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Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town's resistance network during World War II. Risking imprisonment and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan Hills. Her parents have no idea, consumed instead by love and fear for their beloved son, Achille, a courier and unofficial mechanic for a communist brigade fighting the fascists.

1527: At seventeen, Thomasin Marwood is plunged into court society when a husband is found for her elder sister, Cecilia. But the mood at court is tense. It is split between the conservative Catholics, loyal to Queen Catherine of Aragon, and the fashionable Francophiles, enthralled by King Henry's mistress, Anne Boleyn. While her parents sympathize with the old queen and her faith, Thomasin cannot help but be drawn to the glamour and vitality Anne represents. And her head is soon turned by the tall, dark and handsome Rafe Danvers who seems equally entranced with her.

Un viaje improvisado a Suecia. Un bosque, una cabaña y un lago. Un alojamiento con muchas incógnitas. El impacto de cinco grados bajo cero y el consuelo de una chimenea. Un enfrentamiento que promete convertirse en una batalla. Jan lo llama mentira. Lucía lo llama ocultar la verdad. Un baile como tregua y dos pasados cargados de misterios todavía sin resolver. Permíteme ser los cimientos de esa media vida que tienes pendiente construir...

When Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to the Tudor Queen Elizabeth, learns of a Jesuit assassin landing on England's shores, he's determined to go to any lengths to protect his Protestant Queen. His protege, Kit Scarlett, discovers a letter revealing the name of the assassin—Gregorio Luca. Together with Scottish agent, Iomhar Blackwood, Walsingham sends them on a mission to track Luca down. It is clear Luca is only coming with one task in mind—to kill. But is his target the English queen?

¿Son los hermanos Larrier merecedores de la herencia? ¿Aceptarán sus peculiares condiciones? Mario y Cristina… ¿Una historia de amor que perdura en el tiempo? ¿Qué supondrá para Cristina volver a escuchar su voz? ¿Comprenderá Mario su indiferencia? ¿Estarán dispuestos a permanecer treinta días atrapados en medio de la nada, rodeados de cientos de hectáreas de viñedos, sin que el pasado afecte a sus vidas?

What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever? Her body used to work perfectly. For years, she tallied her orgasms, maintained a Top Humps list, and rated men on whether they excited her more mentally or physically—all with the purpose of finding...

Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to the Tudor Queen Elizabeth has trained Kit Scarlett since she was a girl. Aware that she is able to infiltrate places that his male agents cannot, he sees her as an invaluable member of his team. When Walsingham discovers that a rebel alliance is planning to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and put Mary, Queen of Scots on the English throne, he summons Kit immediately. Together with loyal Scottish agent Iomhar Blackwood, Kit is tasked with finding out the full details of the treasonous plot.

Joan, once a singing star of the 1940s and 1950s, now ekes out a lonely, impoverished existence—until a chance encounter promises a comeback concert and an album. Her sister Kathleen is a successful medical researcher who has been offered the directorship of a prestige institute in Los Angeles in her retirement but is facing divorce after her husband's affair. In their old age, Joan and Kathleen draw closer together. Until a figure from Joan's past threatens everything they've built.

Selbst und ständig - diese beiden Worte bestimmen Felines Alltag, seit sie vom Großraumbüro an den heimischen Schreibtisch gewechselt hat. Feierabend? Fehlanzeige! Urlaub? Keine Zeit! Immer weiter dreht sich die Abwärtsspirale aus Arbeit und Stress bis hin zu körperlichen Schmerzen. Als Feline ganz unten ankommt, trifft sie auf Julia.

Diagnose: Depression – Therapie: Hoffnung. Für Nancy Salchow bricht eine Welt zusammen, als binnen kürzester Zeit sowohl ihr Zwillingsbruder als auch ihre Mutter an Krebs sterben. Geschüttelt von Panikattacken, sieht sie keinen anderen Ausweg, als sich schließlich in eine psychiatrische Klinik einweisen zu lassen. Hier nimmt ihr Schicksal eine entscheidende Wende: Sie begegnet ihrer großen Liebe, die ihr die Kraft gibt, aus dem Burn-out und der Depression herauszufinden.

