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Writer Marcus Goldman looks back on the wealthy Baltimore branch of his family, once the centre of his youthful admiration. Revisiting friendships, rivalries and shared summers, he tries to understand the tragedy that shattered their apparently enviable lives.
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Two sisters face the German occupation of France through different choices and dangers. Protecting loved ones and resisting the occupiers demand sacrifices that neither could have anticipated. Their intersecting stories follow the pressures of war within households as well as the risks taken beyond them.
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Having lost his mining fortune, Mauro Larrea wins a Spanish vineyard in a gamble and travels to Jerez intending to sell it. His encounter with Soledad Montalvo opens a different future, linking ambition, family secrets and renewal across Mexico, Cuba and Spain.
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Guille’s constant smile and vivid imagination conceal a family situation that the adults around him struggle to understand. When his teachers look beyond his cheerful answers, a child’s private world becomes the key to approaching an unspoken emotional wound.
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This historical novel follows Spanish soprano Lina Codina and her marriage to composer Sergei Prokofiev. From the artistic life of 1920s Paris to imprisonment under Stalin, her trajectory links love and music to political repression, showing how public history can overturn a life built around private ambitions.
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Born in Madrid in 1930, Antonia grows up amid war, scarcity and the struggle to keep a family alive. Drawing on her mother’s life, Nieves Concostrina follows a working-class woman through the pressures of the postwar years. Everyday ingenuity and endurance shape an account of survival across generations.
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In northern Mali, truck driver Gacel Mugtar is drawn into a violent effort to defend Tuareg honour against mercenaries and extremists. His knowledge of the desert becomes a weapon he never wanted to wield. The demands placed on him collide with his conscience and his understanding of justice.
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In postwar Madrid, eighteen-year-old Manolita struggles to support her siblings while her family is scattered by imprisonment and clandestine resistance. A plan involving a duplicating machine and a prisoner draws her into relationships that reshape both her private life and her political understanding.
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In Augsburg in 1913, Marie leaves an orphanage to work in the kitchen of the wealthy Melzer family. The household’s hierarchy separates servants from the textile industrialists upstairs. As she seeks a place among them and encounters heir Paul, class divisions and family secrets complicate her new life.
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Seven stories explore men’s experiences of solitude and the absence of important women in their lives. Actors, students, doctors and former lovers navigate memories and uncertain attachments, while Murakami brings ordinary encounters into contact with the unsettling and unexpected.
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Rupi Kaur brings together short poems, prose and drawings in a collection that moves through hurt, love, separation and healing. Its four sections approach violence, intimacy and femininity through direct language, tracing the effort to make a life beyond painful experiences.
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Sara makes a living working with feathers and prefers her life carefully organised. That order collapses as her father, her sister and her sister’s fiancé crowd into her home, while an absent boyfriend returns to the picture. Family entanglements turn her search for control into romantic comedy.
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Emily Stone leaves New England for Honolulu with her missionary husband, but her attraction to a sea captain challenges the life they planned. Decades later, another woman encounters the family’s legacy. Their intertwined stories explore faith, desire and the enduring consequences of choices made in Hawaii.
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Amalia finally gathers her family for New Year’s Eve in Barcelona, hoping that everyone will remain at the same table. As dinner unfolds, humour and affection coexist with concealed grievances, revealing the delicate work required to keep a family connected.
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Laia begins to build a future in Spain through her studies and her relationship with Julio. The life she left in a Sahrawi refugee camp remains close, however, and a return threatens the choices she has made. Love, belonging and family obligations pull her towards incompatible expectations.
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Reading the diary Marie Curie began after her husband’s death prompts Montero to reflect on loss and the desire to keep living. The book moves between Curie’s life and personal memory, connecting grief with science, relationships and the possibilities of writing.
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A brother and sister’s bond becomes the starting point for a family story that crosses generations and continents. Decisions made under pressure in Afghanistan continue to shape distant lives. Shifting perspectives connect separation, responsibility and sacrifice, following the consequences of love long after its first promises.
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A Jewish family fleeing persecution reaches Palestine, where a land transaction begins a friendship between Samuel Zucker and Ahmed Ziad. Their descendants inherit both that bond and the pressures of a changing country, as personal loyalties collide with the conflicts of the twentieth century.
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Valeria writes love stories in Madrid, but her own marriage to Adrián becomes harder to understand after she meets Víctor. With friends Nerea, Carmen and Lola beside her, she examines the gap between romantic expectations and her actual desires. This novel begins the original Valeria series.
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In Madrid in 1940, a meeting between the Marchioness of Llanzol and minister Ramón Serrano Súñer begins a clandestine relationship. Their affair unfolds within a society rebuilding its rituals while the country suffers and war threatens Europe. The novel follows the private consequences of a passion entangled with political power and family secrecy.
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