Historical Family Saga

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.

Im Berlin der 30er-Jahre brodelt das Leben, aber am Horizont drohen schon dunkle Wolken. Linda und Gitte, Töchter einer liberalen, gutbürgerlichen Familie, genießen ihre Jugend. Linda heiratet den sensiblen und charismatischen Erich, die Liebe ihres Lebens. Als er aus dem Krieg nicht zurückkehrt, fällt sie in tiefe Melancholie und wird schließlich in eine Heilanstalt eingewiesen - gefährlich in einer Zeit, in der psychische Krankheiten zum Todesurteil werden können.

Vereinigte Staaten, 1855. An Bord der "Golden Star" flieht Abigail, die frühere Lady of Mahony, vor Sir Laurence, ihrem Peiniger und Vergewaltiger und dem Mörder ihres Geliebten Oliver. In Captain Jacob Maroon findet sie überraschend einen Verbündeten. Abigails Ziel ist New York – und eine wertvolle Statue, in die sie einst all ihren Schmuck gießen ließ. Sie wurde der Familie gestohlen und an einen New Yorker Multimillionär veräußert.

Eine alte Villa. Eine große Liebe. Ein dunkles Geheimnis. Die Staatsanwältin Melody Stewart flüchtet vor ihren beruflichen und privaten Problemen in die Vergangenheit. Im idyllischen Stockmill hat sie ein Haus geerbt und folgt mit Dan Rashleigh den verschlungenen Wegen der gemeinsamen Familiengeschichte. Dreh- und Angelpunkt dabei ist ihre Vorfahrin, die mutige Lady Abigail Hampton, die bereit war, aus Liebe alles zu opfern. Um ihren Geliebten Oliver Rashleigh vor der Hinrichtung zu retten, floh sie im Jahr 1843 mit ihm nach New York.

Ein packender Historienroman über eine außergewöhnliche Frau, die in den Geschichtsbüchern bisher nur eine Fußnote war - die Mutter Karls des Großen. Willensstark, ehrgeizig und manchmal skrupellos: das ist Bertrada von Laon. Als junge Frau im Frühmittelalter muss sie sich in einer von Männern dominierten Welt voller Intrigen, Verrat und Mord behaupten. Die kluge Bertrada schafft es, sich allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz zur Königin krönen zu lassen. Dann kommt ihr Sohn Karl zur Welt - und Bertrada ist entschlossen, ihm zur absoluten Macht zu verhelfen.

Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages.

Rügen, 1890: Anne steht ihrem Vater, dem Inselarzt, stets mit Rat und Tat zur Seite. Sie würde selbst gern Ärztin werden, doch kommt aufgrund ihres Geschlechts nicht als Nachfolgerin für die Praxis infrage. Ein Ausweg bietet für Anne jedoch der voraussichtliche Nachfolger ihres Vaters: Dr. Franze. Schnell erkennt die junge Frau jedoch, dass es sich bei ihm nur um einen Stümper und Schwerenöter handelt. Kann Anne ihre Position verteidigen und sich ihren Traum erfüllen? Und wird der charmante und junge Badearzt Bernd Vogel ihr bei ihrem Ziel behilflich sein können?

When Stefan Jochum returns from England to Berlin in August 1945, it is to find a city counting the cost of the Second World War. The Hotel Quadriga is in ruins, his father is dead and his sister, Monika, is living in the Soviet-occupied zone. Determined to survive despite unconquerable odds, his mother Viktoria ekes out an existence from the cellar of the Cafe Jochum.

Molly lives with her repugnant father, who has betrayed her many times. From a young age, living on the streets of London's East End, she has seen the harsh realities of life.... When she's kidnapped by a gang and forced into their underworld, her future seems bleak. Flo spent her early years in an orphanage and is about to turn her hand to teacher training. When a kindly teacher at her school approaches her about a job at Bletchley Park, it could be everything she never knew she wanted.

