World Family

Virginia and Joe Thorndike have been married for 22 years, and now she's in love with a surgeon 13 years her junior. She leaves her husband and flies to Miami to start living with Rich Villamano, but there he tells her he has changed his mind and they must go their own ways. She takes off in his car, heading north with no luggage, no hope, no destination. She buys a bottle of gin and drinks it straight. Afraid that she’ll kill herself or someone else on the road, she abandons the car, flies to New York and takes an airport hotel room. She has no home and nowhere to go.

Nach der Machtergreifung ist in Ginsterburg Alltag eingekehrt. Lothar träumt vom Fliegen. Seine Mutter Merle misstraut der neuen Ordnung, kann aber nur ohnmächtig zusehen, wie sein Traum ihren Sohn in die Arme der Hitlerjugend treibt. Manche Einwohner der kleinen Stadt leiden, andere profitieren – und die meisten versuchen, sich irgendwie zu arrangieren. Doch der Krieg, an fernen Fronten geschlagen, ist bald auch in Ginsterburg zu spüren, in den erschütterten Beziehungen und Seelen der Menschen.

Vier ehemalige Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs erzählen in diesem Buch ihre eigene Geschichte, die einem immer wieder einmal den Atem raubt. Heinz Polke war als Fahrer eines Oberleutnants beim Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto, Erich Menzel wurde als Radarspezialist auf dem berühmten letzten U-Boot Hitlers, der U 234, eingesetzt, Josef Hamberger spazierte regelrecht allein als "Schweijk" in der unendlichen Weite Russlands und die Schwester eines jungen Soldaten berichtet, dass ihr Bruder direkt nach Kriegsende von der Waffen-SS hingerichtet worden ist.

Understanding and Loving Your Child in a Screen-Saturated World will help parents understand the impact screens have on our children, and offers tips for how to use screens safely and strategically in their home.

Vinh Doan has a problem. Ten million of them, in fact. He’s a high-level fixer for global conglomerates, which means big money…and big troubles. When ten million dollars go missing from one of his accounts, he needs a top-notch hacker to find it. His first thought? Emily MacDonald, his high school ex. While Vinh has been taking the financial world by storm, Emily has been struggling. After her dad died, she dropped out of college and put her dreams aside. Her job in tech support has seriously tested her sunny disposition and her finances.

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won...

Three Wishes in Bardo draws an intimate picture of twentieth-century Hong Kong while telling the story of a typical Hong Kong bright boy and his devoted mother. It is also a story of scientific labor and discovery, where single-mindedness, integrity, talent, and skill rise from the mire of academic sharp-practice and envy. Different strands of the plot weave together to form a climactic ending where all characters’ lives resolve into fulfillment with a touch of humor and true catharsis created from genuine surprise.

Wartime Friends is a tale of unbreakable bonds in times of strife, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson. As the storm clouds of war gather over Britain, two brave, young women will discover the value of true friendship as they deal with troubles of their own while the lives of those they...

It's the 1940s and WWll is raging! There are six girls and three boys living with Mam in a log cabin with no electricity or running water. Pap comes home only when he feels the notion - so life's not easy. The struggles become even more real when 13-year-old Retha Pogue sees her brother, Wilburn, drafted and going off to war. Surprising twists await in this gripping tale of what life was really like for so many families. And you're invited! Come get to know Mam and the children by listening to their stories.

Timbuktu, western Africa, 1706. Folashade, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a professor of linguistics, is sent south with her older sisters, Bibi and Adaeze, to endure the painful ceremony that a girl on the cusp of womanhood is expected to. In Djenné, on the banks of the Niger, the sisters’ fate and that of their fellow Bambara are changed forever when they’re kidnapped, marched toward grueling indignities on Gorée Island, and eventually hauled aboard an English slaver bound for the Americas.

Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a closed door or written in a notebook stowed away. Cassandra has always been curious, and when a death in the family means she has to return home to Toronto, it seems like the perfect opportunity to finally discover what it is that no one else will talk about. But uncovering the past will never be easy when it has stayed hidden for so long. And with every new revelation, Cassandra realises that there is a reason that her family has never been good at grieving…

Come for a walk with me, if you would, along the streets of Jerusalem. My family has walked has walked these streets for more than a thousand years. . . Come for a walk with me, if you would, along the streets of Jerusalem. My family has walked has walked these streets for more than a thousand...

Harry Potter er desperat efter at komme tilbage til Hogwarts og finde ud af, hvorfor Ron og Hermione har været så hemmelighedsfulde hele sommeren. Men det femte år på Hogwarts bliver hverken let eller behageligt for Harry. Ministeriet for Magi nægter at tro på Harrys og Dumbledores forsikringer om, at Voldemort er vendt tilbage. Ministeren sender en repræsentant til skolen, som skal sørge for at udbrede Ministeriets holdning og lukke munden på Harry - med alle midler. Og med katastrofale følger....

"Edoardo Ballerini’s adroit narration conveys the subtle changes in the family, set against the splendor of Valetto’s changing landscape."- Bookpage From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith’s Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian...

"Peace must be fought for." The Thrilling saga of the Save the World Academy series comes to a powerful end in this gripping conclusion! As Viktor Steel's grand scheme to take over the world is revealed, the students must fight to survive in a race to protect the planet and themselves from a global threat. Prepare for an epic battle that will leave you speechless. Heads will roll!

A poacher's daughter meets the heir to a country estate – as their destinies intertwine, their lives will never be the same. The Poacher's Daughter is a story of love and fate from bestselling historical saga author Margaret Dickinson. It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Young Rosie...

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps.

Born in a quiet English village shortly before the onset of the Second World War, Simon Brand’s life is quickly and inextricably interwoven with the Clare-Thompson family and their country Estate which borders the village. His mother moves them away from the village after the war, and an honors degree in economics at Cambridge sees him opting for what proves to be a brilliant career as a business/financial consultant in the City. At the end of a day of goodbyes, in Cambridge, his eyes meet those of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman through the window of a bus.

Drei Frauen, drei Generationen, ein Schicksal? 1898. Die siebenjährige Minna muss schon früh erfahren, wie hart das Leben sein kann. Nach dem Verlust der Eltern und der Trennung vom Bruder vertraut sie niemandem mehr. Jahre später glaubt sie, in Otto einen liebevollen Ehemann und Familienvater gefunden zu haben. Doch die Realität belehrt sie eines Besseren... Minnas persönliche Erfahrungen sowie die Kriegsjahre prägen nicht nur ihr eigenes Schicksal, sondern auch das ihrer Kinder - insbesondere ihrer Tochter Eleonore und ihrer Enkelin Franka.

‘Ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath’ St. Joseph, patron of departing souls – pray for me.’ Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to a disturbing murder inquiry: a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have...