Historical Family Saga

Sabine Mahler dachte, sie kann sich um ihre eigenen Angelegenheiten kümmern und die Augen vor den Ereignissen im Dritten Reich verschließen. Doch das ändert sich schlagartig, als die Gestapo Informationen von ihr benötigt. Plötzlich hängt das Überleben ihres Ehemanns von Sabines Bereitschaft ab, mit der Gestapo zusammen zu arbeiten. Schon bald steckt sie mitten in einer Widerstandsorganisation, die Juden aus Nazideutschland schmuggelt. Ihre Aufgabe? Den Anführer finden und ihn ausliefern.

Joan of Kent, renowned beauty and cousin to King Edward III, is destined for a politically strategic marriage. As the king begins a long dynastic struggle to claim the crown of France, plunging England into the Hundred Years' War, he negotiates her betrothal to a potential ally and heir of a powerful lordship. But Joan, haunted by nightmares of her father's execution at the hands of her treacherous royal kin, fears the king's selection and is not resigned to her fate. She secretly pledges herself to one of the king's own knights, one who has become a trusted friend...

East Texas in the 1960s is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake of The Jugheads, it was a minefield. Describing clearly and courageously first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights, Jake takes us through a wild coming-of-age ride, in an ordinary American family that he believes is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. By turns hilarious and moving, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form for a master of the underside of the American psyche.

Constantly moving, from South Africa to the Persian Gulf, to Rhodesia, to England, and ultimately to suburban New Jersey, the Laments are a quirky and lovable family who live by the motto "anywhere but here." The main character, Will Lament, whom the Laments take home from the hospital as a result of a bizarre mix-up, grows up feeling that he doesn't belong.

In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and more than anything, Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child¹s game of pretend.

Hardly out of childhood, Amy Kennedy and fellow orphans Seth, Jay and Daisy are sent from the Lambeth Workhouse in London to the Devon port of Brixham to be taken into service, the girls as maidservants, the boys as apprentices on a trawler. Although her initiation into her job is hard, Amy quickly finds her feet, and shortly her horizons are brightened by an attentive young man, Daniel Newton, the son of a prosperous sea captain.

Niamh O’Rourke Ahern knows she should feel shame. Regret. Remorse. Anything but the deep relief filling her to the depths of her soul. What kind of woman is she to rejoice at the death of her husband? What woman yearns for another’s touch as her husband’s casket is being lowered into the ground? In the end, she knows it doesn’t matter, for she will always be alone. No man will ever fully earn her trust again.

Eine Familie. Eine Vision. Ein Weg. Hamburg 1912: Der junge Kaufmann Otto Lagerfeld ist zu Besuch bei seiner Familie, als er zufällig der Schwester seines besten Freundes begegnet. Er ist sofort von Theresias Liebreiz bezaubert. Zum Abschied schenkt sie ihm ein vierblättriges Kleeblatt als Glücksbringer. Trotz seiner aufregenden Reisen kann Otto Theresia nicht vergessen, ihren Glücksbringer trägt er immer bei sich. Doch gerade als Ottos neugegründetes Unternehmen zu florieren beginnt, bricht der Krieg aus, und er gerät in Gefangenschaft.

When her family is struck by a terrible tragedy, Sarah Nightingale is forced to go into service at Grey Friars House as an under-nursery-maid. Although the situation wasn’t of her making Sarah thrives there, but life for her younger brother Alfie is not as easy. Desperate to avoid being sent to the workhouse, Alfie runs away to London to seek his fortune. But young and inexperienced with the dangerous streets of London, Alfie is tricked and sold to work as a slave on a coal barge. Sarah misses her brother terribly but knows she must find a way to survive if she ever wants them to be reunited.

When Maya was a girl, her grandmother was everything to her: teller of magical fairy tales, surrogate mother, best friend. Then, her grandmother disappeared without a trace, leaving Maya with only questions to fill the void. Twenty-seven years later, her grandmother’s body is found in a place she had no connection to. Desperate for answers, Maya begins to unravel secrets that go back decades, from 1910's New York to 1930's Germany and beyond.

En Polonia, mientras la Segunda Guerra Mundial avanza, una madre esconde junto con su joven hija, un prodigio musical cuyo sonido más leve podría costarles sus vidas. Mientras soldados nazis persiguen a los judíos de su pueblo, Róza y su hija de cinco años, Shira, huyen, buscando refugio en el granero del vecino. Escondidas en el henar día y noche, Shira lucha para mantenerse tranquila y callada, pero la música alrededor de la granja la llama constantemente. Para apaciguar a su hija, Róza le cuenta la historia de una niña en un jardín encantado.

Eine etwas andere DDR-Geschichte: ironisch, rotzig, zärtlich. Mit tiefgründigem Humor erzählt Bastienne Voss von der Zeit mit ihrem Opa Gustav, dem "Oberirren mit dem KZ-Koller", und ihrer Oma Wilma. "Zuerst hatte ich einen Großvater, dann eine Großmutter und dann Eltern und alles andere, was so zum Leben gehört. Großvater hatte ein Ding zu laufen. Dass er sich das im KZ weggeholt hatte, wusste ich damals noch nicht. Jedenfalls ließ er an dem Ding, das er zu laufen hatte, alle teilhaben, und so hatte auch Großmutter bald ein Ding zu laufen. Bei mir wuchs das Ding von Jahr zu Jahr, bis es hier und da mein sogenanntes Normalverhalten überschattete. In unserer Familie hatten also mindestens drei Leute eine Macke: Opa, Oma und ich. 13 Jahre lang polterte Großvater durch mein Leben. 13 Jahre lang fürchtete ich mich vor dem Tyrannen und Wundertäter, den ich abgöttisch liebte."

The Archer's Castle is the second book in an exciting action-packed saga set in medieval England during the days of King Richard and King John, prior to the Magna Carta. It is the tale of an English serf who rises to become the captain of a company of archers and leads its survivors as they fight their way back to dangerous and brutal feudal England after King Richard suddenly abandons his crusade - and what happens to him and his archers when they return. Most of the archers do not return as a result of intense fighting, but some of the former serfs and free men do return.

Lord and Lady Brockenhurst play host to some troublesome relatives while the Trenchards receive an unexpected invitation. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week-by-week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings.