Slægtsromaner

It's 1850 and the Noble family have arrived in Australia to start a new life after scandal drove them from their native England. Headstrong Pippa Noble is determined to reclaim their honour by making her father's plans for a successful stud farm a reality. Pippa is immediately spellbound by the untamed outback landscape, although she learns the hard way about the unforgiving nature of the bush - sometimes with devastating consequences. When circumstance leads to Pippa tending the new farm alone, it is the steadfast friendship of neighbouring country estate owner Gil Ashford-Smith that helps her through. Then an unexpected visitor from England arrives, putting Pippa's dreams in jeopardy. But she refuses to let go. She will hold onto her family's land and make her mark, even if it means losing everything else ...

Alma zog in das kleine Haus mit dem großen Garten. Niemand wusste woher sie kam. Im Dorf fantasierten sich die Leute Geschichten über die Alte, weil alles, was ihnen anders und fremd erscheint, unheimlich ist. Ama war anders. Sie diskutierte mit jungen Leuten über soziale Missstände.Sie erzählte der Journalistin in ihrer Nachbarschaft von vielen unterschiedlichen Leben aus verschiedenen Zeitepochen und ihren vielen Reisen. Eine Spur führte auch zur Nachbarin. Erinnerungen bedeuteten für Alma Trost und Last.Bis zu ihrem selbstgewählten Tod schrieb sie Tagebuch.

Forced into early retirement and stuck in an unhappy marriage, Valerie Fisher begins to question her life and what she wants to do with the rest of it. She's compelled to check out the little town of Hideaway Bay that her grandmother spoke about often with fondness and hopefully solve the mystery why her grandmother left abruptly and abandoned her house on Star Shine Drive.

Two years have passed since a series of tragedies upended the Grant family, prominent players in the tempest that is the music industry. Estranged brothers Ben and Chris still struggle to accept the loss of the youngest, and dearest, member of their family. The official report is as convenient as it is contrived. Questions linger that police cannot-or will not-answer. Miami news reporter Miles Macy's determination to unearth the truth has landed him a forced transfer to Chicago, but his personal investigation continues. His gut tells him there's more to the story, and it points him in a singular direction: Jameson Lockhardt. Meanwhile, famed record label Lockhardt Sound has seen better days. With little more than creative accounting and a grassroots strategy, Jameson Lockhardt fights to maintain his legacy, his secrets, and his freedom. When a request from a former LSI colleague leads to a true confession, a life-or-death race ensues. Only one man can expose Lockhardt's deadly past. And time is running out.

Im Land der drei verbundenen SeenDort, wo die Jurahänge den Bielersee speisenMitten in der Kostbarkeit kleiner WeinmanufakturenDrei versehrte SeelenEine Kämpferin, mit einem SchattenEine blinde EntdeckerinEin fischender FlaneurBegegnen alle drei auf ihre Weise ihrem LosEnergisch, ergeben, gleichgültigBis sie ein ungebärdiges Schicksal zusammenführtWie drei ungleiche TraubenIn einen erlesenen, gereiften WeinEine Geschichte voller Turbulenzen und SinneslustVielleicht wie ein Gleichnis über Findung und Aussöhnung

Sally-Ann has never been further from home than Scarborough. She is suffocating in her parents' house, fed up with their old-fashioned rules and bored with her job. Then Terry comes in to the library where she works to look at maps for his "trip around the world."'What's your name?' he asks her. 'Zita,' she lies. But becoming Zita is not so simple.Susan Day deftly leads you into Sally-Ann/ Zita's life and adventures, her coming of age, discovery of life's unpredictabilities and growing old. Her skilful depiction of the characters brings them to life and you'll miss them and wonder about them when you've turned the last page.

From rural Ireland, to the glitz of 1950's America, from the orange groves of Israel to the dark streets of post-war Liverpool, The World Starts Anew, is the fourth book in the best-selling Star and the Shamrock series.

When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself to Liesl, she is so torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family, would it be too harrowing, or would it feel like home?

Ariella Bannon has no choice. She must put her precious children Liesl and Erich on that train or allow them to become prey for the Nazis. Berlin 1939.

"Queenstown, County Cork. 1920. For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland has made numerous bids for her freedom but now, at last, liberation from British rule is tantalisingly close, if the men and women of the revolution can just hold on. Harp, her family, and her friends find themselves in the thick of the fight, but the Crown Forces are not the only enemy. A sinister force from the past is lurking and will stop at nothing to exact his revenge"--

Hans Busk vender hjem fra Amerika som en rig mand og køber sognets største og fineste gård, Højgården. Han er lige så retfærdig og god, som han er en dygtig land- og forretningsmand, men han besegler sin skæbne, da han vælger at blive kompagnon med den helt forkerte mand. Det lykkes hans partner Vammen at få presset Hans Busk ud af Højgården med snu og lyssky midler, men Hans Busks unge søn tager kampen op – kampen om Højgården.Bogen er skrevet i og med samtidens sprog og retskrivning.Den danske forfatter Lars Nielsen (1892-1963) debuterede i 1938 med bogen "Bo", og siden da er det blevet til over 60 romaner. Langt de fleste af Lars Nielsens bøger foregår i landdistrikter og følger slægters gang, men de har også ofte en udpræget psykologisk vinkel, der gør hans bøger tidsløse og relevante uanset hvilket miljø, de læses i.

Northamptonshire, April 1926.Emily lost her husband during the Great War, and now lives with her son Chadwick. Over the Easter weekend, he takes her to visit her beloved family home. But, for Emily, returning to Alleyn Dene dredges up the pain of the past.The memories soon come flooding back. Of the girl she once was, of her lost innocence, of how life used to be before that fateful night at the ball at Nethercote Hall when she was seventeen.She has kept her secret since that day, and has lived with her pain ever since.Her husband was a good man, and she is blessed that Chad has grown up to be just like his father, but Emily is still waiting for the sun.Now, after a chance meeting with a handsome bus conductor on a trip to London, Emily is finally starting to feel like the clouds might part.A prisoner of the past, she might be able to look to the future - if only she can confront the terrible truth that she has kept hidden for more than twenty years.

Nattens rejsende er en historisk roman om fire generationer af kvinder, der oplever kærlighed, tab, krig og håb fra nazismens fremkomst til den cubanske revolution og til sidst Berlinmurens fald.Berlin, 1931: Da nazisterne overtager magten i Det Tyske Rige, må den unge Ally Keller føre en farlig og desperat plan ud i livet for at sende sin datter Lilith over Atlanten i sikkerhed for Hitlers dødbringende ideologi.Havana, 1958: Tredive år senere får Lilith datteren Nadine med den cubanske pilot, Martin, der har stærke bånd til Batista-regeringen, men da revolutionens flammer antændes, står mor og datter ved en afgørende skillevej.Berlin, 1988: Som voksen begynder Nadine endelig at undersøge de valg, hendes mor og mormor traf for at sikre deres børns overlevelse. Men det bliver op til datteren Luna at komme overens med et chokerende forræderi i familiens fortid.