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In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She and her beloved daughter Olivia have always managed just fine on their own, but with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment opportunities, she’s left with only one option: persuading the manageress at Boots’ Booklover’s Library to take a chance on her with a job.

Twenty years after the Holocaust and the Nazi reign of terror, Thor, a neo-fascist organization born out of the Nazi defeat in Europe, is ready to take over the United States. Rabbi Ben Zvi Kantorwicz, an escapee from Auschwitz, and his organization the Aleph Bet, is determined to stop them from achieving their objective - new world order of blond-haired, blue-eyed super people with a hand-raised American president as its Fuhrer, continuing the policies and philosophy of the Third Reich.

Auschwitz, 1942: Her entire body trembles as she stands in the infirmary and realises the horrifying truth. She’s a nurse, but instead of saving her fellow inmates, she’s about to be ordered to kill them… Surrounded by thick fog from the nearby forest, Orli stumbles from the cattle truck onto the frostbitten grounds of Auschwitz. Betrayed by her own husband for being a German resistance fighter, she has no one left in the world, and this is now her home.

Edith’s worst fears come true when Julius is brutally arrested and imprisoned alongside thousands of other Jewish men, destined for the camps. When she hears the news, Edith feels her heart crack wide open with unbearable grief. But then she hears of women gathering outside the prison in their hundreds—wives and mothers from every walk of life whose relatives have also been taken. They are united by a single, desperate wish. She links arms with the woman next to her and takes up the chant.

Salzige Luft, Meeresrauschen, der Ruf der Möwen. In ihrem Roman Das Haus am Deich - Fremde Ufer erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Regine Kölpin die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Freundinnen. Inspiriert von der Geschichte ihrer eigenen Familie geht es in diesem 1. Band der dreiteiligen Saga um die Jahre 1947 - 1950, um Flucht, Neuanfang und Suche nach Heimat. 1947: Nach einer dramatischen Flucht aus Stettin findet die junge Frida mit ihren Eltern in der Wesermarsch Zuflucht - Heimat ist es nicht.

UNA SAGA FAMILIARE TRATTA DA UNA STORIA VERA. Un romanzo sorprendente sulla Germania nazista. Una madre pronta a tutto per difendere i suoi figli. Tre sorelle che inseguono senza paura i propri sogni. Germania, 1942. Appena fuori Monaco, i prati in primavera si riempiono di fiori di campo che ondeggiano dolcemente al soffio pigro del vento. Gli occhi di Ilse si riempiono di lacrime davanti a un paesaggio che sembra non essere cambiato da quando, ancora bambina, passava lì le estati.

Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her—safety or a daring mission? Her brother-in-law, Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or forfeit his life. What will honor demand? Floris Brouwer, once a Waffen-SS titan, now languishes at Mauthausen concentration camp. A chance to regain past glory beckons, but at war's dark price. Lisa Abrahams, master of espionage, yearns for more than London's shadows. With victory nearing, her heart races to find Christiaan and alter fate.

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

September 1939. Friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire. Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord Bradley. Both the hall and the vicarage are far different to what the girls are used to – and both are very homesick. Though Maggie finds friendship too in the form of Alice, a young servant at the hall who takes her under her wing. But change is coming to the Dales too.

Berlin, 1941: Margarete Rosenbaum arbeitet als Hausmädchen für einen hochrangigen Nazi. Als die Villa ausgebombt wird, ist sie die einzige Überlebende und wird fälschlicherweise für die Tochter des Hauses gehalten. Sie ergreift die unerwartete Chance auf Freiheit. Mit falschen Papieren flüchtet sie in ein anderes Leben, ständig in Angst, entdeckt zu werden. Als der Sohn ihres ehemaligen Arbeitgebers, SS-Oberscharführer Wilhelm Huber, sie in Paris aufspürt, fürchtet sie das Schlimmste.

Seit die Nazis alles zerstörten, was Margarete Rosenbaum lieb war, kämpft sie ums nackte Überleben. Doch dann ermöglichte ihr es der Zufall, sich als Annegret Huber, die Tochter eines prominenten SS-Mannes, auszugeben.

