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Late 1930's Germany: Best friends Alex von Hemmerle and Nicolas von Bingen, titled childhood friends with neighboring estates, are witnessing the rise of Nazism when Nick's father reveals the long-buried secret of his son's partial Jewish ancestry. Warned by highly placed friends to flee, the only treasures Nick and his sons can take are two dazzling Lipizzaner horses, gifts from Alex. These powerful and majestic creatures become their ticket to a new life waiting across the ocean.

Bill dirige l'unité de traumatologie des urgences de l'Hôpital général de San Francisco et consacre sa vie à son travail depuis sa séparation. Étoile montante de son hôpital universitaire, Stephanie ne compte pas ses heures de travail, aux dépens de sa famille. Wendy, brillant médecin, est piégée dans une relation sans avenir avec un chirurgien marié. Quant à Tom, sa popularité auprès des femmes n'a d'égal que ses succès au bloc opératoire.

Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working at his family’s prestigious New York firm, who leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his wife, is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward 38 years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan, who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman....

Efter at have opgivet sine drømme sidder Winnie fast i et kedeligt job og i et utilfredsstillende parforhold. Hun trøster sig selv med at se den britiske serie, "Beauchamp Hall", med al dens overdådige drama på et gods i Norfolk i 1920’erne.

They were the best of friends and the most daunting of bachelors. Now the three friends, spending their annual summer vacation cruising the Mediterranean aboard Charlie's majestic yacht, are about to have their bachelorhood rocked. By autumn all three will fall precipitously into relationships they never saw coming.

Der er magi i luften, når Jean-Phillippe Dumas én gang om året afholder Den Hvide Middag i Paris. Han håndplukker tre par, hvis liv bliver forandret i løbet af middagen, i takt med at nye venskaber og ikke mindst ny kærlighed opstår på tværs af middagsbordet.

The phone call came on a hot July day, a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call from Tanya's agent was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she's torn about leaving her husband and daughters.

1940, dans un village de la région lyonnaise. Gaëlle de Barbet assiste horrifiée à l'arrestation de sa meilleure amie par la police française et voit le commandant allemand réquisitionner la demeure familiale. Son père est tué par l'occupant et sa mère sombre peu à peu dans la folie.

April, 1945. As the Americans storm the Buchenwald concentration camp, among the survivors are Jakob and Emmanuelle, barely more than teenagers. Each of them has lost everything and everyone in the unspeakable horrors of the war. But when they meet, they find hope and comfort in each other. They marry and build a happy, prosperous life for themselves and their new family, but their pasts cast a long shadow over the present....

Connie and Preston Whittier raised their six children in a once-grand mansion in Manhattan. Even though the children are now adults, the house remains the heart of the family and somewhere they all love to return, particularly in times of stress. But when Connie and Preston’s skiing trip in Europe ends in tragedy, the future of the family and their home is called into question.

Two girls and three boys, all with strikingly different looks and talents, meet at the Atwood school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group - known to outsiders as "The Big Five" - and lean on one another through all the bumps and bends of childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically, and some of the friends are lost forever....

Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself, to be "invisible".

Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. With her father, she moves from one town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But life is hard with her father in charge, using her income to pay for gambling, women and booze. When she starts touring age eighteen, she gets a real manager—who turns out to be as exploitative as her father. But the other touring musicians give her the courage to finally fly free, leave the tour and follow her dreams.

In this riveting audiobook, Danielle Steel tells the story of a group of remarkable women navigating the challenges of balancing their families, their personal lives and the high stakes of ambition at the top of their game.

As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every professional luxury: a stunning office, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren, it's the only thing he truly loves. But then Andy's world is upended. The studio is sold, and the buyer's son demands the top seat. Out of a job and humiliated, Andy knows he needs to get as far away from Los Angeles as possible.

Paul a été un père plutôt absent. Lorsqu'il décède subitement, sa famille découvre qu'il leur a réservé un héritage étonnant. À sa fille aînée, engagée auprès des sans-abri, il lègue la somme nécessaire à l'ouverture d'un centre d'accueil. Il encourage la cadette à utiliser son héritage pour voyager. La dernière a, grâce à lui, la liberté de poursuivre son rêve de devenir actrice. Et son ex-femme Véronique se voit confier la mission d'aller en Europe, à la recherche de l'auteur d'un mystérieux tableau.

Un dîner pour tout changer... Par une douce soirée d'été parisienne, des centaines de personnes, toutes vêtues de blanc, se rassemblent dans un lieu emblématique de la capitale. C'est le célèbre et mystérieux "Dîner en blanc" qui débute, comme chaque année. Les convives, triés sur le volet, installent leurs tables, leurs chaises, leur service le plus raffiné, quelques fleurs et les mets les plus exquis. Quand le soleil se couche, des milliers de bougies sont allumées et la Ville lumière révèle alors toute sa magie.

Hun er kun sytten år og vil være pilot som sin berømte far. Med hjælp fra faderens gamle krigskammerat og nuværende medarbejder Nick Galvin, får Cassie O‘Malley sit brændende ønske opfyldt. Men hun får mere endnu. Den hovedrige flymagnat Desmond Williams tilbyder hende et drømmejob - og ægteskab. Det betyder farvel til den sympatiske, men meget ældre Nick. Og det betyder ja til en spændende tilværelse - ofte badet i fotografernes blitzlys. Cassie har alt, hvad man kan ønske sig. Tror hun.

Peu importe les risques. Elle fera tout pour révéler la vérité. Grand reporter pour la télévision, Alix Phillips n'hésite pas à braver les dangers dans l'exercice de son métier, qui lui fait parcourir le monde. Veuve depuis de nombreuses années, elle a élevé seule sa fille, Faye, qui vient d'entrer à l'université. La journaliste se voit alors confier une affaire explosive, qui risque de bouleverser de nombreuses vies et en premier lieu la sienne : elle doit enquêter sur d'accablantes allégations impliquant le vice-président des États-Unis, Tony Clark.

Advokaten Olympia Rubinstein påtager sig pligtskyldigt arbejdet med at gøre sine to døtre, tvillingerne Veronica og Virginia, klar til det eksklusive debutantbal for særligt udvalgte. Men selve spørgsmålet om debut eller ej skaber krigslignende tilstande i hele familien, der deler sig i to lejre: Pigernes stedfar betragter det hele som et racistisk arrangement, og nægter at deltage, mens pigernes far truer med at stoppe betalingen til deres uddannelse, hvis de ikke deltager.