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Saint Ambrose es la exclusiva escuela donde han estudiado los varones adinerados del lugar desde hace más de un siglo. Y este curso admitirá por primera vez alumnado femenino en un entorno que parece idílico, pero que en realidad oculta problemas familiares, inseguridades y soledad. Una faceta oscura de la vida en el internado sale a la luz cuando, tras una fiesta, una estudiante acaba en el hospital inconsciente. Nadie en Saint Ambrose escapará a las consecuencias.

After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin’s life revolves solely around two things – the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. At four, Heloise becomes the only woman in her father’s life; by seven, she is the undisputed queen of the Hotel Vendome. And as the years pass, despite her mother’s abandonment, she basks in her father’s love, the devotion of the hotel’s staff, and the affection of its guests. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school....

Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate.

Savoir les aimer, jusqu'au bout de leurs rêves... Avocate à New York, Kate Morgan ne pourrait être plus fière de ses trois enfants, qui excellent tous dans ce qu'ils font. Des parcours qui forcent d'autant plus l'admiration que Kate les a élevés seule après la mort de son mari, leur imposant parfois des choix très éloignés de leurs aspirations. Mais le temps d'un été mouvementé à Manhattan, le petit monde bien ordonné de Kate va voler en éclats. Ceux qu'elle croyait connaître se montrent sous un tout autre jour : séparation, enfant illégitime, révélation fracassante.

Sydney Wells’ perfect, golden life vanishes when her devoted husband dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at 49, she discovers that he has failed to include her in his will. Sydney is removed from the beautiful house that has been her home for 16 years. Despite warnings from her own daughters, Sydney returns to the world of fashion she’d enjoyed as a talented young designer. Her girls only want the best for their mother, but they are concerned she’s back in a world she is no longer familiar with.

A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel’s luminous new novel: strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn of the century house in Manhattan’s West Village, at 44 Charles Street.

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his 10-year marriage - or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden, blinding snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town.

Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off.

Even the most perfect lives can be shattered in an instant. In this moving, emotionally charged novel, Danielle Steel introduces listeners to an unforgettable cast of characters striving to overcome tragedy and discover the inner resources and resilience to win at life — once again.

When their latest adventure takes a dangerous turn, brothers Peter Pollock and Matt Brown and their friends find themselves trapped on Granite Peak in Fishtail, Montana, in a battle for survival. Fear reverberates through the town as their parents grow ever more desperate to hear word that their children have been found. They must place their own trials aside amid a massive search-and-rescue operation. And as they come to lean on one another for support, a media frenzy ensues, heightening tensions and testing some already fragile relationships.

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.

In a novel in which ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity can win the day, and forever alters her world. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades her father to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa.

The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel's 66th best-selling novel, the story of a young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door.

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.

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....

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....

The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected to attend this exclusive and cherished event. Interweaving the stories of seven individuals, lives will be forever changed on the eve of one such White Dinner; a night that will lead to new friendships, new love, and of course, magical possibilities.

Au cœur d'un XIX e siècle conservateur, le combat d'une jeune noble orpheline et déshéritée pour survivre et devenir une femme libre... Après la mort de sa mère, Angélique Latham grandit au château de Belgrave, en Angleterre, au côté du duc de Westerfield, son père. Mais lorsque celui-ci disparaît à son tour, rien ne se passe comme prévu : sans scrupule, les demi-frères de la jeune fille lui refusent son héritage et la chassent du domaine.

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....

Pour écrire l'avenir, encore faut-il comprendre son passé. Avril 1945. Jakob et Emmanuelle sont sauvés par les Alliés au camp de Buchenwald. Ensemble, ils décident de tenter leur chance à New York. Des années plus tard, au prix d'un travail acharné, Jakob a fait fortune dans le diamant et a enfin mis les siens à l'abri. Il a aussi tenu à transmettre à son fils, Max, les valeurs qui lui tiennent à cœur. Ce dernier, diplômé de Harvard, est promis à un brillant avenir.