Depois da Primeira Guerra Mundial, a família Loibl deixou a Alemanha, devastada pela guerra, e veio para o Brasil. Em 1938 os Loibls resolveram retornar ao seu país, encantados com as promessas do partido de Hitler, que chegara ao poder. Entretanto, não poderiam jamais imaginar as agruras que sofreriam em seu país de origem. Rudolf, o filho nascido no Brasil, sofria constantes agressões na escola, por ser considerado inimigo do Estado alemão. Não havia trabalho, uma hiperinflação afetava o comércio, e o clima era de medo e constante opressão.

Dramatische Zeiten stehen den Frauen vom Inselsalon bevor. Doch der Zusammenhalt der Familie Fisser und ihrer Freunde ist und bleibt ungebrochen. Norderney 1930 bis Mitte der 50er-Jahre: Nach einem Schicksalsschlag findet Lissy auf ihre Heimatinsel Norderney Zuflucht. Aber nur zögernd kann sie sich wieder für ein neues Glück öffnen. Ihre dunkelhaarige Tochter Marina ist ein fröhliches, unkompliziertes Kind und rührt zu gern im Salon Farben an. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs gelangt sie 1941 als Zwölfjährige mit der Kinderlandverschickung nach Österreich.

May 1941. The Royal Navy’s Eastern Mediterranean fleet has its back to the wall. Hearts of Steel traces a history of the Royal Navy from a fresh perspective beginning in 1918 to World War 2 and its darkest hour. During peacetime we sail with the crews of HMS Effingham and Hawkins, Flagships to the East Indies Station, cruising the Indian Ocean to protect and support the British Empire. As WW2 looms we join the hand picked crew of Tribal Destroyer HMS Nubian.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen - children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

Berlin, 1944. ‘No! Not my child!’ Annaliese screams, her voice breaking as she pounds the window uselessly. But no-one looks up as the man in the SS uniform cradles her precious baby and strides away. She lies unmoving on the threadbare cot, her throat hoarse from long hours of screaming but her tears keep falling. Her heart has been cleaved in two, now the Nazis have taken the only thing she has left–her child. She is utterly powerless against them. But as Annaliese cries herself to sleep, she makes a vow—she will find her precious baby again. Whatever it takes.

Una tenuta con l’uliveto su un’isola greca: l’eredità che chiunque sogna. Eppure, il giorno in cui riceve quella splendida notizia si rivela per Teresa uno dei peggiori mai vissuti. Nel giro di poche ore, la sua vita di soddisfatta moglie borghese si ribalta. E lei si ritrova su un traghetto: destinazione Cefalonia. Non parla la lingua, non sa niente della Grecia, ricorda solo vagamente, dall’infanzia, la grande casa dello zio Ferdinando. Non ha memoria dell’enorme e splendida biblioteca, piena di classici.

Austria, 1938. After years of hardship, Ella is full of hope for a better future for Austrians, and when Hitler marches into Linz, she can’t help but become swept up in the euphoria of her boyfriend, Max. But she soon realises her mistake. When she witnesses a woman being shot in the street and a childhood friend’s Jewish department store is closed down, she knows she must do something. It’s a dangerous time to be a resistor, especially when her fascist boyfriend proposes to her.

Norway, 1940. Liv has lived a quiet life on her family farm, dreaming of a happy life after the war is finally over. But all of her dreams vanish when the Nazi soldiers arrive in her village and a senior officer see something special in her... something that Hitler and the high command in Berlin is desperate to have at any cost. England, 1968. Agnes, although made orphan from the war, has grown up happy in the quiet wealth of the English countryside, raised by her adoring grandfather to be a perfect lady.

Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when she learns that Windsor is compromised, Sophie must sacrifice everything she knows to save the future queen of England. Philadelphia, Present day: Digging into her great aunt’s family tree, Lacey Turner comes across a mysterious book bearing the stamp of Windsor Castle’s royal bindery. But how did it come to be in her family’s possession?