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Transport yourself to 1920s Liverpool, to be moved and delighted by this wonderful novel from one of the UK's best-loved saga authors. In 1920s Liverpool, Jane, her little brother Alfie and their mother Ellen have faced the horrors of the workhouse together. But when Ellen dies, two very different paths open up for the siblings. Jane is sent to work in the Empire Laundry and builds a new life for herself with the neighbours who take her in.

A new century brings change to Eden Harris's ordered world. Despite years of service to the Bradburys, she hides a secret that would affect them all. When an enemy returns, her world is shattered and her secret exposed. Torn and provoked, she strains to protect her family until a devastating accident leaves her alone and frightened. As the threat against her grows, Eden takes her precious daughters and flees from the only place she's called home. But her attempt to start anew is not so simple.

Gwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving behind their parents, their friends and all that felt familiar and safe. Evacuation could be a scary experience, but five-year-old Gwenda and her brother were lucky enough to be housed with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife, and soon the realities of the war felt very far away.

Lebensspenderin, Ernährerin, Erzieherin, Ratgeberin, Freundin... Vielfältig sind die Rollen einer Mutter. Sie ist die wichtigste Person im Leben der meisten Menschen. Von denen, die auf ihre Fürsorge verzichten müssen, wird sie meist schmerzlich vermißt. Und natürlich nahm sie auch in den Herzen berühmter Männer und Frauen einen großen Platz ein...

War einmal ein Bumerang;
War ein Weniges zu lang.
Bumerang flog ein Stück,
Aber kam nicht mehr zurück.
Publikum noch stundenlang
Wartete auf Bumerang.

Die besten Gedichte und Geschichten von Joachim Ringelnatz auf einem Hörbuch.

Snowflakes in the Wind is a heartwarming story of triumph over adversity by Rita Bradshaw, author of the number one best-selling Dancing in the Moonlight. It's Christmas Eve 1920 when nine-year-old Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart by a terrible tragedy. Leaving everything she's ever known, Abby takes her younger brother and runs away to the tough existence of the border farming community.

Best-selling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling, new understanding of how and why the spirit of "community" has been lost in our neighborhoods, cities, and society, and what ordinary citizens, leaders, and professionals can do to restore it. We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us.

When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Carolyn Maddison is still a schoolgirl. Her elder brother, Alastair, wastes no time in joining the RAF as a flying officer, and Carolyn decides that when she is 18 she will follow him into the service by joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. While reporting to the Air Ministry in London, she meets a good-looking, charismatic pilot, Charlie Wade, currently employed in propaganda work.

In the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surrounded by rambling gardens, stands proudly among the rows of terraced houses. It is the perfect place for playing games, keeping secrets and chasing the ghosts of previous occupants, and it will be nine-year-old Barbara's new home now that her father is to be vicar in this strange new place.

Diese kurzweilige Lesung besteht aus 40 der schönsten Gedichte und Kurz-Erzählungen aus der Feder von Wilhelm Busch, Christian Morgenstern...

Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer. Sarah Gibson has...

Nationally bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley returns with an evocative and steamy romance about the secrets and lies that exist within a seemingly perfect marriage. Meet Shannon and Jay Lovejoy—the rich and successful power couple who, to the fans of their call-in...

In beraten und verkauft deckt der Politikwissenschaftler die erschütternde Wahrheit über eine geheimnisvolle, weil undurchschaubare Branche auf. Er nennt nicht nur Zahlen und Summen (in Millionenhöhe), sondern schildert auch die Gefahren, die durch die Einflußnahme von Beratern auf DAX-Unternehmen und politische Entscheidungen entstehen...

Köln anno 1377: Mitten im Karneval kommt eine Reihe junger Frauen durch merkwürdige Unfälle ums Leben. Als die junge Begine Almut Bossart und ihr Freund Pater Ivo mit ansehen müssen, wie eine Schülerin ihres Konvents spurlos verschwindet, reift in Ihnen ein grausiger Verdacht. Folgt der Mörder der der Legende der Heilige Ursula , wonach noch eine elfte Jungfrau sterben muß?

Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr’s biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls and walked through the factory gates they discovered a community full of life, laughter and friendship. To those who didn’t know, the biscuit factory that towered over Carlisle might look like just another slice of the industrial North, a noisy and chaotic place with workers trooping in and out at all hours.

Vier Klassiker des Humors geben sich die Ehre...

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home. In this audiobook on Wales, you'll find two unique tales: a captivating exploration of migration by Tyler Keevil, an award-winning writer originally from Canada now living in Wales, and one more tale to be found through open submissions.

Weil in der Liebe und im Bandenkrieg alles erlaubt ist... Als Grim Emma Jean nach all den Jahren bei den Los Muertos, seinem schlimmsten Feind, aufspürt, ahnt er nicht, dass sie zusammen durch die Höllen gehen werden. Er ahnte nicht, dass ihre Liebe einen Krieg auslösen würde, der die ganze Stadt im Blut versinken lässt. Emma Jean in Sicherheit zu bringen, ist Grims oberste Priorität. Auch wenn er dafür über Leichen gehen muss. Auch wenn er dafür seine Brüder verraten muss. Auch wenn es ihn das Leben kosten kann.

August, 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boardinghouse before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker’s woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. They attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, which changes all their lives, both for better and for worse.

Als Grim Emma Jean kennen lernt ist da etwas ganz besonderes zwischen ihnen. Etwas, das er noch nie zuvor gespürt hat. Als ihre Briefe ausbleiben ist es wie ein tiefer dunkler Schmerz, der nicht gestillt werden kann. Und als sie sich nach all den Jahren wiedersehen, fühlt es sich an wie das große Glück. Doch das Leben hat Grim und Emma Jean auf die falschen Seiten eines erbitterten Krieges gestellt. Er ist Anführer des Bedlam Brotherhoods, sie gehört zu den Los Muertos, seinem größten Feind.