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Fleur liebt das Leben in Goldberg. Doch alles gerät ins Wanken, als ihre Mutter Helene stirbt und die Zukunft des Weinorts auf dem Spiel steht. Zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin Eleonore beschließt Fleur, für ihre Stadt zu kämpfen. Goldberg soll richtig aufblühen! In Schwung kommen ihre Pläne allerdings erst, als Jean-Claude, Koch und vielgereister Weltenbummler, in die Heimat zurückkehrt.

BROKEN WOMEN: A Story of Rejection, Redemption, Resilience by Edwina Hoyle, narrated by Catherine Divaris and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful historical saga about survival, generational trauma, and the extraordinary resilience of women who refuse to be defined by their suffering.

Dancing with Dandelions Book Two in The Jessie Chronicles Jessie Anderson has spent nine years rebuilding her life after the man she once loved shattered it—leaving her with scars, secrets, and a daughter she swore he would never know. She believed she and Jamie were finally safe… until unsettling threats begin appearing on her doorstep and the past she escaped resurfaces with terrifying intent. Forced into protective custody, Jessie finds refuge where she least expects it: with Mark Lee, her brother’s best friend. But safety is only an illusion. When the unthinkable happens during ...

Entre La Habana, Miami, New York y París, una saga familiar donde se asoma la Historia. Desde la toma del poder de Fidel Castro hasta la muerte del castrismo. Desde el apogeo del comunismo mundial hasta su estrepitosa caída. Desde las promesas de un futuro mejor del pasado siglo en Cuba hasta la miseria y la represión de hoy. Desde la pérdida del central azucarero de la familia Robles-Serra hasta su renacer.Entre pasado y presente, hechos reales e imaginarios, una trilogía: "Sinfonía Cubana", la historia de una familia que bien podría ser una Historia de Cuba.

Troisième volet de Les espérances inachevées, Viduité explore la faille ouverte par l’absence. Au lendemain d’une perte, le quotidien se délite, les promesses se fissurent, et l’on cherche comment habiter le vide sans s’y perdre. De chapitre en chapitre, se dessine une traversée du deuil et de la solitude, où l’on réapprend à nommer ce qui demeure et à accueillir ce qui revient.

When the Strait of Hormuz closes, most captains leave. Captain Rodrigo Delgado does not leave. He has 1.9 million barrels of crude and a schedule to keep — and the schedule is the only thing holding his life in a shape he can recognize. His wife died three years ago while he was at sea. He was twelve days from port. He did not turn back. His daughter has not spoken to him since. Now the war burns around him. A Greek tanker catches fire two miles to his northeast. A drone circles the ship for forty-two minutes. Ships empty from the anchorage one by one. Eleven days. One anchor. The strait ...

Bristol Montgomery and Marcus Stearn have been best friends for as long as anyone can remember. Despite what others thing—they’ve only ever been friends. They share a promise to never to fall for one another. No heated looks. No accidental kisses. And no jealousy over other partners. The problem? Years ago, they promised each other that if neither of them was married by the time Bristol turned thirty, they’d marry each other.

When Lily Ford returns to her lakeside hometown of Hideaway Bay for her grandmother’s funeral, the reunion with her estranged sisters is anything but easy as old wounds surface quickly. Recently widowed and still reeling from the secrets her late husband left behind, Lily finds herself at a crossroad, questioning everything about herself and the people she thought she knew.

A fierce and merciless demon has been unleashed on the world, spreading destruction and bloodshed in both the human and the elven realms. Northlander Jarl Mandred witnesses the ruthless attack on his men, and he seeks vengeance with the help of the elf queen, Emerelle.

London, 1944. Two young nurses meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to find her missing fiancé, Thomas, and to prove to her family - and to herself - that she's stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is in Ellie's blood, but her humble background is vastly different from Scarlet's privileged upbringing. Though Ellie puts on a brave face, she's just as nervous as Scarlet about what awaits them in France.

The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at 14 by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way.

Across decades, the lives of a rising ballerina and a struggling teenager intertwine, revealing how courage, mentorship, and the stories we share can change everything.

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek “Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations...

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one...

In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let alone secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister, was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life, and finally lost it, through his participation in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple his regime.

Arriving at St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home, it’s not the first time Mary-Kate has faced hardship. She grew up in a poor orphanage in Dublin after her father died and her mother gave her up, and never stopped working for a better future. But, as her baby is taken from her arms moments after coming into this world, Mary-Kate almost loses all hope. She can’t do this by herself. The baby’s father has made it clear he wants nothing to do with the child. And she hasn’t heard from her only friend since she was trapped here.

The quintessential dramatisations of Homer’s two masterpieces, with exceptional casts including Derek Jacobi, Christopher Eccleston, Tim McInnerny and Benedict Cumberbatch Attributed to the Greek poet Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey are among the greatest and most influential works of the...

Tragedy drove him into unwilling exile. Death demands his reluctant return. In the decade between, he has answered to many names and amassed a variety of secrets. Now the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu must resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre...a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name, thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy, remains tarnished by an old scandal. Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows.

Living with her aunt in poor, rural Preston, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Ellen Watson loves books and music and is completely oblivious to her own beauty. But her extraordinary looks arouse envy and malice in the female townspeople - and lust in the males. Hired as a housemaid in the palatial home of the village mayor, Ellen soon catches the attention of his son, Jeremy Porter, who captures her heart in turn. He offers to send her to school, and four years later he proposes marriage. As the years pass, Ellen's life parallels the hopes, dreams, and fears of a no-longer innocent nation.

This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn't begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead, The Descendant begins with a big, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters.