Historical Family Saga

A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s secrets - including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died.

Die Fortsetzung von "Stay away from Gretchen". Tom Monderath ist frisch verliebt, und glücklich. Bis er durch Zufall auf seinen Halbbruder Henk stößt, der alles über ihren gemeinsamen Vater wissen will. Doch Konrad starb vor vielen Jahren, und seine demente Mutter Greta kann Tom nicht befragen. Als sich weitere Halbgeschwister melden, wird es Tom zu viel. Toms Freundin Jenny und Henk hingegen folgen den Spuren Konrads. Selbst fast noch ein Kind kämpfte Konrad im Krieg, geriet in amerikanische Gefangenschaft, bevor er in den späten 1940er-Jahren nach Heidelberg kommt.

Puglia 1956. Una famiglia di profumieri e una di coltivatori di fiori. Una bambina e un bambini. Un incontro che cambierà tante vite. È l'ultimo giorno del 1955 e sulla campagna intorno a Bari cade leggera la neve, come non si vedeva da tempo. A casa Gentile c'è subbuglio: sta per nascere un bambino. Ma l'urlo della madre fa capire che qualcosa è andato storto. Per fortuna, dopo ore di paura, il Signore fa la grazia e finalmente si può festeggiare il lieto evento, e il nuovo anno.

It is the summer of 1950, and the Red Scare is in full swing. One family has found itself in the cross hairs of enemies because of its unconventional social views. With this interracial family, it is time to stand up and fight...or be destroyed. Caught in the middle is Natalia Morrow. At nine, she is more concerned with boys and makeup than with the state of the world around her. But events will force her to wake up from her idyllic dreamland and face reality.

This second volume of previously unpublished letters from the private correspondence of the Roxton family spans a 20-year period, from the 1760s to the late 1780s, and includes extracts from the diaries of Antonia, Duchess of Kinross, and her younger son Lord Henri-Antoine Hesham. Also included are letters by the fifth Duke of Roxton, written in the final stages of his illness, and addressed to his youngest son, Lord Henri-Antoine. The volume concludes with a letter by the latter’s wife, Lady Henri-Antoine Hesham, to her mother-in-law, the Duchess of Kinross.

The war is over, but peace hasn't quite settled between newly reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly and her daughters have encountered enough pain to last several lifetimes, but their struggles are far from over. Will they be able to put their past behind them and look forward to a happy future?

Chuckie O'Malley, having just been thrown out of Notre Dame, decides to go to the University of Chicago, thought by many of his co-religionists to be a hotbed of atheism and communism. There he finds Rosemarie, his beautiful foster sister who gave him his first kiss. Though Chuckie thinks of himself as dull, Rosemarie knows better and goads him into a career of infinite promise and gratification, to say nothing of fame and glory.

Roots & Branches is rooted in a story of love and longing based on a fatal accident in an upper Egyptian village over a century ago. In this rich and powerful story Meguid explores his remarkable early life based on a journal, letters, and photos. How does a four-year-old boy uprooted from a cozy Egyptian family endure abandonment in impoverished post-war Germany? In this vivid biography of his formative years Meguid traces his childhood - alone, forsaken, and often threatened with corporal punishment.

Molly Dawson, now a respectable married woman, lives with her husband, head gardener Charlie, on the Woodchurch Manor estate, where they have brought up three delightful daughters. Her life appears idyllic...but she has suffered the torment of a secret since she was 18 years old. When George Smith - a young stranger fresh out of the Navy - appears at the estate's annual garden party, Molly's life is set to change again....

Der dritte Band der beliebten SAGA um die Hamburger Arztfamilie zur Haiden. Hamburg 1961. Mit Lucie zur Haiden ist die nächste Generation in das Haus an der großen Elbstraße eingezogen. Nach dem Wunsch ihrer Mutter soll Lucie ebenfalls Ärztin werden, doch ihr kommen immer größere Zweifel. Helfen möchte sie den Menschen schon, aber das Studium fällt ihr schwer. Dann lernt sie Richard kennen, der sich als Modeschöpfer ausgibt und den ihre Mutter gleich für einen Blender hält, doch Lucie verliebt sich in ihn. Sie gibt ihr Studium auf. Der Haussegen hängt mächtig schief.

Alice is nursing an injured hand and a broken heart when she moves to the village of Churchwood at the start of WWII. She is desperate to be independent but worries that her injuries will make that impossible. Kate lives with her family on Brimbles Farm, where her father and brothers treat her no better than a servant. With no mother or sisters, and shunned by the locals, Kate longs for a friend of her own. Naomi is looked up to for owning the best house in the village. But privately, she carries the hurts of childlessness.

Delhi, 1946. Fourteen-year-old Alma is soon to be married despite her parents’ fear that she is far too young. But times are perilous in India, where the country’s long-awaited independence from the British empire heralds a new era of hope—and danger. In its wake, political unrest ripples across the subcontinent, marked by violent confrontations between Hindus and Muslims. The conflict threatens to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi—a city where different cultures, religions, and traditions have co-existed for centuries.

Based on the life of West Texas pioneer J.D. "Big John" Sanders, Generations is a celebration of Irish heritage, a story of indomitable spirit and unfailing vision, and of relentless pursuit of the American dream. After a whirlwind romance with the formidable Nora Brooks, Big John forges a cattle town in the rugged West Texas frontier during World War I. Thirty years later, Marion Kidd Sanders journeys to New York in pursuit of fame and fortune and brings the family name to new heights.

Autumn Hope knows for a fact that the man she’s to marry cuts timber in the Sulphur River bottoms. She’s seen him in her dreams—and exactly where he’s working. Of course, she convinces her father she must travel the 150 miles to meet the man of her dreams. If he isn’t to be her husband, why would she kiss him in her vision? The lady’s sudden appearance baffles Sean. Craziness needs a keeper, but how did she ever find him? Wounded by lost love, he cannot believe the tall tale the pretty lady is spinning. It has to be a scam, right? God doesn’t work that way...or does He?

Scripture tells a husband to love his wife, but what if she loves the memory of a dead man? Lured to the Texas frontier by more free land than they could ever buy, four families struggle to carve a home and a living out of the Western wilderness. And though love isn’t always easy coming, like bees to sweet flowers, a neighbor and his partner swoop in, hoping to steal the hearts of the clan’s two young beauties. Will their infants spoil the ointment? Predator animals, Indians on the warpath, and living hand to mouth never make it easy, but my, oh my—Texas, my Texas! What a land!

These colorful characters of the 1930s and '40s lived life’s circumstances as adventures. They lived at a time when they were called upon to build a city and a history-making dam, to grow a fledgling spit of a town in the desert into what would become the world-famous Las Vegas. They were rugged individuals on a desert frontier living ordinary lives during an exceptional time in our history and rose to the occasion. They survived Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and made wartime sacrifices.

Natalia Morrow is 15. Her relationship with Tobias isn't all what it seems. As Thanksgiving nears, America officially goes to Vietnam, Toby plots his revenge, and Toffer realizes his life is almost over. J. Edgar (Eddie) Hoover and Clyde Tolson hide their relationship while running the FBI. But in Washington, secrets never remain secrets...

The year 1954. Natalia Morrow is 13 and already turning heads. Her crush on Tobias French has become worse and her inability to separate fact from fantasy has her parents concerned. The French family has lost it all. Their greed and thirst for power has cost them everything, including their home and possessions. But Tobias believes his father has money hidden away. After all, he does. It doesn't matter that the money is stolen.... He still has it stashed away. Across the pond in French Indochina, Nick and Demmie Morrow are still fighting to keep the US out of the war.

Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their newborn baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family, who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably. But when the chance for true love finally comes, will Dilly choose family over her own happiness?

Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother, Duncan, lose their mother to an insane asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. With their grandmother seeming to have little interest in her grandson's disappearance and the police soon giving up hope, it is left to Maisy to discover the truth.