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1932: Ruth hat eine unbeschwerte Jugend. Die meiste Zeit verbringt sie in der Villa des benachbarten Seidenhändlers Merländer. Sie ist fasziniert von den kunstvoll bedruckten Stoffen, lernt Schnittmuster zu entwerfen und Taschen und Zierrat zu fertigen. Hier begegnet sie auch Hans, ihrer ersten großen Liebe. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, scheint es für sie beide keine Zukunft zu geben, denn Ruth ist Jüdin. Über Nacht muss sie aus ihrer Heimatstadt fliehen, und lässt ihre Eltern und alles, was ihr wichtig ist, zurück. Und dann kommt der Tag, an dem das Schicksal ihrer Familie in Ruths Händen liegt.

Eine berührende und authentische Familiensaga über ein bislang wenig bekanntes Kapitel der Geschichte. 1930 wütet das Sowjetregime mit Enteignungen und Verhaftungen in den ehemals wohlhabenden deutschen Dörfern der Krim. Jeder, der noch Land oder Einfluss hat, schwebt in Gefahr. Wilhelm Scholz weigert sich, seinen letzten Grundbesitz an den Staat zu überschreiben. Mitten in der Nacht zerren bewaffnete Männer ihn, seine Frau Anna und ihre kleinen Kinder aus dem Haus. Die Familie wird in die eisige Wildnis des Hohen Nordens gebracht und Baumfällarbeiten zugeteilt.

Die Fortsetzung und der Abschluss der großen Ostpreußen Saga von Bestsellerautorin Ulrike Renk. Nach Ende des Krieges besetzen die Sowjetischen Truppen das Land. Viele Gutsfamilien verlassen ihre Heimat und ziehen in den Westen. Auch Gebhards Brüder und seine Mutter. Er jedoch kann sich einfach nicht dazu entschließen, das Land seiner Väter zu verlassen. Dann wird er denunziert und verhaftet. Frederike droht das gleiche Schicksal. In letzter Sekunde flieht sie mit ihren Kindern in den Westen. Doch auch dort kann sie nicht bleiben. Ihre einzige Chance ist es, nach Schweden zu emigrieren - aber wird ihr ein Neuanfang gelingen?

Pour fuir l'oppression anglaise, Claire et Jamie embarquent pour le Nouveau Monde, où ils espèrent enfin trouver la paix. Toutefois, lorsqu'ils échouent sur les rivages de Caroline du Nord en 1767, l'Amérique est à l'aube de son indépendance : tandis que la révolution se prépare, les deux amants vont une fois de plus être emportés par le tourbillon de l'Histoire. Restée en sécurité dans le XXe siècle, leur fille Brianna cherche à percer le secret de sa naissance.

Kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit erfährt Frederike, dass ihr Mann Ax eine schwere Krankheit hat. Er geht in ein Sanatorium und Frederike hofft auf seine Genesung. Als er stirbt, steht sie vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens. Allein und ohne eigenes Vermögen muss sie das Gut mit der großen Trakehnerzucht bewirtschaften. Jahre der Verzweiflung und Einsamkeit folgen, bis sie Gebhard von Mansfeld kennenlernt, den sie heiratet und mit dem sie auf sein Gut in der Prignitz zieht.

England, 1435. Eleanor Cobham has married into the highest ranks of the aristocracy - she is now the Duchess of Gloucester. She and her husband, the Duke Humphrey, set up a court of their own to rival the royal court in London, surrounding themselves with fascinating and influential people. But Eleanor craves the one thing she lacks: a son and heir, and with him a possible route to the throne of England. Desperate, Eleanor turns to the one person she believes can help her: Margery Jourdemayne, a woman now remembered as the infamous Witch of Eye.

Ostpreußen 1920: Frederike verbringt eine glückliche und unbeschwerte Kindheit auf dem Gut ihres Stiefvaters in der Nähe von Graudenz. Bis sie eines Tages erfährt, dass ihre Zukunft mehr als ungewiss ist: Ihr Erbe ist nach dem großen Krieg verloren gegangen, sie hat weder Auskommen noch Mitgift. Während ihre Freundinnen sich in Berlin vergnügen und ihre Jugend genießen, fühlt sich Frederike ausgeschlossen.

