Hazel Gaynor Knihy

Děti v internátní škole ve Čchü-fu stejně jako každý rok nedočkavě vyhlížely Vánoce. Většina z nich se na prázdniny rozjela za svými rodiči, kteří pracovali jako diplomaté a misionáři po celé Číně. Psal se však rok 1941 a kvůli nejisté situaci některé z nich odjet nemohly. Učitelé jejich volný čas vyplnili sportem, soutěžením a získáváním skautských odznaků. A pak do školy vstoupila válka v podobě japonských vojáků. Učitelé se s dětmi museli vydat na dlouhý pěší pochod do internačního tábora, kde vládla krutost a přísné tresty. Jak mají nahradit rodiče více než stovce dětí? Jak je udržet živé a zdravé, když nemají dost jídla, oblečení ani léků?

Dopisy plné humoru, lásky a naděje V srpnu 1914 Anglie vstoupila do války. Studenti Tom a Will, plni nadšení, dobrovolně narukovali. Willova sestra Evie a její kamarádka Alice stejně jako ostatní předpokládaly, že válka nemůže trvat dlouho. Naplánovaly tedy společný vánoční výlet do Paříže. V dopisech, které si přátelé posílají, proniká na povrch krutost války, jež poznamenává jejich životy a z naivních dívek a chlapců se stávají dospělí lidé. A jejich společné Vánoce v Paříži se stále odkládají…

Nepravděpodobné přátelství na pozadí svatby století. Celebrity se houfují na filmovém festivalu v Cannes a ta největší hvězda, herečka Grace Kellyová, se touží dostat se z dosahu novinářů. Na útěku před vytrvalým fotografem Jamesem ji schová ve svém obchůdku parfumérka Sophie. Zrodí se mezi nimi přátelství, jež obě ženy spojí na dalších třicet let. Jamesovi se na okouzlující Sophii nedaří zapomenout, a proto přijímá úlohu reportéra na svatbě století. Do Monaka odjíždí s nadějí, že se s ní znovu setká.

During World War II, when the Japanese intern everyone at a British-run missionary school in northern China, teacher Elspeth Kent inspires her charges by instituting the Girl Guide patrol

From the bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home and The Girl From The Savoy comes a novel inspired by the extraordinary story of a remarkable young woman. 1838: Northumberland, England. When lighthouse keeper's daughter, Grace Darling, is involved in the daring rescue of the stranded survivors of a terrible shipwreck, she becomes one of the most celebrated women of her age. But the friendship that develops between Grace and an artist who sets out to capture her subtle beauty, is far more precious to her than her unwanted fame. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old, pregnant and in disgrace, Matilda Emmerson has been banished from Ireland to stay with her reclusive relative, Harriet, the assistant lighthouse keeper. When a discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into her family history, Matilda finds her destiny inextricably linked to Grace Darling. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter is a sweeping novel that speaks of the ties that bind mothers to daughters, of the love story that reunites a family and two women learning that where you are has the power to shape who you are.

New York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe - together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn't seen since travelling to Europe forty years earlier. Constantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious Queen Mary, the Orient Express, and the sights of Paris and Venice, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfill Violet's wish, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. Authors of "Meet Me in Monaco." Print run 30,000.

The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take different paths, and the young woman who will be transformed by their experiences. In 1912, twenty-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and beauty of her native Lake District for London, to become assistant housemother at Mr. Shaw’s Home for Watercress and Flower Girls. For years, the home has cared for London’s flower girls—orphaned and crippled children living on the grimy streets and selling posies of violets and watercress to survive. Soon after she arrives, Tilly discovers a diary written by an orphan named Florrie—a young Irish flower girl who died of a broken heart after she and her sister, Rosie, were separated. Moved by Florrie’s pain and all she endured in her brief life, Tilly sets out to discover what happened to Rosie. But the search will not be easy. Full of twists and surprises, it leads the caring and determined young woman into unexpected places, including the depths of her own heart.

`Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz' The LadyThe fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home

The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist...

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic-a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants. Ireland, 1912.