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In 1938 Chicago, a seamstress's needle can stitch together more than just fabric—it can weave power, danger, and an unexpected love that defies every boundary. Ruby Washington has built her reputation as Chicago's most talented seamstress by keeping secrets. Every dress she creates holds the confidences of its wearer, from society wives to jazz singers. But her greatest secret is one she inherited: her mother didn't die in an accident twenty years ago—she was murdered for trying to change how business was done in the Windy City. Marco Valentini may be heir to Chicago's most powerful ...

Zwei Frauen – getrennt durch Jahrzehnte und Kontinente und vereint durch ein außergewöhnliches Familienerbstück Neu-England, 2022. Vor drei Jahren erhielt die alleinerziehende Mutter Mallory Dunne den Anruf, den alle Eltern fürchten: Ihr zehnjähriger Sohn Sam war mit einer akuten Vergiftung durch einen Totenkappenpilz aus dem Sommercamp geflogen worden, und kämpfte um sein Leben.

Ben Shattuck ist eine literarische Entdeckung – ein Wortmagier, der die Rätsel der menschlichen Seele erkundet. Die Geschichte einer geheimen Liebe, die einen Sommer lang währt – und die ein Leben lang als die »eigentliche Liebe« nachklingt: Im Schatten des Ersten Weltkriegs lernen sich Lionel und David, zwei Musikstudenten, in einer verrauchten Bar im ländlichen Maine kennen und werden Freunde. Nach dem Krieg wandern sie im Sommer durch die Wälder New Englands, um Volkslieder zu sammeln, die sie auf Wachszylinder aufnehmen. Aus unerklärlichen Gründen bricht der Kontakt ab.

Ein vertauschtes Erbe. Eine gefährliche Entdeckung. Eine verbotene Liebe. Nach dem Mord an ihrer Cousine Elvira und dem Verrat durch ihre Mutter ist Inez Olivera am Boden zerstört. Als ihr Onkel Ricardo ihr ein Ultimatum bezüglich ihres Erbes stellt, bleibt ihr nur noch ein Ausweg: Whitford Hayes zu heiraten. Doch der Assistent ihres Onkels hat seine eigenen mysteriösen Gründe, in Ägypten zu bleiben.

Historische fictie voor de lezers van Corina Bomann, Marie Lamballe en Marie Lacrosse Berlijn, 1923. De Berlijnse verloskundige Hulda Gold wordt opgeroepen om te helpen bij een bevalling. Hoewel het Joodse gezin volgens zijn eigen strikte regels leeft, wint Hulda het vertrouwen van de jonge moeder. Als de pasgeborene na een paar dagen op mysterieuze wijze verdwijnt, raakt ze dan ook betrokken bij de zoektocht. Hoe kan een pasgeboren baby verdwijnen in deze hechte gemeenschap?

1552, Paris: Against a backdrop of turmoil, suspicion, and paranoia, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened ex-nun Lysbette Angiers arrives one day at Charlotte Guillard’s famous printing shop with her manuscript, neither woman knows just how far the powerful elite will go to prevent the spread of Lysbette’s audacious ideas.

With her family’s perfumery in dire straits, Stella Penhallam needs a miracle. So, when her great-aunt’s journal from 1940s Paris lands on her desk, Stella realises that the missing pages could hold the answers she seeks. In 1939, as war breaks out across Europe, Iris Penhallam is forced into an impossible situation, one that will cause her world to come crashing down.

New River, Virginia. 1904. Lizbeth Bennet longs to preserve her family’s farm, securing a future for her and her sisters, a difficult task in their Appalachian coal mining town. Money is scarce, and Lizbeth is determined to find a way without giving up treasured pieces of her family’s legacy. But when the mine is put up for sale, it’s clear change is approaching. A contingent of coal barons descends on the town to investigate whether the mine is worth their investment, among them a young man rumored to be a very rich, eligible bachelor.

Freddie Archer is the epitome of the 1920s flapper, stylish, newly empowered, and always up for a good time. After all, spending her evenings at shows and in speakeasies is her job while writing Gotham Magazine’s popular nightlife column under the pseudonym “A Touch of Rouge.” Fraternizing with artists and bootleggers has Freddie used to the occasional scuffle, but lately her revelry is being followed by murder.

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war — for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon.

1929, Blue Moon, Montana. A rugged new generation is taking the helm of the cattle town’s most infamous and powerful families. But even as the future burns bright, old rivalries, heartbreaks, buried secrets, and ranching feuds still loom as large as the western sky in a tale perfect for fans of Yellowstone craving western familial sagas.

Will and Thomas, freshly christened agents in America's newly established Office of Strategic Services, are dropped into occupied France with one simple mission: help the resistance and sabotage enemy supply lines. But nothing in war is simple. The constant fear of discovery tests the limits of Will and Thomas's relationship. They're in love, but in war, is love enough? Then a member of their team overhears a Nazi officer and a scientist discussing an insidious new weapon that could tip the balance of the war, and everything changes.

In the spring of 1910, an advertisement I spotted in the Boston newspaper called out to me: “Wealthy family in need of secretary on Whale Island. Must have an affinity for books.” When I’m offered the position, I do not hesitate to pack my meagre belongings and travel to Washington state. After all, I have nothing to lose. I’ve been dismissed from my current position. I have no family. It’s all a dream come true. The only problem? My employer, Benedict Tutheridge, makes my heart flutter and my knees wobble.

New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage, challenges everything she thought she knew about herself.

Gilded-Age Hollywood meets Christina Lauren in the third of Maureen Lee Lenker's rompy 1930s rom-coms. When movie star and notorious womanizer Flynn Banks finds his reputation in serious trouble, his studio insists he publicly date his new co-star, Liv De Lesseps, to save it—except Liv might swashbuckle her way into his heart for real.

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Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn't heard from in three years. Her daughter Ingrid is the bright spot in her life and Anni is determined to keep her safe and happy. However, when a German official is billeted at their house, the situation for them both becomes far more dangerous, and Anni faces an impossible choice. London, 1952.

Aboard the Titanic, where opulence knows no bounds and the horizon seems limitless, two women fight for the futures they dream of, fraught with secrets that could change everything. Hannah Martin is clinging to the hope that six days on this grand ship will heal the wounds in her marriage to Charles. Beneath her poised exterior lies a desperation to mend what was shattered and conceal a secret that could upend their lives forever.

Will Shaw and his friends are typical college students, enjoying dances and parties without much care for life beyond. When Thomas, a handsome Naval officer and newly arrived student, nearly stumbles into Will and his friends, Will's heart spins, though he doesn't understand why. Sparks of something new burst within, opening his eyes to possibilities he'd never dreamed. In the giddy fog of a forbidden courtship and the safety of the campus bubble, the world's troubles seem far away. Until they aren't. German tanks roll through Europe, while Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

Paris, 1952 -- An ex-pat wife living in Paris signs up for a cookery class taught by an American chef with an indomitable wit and decidedly French airs—an instructor by name of Julia Child. Amongst classes of the L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, with pots and pans and prim Paris wives learning to sauté in the French way, Kat Fontaine learns much more than she bargained for. Still haunted by the years she spent serving in the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII, Kat soon finds a simple cookery class unearths the tangle of gut-wrenching memories of war.