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عندما رأى كليبًا وجه "ماري روز" يطلُّ من بوابة الكنيسة أصابه سهم جمالها فشعر بأنّه قد فقد الحياة ولن يستعيدها إلّا بزواجه منها، ولكنَّ الخوري والدها اشترط شرطًا أعجزه فقرَّر أن تكون الحربُ مقابل "ماري روز" ..

1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned, with no means to return home. Afraid and alone, she faces prejudice and rejection… until she finds her way to an Irish-run boarding house on West India Dock Road and meets Jack, Charity and a host of unexpected friends.

The Mormon faithful begin the long trek west in 1846 searching for their promised land. The trek proves more miraculous, challenging and costly than ever imagined. The trail is littered with human sweat, tears and graves. It is necessary for the Steeds to split up and hope for a sweet reunion at the trail's end.

Swept up in the great drama as the infant Church expands and spreads westward into Ohio and Missouri, the Steeds become eyewitnesses of miracles as well as of the horrors of mob mayhem. Nathan and Lydia begin their married life, meeting new challenges and facing crises that test both their faith and their love; Mary Ann struggles with her feelings over her husband Benjamin's continued lack of spiritual response to the Restoration message; Jessica Steed, distraught by her apparent inability to have children, watches helpless.

It is early 1846, and many Saints, including most of the Steeds, begin the difficult journey across Iowa as they move toward a new and distant home in the Rocky Mountains. Among them is the volatile Joshua Steed, who, intent on accompanying his now widowed mother, has temporarily left his wife and children behind in Nauvoo. With trouble brewing in that dying city, will they be in danger? And what is the secret that Joshua feels compelled to keep hidden from the other Steeds?

Die ersten beiden Romane der Familiensaga in einem Hörbuch-Bundle! Das Kaufhaus - Zeit der Sehnsucht. Der Laden der Zukunft Stralsund, 1879: Die junge Schneiderin Flora zieht mit ihrem Verlobten Leonhard Tietz in die schöne Hansestadt. Für ihr Brautkleid findet sie im Textilwarengeschäft eines alten Kaufmanns die feinsten Stoffe, doch der betagte Besitzer steht seit dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau kurz vor dem Bankrott. Flora beschließt spontan, ihm ihre Hilfe als Ladenmädchen anzubieten.

Een indrukwekkend verhaal met een Nederlands tintje over de allesoverstijgende kracht van liefde. Gulliver's Bay, Cornwall, 1944 Als Rupert Dash sneuvelt tijdens de Slag om Arnhem, is zijn vrouw Florence er kapot van. Ze kan niet accepteren dat hij voor altijd uit haar leven is verdwenen. Wanneer ze een gedicht met de titel Wacht op mij vindt in een oud boek, gelooft ze dat het een teken van haar man is. Een belofte dat hij bij haar terug zal komen.

Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling the effects of war like never before. Years of being told to be a ‘good girl’ by her mother, Freda has always done what’s been expected of her. But, even though she’s proud of her work nursing soldiers and victims of war, she can’t help but wonder if there’s more for her in life. And her secret desire to become a journalist feels increasingly like a calling she can’t resist.

With the country teetering on the brink of war everyone faces an uncertain future. Destitute after the tragic death of her father, aspiring singer Jessie Delaney and her family have no choice other than to accept the charity spiteful Aunt Iris to keep a roof over their heads. Jessie is soon dreaming of a life filled music and excitement. How can Jessie escape the drudgery, support her family and pursue her dreams?

In this riveting continuation of the Brisco family saga, brothers Dub and Tim strive to persevere against their early 1900s post-slavery beginnings—clashing with their history of family trauma and their different coping mechanisms for living in a world that doesn’t accept them. While Dub becomes a respected coal miner and finds prosperity for his family, Tim continues a slow descent into a fog of psychosis, alcoholism, and perpetual joblessness—forced to live an isolated existence on Dub’s property despite his desire for deeper connection.

Par l'autrice des best-sellers Ecoute ton corps et Les 5 blessures qui empêchent d'être soi-même. Pardonnez pour libérer votre âme. Malgré sa difficulté à accepter le principe de la réincarnation, Arissiel reprend corps en tant que Ari, fils de Benani, son propre fils dans son ancienne vie. Accompagné par son guide spirituel, il développe des dons psychiques qui lui permettent de venir en aide à d'autres personnes. Après plusieurs années de conflit, il devra, entre autres, faire la paix avec son père.

Par l'autrice des best-sellers Ecoute ton corps et Les 5 blessures qui empêchent d'être soi-même. Et si la fin n'était qu'un début ? Au volant de la voiture de rêve qu'il vient de s'offrir, Arissiel pense à ses enfants, avec qui il n'a pas su garder contact. Pris de regrets, il décide de renouer avec eux au moment même où il reçoit une balle perdue qui le tue sur le coup. Brûlant de colère envers Dieu qui a écourté son existence, mais aussi envers lui-même pour n'avoir pas su en profiter, Arissiel fait la connaissance de Mishaël, son guide dans l'au-delà.

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party, she knows there's more to the invitation than a weekend of revelry. She's old enough to be married and her family are hoping for a good match. Sparks fly when she collides with dashing Jack Carter, the hotel housekeeper's disreputable brother. A visit to a home for waifs and strays makes Charity question her values.

They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother.

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery.

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter, Blanca, embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban.