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Life changed beyond recognition for Alice when her son, Eddie, was born with autism spectrum disorder. She must do everything to support him, but at what cost to her family? When her cherished grandmother is hospitalised, a hidden box of mementos reveals a tattered photo of a young man, a tiny leather shoe and a letter. Her grandmother begs Alice to return to Poland to see what became of those she held dearest.

Berlin, 1934. Sofie Rhodes is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose post-WWI fortunes change for the better when her husband, Jurgen, is recruited for Hitler's new rocket project. But too late they realise the Nazis' plans to weaponise Jurgen's technology as they begin to wage war against the rest of Europe. Alabama, 1949 Jurgen is one of hundreds of Nazi scientists offered pardons and taken to the US to work for the CIA's fledgling space programme. Sofie, now the mother of four, misses Germany terribly and struggles to fit in among the other NASA wives. 

Your sister needs you. But her child needs you more.... A moving thriller with a heart-pounding dilemma: Your sister or her baby. Who do you choose? Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes will love Australia's Kelly Rimmer. As children, Lexie and Annie were incredibly close. Bonded by the death of their beloved father, they weathered the storms of life together. When Lexie leaves home to follow her dream, Annie is forced to turn to her leather-bound journal as the only place she can confide her deepest secrets and fears....

As I saw my newborn baby’s face for the first time, I tried desperately to capture her face in my mind - to stamp it onto my eyelids. As she was taken from me, I knew I might never see my daughter again. Thirty-seven years later... 'You were adopted'. Three short words and Sabina’s life fractures. There would forever be a before those words and an after. Pregnant with her own child, Sabina can’t understand how a mother could abandon her daughter or why her parents have kept the past a secret.

Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth is reflecting on the secret agent who saved his life when a mission went wrong during his perilous, exhilarating years in occupied France. He never knew her real name, nor whether she survived the war. His daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers. What follows is the story of Fleur and Chloe, two otherwise ordinary women who in 1943 are called up by the SOE for deployment in France.

Olivia and David were the perfect couple with their whole lives in front of them. When beautiful baby daughter Zoe came along, their world seemed complete. But now David is dead and Olivia's world is in pieces. While she is consumed with grief, her mother-in-law Ivy is also mourning the loss of her son. Both women are hiding secrets about the man they loved. Secrets that have put the family in danger.

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. But she has no idea what goes on behind the walls of the Jewish Ghetto nearby until she makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism. Elzbieta comes face to face with the plight of the Gorka family who must give up their newborn daughter - or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs in him a rebellion not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. 

If you enjoyed Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, One Day by David Nicholls, or The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, then make time for Kelly Rimmer's stunning, heartbreaking new audiobook, Me Without You.A story of how love can break our hearts - and heal them. A year ago I met the love of my life. For two people who didn't believe in love at first sight, we came pretty close....

1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth. Instead she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows husband, Patrick, will never look. When Grace falls pregnant again, she turns to her sister, Maryanne, for help.

When Leo and Molly met and married, they believed they were invincible. Together they could take on the world. But Leo, a war correspondent, lives for life on the edge, and when he takes a step into the unknown, tragedy strikes and he loses his memory. Molly rushes to help him fill in the gaps and soon they start falling in love all over again. The trouble is, Molly is hiding something. Something big. The devoted wife at Leo's bedside is a sham; Leo and Molly's marriage was on the rocks long before Leo's accident.

Depuis la naissance de son deuxième enfant, Eddie, la vie d'Alice a complètement basculé. Face à ce garçon autiste devenu sa priorité, tout le reste passe au second plan, y compris sa fille et son mari. Mais quand Hanna, sa grand-mère adorée, lui demande de se rendre en Pologne pour retrouver des êtres chers de sa jeunesse, elle ne peut lui refuser cette dernière volonté et se sépare de son fils pour la première fois. Sur la terre de ses ancêtres dont elle ignore tout, Alice va combler les silences douloureux de sa bouleversante histoire familiale.

MIG UDEN DIG er en aegte kaerlighedsroman om både det smukke og det svaere i livet til alle, der elsker Jojo Moyes, Dave Nicholls og Nicholas Sparks. Callum arbejder for et stort pr- og marketingfirma i Sydney og tager hver dag faergen fra storbyen hjem til Manly nordpå. En dag på faergen falder han i snak med Lilah, en engageret jurist og miljøforkaemper, og deres første møde udvikler sig hurtigt til en stormfuld forelskelse. Ingen af dem tror på kaerlighed ved første blik, men de klikker bare. Lilah forsøger dog først med alle midler at kaempe imod.

Pologne, printemps 1942. Emilia, 13 ans, vit avec ses parents adoptifs à Varsovie. Forcée de changer d'identité après avoir vu son père mourir sous les balles allemandes, elle doit rester cachée et passe ses journées à espionner les habitants de l'immeuble. C'est ainsi qu'elle devine que leur voisine Sara, infirmière, évacue des enfants juifs du ghetto en secret. Malgré le danger, Emilia insiste pour l'accompagner et découvre derrière les murs du ghetto un tout nouveau visage de la guerre.

En uforglemmelig historie inspireret af virkelige hændelser. Warszawa, 1942. Fra sin lejlighed er Emilia vidne til, hvordan tyske patruljer systematisk pågriber byens jødiske indbyggere og tvangsflytter dem til en lukket ghetto. Ingen ved, hvad der foregår, men de barske realiteter går op for Emilia, da hun en dag tager med sin nabo, Sara, der er sygeplejerske, ind bag ghettoens mure og ser, hvordan hun hjælper desperate forældre med at smugle deres børn ud. Emilia møder også den jævnaldrende Roman, og midt i afmagten blomstrer kærligheden.

Jess Cohen er vant til at møde verden med charme, selvtillid og velplejet hår, og som CEO for en stor techstartup holder hun altid hovedet koldt og kortene tæt ind til kroppen. Intet kan ryste hende … var hun overbevist om, indtil hun opdagede, at hendes ekskæreste Jake er tilbage i New York. Jake har aldrig forstået, hvorfor Jess slog op for to år siden, og smerten og forvirringen efter deres bratte brud sidder stadig i ham. Nu er han tilbage for at få talt ud, så han én gang for alle kan komme videre med sit liv.

Efter fire års ægteskab og ni måneders skilsmisseforhandlinger skal Isabel og Paul Winton endelig skilles. For at slikke sårene tager Isabel op til deres sommerhus i den smukke kystby Greenport – og opdager til sin store fortrydelse, at Paul allerede er der. Ingen af dem vil give den anden tilfredsstillelsen ved at rejse hjem, men de indser også, at det her måske er deres eneste chance for at prøve at forstå hinanden og komme videre.

Polen, 1939. Allerede fra barnsben vidste Alina Dziak, at hun en dag ville gifte sig med sin bedste ven, Tomasz. Nu er de unge og forelskede, og trods rygter om nazister ved den polske grænse nærer Alina stadig håb om en lykkelig fremtid sammen. Men den nazistiske besættelse kaster skygger over hverdagen, og snart er landsbyen splittet af frygt og had. Og så en dag forsvinder Tomasz... Florida, 2019. Alices mormor ligger på sit dødsleje. Hun har mistet talens brug, men forsøger desperat at give familien en sidste besked. Hun ønsker, at Alice tager tilbage til Polen for at finde hendes morfar.