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De oudste zus zijn is niet gemakkelijk en daar weet Teresa Essex alles van. Na de dood van haar vader blijkt het gehele familiefortuin te zijn vergokt. Teresa en haar drie jongere zusjes, Imogen, Annabel en Josephine, komen onder gezag te staan van de Engelse hertog van Holbrook. Hij is vriendelijk, maar weet zich totaal geen raad met de meisjes. Teresa voelt zich als oudste zus geroepen om zo snel mogelijk te trouwen om zo haar zusjes te kunnen helpen.

Wat als de man van je dromen de broer van je verloofde is? Gabrielle Jerningham reist van India naar Engeland om te trouwen met Peter Dewland. Maar eenmaal aangekomen ontmoet ze de oudere broer van Peter. De twee zijn direct tot elkaar aangetrokken. Quill Dewland valt voor Gabrielle's vrijgevochten karakter en sensuele uitstraling. Er is echter één probleem. Quill wordt al jaren geplaagd door vreselijke migraine aanvallen, veroorzaakt door schommelbewegingen. Gabrielle denkt een oplossing gevonden te hebben voor Quill’s mysterieuze aandoening.

Occhi azzurro cielo, ciglia come neve. Così mi descriveva, un tempo, Kay Walsh, il mio amico d’infanzia. Eravamo inseparabili noi due, fino al giorno in cui, senza un motivo, mi aveva eliminato dalla sua vita. Di punto in bianco era cambiato: aveva perso il suo sorriso genuino e la luce nei suoi occhi. Aveva iniziato a deridermi, a umiliarmi, a provocarmi. Con un colpo di spugna, aveva cancellato tutto il nostro passato. Inutile cercare di evitarlo, lui era il wing della squadra di rugby della Blackwood Academy.

Wolf Lennox, conte di Blackwood e potente magnate della Lennox Industry, è uno scozzese dall’animo arido. Cinico e arrogante, si divide tra Edimburgo, Londra e New York, gestendo la vita privata come gli affari. Solo due cose per lui sono più importanti del titolo e del potere: la famiglia e il castello di Blackwood, la sua casa.Rose McGregor è una giovane donna al servizio dei Lennox. Rimasta presto orfana, vive grazie alla generosità della nobile famiglia, che le ha dato un lavoro e un tetto sulla testa. Diciannovenne pura e ingenua, fin da bambina custodisce un segreto.

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society—as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells. These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all before it's time to sit down for tea. But when Cecilia meets Ned Lightbourne her world is set to change forever. Because he's a paid assassin and she's his next hit.

When foundling Maggie takes a job caring for Edward, she knows him only as a young man declared mad and kept privately under the care of a physician to avoid any scandal for his family. But Edward is the heir to the Duke of Buckingham and when his father dies his family determine to marry him off to secure the title and the estate. Edward insists that Maggie stay by his side, so she must be passed off as a lady for one social season, during which time a marriage can be arranged.

Miss Lizzy Bennet realizes one early autumn morning that a change has occurred in their Hertfordshire neighborhood. Sure knowledge—a magical gift—tells her that someone is coming. Or something? Or…both? Something sinister…something good. Which is it? Could it be Mr. Darcy, their new neighbor’s enigmatic guest? He has his own gift, one that is haunting and painful. Will she be able to help him, even though so many other events are affecting life at Longbourn House?

Della Danby is determined to prove she’s more than just a flighty heiress riding on her parents’ money to get through life. When her closest friend and business partner finds her hands full with a new baby, Della takes the opportunity to shoulder more responsibility at their ladies’ gambling club and secure their financial stability, and she has the perfect idea: to drum up new business by adding their club to a popular guidebook of local attractions.

Young Kyle is excited to at last have a change to spend a week experiencing a medieval role playing holiday of knights and chivalry in Devon, England. Kyle becomes squire to a handsome knight named Gilmore the Brave. Gil and Kyle form an extraordinary bond that transcends the boundaries of their roles. From their initial encounter during a grand medieval event, their shared passion for days of yore ignites a connection that draws them together in secret.

As the son of Edward de Wolfe, Henry III and Edward I’s greatest diplomat, Leonidas has been in the heart of England’s politics since the beginning of his career. An elite knight, Blackchurch trained and Kenilworth-educated, he is the pinnacle of the de Wolfe stable of knights, sons and grandsons and great-grandsons of the greatest knight of his generation, William de Wolfe.

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

"Cumbres Borrascosas, cuyo título original en inglés es Wuthering Heights, es la única novela escrita por Emily Brontë. Publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell, esta obra maestra de la literatura inglesa ha dejado una huella imborrable. La historia comienza cuando un hombre llamado Lockwood llega a la finca Cumbres Borrascosas para conocer al señor Heathcliff, su casero. El recibimiento es frío y hostil. En la casa también viven Catherine, una hermosa joven, y Hareton Earnshaw, un joven tosco.

Lady Charlotte Taylour knows she should feel saddened by the news that her father has died, but all she feels is an immense relief. How can she mourn such a neglectful father? When she is summoned to London for the reading of the will, disaster strikes, and she finds an unlikely ally. Lord Hudson Beauchamp, a hard-working district judge in London, has been tasked with retrieving his sister from finishing school. Along the way, he rushes to help the most intriguing woman he has ever met.

Lady Isabella Beauchamp is beautiful, clever and rich. But she is not happy with the restrictions that Society has placed upon her. She is determined to prove that she can be so much more than what people expect her to be, even if it means that she is destined to become a spinster. Lord Ewin Colborne has been in love with Isabella since they were little children, but she only seems to hold contempt for him.

Who will the aging serial flirt choose? The blue-blooded college grad with an inheritance, or the dashing hotel clerk with a dubious family tree who seems to understand her the best? The repercussions of the summer echo through the decades, defining the lives of all involved.

Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy, a hard-working English teacher who never does anything out of the ordinary, flies to Western Australia's remote Abrolhos Islands. She's in search of answers—both to the infamous Batavia shipwreck and her personal family crises. Amsterdam, 1628. Saskia, an orphaned young Dutchwoman, boards Batavia with relatives, bound for a new and potentially dangerous life in the East Indies—only for her world to first collide with Aris Jansz, the ship's reluctant under surgeon.

After the Bolsheviks seized power, Lenin entrusted the security officers Dzerzhinsky and Blumkin with a secret operation to prevent the possibility of restoring the hereditary monarchy in Russia and destroying any evidence of cooperation of the new government with Russia’s enemy in the Great War, the German Empire.

Gilded-Age Hollywood meets Christina Lauren in the third of Maureen Lee Lenker's rompy 1930s rom-coms. When movie star and notorious womanizer Flynn Banks finds his reputation in serious trouble, his studio insists he publicly date his new co-star, Liv De Lesseps, to save it—except Liv might swashbuckle her way into his heart for real.

La storia di un amore fascista vissuto e stroncato da inevitabili sensi di colpa, tra follia, adesione indefessa ai dogmi mussoliniani, autoassoluzioni e condanne morali costituisce il fulcro del nuovo romanzo di Valerio Di Stefano, ambientato nell'immediata vigilia dello scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale in una dimenticata provincia piemontese.

'Look at me, Nora,' he said softly; and neither of them thought it strange that he should use her Christian name. She turned and looked at him, and what he read in her eyes robbed him for the moment of speech. Then he asked, in a whisper: 'Are you glad I came? Did you expect me?' In this timeless tale of forbidden love and sacrifice, the beautiful Nora Connor captures the heart of the distinguished Duke Percival at a glittering summer ball.