Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Literary Fiction

Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial mission.

Una nuova carrellata di irresistibili avventure di don Camillo e Peppone, la coppia di amici/nemici più famosi della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi. Da una parte c'è don Camillo, un prete di un paesino emiliano. Alto e ben piazzato, appassionato di caccia, don Camillo tende a risolvere pragmaticamente e fisicamente questioni ingarbugliate. Dall’altra c’è Peppone, il sindaco comunista del paese, amico d’infanzia di don Camillo e compagno di scorribande giovanili ma ideologicamente l'opposto di don Camillo.

Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel's guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees from the Balkans, Nazis, American diplomats and stateless Jews. The Portuguese secret police broodingly observe the visitors, terrified that their country's neutrality will be compromised. The novel seamlessly fuses the stories of its invented characters with appearances by historical figures.

"Husets prakt förbluffade henne men skänkte ingen tröst. Rummen var alldeles för stora för att hon skulle våga röra sig fritt i dem; hon trodde att hon skulle ha sönder allt hon rörde vid och hon smög omkring i ständig fruktan för ett eller annat; ofta drog hon sig undan till sitt eget rum för att gråta; och den lilla flickan, om vilken det sades i salongen när hon hade lämnat den på kvällen att hon verkade så medveten om sin enastående goda tur som man kunde önska, avrundade varje dags sorger med att snyfta sig till sömns."

En älskad klassiker i nyöversättning av Maria Ekman från 2016. När Anne Elliot var nitton år lät hon sig övertalas av sin familj och vänner att bryta förlovningen med sin stora kärlek, sjöofficern Wentworth, vars klasstillhörighet var betydligt lägre än hennes egen. En händelse som satte djupa spår i Anne. Åtta år senare har hon enligt sina nära och kära för länge sedan passerat sin ungdoms bästa år och därmed missat chansen att träffa en passande fästman. Men när Wentworth dyker upp i Annes liv igen är stämningen ångerfull och spänd.

Germain est un bon bougre mal dégrossi qui n'a pas eu la vie facile. Négligé par sa mère, père aux abonnés absents, brisé par l'école, il vit maintenant dans une caravane, cultive des légumes et sculpte des figurines en bois. Parfois, il va au parc pour compter les pigeons et c'est là qu'un jour, il rencontre la charmante octogénaire Margueritte, qui partage sa fascination. Cette rencontre changera leur vie.

Helene ist siebenundvierzig, Mutter zweier Teenager, attraktiv und beruflich so erfolgreich, dass sie ihren Mann Georg in den Schatten stellt. Einer der Gründe, weshalb er Helene nach fast zwanzig Ehejahren für eine andere sitzen lässt. Doch schon zuvor lag vieles im Argen. Wann haben sie zuletzt wirklich miteinander gesprochen? Kannten sie sich überhaupt noch? Dennoch: Die Trennung zieht Helene den Boden unter den Füßen weg.

Nell’s going back to school... but now she’s learning lessons of the heart. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy that will delight fans of Milly Johnson, Holly Martin and Heidi Swain Reception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she did until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. The roof’s full of holes, the back door’s hanging off and there’s a sheep in the front room...

Surpass all odds, break the chains, defeat a God... Heracles’ trials are far from over. Carrying the weight of the heavens, accompanied only by his most loyal friend, Iolaus, he will do anything to atone for his crimes. But all is not as it seems. Gods and men alike plot against him... First Heracles must obtain the girdle of the Amazonian Queen, Hippolyta, steal cattle from the monstrous Geryon, and take apples from the Garden of Hesperides.

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

"Operation Red Dragon and the Unthinkable" is the second instalment in the Rosone’s and Watson’s "World War III" series, an Amazon Top Selling series. It is set in an America which refuses to surrender their forces in the Middle East and capitulate to the Caliphate’s demands. The Middle East is ablaze and the Islamic State threatens the United States, nuclear annihilation is a risk on both sides, and China is hovering around the battlefield.

Entre Majorque et Marseille, deux destins de femmes bousculées par la Guerre d'Espagne et un secret de famille, mais unies par une même passion : la pâtisserie. Marseille, 2016 - En démontant le faux plafond d'un hôtel en travaux, un ouvrier tombe sur une boîte en fer rouillée contenant les souvenirs d'une vieille dame. Magdalena. Mais que se cache-t-il derrière cette photo de mariage ?

Piero è un ladro d'auto che, in una notte nebbiosa, incontra un ragazzo enigmatico in un autogrill della Pianura Padana. Tra i due nasce un legame misterioso, che li spingerà a una fuga senza meta e – forse – senza senso. Una storia intensa che riesce a descrivere i desideri e le frustrazioni del nostro tempo.

Im abgelegenen Bergdorf Eschberg wächst Johannes Elias Alder heran – ein junger Außenseiter mit einem Gehör, so fein, dass er den Flügelschlag einer Mücke hört und Bachs Choräle wie Feuer durch seine Adern jagen. Seine leidenschaftliche, unerfüllte Liebe zu seiner Cousine Elsbeth treibt ihn zu immer waghalsigeren musikalischen Höhenflügen – und zu einer Entscheidung, die alles verändert: nie wieder zu schlafen.

Homme ou femme, jeune ou vieux, salarié ou retraité... ils sont cinq à franchir le pas de la petite bibliothèque tenue par Sayuri Komachi en plein coeur de Tokyo. Leur point commun: ils sont au croisement de leur vie. A chacun Sayuri Komachi, énigmatique bibliothécaire attentive aux autres, proposera un ouvrage totalement inattendu, bien loin de celui qu'ils croyaient être venus chercher.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (published in 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.

"Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas rules local society with the help of her friend Georgie Pillson, a position she fiercely protects from her rival Daisy Quantock. But this very situation is at risk, as a scandal breaks out and a famous Prima Donna arrives in the sleepy old hamlet.

Es hätte nicht viel gefehlt, und Paul Poggemann wäre endgültig unter die Räder gekommen. Er hat alles verloren. Seine Frau, seinen Beruf, den Glauben an sein Talent. Im Keller eines Mietshauses verkriecht er sich und zieht Resümee. Er weiß, dass er nur weiterleben kann, wenn es ihm gelingt, seine schrecklichen Erinnerungen zu verarbeiten. Und so macht er das, was er kann: Er haut die Gedanken an die irrsinnigen Tage seiner Reporter-Tätigkeit in die Schreibmaschine. Erinnerungen an ein Leben voller Hetze, voller Brutalität und voller Alkohol.

A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own, he still believes everyone can learn from the past. History doesn’t always have to repeat itself.

Lara est Wedding Planner et elle s'est vu confier l'organisation du mariage de l'année sur la Côte d'Azur : celui de la fille d'un riche homme d'affaires colombien. Lorsque la police la contacte pour lui demander un coup de main dans leur enquête sur le père la mariée, la grande fan de série policière qu'elle est se prend au jeu. Mais entre une mariée exigeante, un lieutenant de police grognon, une patronne enceinte jusqu'aux yeux et un cadavre sur les bras, Lara ne va pas s'ennuyer. Trouvera-t-elle le temps de se faire ravir son cœur ?