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The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected to attend this exclusive and cherished event. Interweaving the stories of seven individuals, lives will be forever changed on the eve of one such White Dinner; a night that will lead to new friendships, new love, and of course, magical possibilities.

When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. Sasha is widowed and knows she was lucky to have been married to a wonderful man. Liam's impulsive behavior has helped tear his marriage apart. While Sasha has been building her Parisian art gallery into an intercontinental success story, Liam has been growing into one of the most striking young painters of his time.

Saint Ambrose es la exclusiva escuela donde han estudiado los varones adinerados del lugar desde hace más de un siglo. Y este curso admitirá por primera vez alumnado femenino en un entorno que parece idílico, pero que en realidad oculta problemas familiares, inseguridades y soledad. Una faceta oscura de la vida en el internado sale a la luz cuando, tras una fiesta, una estudiante acaba en el hospital inconsciente. Nadie en Saint Ambrose escapará a las consecuencias.

The phone call came on a hot July day, a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call from Tanya's agent was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she's torn about leaving her husband and daughters.

April, 1945. As the Americans storm the Buchenwald concentration camp, among the survivors are Jakob and Emmanuelle, barely more than teenagers. Each of them has lost everything and everyone in the unspeakable horrors of the war. But when they meet, they find hope and comfort in each other. They marry and build a happy, prosperous life for themselves and their new family, but their pasts cast a long shadow over the present....

In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job, and slowly falling out of love with his wife.

Efter at have opgivet sine drømme sidder Winnie fast i et kedeligt job og i et utilfredsstillende parforhold. Hun trøster sig selv med at se den britiske serie, "Beauchamp Hall", med al dens overdådige drama på et gods i Norfolk i 1920’erne.

Spencer Brooke grew up knowing that one day she would own and run Brooke's, one of New York's most respected department stores, established by her late grandfather. But the path to success hasn't been easy. Shocked after finding herself pregnant with twins, but knowing in her heart she could be a wife and mother as well as a CEO, pressure from her husband to sell Brooke's led to the breakdown of their marriage. When entrepreneur Mike Weston offers investment just when the store is going through financial difficulty, Spencer faces a dilemma.

Two girls and three boys, all with strikingly different looks and talents, meet at the Atwood school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group - known to outsiders as "The Big Five" - and lean on one another through all the bumps and bends of childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically, and some of the friends are lost forever....

Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape.

Une prison dorée. À 19 ans, Natasha Leonova mourait littéralement de faim dans les rues de Moscou lorsqu'elle fut sauvée par Vladimir Stanislas, l'homme le plus riche de Russie. Un miracle pour la jeune femme qui depuis vit aux côtés de ce grand amateur d'art dans un luxe inouï, avec pour seule contrepartie de plaire à Vladimir, de satisfaire ses moindres désirs, et surtout de ne poser aucune question.

Der er magi i luften, når Jean-Phillippe Dumas én gang om året afholder Den Hvide Middag i Paris. Han håndplukker tre par, hvis liv bliver forandret i løbet af middagen, i takt med at nye venskaber og ikke mindst ny kærlighed opstår på tværs af middagsbordet.

Le bonheur surgit parfois là où on ne l'attend pas... Lors d'un stage dans une galerie parisienne, Isabelle McAvoy rencontre un riche Américain plus âgé qu'elle, qui vit reclus dans un château de Normandie. L'été qu'ils y passent a tout d'un rêve. Pourtant, quand Isabelle lui annonce sa grossesse, il met fin à leur histoire.

I Tyskland på taersklen til Anden Verdenskrig, lever de to venner og enkemaend, Nicolas og Alex, hver deres fredfyldte liv med deres børn. Nicolas og hans families sikkerhed bliver dog truet, da hemmeligheden om hans afstamning kommer frem. For at overleve må familien flygte til Amerika, og det eneste som Nicolas og hans sønner kan tage med sig er deres otte fuldblodsheste. To af dem er lipizzanere og en gave fra Alex.

In this riveting audiobook, Danielle Steel tells the story of a group of remarkable women navigating the challenges of balancing their families, their personal lives and the high stakes of ambition at the top of their game.

Oliver Watson har alt, hvad han ønsker sig: et godt job, en fantastisk kone, tre vidunderlige børn og et dejligt hjem. Men hans liv ændres brat, da hans kone forlader ham for at fortsætte sine studier på Harvard. Tilbage står Oliver med problemerne, både de praktiske og de følelsesmæssige. Men enhver forandring er en udfordring, der skal tages op, og det gør Oliver med held. Han bliver forfremmet og flytter til Los Angeles med børnene, hvor han møder den smukke skuespiller Charlotte, som han forelsker sig i.

Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself, to be "invisible".

Elleveårige Pip lever alene med sin mor, Ophélie, der efter en ulykke har vendt verden ryggen, og Pip er ensom og fortvivlet over situationen. En dag møder hun tilfældigt kunstmaleren Matt Bowles på stranden ved det lille beskyttede samfund, Safe Habour. Matt savner sine egne børn, som bor på den anden side af Jorden, og langsomt spirer et venskab frem mellem det umage par. Pips mor er ikke begejstret ved tanken, men efterhånden som hun selv lærer Matt at kende, lukker hun ham ind i deres liv.

The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil.