Títulos em Sagas

Tammy and her mother, Grace, are desperate to escape Tammy’s violent bully of a father. But when an unforeseen tragedy strikes, mother and daughter must flee Scotland in the dead of night. To survive the severest of penalties, they leave behind everything they know and love – including one another. Under new identities, Tammy and Grace must start afresh. Tammy joins the services and there she meets a dashing officer who begins to break her guard down. But can the course of love ever run smooth with Tammy unable to reveal her true self?

The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on her face. Living and schooling on Haxby Road alongside the Rowntrees Chocolate Factory, Molly watched the daily trudge of women employed there in their white uniforms as she sat at her school desk. When Molly secures a job on the production line at the factory, she's excited to become one of these women. As she labours hard at the factory, she meets Connie. Quickly the two form a close friendship, and Molly begins to see the world differently.

Victoria is looking for a life away from the dangers of wartime London for herself and two orphaned children. Her search takes her to Churchwood in Hertfordshire which looks ideal, but the village residents are already dealing with their own problems . . .With so much trouble and uncertainty in the village, can Victoria and her little family find the safe haven they crave?

Manchester, 1960. When you're young, unmarried and pregnant, in a shaming society that will never understand, there's only one place left to go. St Ann's mother and baby home. That's how restless Joan, who dreams of a glamorous new life in the Big Smoke, finds herself shut away with two unlikely new roommates: spirited Megan and timid country-girl Caroline, who fell pregnant on her first time. Abandoned by their families, they have no one to rely on but each other, as they wait out the days before they birth their babies - only to be parted from them forever.

Herausfordernde Zeiten für die Hansens. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1927: Die junge Generation der Hansens startet mit viel Elan in ihr Vorhaben, das alte Kontor in ein Lichtspieltheater mit Restaurant umzuwandeln. Doch die Bauarbeiten schreiten eher langsam voran und es gibt immer wieder unvorhergesehene Hürden. Gelingt es Amala und Auguste, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen? Helene Siegls Verlobter wird wegen Mordverdachts festgenommen. Niemand in der Familie kann glauben, dass Bernhard wirklich die Tat begangen hat.

Ils ont voulu la réduire au silence et la priver de ce qui l’anime, elle se relèvera plus forte et déterminée que jamais. Rien n’empêchera Victoire, l’héroïne époustouflante de Marie-Bernadette Dupuy, de réaliser ses rêves.

Von den vier Season-Schwestern ist Summer, die Sommerschwester, die Verantwortungsbewusste und Fürsorgliche. Ihr Beruf als Grundschullehrerin und das zurückgezogene Leben in ihrem Cottage geben ihr den Halt, den sie als Kind vermisst hat. Sie ist in Wales geblieben, um auf der elterlichen Farm von Zeit zu Zeit das Chaos zu beseitigen, überfällige Rechnungen zu begleichen und sich um ihre jüngste Schwester Autumn zu kümmern. Als die kleine Phoebe neu zu ihr in die Klasse kommt, erwachen unliebsame Erinnerungen in Summer.

We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea.

All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?

Nineteen year old Cathy has already lost her parents and the boy she loved. As a struggling college student, she enjoys her job waitressing at a local diner—and the flattering attention of the town’s middle-aged Police Chief. Frank is a father figure, until he’s not. He pretends to be a gentleman, until she’s tricked into becoming his wife. Only after it’s too late does she realize that her husband, the powerful man who controls the town, is also a killer—and she’s next on his list.

After Jimmy's shocking departure, Nellie Castle is feeling bereft. And with Rodney being elusive, she's determined to do all she can to help her youngest son Bert get back on his feet following the terrible injuries he sustained in the bombing. Plagued by guilt and nightmares, the last thing Bert wants is to return to the café - being there only makes his guilt over Gladys's death worse. His relationship with nurse Vi is helping somewhat, but when he receives a formal summons to the trial of the woman who tried to kill him, he is plunged back into the depths of despair.

In der dunkelsten Stunde der deutschen Geschichte stehen die Köllns zusammen. Elmshorn 1938: Geschäftlich sind die Köllns im Aufschwung. Als erste eingetragene Marke des Unternehmens setzen ihre blütenzarten Haferflocken neue Standards, die Produktpalette wächst. Politisch zieht eine Bedrohung herauf, als die NSDAP mehr und mehr Zuspruch in der deutschen Bevölkerung findet. Die Gefahr rückt immer näher und als Deutschland in den Krieg zieht, bangt Else um ihren Mann und ihre Söhne. Doch gerade in Krisenzeiten steht die Familie besonders eng zusammen.

Das zerbrechliche Glück der Familie Hardenstein: Band 2 der Porzellan-Saga. Deutschland Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Porzellanmanufaktur Strehlow von Hardenstein hat ihr großes Ziel erreicht und alle ehrgeizigen Mitbewerber weit hinter sich gelassen. Die Zukunft des legendären Unternehmens aber liegt nun auf den Schultern der jungen Sophie, die in einem abgelegenen Bergdorf aufgewachsen ist und durch nichts auf ihre Rolle vorbereitet wurde.

Everyone has a tiger inside them. . . It's the part of you that only comes out when you're about to be pushed off a cliff, poisoned in your family’s kitchen, framed for a crime, and anything else that awaits artist Cate Finley upon her homecoming. Back in the summer of 2000, having suffered enough under the iron fist of her older sister, Margaret, sixteen-year-old Cate raids the safe at her family's rural Arizona ranch and hops a bus for New York City, hoping to pursue an art career.

Die Haferflocke erobert die deutschen Frühstückstische. Elmshorn 1912: Mit der Erfindung der Haferflocke hat Bertha Kölln Großes vollbracht. Unermüdlich hat ihre Familie daran gearbeitet, die neue Zutat massentauglich herzustellen. Da greift schließlich der Erste Weltkrieg nach dem verschlafenen kleinen Ort bei Hamburg und damit auch nach den Köllns. Doch die lassen sich weder von dieser Bedrohung noch von zahlreichen Unglücken in der Hafermühle unterkriegen.

With the country on the brink of war, single mother Jean embraces her ten-year-old daughter, Valerie, before she puts her on a train to Somerset alongside hundreds of other evacuees. Jean’s heart breaks as she vows they’ll be together again soon, knowing it’s a promise she might not be able to keep. Wrenched away from her mother and everything familiar, Valerie arrives in Somerset and nervously waits in the village hall to find a host family.

Composto da tre romanzi pubblicati in Gran Bretagna fra il 1954 e il 1955, Il Signore degli Anelli è uno dei più grandi cicli narrativi del XX secolo. J.R. R. Tolkien ha creato un mondo e un epos che da sempre affascinano e influenzano lettori e scrittori di tutto il mondo. La Compagnia dell’Anello si apre nella Contea, un idilliaco paese agricolo dove vivono gli Hobbit, piccoli esseri lieti, saggi e longevi.

In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.

In present day Chicago, broken from her divorce, Natalie Taylor runs away to Paris. In a book stall by the Seine, Natalie finds a collection of the Widow Clicquot’s published letters and uses them as inspiration to step out of her comfort zone and create a new, empowered life for herself. But when her Parisian escape takes a shocking and unexpected turn, she’s forced to make a choice. Should she accept her losses and return home, or fight for the future she’s only dreamed about? What would the widow do?

Tina Edwards loved her childhood and creating fairy houses, a passion shared with her father, a world-renowned architect. But at nine years old, she found him dead at his desk and is haunted by this memory. Tina’s mother abruptly moved away leaving Tina with feelings of abandonment and suspicion.