"TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT.
It is 1929. The world is about to change.
Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable hardships in her homeland as she fights to save her family from the Soviet Union's iron grip. Barely escaping the Terror-Famine, she washes up alone on America's distant shores.
Fate throws Finn and Isabelle together just as the stock market crash causes a devastating collapse of his world. Amid the Great Depression and the trials of their new lives, an undeniable connection grows between them that they both must hide.
As their intertwined destinies hang in the balance, they discover that even those who have lost everything still have something left to lose.
Light at Lavelle is the breathtaking epic love story from the worldwide bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Paullina Simons weaves an unforgettable tapestry of love, hope, and fate, showing us that sometimes the greatest battles are fought within our own hearts."
"Una admirable historia de amor situada en el Leningrado de 1941, cuando Alemania invade la URSS.
Leningrado, 1941. La guerra parece lejana en esta ciudad de antigua grandeza, donde dos hermanas, Tatiana y Dasha Metanova, comparten un minúsculo apartamento con su familia. La vida bajo el gobierno de Stalin es dura, pero las privaciones que les aguardan ni siquiera son imaginables: el ejército de Hitler está a punto de invadir su querida patria.
Bajo el terror y la dificultad se esconden la belleza y la esperanza: Tatiana ha conocido a Alexander, un joven oficial del Ejército Rojo de misterioso y turbulento pasado. Mientras el ejército alemán y el duro invierno cercan la ciudad, los amantes se ven abocados a un amor imposible que puede desgarrar la familia de Tatiana y ser, para Alexander, tan destructivo como la guerra. Entretanto, la corriente de la historia arrasa a su paso el mundo tal y como ellos lo han conocido y amenaza con cambiarlos para siempre.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Extraordinaria... Tanto como Lo que el viento se llevó.»
Teresa De Medeiros
«El jinete de bronce es el relato de un amor imposible, donde la cuestión principal es: ¿Cuánto estás dispuesto a perder para ganar el mundo entero?»
Bibliofemme"
"The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga
Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.
With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . . or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.
The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning."
"'This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented, and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair!' —Daily Mail (London)
Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander—a novel of the enduring power of love and commitment against the devastating forces of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace. A sweeping, intensely compelling romantic historical saga, Tatiana and Alexander is a Russian Thorn Birds and a truly unforgettable listening experience."
"The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons
Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, schoolfriends from very different backgrounds.
As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties, the lives of the three best friends are changed forever by two young men, Robin and Jack, and a tragedy which engulfs them all.
Against the odds, Tully emerges into young womanhood, marriage, and a career. At last Tully Makker has life under control. And then life strikes back in the most unexpected way of all . . ."
"Un giorno dovrai scegliere tra ciò che credi di desiderare e ciò che desideri sul serio. Allora capirai cos'è l'amore. Chloe e Mason, Hannah e Blake. Due coppie, due fratelli, due migliori amiche. Il viaggio dopo il diploma è l'occasione a lungo sognata per vivere una nuova avventura insieme prima che le loro vite prendano strade diverse. La meta è Barcellona, ma prima devono fare tappa in alcune città dell'Europa dell'Est per onorare una promessa di famiglia. E qui, tra i tesori di una terra che muove i primi timidi passi dopo il crollo dei regimi comunisti, Chloe incontra Johnny Rainbow, un misterioso ragazzo americano che gira il mondo con la chitarra sulle spalle, un sorriso sulle labbra e un oceano di segreti negli occhi. Con lui i quattro amici attraversano in treno il vecchio mondo, da Carnikava a Treblinka, da Cracovia a Trieste, in un viaggio indimenticabile che li porta nel cuore dell'Europa e nell'oscuro passato di Johnny... Un viaggio che rischia di far saltare i progetti di Chloe per il futuro, che la costringe a mettere in discussione tutto ciò che era convinta di volere, che spoglia di ogni falsità il suo legame con gli amici di una vita finché non le rimane che un'unica certezza: comunque vada a finire, dopo questo viaggio le loro vite non saranno più le stesse."
"Julian has lost everything he ever loved and is almost out of time. His life and death struggle against fate offers him one last chance to do the impossible and save the woman to whom he is permanently bound.
Together, Julian and Josephine must wage war against the relentless dark force that threatens to destroy them. This fight will take everything they have and everything they are as they try once more to give each other their unfinished lives back.
As time runs out for the star-crossed lovers, Julian learns that fate has one last cruel trick in store for them—and even a man who has lost everything still has something left to lose."
"How much would you sacrifice for true love? The second novel in Paullina Simons' stunning End of Forever trilogy continues the heartbreaking story of Julian and Josephine, and a love that spans lifetimes
Julian has travelled from the heights of joy to the depths of despair and back again. Having found his love – twice – and lost her – twice, he is resolved to continue his search and find her in the past again. Perhaps this time he can save her.
But the journey is never so simple and Julian will have to decide just how much one man can sacrifice. He is willing to give up everything – but he must learn what that truly means, and how much more can be taken from you than you ever believed possible."
"The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman.
Can forty days last a lifetime? The Time Traveller's Wife meets One Day in the heartbreaking new love story from Paullina Simons.
When Julian meets Josephine, it's love at first sight. After a whirlwind courtship, he proposes and she accepts. Everything is wonderful – on the surface. Josephine is a girl with secrets …
Days before the wedding they have a huge argument and before Julian can make things right, everything goes terribly, tragically wrong.
Unable to let Josephine go, Julian digs into her past and discovers so much more than he ever bargained for.
End of Forever travels through the depths of sorrow to the dizzying heights of joy in an unforgettable story of love lost and found."
"The never-before-told story of the journey behind THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, now in print for the first time.
From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling BRONZE HORSEMAN saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction as captivating and heart-wrenching as the lives of Tatiana and Alexander.
Only a few chapters into writing her first story set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons travelled to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) with her beloved Papa. What began as a research trip turned into six days that forever changed her life, the course of her family, and the novel that became THE BRONZE HORSEMAN. After a quarter-century away from her native land, Paullina and her father found a world trapped in yesteryear, with crumbling stucco buildings, entire families living in seven-square-metre communal apartments, and barren fields bombed so badly that nothing would grow there even fifty years later. And yet there were the spectacular white nights, the warm hospitality of family friends and, of course, the pelmeni and caviar.
At times poignant, at times inspiring and funny, this is both a fascinating glimpse into the inspiration behind the epic saga, and a touching story of a family's history, a father and a daughter, and the fate of a nation.
'Amazing book! Thank you Paullina for sharing your experience with us all!'-- Kiki, Goodreads"
"The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.
Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatiana—and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects—a secret as devastating as the war itself—as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever."
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Bronze Horseman, the tale of an Ivy League campus devastated by the intractable mystery at the heart of a student's death
Four students and their relationships lie at the core of this dazzling novel of mystery, murder and suspense, set in a snowbound Ivy League college. Their focal point is brilliant basketball star Kristina Kim - apparently happy and stable, but soon revealed to have hidden secrets.
When she is found dead in the snow, it falls to local detective Spencer O'Malley, a man who had half fallen in love with her, to investigate the crime. The spotlight falls on her three closest friends... and a story as gothic and intense as a modern-day Wuthering Heights begins to unravel."
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