Novedades

La guerra infuria a pochi chilometri dalla Linea Gotica, sulle colline di Pesaro, dove tedeschi e fascisti si scontrano con i partigiani del Toscano in attesa delle truppe alleate. Evelina ha solo cinque anni quando i primi rifugiati trovano riparo nel granaio di suo padre, quell'attimo in cui la sua vita viene travolta e la spensieratezza dei giochi d'infanzia lascia il posto all'orrore della guerra. Realtà e magia si mescolano e si intrecciano, riportando in vita un mondo contadino e fiabesco, l'intrico della guerra civile e quella mondiale.

Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong.

Reeling from her last knock-down, drag-out with Japan’s mighty combined fleet – the Kido Butai – USS Enterprise limps back to Pearl Harbor for repairs and refitting. And like the battle-hardened warriors who live and work inside her, this gallant lady will return to the fight even stronger… but it can’t happen too soon.

It’s 1943. The war rages. The newly launched WASP program is recruiting. And barnstormer fan Georgeanne “George” Ector’s dream is to take to the skies. Grit is what she inherited from her mother, an Oklahoma farm girl at the turn of the century who preferred taking apart an engine to stitching linens for a hope chest. She taught her daughter well. George isn’t the only woman about to follow her calling.

Hungary, 1939. Like most Hungarian Jews during the onset of World War II, Shomo Stern is sent to the front lines with the Forced Labor Services–to be worked to death under the thumb of the Nazi war machine. Fighting the bitter European winter, the battalions witness horrific events in the wake of the Nazi advance.

Auckland, New Zealand, August 1943. After the body of an old WW1 soldier is found in the repair shed of the Auckland Train Station, the police call in security. The Viceregal Carriages are in the shed being spruced up for an American V.I.P., and the police are worried that something has been planted on the carriages. The U.S. Consulate asks Kate Hardy to impersonate the V.I.P. on an earlier train trip from Auckland to Wellington. She has been chosen for her height, but the woman she is to impersonate is even taller than she is and significantly older. She takes the job as a way to continue ...

Germany’s insidious scheme draws the United States into the Great War. Peril and unease hover as Americans enlist and volunteer for the cause. But it’s the lurking risk on the home front that threatens to shatter lives. April 1917. President Wilson reneges on his campaign promise when the United States declares war on Germany. A military draft soon follows, and tension falls over the small German-settled Minnesota town of Holmesburg. Seventeen-year-old Melania Harvey happily moves to Minneapolis with her parents when they secure employment at a large flour mill—the location distancing...

All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life – as a secretary, a scientist, a sister and a spy. From racist gangs in Berlin to gangsters in New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler's inner circle during the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of history's greatest minds and most terrible moments, all while desperately trying to stay alive.

Rachael is a resilient Jewish woman imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II, clinging to the memories of her lost family while enduring the harrowing reality of the concentration camp. Amidst the brutality, she uncovers a hidden diamond engagement ring in the mud—its brilliance offering a glimmer of hope and a reason to survive. As she navigates the perils of camp life, Rachael forms a profound bond with Chaya, a young girl also yearning for connection and comfort in their shared despair.

Última entrega del ciclo narrativo y obra cumbre de la literatura universal, A la busca del tiempo perdido, de Marcel Proust. Desde la infancia del Narrador, desde Combray y cerca de Swann, todo ha cambiado. Es hora de hacer balance. En el claroscuro del París de la Gran Guerra, bajo un cielo de bombardeos, emergen monstruos, figuras irreconocibles del pasado.

The Life of Lee Lye Hoe is a fictionalized adventure story based on the life of a real person who was the nanny for author’s wife, Fong Moke Chee, when she was a child and their two children. She was born in the paternalistic rural society of Canton China in 1921. At age six her father abandoned her and her mother, leaving them to manage the family farm on their own. At age sixteen her mother died leaving her to manage the farm on her own and to raise two younger orphaned girl cousins.

The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of GIs to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants after World War II. After the war, 300,000 women married American servicemembers and immigrated to the United States. This novel is about the experiences of five war brides who followed their husbands to Bozeman, Montana. Adapting to the way of life in Montana was not easy in those days, but they persevered and built good lives there. While A British Wife is a novel, it is based on stories I heard from my British war bride mother and her friends. Most of ...

Tirol, 1972: Nach einem traumatischen Erlebnis zieht sich die Münchner Ingenieurin Hanna Voss in die Einsamkeit der Alpen zurück. Im traditionsreichen Berghotel Waldfrieden sucht sie Ruhe – doch stattdessen begegnet sie Schatten, die bis weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreichen. Als Hanna in der Bibliothek ein vergilbtes Tagebuch entdeckt, entfaltet sich vor ihr das Schicksal von Johann Trenkwalder, einem Soldaten des Ersten Weltkriegs, und seiner Frau Margarete.

LOS AUTORESJavier Cosnava ha publicado 30 obras en editoriales tan prestigiosas como Suma de Letras, Dolmen o, en Francia, Sarbacane (Flammarion) 37 premios literarios, destacando el Ciudad de Palma, el Serra i Moret de la Generalitat de Cataluña y el premio Haxtur del Festival del Principado de Asturias. En Amazon se ha especializado en novelas de la segunda guerra mundial y thrillers policíacos junto a Teresa Ortiz Tagle, autora asturiana de gran éxito, habitual en las listas de los más vendidos. LA NOVELA Un hombre que afirma ser Sherlock Holmes aparece en la Inglaterra de 1930. Sin ...

The Family Koenig is a historical novel about several generations of physicians in a Jewish family during the core years of the 20th century. It is a gripping book that is rich with historical detail that contains love stories, abandonment, wars, murders and suicides; and yet is a meditation on how its physicians find inner strength, become true healers, and find and nurture love.

A Nazi judge tries Nazi concentration camp commandants for embezzlements and crimes against prisoners. His job becomes complicated when he begins an affair with a commandant's wife.

Chicago, 1924: Emily and her new husband, Henry, yearn to leave the bustle of Chicago for the promise of their own American dream among the harsh beauty of the prairie. But leaving the city means leaving Emily’s beloved sister, Annie, who was once closer to her than anyone in the world. Kansas, 1932: Emily and Henry have established their new home among the warmth of the farming community in Kansas. Aligned to the fickle fortunes of nature, their lives hold a precarious and hopeful purpose, until tragedy strikes and their orphaned niece, Dorothy, lands on their doorstep.

Paris, 1924. The Olympics. Lucy Morton, an ambitious Blackpool swimmer waits to find out if she’s won against her American rival. If she has, she’ll be the first British woman to win Gold in an individual event. If she has, it’ll upset the apple cart. The Americans have been sweeping the boards and, at 26, she’s a veteran in the sport. If she has, it’ll be despite the car accident she was in just 48 hours before, which saw her lose five teeth, crack a rib and be out cold until the morning of the biggest race of her life.

During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events. As Allied bombs rain down on Torino in the autumn of 1942, Stella Costa’s mother sends her to safety with distant relatives in a Tuscan villa. There, Stella finds her family tasked with a great responsibility: hiding nearly 300 priceless masterpieces from Florence, including Botticelli’s famous Primavera.

In the heart of the US capital, Dinah Kendall's role for the Office of Strategic Services isn't the thrilling espionage career she dreamed of. Instead, she spends her days crafting rumors aimed at undermining Axis morale. As Dinah navigates her duties, she uncovers a startling revelation: Her mother, Lillian, was once a codebreaker, cracking military ciphers during the Great War alongside some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The deeper Dinah dives into her mother's past, the more secrets come to light—including the heavy cost of high-stakes codebreaking.