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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.

From the best-selling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and the upcoming The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now 15 and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears.

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality - and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism.

Berlin, 1930—When a wave of change sweeps a radical political party to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes’s academic husband benefits from the ambitions of its newly elected chancellor. Although Sofie and Jürgen do not share the social views growing popular in Hitler’s Germany, Jürgen’s position with its burgeoning rocket program changes their diminishing fortunes for the better. But as Sofie watches helplessly, her beloved Berlin begins to transform, forcing her to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their young family’s security, and what the price for their neutrality will be.

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....

As children, Lexie and Annie were incredibly close. Bonded by the death of their father and their mother's swift remarriage, 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 to confide her deepest secrets and fears. As adults, sisters Lexie and Annie could not be more different. Lexie is a successful doctor and happily married. Annie is addicted to heroin - a thief, a liar, and unable to remain clean despite being pregnant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.