Ergebnis für "You" in 20. Jahrhundert

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR USA TODAY BESTSELLER The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that...

Kano Yuri is tired of her stifling, directionless life. After a bitter fight with her mother, she runs away—searching for solace, or maybe just a way out. When she takes shelter in an abandoned air-raid bunker overnight, she never expects to wake up...in wartime Japan. Stranded in a past she doesn't understand, Yuri meets a young Kamikaze pilot preparing for his final mission. He's kind, courageous, and heartbreakingly doomed. As their connection grows, Yuri finds herself torn between the world she came from—and the boy who makes her want to stay.

Nordfriesland 1945: Die deutsche Niederlage ist nur noch eine Frage von Tagen, die Besatzerarmeen rücken vorwärts. Erschöpft klopfen die neunzehnjährige Lena und ihre Schwester an die Tür des Pfarrhauses in Niebüll. Die beiden Pastorentöchter aus Pommern haben eine dramatische Flucht hinter sich und sind erleichtert, dass sie nun endlich aufgenommen werden. Vorbei die gefährlichen Nächte auf der Flucht, die ständige Angst… Die selbstbewusste Lena ist mehr als bereit, sich ein neues Leben aufzubauen, doch den Flüchtlingen steht man im Dorf skeptisch gegenüber.

18 June, 1940 Oh, my Margaret, You have no secrets from me, but I've kept a part of myself locked away, always. A part of me that started scratching at the wall the day this other war started, that started howling to get out right now, the day you ran off to meet your soldier. I should have told...

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect...

1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets - and the complicated history of their friendship - to the surface.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the gothic horror phenomenon that is sweeping across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront...

Fernando, joven editor hijo de un republicano represaliado, decide huir de una España abatida por la Guerra Civil junto a sus amigos Catalina y Eulogio. Los tres son esclavos de los secretos que los acompañan y que los empujan sin remedio a vivir lejos de los suyos.

Brought to you by Penguin. The second book in the gothic horror phenomenon that is sweeping across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold Perdido, Alabama, has scarcely recovered from the floods that devasted the community. Now a scheme to build a levee is dogged by a series of mysterious...

"Ell Potter's narration spans countries and decades as the story follows Bea and her connection to two families and two very different lives. Potter creates believable distinctions between well-developed characters of different ages from different locales. Listeners will be captivated by this...

Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight. While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and...

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger...

Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew. READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS! "Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book as i love family saga books. Loved that it...

Brought to you by Penguin. A master forger transforms a young woman’s life – but what will it cost her? In post-war Flanders, Adelais de Wolf's family is slowly, inexplicably, falling apart: her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a...

***FROM CELIA IMRIE: STAR OF CELEBRITY TRAITORS ON BBC ONE!*** Bloomsbury presents Meet Me at Rainbow Corner, written and read by Celia Imrie. ‘Walking in time with the beat, clapping her hands, clicking her fingers. How could anyone resist the urge to dance? Dot swirled her Red Cross cape in...

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful and spine-tingling gothic tale exploring mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, and class. There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you. Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing. That’s what her mother had...

A radiant, highly anticipated debut from the Well–Read Black Girl Books series, delving into the secret lives of three women on the eve of Eritrean independence. The year is 1991. Eritrea is on the verge of liberation from Ethiopian rule and in Washington, D.C.’s tight–knit Eritrean...

Alternating between London and Paris in the 1940s, the 1960s, and the present, Watching Over You explores the provenance of a collection of paintings hidden from the plundering Nazis during World War II and the fate of the families entangled in the search for the lost artworks.

Helena Kostyszak is an oddity—an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend's infant daughter and flees to her small village in the southern hills. Helena does everything in her power to protect her family, but it may not be enough. It will take all of her strength and God's intervention for both of them to survive the war and the ethnic cleansing to come.

'Every time I think Kristin Harmel's books can't get any better, they do' Sally Hepworth 'A gorgeous, ensemble novel that will have you packing your bags for France!' Evie Woods 'Romantic, sweeping, and deeply emotional-this is Kristin Harmel at her absolute best' Christina Lauren Julia Glover...