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Recently widowed, Laura has no intention of tying herself to any other man. She is finally free of the life she choose after leaving the orphanage. But when evil catches up with her, she is left with no option but to run to Clover Springs. There her friends will provide some protection and safety.

Hong Kong, 1941. Following the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the wealthy Tang family flee to Hong Kong, believing it to be protected under British occupation. As the First Wife of the family, Mingzhu leads a sheltered - if lonely - existence overseeing her daughter Qiang's education, resisting the hostility of her husband's concubine, while managing the household alongside her devoted maid, Biyu.

Five prostitutes are murdered in the East London districts of Spitalfields and Whitechapel in 1888. In present-day Australia, Henry Evans, is a fourth-generation doctor. He and his wife, Claire have three children: Harriet, 13, Lucy, 10 and John, six. Henry and Harriet both relive in their dreams the murders of the so-called canonical five. Their nightmares are frighteningly similar in detail, especially the death of the fifth victim, Mary-Jane Kelly. The family starts to unravel as the nightmares begin to control their lives.

Eine Geschichte, die erzählt werden muss: der Roman über die Kinderverschickung. Nachdem ihre Ehe an einem unerfüllten Kinderwunsch zerbrochen ist, stürzt sich Theresa Dormbach in die Arbeit im Teehandelshaus, das sie zusammen mit Mutter und Tante betreibt. Dort tritt der Journalist Jonas von Bergen in ihr Leben. Erst geht es nur um einen Artikel über die Geschichte des Teehauses. Doch bei der Recherche dafür findet Theresa Hinweise auf eine zweite Schwester ihrer Mutter, über die nie jemand gesprochen hat.

When a harpooned whale offers proof the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is endangering all life in the Columbia River Basin, Luke Hinson, a brash young scientist, seizes the chance to avenge his father’s death but a thyroid cancer diagnosis derails Luke’s research.

Shrouded in scandal and secrets, Arilee Rutledge’s family is as tangled as the thorns surrounding their unwelcoming antebellum mansion. When her brother Davis returns from the Great War, she hopes they will make a new start after a season of devastation. But Davis is haunted by their younger brother’s death and his wife’s committal to the state asylum; while he loses himself in his work, Arilee continues raising his children. Determined to control at least one area of their lives, the siblings hire a former acquaintance to restore their dilapidated home.

Having already spent two seasons on the Marriage Mart without a single flutter of her heart, Lady Eloise Bounds has given up on ever finding a love match and accepts the reality of her situation. When the Duke of Ardley expresses interest in having her for his wife, Eloise has no choice but to put away her childish dreams and become the duchess her mother wants her to be.

Ungekürzt und ungeschönt: Die Kriegsmemoiren des SS-Offiziers Heinz Macher. Heinz Macher: Als Frontsoldat und Kompaniechef eine Legende. Zwölfmal verwundet, Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz, goldene Nahkampfspange. Viele Geschichten ranken sich um seine Person. In diesen Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1949 hat er selbst das Wort.

Freuen Sie sich auf eine spannende und beizeiten urkomische Reise zur Panzertruppe der Bundeswehr! Wir schreiben das Jahr 1990, Karsten Trube betritt als frischgebackener Wehrpflichtiger die Blücher-Kaserne in Hessisch Lichtenau. Seine Bestimmung: das Panzeraufklärungsbataillon II. Karsten Trube wird Panzerschütze, arbeitet erst mit dem Kampfpanzer Leopard 1 und später mit dem Leopard 2. Insgesamt verbringt er vier turbulente Jahre bei der Bundeswehr. Mit diesem autobiografischen Roman gewährt Ihnen der Autor einmalige Einblicke in die Ausbildung an den "Leos".

Иван Гончаров написал «Обыкновенную историю» невероятно быстро: автор придумал идею для своего дебютного романа в 1844 году, а в 1845 уже читал первые главы в салоне Майковых. В отличие от сомнений, характерных для Гончарова в процессе работы над следующими произведениями, с "Обыкновенной историей" он не медлил ни секунды. Роман воспитания о жизни и взрослении Александра Адуева уникален своей обыкновенностью: молодой романтик из провинциальной глубинки отправляется в столицу, чтобы построить карьеру и найти свое место в жизни.

Leave it to Lady Caroline and Uncle Albert to inadvertently stumble upon an ancient load of trouble while on a jolly jaunt up the Nile. From ancient curses and wandering mummies, to seances and secret societies, it’s all murder, mayhem, and a plague of beetles.

On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except hope. She has committed a horrifying act for which there will certainly be retribution. He is staggering from a devastating discovery. They will find each other and attempt to move forward, even as their grief leaves wounds on their new beginnings.

For jaded Lord Fine—Wesley, to the friends he’s surprised he now has—falling into his lover Sebastian’s world of magic and intrigue has changed everything. But when a plot to destroy magic is linked to Wesley’s own aristocratic world, he’s determined to root it out—especially when it threatens newly vulnerable Sebastian.

Anne Brandon has always understood the power of a king’s patronage and, though the court of Henry VIII is a dangerous place for women, as the daughter of the king’s best friend, Anne feels safer than most. But Anne’s husband Lord Powis is tiring of her childlessness and when Henry VIII begins plotting to rid himself of a queen in his quest for an heir, suddenly Anne’s life is in danger. And as whispers of the name of her friend Anne Boleyn’s get ever louder, there is peril in every loose word, every forbidden conversation.

Theodosia Tremere through a spiteful lie has lost her true love. Now a governess to the delightful Heythrop family, she once again encounters her former fiancé, Lord Steyne, while in the midst of a summer-long family treasure hunt. Misunderstanding and sadness lay in the past; would the future hold more hurtor happiness?

Diego no es un muchacho cualquiera, es el hijo del mayor héroe de la época. Su padre, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, se ha esforzado por convertirlo en el mejor de sus capitanes. Algo que el chico persigue sin tregua a pesar de que la devoción filial que antes le profesaba ha ido desvaneciéndose ante la mirada inquieta de su madre, Jimena. En estos últimos años, el rencor ha hecho del Cid un hombre cruel, capaz de condenar a quienes más le aman. Y Diego, siempre dispuesto a servirle como lo haría un buen vasallo, tendrá que enfrentarse con la verdad sobre su padre y señor.

Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires. Conrad brought to English Literature both narrative mastery, compelling prose and fully formed characters as well as a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs which are rightly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Jospeh Conrad died on the 3rd August 1924 at Bishopsbourne, Kent in England.

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós was born in 1845 and has gained his literary reputation as the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. He died in 1900.

お江戸は本所亀沢町にある貧乏長屋。万造、松吉の「万松」コンビを筆頭に、左官の八五郎・お里夫婦や後家女のお染、浪人の島田鉄斎ら個性的な面々が住んでいる。人情とお節介で下町界隈でも名高い「おけら長屋」では、今日も笑いと涙の“珍”騒動が巻き起こって……。連作時代小説『本所おけら長屋（二十）』（畠山健二著、PHP研究所刊）より、エピソード「その弐 ひきだし」をオーディオブック化。

AD 211: Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, has invaded what is now Scotland, but Tullius, second-in-command of the legendary Sixth Victrix Legion, has more to worry about. Severus’s eldest son, a young Caracalla, is already testing the limits of his power as his monstrous nature begins to reveal itself. With his family under threat of death from him, Tullius must balance their safety with a sworn duty to his emperor and turn to the only people who can help – those north of Hadrian’s Wall – his enemies.