For a long, brutal century, the Kingdom of Lower Egypt has been occupied by the "Vile Asiatics", the conquerors called the Shepherd Kings. With their horses and chariots, they overwhelmed the armies of Egypt and swept over the Delta and the sacred cities. Iry, daughter of an old noble house, the Sun Ascendant, has been enslaved by the bearded conquerors. But her new master is born of a different blood, son of the priestess of an ancient rite, the cult of the Horse Goddess and her avatar, the White Mare.

In a time of raids and ransoms, Aidan MacLeod is responsible for a formidable Scottish keep and all the people within. Yet the fearless Highland laird never forgets his charge to shield his young half-brother from the grave consequences of his tragic birth.Linked By FateBut an alluring stranger known only as Syrena could undo all of Aidan's defenses. For Syrena has vowed to bring Aidan's brother to a realm far from the Scotland of their understanding. To succeed, she is at Aidan's mercy.

Widowed and childless, Angie is named The Woman of Sorrow by Niko, a noble warrior of the Apache. But as passion ignites between them, Angie must weather the storm of prejudice and injustice for another chance at true happiness - and true love.

On a frigid March day in Yorkshire in 1895, 10-year-old Marissa Ayers encounters the raven-haired, blue-eyed stranger for the first time. When next they meet, she has escaped the dust of the coal mines and is now a lady's maid at a fine estate, determined to escape her hardscrabble life. She instantly recognizes him, but has no inkling that their lives are about to come together in the most intimate way - until her mistress begs her to take her place in a marriage of convenience.

Twenty-five years ago, Martin Roth made the most difficult decision of his life. He gave up the girl he loved, married a different woman, and raised a family. But he's just been given another shot at happiness. Sylvia has loved Martin since she was a young girl. They have two great children and a wonderful life together - until a love from Martin's past threatens everything she's worked so hard to build. Jenny McCoy can't believe she and Martin have found each other again - but she's never gotten over his cruel betrayal.

Maureen O'Rourke made a home for herself and her children in an abandoned cabin in the Colorado mountains. While searching for his lost child, Gabriel Channing stumbles upon the cabin, and finds a whole new family instead. But it will take more than a Christmas wish to make these two broken families one - it will take more than a miracle.

Hallie Pruitt has a habit of taking in strays - both unwanted animals and captivating cowboys. When handsome Cade McAllister seeks shelter in her home while his broken leg heals, it's her homemade candies that keep him sober, but it's the piping hot fantasies she describes in her diary that provides the secret ingredient to Cade's heart.

Everything changed for Laura Taylor when the South lost the Civil War. The Yankees' arrival in South Carolina drove Laura and her soldier husband, Jesse, westward to seek a new beginning. But Laura's hopes crumble when Jesse dies, and she finds herself pregnant and alone in a wild railroad camp with winter coming in fast. The only one she can turn to is Dr. Spencer Hardin.

Rachel Rivers is the most beautiful woman that Brand Selby has ever met. From the moment he laid eyes on the proper schoolteacher and watched her tremble beneath his longing gaze, he knew he wanted nothing more than to win her heart. But Rachel lives in a land where hatred for the Indian runs deep, and where she is courted by Texas Ranger Jason Brown, Brand’s sworn enemy.

When a bomb goes off at 221B Baker Street, Evelina Cooper is thrown into her uncle Sherlock's world of mystery and murder. But just when she thought it was safe to return to the ballroom, old, new, and even dead enemies are clamoring for a place on her dance card. Before Evelina's even unpacked her gowns for a country house party, an indiscretion puts her in the power of the ruthless Gold King, who recruits her as his spy. He knows her disreputable past and exiles her to the rank alleyways of Whitechapel with orders to unmask his foe.

In a Victorian era ruled by a council of ruthless steam barons, mechanical power is the real monarch and sorcery the demon enemy of the Empire. Nevertheless, the most coveted weapon is magic that can run machines - something Evelina has secretly mastered. But rather than making her fortune, her special talents could mean death or an eternity as a guest of Her Majesty's secret laboratories. What's a polite young lady to do but mind her manners and pray she's never found out?

Soho 1925. Two young men meet - for one of them this is love at first sight, for the other only lust and guilt.... Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings. He leaves behind Patrick, the man he has loved since they met in the trenches in 1918, needing to discover if he has the strength to live without him and wanting to explore the kind of life he might have lived had it not been for the war. In Bohemian Soho, Paul meets Edmund....

It is 1918, and London is gathering in its dead. For undertaker Henry Speake, laying to rest the bodies of those sent home from the Front has become a familiar duty. But what he is seeing now, as influenza claims its victims, is something different.