Robert Sullivan has been left to raise three-year-old Nancy and her seven-year-old brother Jack by himself.Unable to cope, Robert is driven to abandon his children to those he believes can provide them with a better life. However, he quickly has a change of heart and decides to go back for them. But on the way there, he is involved in a horrific accident.

At Treetops Foundling Home in Victorian Nuneaton, one special little girl brings sunshine and joy wherever she goes. A favourite of her foster mother, Kitty grows into a beguiling young woman but soon attracts the attention of more than one suitor with questionable intentions. She quickly discovers that her beauty is no protection against the peril she finds herself in, as this innocent young girl makes her way in the music halls and theatres of the big city....

Primo romanzo della Morante si svolge in Sicilia tra fine Ottocento e inizi del Novecento ed è imperniata su una genealogia femminile: nonna, madre, nipote.

The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a cafe in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers, so too does Karl's business empire, and he rises to become the proprietor of Europe's finest and most luxurious hotel. Situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Hotel Quadriga is a glorious monument to Imperialist Germany.

Thorstein Thomsens meget roste romaner, "Bare vi har hinanden", "Roser til mor" og "Han er min bror" kommer nu i en flot omnibusudgave. Persongalleriet i de tre romaner er beboere i det samme boligkompleks i Lyngby, og bøgerne giver et flot tidsbillede af forstadslivet fra 1950'erne til slutningen af 1980'erne - med øget velfærd, ungdomsoprør, ny musik, uddannelsesboom, kvinder på arbejdsmarkedet og opbrud i kernefamilien.

Despite a deathbed warning from her beloved mother, Phoebe Mulligan has no choice but to throw herself on the mercy of her uncle, Edward. Wrenched from all she holds dear, the tragic young girl is delivered to Blackburn town, where she must live in a household terrorised by the cold, forbidding presence of her mother's brother. Phoebe cannot understand why she is treated so harshly by Edward Dickens. She is not to know the guilty secret that lies in his past, a secret that casts a sinister shadow over his feelings for his lovely niece.

Warwickshire, 1910. Pious young Grace Kettle escapes the world of her unsavoury and bullying father to train to be a nun. But when she meets the dashing and devout Father Luke her world is turned upside down. Her faith is tested, and she is driven to make a scandalous and life-changing choice - one she may well spend the rest of her days seeking forgiveness for.

Filha mais velha do enigmático Pa Salt, Maia D’Aplièse sempre levou uma vida calma e confortável na isolada casa da família às margens do lago Léman, na Suíça. Ao receber a notícia de que seu pai morreu, ela vê seu universo de segurança desaparecer. Antes de partir, no entanto, Pa Salt deixou para as seis filhas dicas sobre o passado de cada uma. Abalada pela morte do pai e pelo reaparecimento súbito de um antigo namorado, Maia decide seguir as pistas de sua verdadeira origem que a fazem viajar para o Rio de Janeiro.

1922. After the horrors of the Great War, the close-knit Truscott family return to everyday life on their busy Hampshire farm. But the two Truscott sisters are on very different paths. Kate is happily married to Albert, content to be a mother and farmer’s wife. Her younger sister Dot sets her heart on becoming a teacher. But an unforeseen tragedy means Dot must give up her place at college. Instead she resigns herself to becoming a lady’s companion to wealthy Mrs Humboldt, who is a difficult woman to please.

Somerset, 1911. Miner's wife Lorna Harrison sometimes wonders what became of her marriage. The affection has gone, and now her husband Harry is surly and cold. But Lorna will always be grateful for the joy that their two daughters bring. When a devastating accident occurs at the pit and Harry is unable to work, Lorna worries about how she will make ends meet. Worse, the pit owner wants them out of their house. While Lorna's friend Flossie is a tower of strength, other neighbours turn their backs, as rumours spread that Harry helped cause the mine collapse.

It's 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son, Frazer, with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mother's care. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh and knows the joy - and pain - of motherhood with further children, her heart always aches for the little boy she left behind. When Frazer travels to Scotland 20 years later, it seems Bess' dreams of a reconciliation will come true.