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Tanga, 1906: Nachdem Elsa nun schon mehrere Jahre in der Kolonie Deutsch-Ostafrika lebt, folgt ihr schließlich ihre Schwester Isolde nach. Deren Mission ist es, die bahnbrechenden Forschungen von Robert Koch zur Schlafkrankheit fotografisch zu dokumentieren.

I Malarazza hanno conquistato l'America. Alla fine dell'Ottocento l'impero dei Montalto si estende dagli Stati Uniti all'Europa, i loro commerci fioriscono, le loro navi collegano le sponde dell'Atlantico e il loro vino è sulle tavole più prestigiose. Prima di lasciare New York, Rosaria Battaglia ha affidato ai figli Leonardo e Paolo la guida della banca di cui è stata la prima donna presidente, ed è tornata a Castellammare del Golfo con la figlia minore, Benedetta: è lei che un giorno dovrà prendere le redini del ramo siciliano della famiglia.

Une nuit d'hiver 1946 à Londres, une infirmière sonne à la porte de la maison des Freud. Anna, la fille du célèbre psychanalyste, est entre la vie et la mort. Épuisée et fiévreuse, elle confie des bouts de son existence à cette inconnue : son adolescence difficile, toute de désirs contrariés et de fantasmes honteux, les années d'analyse avec son père, sa rencontre décisive avec la fantasque Lou Andreas-Salomé…

The new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six.

Das Zeitalter der Maschinen und die Kraft der Frauen. Katharina und Carl können selbst nicht glauben, was sie schon alles erreicht haben. Ihre Thiele-Waschmaschinen sind echte Verkaufsschlager geworden. Die Geräte bringen ungeahnte Arbeitserleichterungen für die Frauen und sind auch in der Hotellerie sehr gefragt. Doch dann fürchten die Arbeiterinnen im Hotel Adlon um ihre Arbeitsplätze, und Katharina muss nach Berlin reisen ... Die spannende Saga von Erfolgsautorin Susanne von Berg über die Geschichte des bekanntesten deutschen Waschmaschinenherstellers.

LA STORIA VERA DELLE FORMICHELLE DELLA COSTIERA AMALFITANA. DONNE E RAGAZZE CHE PER SECOLI PERCORSERO IL SENTIERO DEI LIMONI PORTANDO PESANTISSIME CESTE SULLA SCHIENA. Costiera Amalfitana, anni Quaranta. Rachele e Nannina attraversano la montagna ogni giorno come laboriose formichelle, trasportando pesanti sporte di limoni fino alla costa di Maiori, là dove il mare si estende a perdifiato. È il destino di tutte le donne di Tramonti. Rachele crede che il mondo abbia delle regole dure e invariabili ed è fiera delle tradizioni del suo paese, mentre Nannina sogna fin da bambina terre lontane dal ripido sentiero.

Eine junge Frau, die Erinnerung an einen Duft und ein altes Geheimnis - Seit ihrer Kindheit träumt Anouk davon, eigene Parfüms zu entwickeln. Als junges Mädchen hat sie ein Parfüm gerochen, das ihr im Gedächtnis geblieben, doch nie wieder begegnet ist. Doch 1950 ist das Geschäft mit Düften in der Hand weniger Familien. Ein Zufall bringt Anouk an den einzigen Ort, wo sie das Handwerk lernen kann. In Grasse, der schönen Parfümstadt in Südfrankreich, nimmt die Familie Girard sie auf. Anouks Talent, Gefühle in Düfte zu verwandeln, weckt Erinnerungen an Florence Girard, die vor über fünfzig Jahren den Erfolg des Hauses begründete.

Die Autoren erzählen in ihrer fiktiven Familiensaga Neuerscheinung 2024 die Geschichte der Londoner Journalistin Sally Wheeler, die sich auf die Spuren ihrer Herkunft begibt. Dabei begleiten sie die Ausbeutung Afrika und die deutsche Kolonialpolitik auf dem Weg zu drei Familien.

Nelle Due Torri la Compagnia si sgretola. Merry e Pippin sono fatti prigionieri dalle forze del Male, ma riescono a fuggire e trovano soccorso tra gli Ent, esseri giganteschi, mezzi alberi e mezzi umani, con i quali si lanceranno all’attacco della torre di Saruman. Aragorn, Legolas e Gimli stringono un’alleanza con i guerrieri di Rohan, un popolo fiero e luminoso come l’argento di cui si veste, che per secoli ha resistito all’assalto delle tenebre. Nel frattempo Frodo e il devoto Sam continuano il loro faticoso viaggio verso il Monte Fato guidati da Gollum, l’antico possessore dell’Anello Unico.

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.

Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters - Natasha, Lucy, and Carly - as best they can. With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous, debut author Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family.

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets criminals, naturalists, religious fanatics, swindlers, American Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.

Nachdem die Friedensgespräche gescheitert sind, flieht Seraphina mit Niran zurück nach Eira. Da ihr Herz längst ihm gehört, ist sie entschlossener denn je, den Krieg zu beenden. Dazu muss sie ihre aufkeimenden Phönixkräfte stärken und unter Kontrolle bringen. Nur wenn sie ihre volle Macht erweckt, kann sie ihre Familie retten und sich selbst eine Zukunft mit Niran ermöglichen.

Berlin, 1944: Amira and Gisele have been best friends since they were children, and now Gisele is the only person who knows Amira’s secret. A secret that puts her and everyone she loves in unimaginable danger amid the daily horror and violence of Nazi Germany. With the threat of exposure drawing closer, Gisele’s suggestion that Amira marries her friend Fred, a famous pianist, might just be the lifeline she needs to keep them both safe. Because Fred has secrets too.

At twenty-five, Ruby Nevins has already endured more than most. But after two years of battling cancer, she’s warily determined to move forward. Researching a new project about a French actress, she soon uncovers an old diary that will change her life forever… Cécile, the “it girl” of early 1940s French cinema, vanished from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. Sylvia Rousseau, Cécile’s dressmaker and confidante, left that same year. Working to piece together the truth behind Cécile’s disappearance and Sylvia’s extraordinary life, Ruby recognizes the women as kindred spirits.

With the country in the grips of conscription, the pacifism at the heart of Street village comes under scrutiny, and when Kate befriends Gerald, a young Quaker arrested for refusing to fight, she starts to understand the true dilemma the community finds itself in. Still grieving the loss of her sweetheart Mattie, Louisa finds herself at odds with her parents, who refused them the chance to marry. As her mother’s attempts to find Louisa a husband show no signs of abating, Louisa takes solace in her friendship with Jeannie’s brother Lucas.

Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes, when Dar is involved in a devastated accident at the docks and Peggy’s world crashes around her. With Dar seriously ill in hospital Peggy’s reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over her family’s head having to revisit the hardships of her youth that she dearly wanted to escape from.

Alors que l'Empire laconien s'effondre et que de nouvelles voies s'ouvrent, quel sera le destin des héros qui nous ont tenu en haleine pendant neuf tomes ? La conclusion d'une saga monumentale, la fin d'un univers inoubliable.