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This illuminating serial charts the transformation of the young Victoria from spirited teenager to shy young bride to celebrated ruler of Britain and ‘Mother of Europe’. But while her roles changed, her essential nature remained the same: vibrant, passionate, principled and fiercely independent. Through extracts from Victoria’s own diaries and letters, and dramatised episodes featuring the characters closest to her, we are given thrilling insight into the thoughts and feelings of the woman behind the crown - and the secrets of her mind and heart.

""In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria – Princess Vicky – as she emerges into a powerful force in her own right and ascends to become the first German Empress.” —Marie Benedict, New York Times...

It's Rita Hayworth's one year anniversary as magical magistrate. She was planning on a quiet, enjoyable October and an uneventful Samhain Court. But living in Hallow Hill means she'd be crazy to expect quiet or uneventful.

The exciting conclusion of Hallow Hill at Halloween.

Journalist Anna McCall has never understood people who collect things. So, when she's asked to interview local collector and eccentric, William Kitson, she isn't exactly looking forward to the experience. But she soon falls under the charm of Fox Hill Manor as well as its owner, even though she thinks there's something very strange about the collection there.

In this irresistible historical romance, a seasoned spy sets out to rescue the childhood friend he once loved from a reputation-destroying rumor—only to discover that she is actually the source. After enduring five interminable seasons, Lottie Carlisle has had enough of shallow London society...

Before Princess Margaret, before Duchess Meghan, there was Princess Louise: royal rebel. As the fourth daughter of the perpetually in-mourning Queen Victoria, Princess Louise’s life is more a gilded prison than a fairy tale. Expected to sit quietly next to her mother with down-cast eyes...

When Dr. Victoria Jones is left alone in her normally chaotic house, temporarily abandoned by her sleepover-bound children, she finds herself almost deafened by the resounding silence. Victoria remembers silence...vaguely. It has been years, of course, but she and silence used to be very close. Almost family, really.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman.

As their acting careers begin to take flight, Evelyn and Jack's relationship becomes a casualty of their fame. A world of sex and drug deals begins to encompass them, forcing each of them to employ unlawful actions to survive their broken existences and secure their dreams. Words are left unsaid as they travel, and Evelyn and Jack are faced with the raw reality of having to choose between their love of success and their love for each other.

After falling out of the sky- quite literally- with an airplane, Amber goes though life simply surviving from week to week. Her traumatic experience keeps on haunting her day and night, but mostly at night, and it seems there's no way out. Nothing left to try for. If life is only a torture, why keep on going? The answer is simple: Adriaan. The man has managed to get through her defences and keeps her hope alive. He's the reason the get out of bed in the morning.

Het gesticht van Salpêtrière, 1885. Heel Parijs is in de ban van dokter Charcot en zijn openbare hypnosesessies, waarbij hij gek of hysterisch verklaarde vrouwen behandelt. Het uitschot van de samenleving. Maar zijn ze wel gek, of heeft de maatschappij de vrouwen als dusdanig bestempeld om van hen af te zijn? Eén avond per jaar lijkt deze vraag irrelevant, als de Parijse elite danst met de gek verklaarde vrouwen. Het bal der gekken is voor zowel de elite als de verbannen vrouwen het hoogtepunt van het jaar en voor de laatsten een zeldzaam moment van hoop.

Ganz Paris will sie sehen: Im berühmtesten Krankenhaus der Stadt, der Salpêtrière, sollen Louise und Eugénie in dieser Ballnacht glänzen. Ob die Hysterikerinnen nicht gefährlich seien, raunt sich die versammelte Hautevolee zu und bewundert ihre Schönheit gerade dann, wenn sie die Kontrolle verlieren. Für Louise und Eugénie aber steht an diesem Abend alles auf dem Spiel: Sie wollen aus ihrer Rolle ausbrechen, wollen ganz normale Frauen sein, wollen auf dem Boulevard Saint-Germain sitzen und ein Buch lesen dürfen, denken und träumen und lieben dürfen wie die Männer.