber etwas Sinnvolles tut, als sich einen Ehemann zu suchen. Helen dagegen leidet unter ihrer dominanten Mutter, vor der sie ein Geheimnis verbirgt. Doch welche von ihnen hat das Zeug dazu, eine echte Nightingale-Schwester zu werden?

London, 1935. Für die Schwesternschülerinnen des berühmten Nightingale Hospitals beginnt das zweite Jahr ihrer Ausbildung. Die Lehrschwestern wachen mit strengem Blick über die jungen Frauen, die derweil ganz andere Sorgen beschäftigen: Während die sonst so forsche Dora unter furchtbarem Liebeskummer leidet, wird ihre Freundin Millie von gleich zwei attraktiven Männern umworben. Auch die neue Nachtschwester sorgt für Aufregung, denn Violet scheint nicht die Frau zu sein, für die sie sich ausgibt.

London, 1938. England bereitet sich auf den Krieg vor, und das berühmte Nightingale Hospital steht kurz vor der Evakuierung. Während Oberschwester Kathleen den jungen Krankenschwestern Mut zuspricht, muss sie selbst um ihre eigene Zukunft fürchten. Auch Schwester Helen sehnt sich nach dem Tod ihres geliebten Charlie nach einer zweiten Chance. Diese scheint gekommen, als ein gutaussehender Fremder ihr Hoffnungen macht. Doch meint er es wirklich ernst mit Helen?

London, 1940. Während der Blitzkrieg über London wütet, setzen die Krankenschwestern des Nightingale Hospitals alles daran, den Krankenhausbetrieb aufrechtzuerhalten. Auch Dora, die inzwischen Mutter von Zwillingen ist, kehrt zurück, um ihre einstigen Kolleginnen bei der kräftezehrenden Arbeit zu unterstützen. Ganz anders als die Hilfsschwestern Jennifer und Cissy, die vor allem zwei Dinge im Sinn haben: schöne Kleider und attraktive Männer. Doch ihre romantischen Träume werden schon bald von dramatischen Ereignissen überschattet.

Logan McLeod saß zwei Jahre im Gefängnis, weil er seine Schwester beschützen wollte. Jetzt ist er frei, hat einen guten Job und jede Menge Dates, die ihn seine Vergangenheit vergessen lassen. Auch Grace Farquhar weiß ihre neue Freiheit zu schätzen. Seit sie ihrer lieblosen Familie entkommen ist, genießt sie ihr Leben - wäre da nicht ihr neuer Nachbar Logan, dessen ausschweifendes Liebesleben sie jede Nacht um den Schlaf bringt.

In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. But 16-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips....

In a village at the edge of the wilderness of Northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, the father hides the gift away, and his daughter, Vasya, grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of their village, Vasya discovers that she may be the only one who can keep the darkness at bay.

All across Scotland, the resistance movement is growing in both strength and numbers. For the first time in five generations, the Mages are afraid—and it's all because of one woman. But Mairi knows where the real power lies and that it is the Mages who maintain control of the country. She has become the poster girl for the resistance and her magic is growing stronger by the day. That doesn't mean, however, that she has any real chance of succeeding against the might of the Mages. And yet strange things are afoot.

When Charlie Porter meets Hazaar Alim her first year of university, she's instantly smitten. Hazaar has it all: beauty, talent, and brains. What she doesn't realize is that Hazaar's future has already been decided, and Charlie has no place in it. Hazaar desperately wants to break with her traditions and stay with Charlie, but when forced to choose, she chooses her family over love. When she realizes the choice she made is the worst one possible, it's too late.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, most Frenchmen tread warily, but gay nightclub singer Yves Lacroix puts himself in the spotlight with every performance. As a veteran of France's doomed defense, a survivor of a prison camp, and a "degenerate", he knows he's a target. His comic stage persona disguises a shamed, angry heart and gut-wrenching fear for a sister embedded in the Resistance.

It's 1957, and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale Hospital in London's East End. Winne desperately wants to win her mother's approval - but will following in her footsteps and becoming a nurse help? Tearaway Viv has never been one to follow the rules, though the Nightingale may help her mend her ways. Beth is following her late sister's dream by training as a nurse. Will it be the right path for her? There's a steep learning curve ahead. But with friendship on their side, the Nightingale Daughters are ready to rise to the challenge.

Scarred but alive, Lark, and her men, survived the ordeal of their kidnapping and rescue. Now they’re in hiding from the syndicate that wants Lark and Apollo back, and the others disposed of. There’s more than just the issue of those who want her and her men captured or killed though, and it’s turned her world upside down yet again.

Matron Kathleen Fox has the job of putting the hospital back together but wonders if she is up to the task. In an attempt to bring some festive cheer, she decides to put on a Christmas show. The idea is greeted with mixed feelings by the nurses, who all have their own problems, and also by the new Assistant Matron and ward sister, who find themselves rivals for the role of organiser. But as rehearsals begin, the performers begin to find the show is not just a tonic for the patients.

Anna is over the moon when her sweetheart returns from the front line. As he recovers from his injuries, they make plans to be married, but the horrors of the trenches cast a long shadow. Caring for shell-shocked soldiers brings untold challenges for Grace, and her parents have very different dreams for her future. Meanwhile Dulcie has her sights firmly set on her own happy ending. And yet sometimes we find love where we least expect to. Each of the nurses has her own battle to fight, but they must rally together if they’re to find true happiness.

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better-educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go? Helen is born for the job; her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen’s secret misery be her downfall? An aristocratic rebel, Millie’s carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to?

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own...Dora, the student nurse is struggling with her heartbreak over Nick, the man who got away. A new arrival on the ward brings the chance to put a smile back on her face. But can she really get over Nick so easily? Dora's fellow student Millie is also torn between the two men in her life.