The first three fairy tale retellings from the Return to the Four Kingdoms series: The Secret Princess: A Retelling of The Goose Girl, The Mystery Princess: A Retelling of Cinderella, and The Desert Princess: A Retelling of Aladdin. These interconnected fairy tale retellings each feature a different heroine who finds herself friendless in a strange land and who must fight to save her new home and win her happily ever after.

December, 1989, and Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed American studying in London - has unexpectedly been invited by her classmate Emma Chapman to spend Christmas at her family's Cotswolds manor house, Starvewood Hall. The holiday is a true English fantasy: woodland walks, charming pubs and elaborate dinners at the manor, with the added romantic potential of Emma's twin brother, Adam, who feels like Ashley's wildest dreams come true. But is there something strange about the old house, both stately and rundown.

Karina schenkt ihrer kleinen Schwester Topsi ein Ponyfohlen zum Geburtstag. Topsi glaubt zu träumen. Doch als sie das Fohlen abholen, kommt es zu einem ungewöhnlichen und gefährlichen Zwischenfall. Seine schreckliche große Neugier wird dem Fohlen beinahe zum Verhängnis. Ja, und wenn Marc nicht gewesen wäre, wer weiß, wie die Sache ausgegangen wäre... So erhalten Karina und Topsi schließlich noch eine überraschende Einladung.

Candidato al Premio Strega 2023, "Cassandra a Mogadiscio" è uno struggente memoir dove affiorano e si intrecciano insieme la travagliata storia del popolo somalo e la storia familiare e autobiografica dell'autrice. Il risultato è un vero e proprio racconto intergenerazionale che parla di identità e colonialismo; dell'Italia e della Somalia e di un possibile, per quanto difficile, perdono.

When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretenses, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention center. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges. Ten listless days stretch before Anya and, as she appeals her sentence and recalls her progress from apolitical youth to informed citizen, she is troubled by strange, dreamlike visions, and wonders if her cellmates might somehow not be as ordinary as they seem.

The Love Formula is equipped with everything you need to know and understand about love. You will delve deep into what is love, based on the definitions of the greatest philosophers of all time, while also digging into the science and chemical reactions that go on in your body.

Aman a sus hijos, pero se arrepienten de ser madres. #madresarrepentidas es un tratado de pensamiento radical que no dejará indiferente a nadie. En este ensayo controvertido, tan minucioso como iluminador, la socióloga Orna Donath examina la dimensión del tabú, desactiva los dictados sociales y deja que sean las propias madres quienes hablen de sus experiencias. Así, #madresarrepentidas se erige como un nuevo e imprescindible manifiesto feminista, llamado a romper barreras.

Paper, Paper! Read all about it! Acrobat Murderer eludes police! But the newspaper story cannot tell the reader what is really happening—that this is another episode in the invisible war fought by hidden combatants. As Britain hurtles towards a crisis that must be averted at all costs, the police scramble to find a man who has escaped them. An assassination triggered The Great War. Could the same happen again?

Ist der Mörder noch ganz sauber? Der zweite Fall für Pamela Schlonski! Ermittlungsalarm in der Biobäckerei Schnarrenbeck am Rande des Ruhrgebiets! Im Brotofen liegt ein riesiger Weckmann. Darin eingebacken - eine Leiche. Gut, dass Pamela Schlonski sofort zur Stelle ist, um Bäckereibesitzer Onkel Horst und Tante Christa beizustehen. Denn Hauptkommissar Lennard Vogt nimmt die beiden gleich ins Visier. Doch Pamela wäre nicht die gründlichste Reinigungskraft und scharfsinnigste Hobbyermittlerin des ganzen Ruhrpotts, hätte sie nicht schon eine andere Spur.

Nora Cooper is about to get her shot at 'the big time.' The Paradise Bay Resort is hosting the World Bartending Championships and she's been asked to lead the hospitality team. If all goes well, she'll be getting the promotion she's been working toward for years. There's only one problem—billionaire Theo Rojas, the major sponsor of the event, who seems determined to make Nora's life a living hell.