Historical Family Saga

In the shadows of London, every choice is a matter of life or death. Sixteen-year-old Mandy Turner dreams of a better life, but the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London have little mercy for a girl like her. Her life is a relentless battle for survival. Not only for herself, but also those who relies on her. While struggling to keep her siblings alive, Mandy is drawn into a dark underworld where debts are deadly and alliances come at a cost. She longs to escape this world of cruel overseers, heartless landlords, and a shadowy gang whose leader always collects his debts. When her closest...

Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish woman who survived Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Palestine after a treacherous journey and seeks refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When Judith learns her uncle has died, she tries to take her own life in despair. In Hadassah Hospital, Hana, an Arab nurse, saves Judith’s life by donating her own blood. A fragile bond of friendship develops between the two women, but it will face a harsh test over time.

Relationships fracture when two families find themselves caught up in the Irish Troubles The Green family move to Kilkenny from England in 1969, at the beginning of the conflict in Northern Ireland. They rent a farmhouse on the outskirts of town, and make friends with the O’Connor family next door. Not every member of the family adapts easily to their new life, and their differing approaches lead to misunderstandings and friction. Despite this, the bonds between the family members deepen with time. Perturbed by the worsening violence in the North threatening to invade their lives, the ...

Eine Zerreißprobe für die Familien von Falkenbach und Lehmann. Der neue historische Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta. Bernried am Starnberger See, 1938: Unternehmer Wilhelm Lehmann geht es nicht so schlecht, wie er nach seinem Schlaganfall fast allen Familienmitgliedern glauben machen will. Als er auch noch seine gesamten Firmenanteile für fünf Reichsmark verkauft, steht die restliche Familie vor einem großen Rätsel.

In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed, is shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children. He moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly held belief that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in motion a twisted chain of events that forever change his children’s lives.

This is a story filled with passion and mistrust. A lovely spinster and a tall, dark stranger ignite a spark of true love that could unite two lonely hearts. Kathleen Kathleen Parker was the picture of primness and propriety. She was a thirty-year-old beauty with big green eyes that could look straight through a person’s soul. In town, they called her the old spinster lady. Kathleen wasn’t a stranger to their ridicule, because she knew that men only wanted her five hundred–acre cattle ranch—not her. At eighteen, she was heartbroken by her first love. Thereafter, she vowed to never ...

In Uncharted Hearts, cartographer Charlotte Foster leads a wagon train across the Oregon Trail to solve her father’s mysterious disappearance—until Army scout Marcus Blackwood, a man with secrets, upends her journey. As danger stalks the trail and betrayal brews, Charlotte and Marcus must navigate cryptic maps, buried truths, and a growing passion. With survival at stake and trust hanging by a thread, their love may be the only path through the untamed wilds of the frontier.

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.

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities of home and family derail their dreams.

In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes’s passion for science, she begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it.

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a captivating WWII Spy Thriller: After D-Day, her photograph appears on the most-wanted Nazi propaganda posters. Who is the girl with the red beret? She reminds him of Natasha, but no, that cannot be. Why does Rochelle step into his life when he is led by SS soldiers to the gallows? At the risk of being found out as a French Resistance fighter, what makes her propose marriage to a condemned man?★★★★★ ”The story of how they survived such horrors is extraordinary. Also extraordinary is the author's deep and gorgeous writing....

If you are falsely accused of murder, you have to make the best of it. In 2022, Peter Bodnár’s DNA test reveals mysterious relatives. He dives into obsessive research to uncover his family’s history. In 1882, a fatal pub fight forces young farmhand Gyuri (George) Bodnár to flee his homeland, Upper Hungary. He navigates his way through the cordons of gendarmes, survives the boiler room of an Atlantic-crossing steamer and tricks US immigration to find a new homeland. For some, this is the Gilded Age, but for newly arrived immigrants there is only bleak darkness: drudgery in coal mines ...

Maggie Bailey has not had an easy childhood. Her father, Michael, always too easy with his fists after spending the family’s rent money down the pub. Just sixteen, in love and blinded by promises, Maggie sees marriage to handsome Jack as her great escape. However, she soon finds herself abandoned with a beautiful baby when Jack disappears. Maggie is forced to seek a new life away from the East End of London and finds herself a job at a hotel in Yarmouth.

The year is 1915, and the war is raging on.... The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all, and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life. Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to the front but doesn't expect such coldness from her future mother-in-law. David's battalion is almost ready to be sent to the front, but how will Beattie's fragile peace of mind endure?

Her whole life was a lie. Will she ever discover the truth? Young Amy’s world shatters when she's ripped from her loving mother. Now known as Bridget, she lives a life of servitude, forced to beg and steal while enduring the relentless cruelty of the underworld couple, Lottie and Ernest. Amid the darkness, Bridget's only glimmer of hope is the sweet bond she develops with Cecil, who protects and cares for her. Haunting dreams of a kind woman she barely remembers fill Bridget's nights, offering a glimpse of the warmth and love she once knew. When a horrific revelation about their past ...

Little Jack never expected love would come at such a high cost. Now, he's left fighting for redemption. Torn from his mothers arms in the workhouse, Little Jack is thrust into the brutal world of chimney sweeping. Under the cruel reign of Smudge Blackwood, Jack's life is a relentless battle against hardship and despair. Amidst the darkness, he finds a glimmer of hope in Beryl, a terrified girl enduring the same grim fate. But when an escape attempt goes disastrously wrong, Beryl is left behind with Smudge, and Jack is forced to fend for himself on the unforgiving streets. Surviving as a ...

Being repeatedly burned out of his home is not something anyone gets used to, but Paul and Maggie Cowan came to know how to survive such events in the Borders area of 16th-century Scotland. Danger and hunger were their constant companions as repeated border wars between the English and Scots continued for centuries. To add to their miseries, general lawlessness by cattle thieves and robbers was the order of the day. This family saga recounts the lives of four generations of Cowans as they struggle for survival in a time of great upheaval. You will read about how decisions made by English ...

The third book in The Meredith Saga. These are turbulent times, world war is over, but peace is fragile. The Meredith’s return to life in the pastoral tranquility of Hengwm. Family life is re established only to be torn apart once more by the rise of evil. Once again, the warriors of Crecy are reunited to face a foe more ruthless than they have encountered before. Sibyl finds herself abandoned by all she holds dear but it is she who must hold them all together. In the lands below the mountains there is chaos as Aegir Lord of Annwn battles with his son and wreaks a terrible revenge. There ...

Are generations of Snee-Kinsman women actually cursed, or is it just bad luck? A paranormal family saga beginning in 1860 following one family’s journey of tragedy, resiliency and triumph. Their stories are told in three short read books. Book 3 – Cracking the Curse – 1992 - to the present - picks up where Book 2 left off * Two spiteful and competitive witches place a curse on each other’s female children. * To punish his wayward daughter, an angry father casts the family curse in stone – an emerald stone. * The ring with the emerald stone is to be worn by the women of the Snee-...

The path to progress is never smooth. Winkler is changing from a company-owned town to one with new private homes and businesses. Among these are a hospital, a newspaper, a movie theater, and the Eat and Sleep, now owned by May Rose and her husband, Barlow. But just as the town seems to be moving forward, May Rose’s eyes are opened to unjust practices she’s never thought about. To do what’s right, she’ll need the solidarity of friends both old and new. The Meaning of Us is the eighth book in the Mountain Women Series, bringing to life the struggles, triumphs, friendships and loves ...