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Kel fights to maintain the rigorous regimen of a page while confronting the prejudices that come with being a female in a man's world and coping with a crush on her closest friend, Neal...

Bloomsbury presents Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai, read by Susan Momoko-Hingley and Kenichiro Thomson. From Catfish Rolling's Clara Kumagai, a second novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Turn the page, strike a chord. There are restless ghosts...

Secondo dei tre romanzi che compongono il ciclo del Corsaro Nero, La regina dei Caraibi ci presenta il personaggio forse più affascinante e malinconico dell'intera opera salgariana. Accompagnato dai fidi Carmaux, Moko e Wan Stiller, oltre che da Yara, una bella principessa indiana, il Corsaro Nero, spinto anche dall'istinto che lo porta a ricercare l'amata Honorata, intraprende un lungo viaggio in mare che lo porterà fino a Veracruz, con lo scopo di vendicarsi del perfido Wan Guld.

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering - a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of turmoil in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart.

Vous ne trouverez pas ici le résumé de ce livre, car il est important de le découvrir sans savoir de quoi il parle. On dira simplement qu'il s'agit de l'histoire du jeune Bruno que la curiosité va mener à une rencontre de l'autre côté d'une étrange barrière. Une de ces barrières qui séparent les hommes et qui ne devraient pas exister. Alice Taglioni nous entraine avec une grande justesse en 1942 aux côtés de Bruno, petit garçon de neuf ans qui tente de comprendre le monde qui l'entoure. Un roman d'une force inoubliable.

It should be easy to step into the position her mother left for her, since everyone thought she died the day her kingdom was destroyed. But staying hidden - remaining 'nobody' - is simpler than accepting her dark past, enduring her harrowing fate, and claiming her broken crown. This series is a detailed world full of legends and myths given flesh, and a princess chosen to save them all.

Bloomsbury presents A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master, read by Neil Shah An extraordinarily rich debut novel, set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The main character is Bilal, a boy determined to protect his dying father from the...

Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. Kraków, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and...

Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford's elite students in the All Souls class. Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of...

Two starred reviews! A teen’s fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical “gripping—and sometimes gut-wrenching—adventure tale” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) told in journal entries perfect for...

Homers "Odyssee" - Ein Weltgedicht: Im späten 8. Jahrhundert niedergeschrieben, gehört es zu den ältesten und einflussreichsten Werken der abendländischen Literatur. Das Versepos erzählt die Irrfahrten des griechischen Helden Odysseus, der um Troja gekämpft hat und durch den Fluch des Poseidon an der Rückkehr nach Ithaka gehindert wird. Es ist die Geschichte einer Heimkehr, die Geschichte eines Mannes, der trotz ständiger Bedrohungen und Verlockungen sein Ziel nicht aus den Augen verliert. Und es ist die Geschichte einer Frau, die zwanzig Jahre auf ihren Mann warten muss.

A miraculous new Christmas story from award-winning author Sally Nicholls about hope and heartbreak, wartime romance and the power of love. 17-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar’s daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported missing in action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only one solution she and her family could think of in order to keep that respectability. She gave up James, her baby son, to be adopted by her parents and brought up as her younger brother.

A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal...

New romance and dangers abound in this companion to the crowd-pleasing Wicked Fox. After the events of Wicked Fox, Somin is ready to help her friends pick up the pieces of their broken lives and heal. But Jihoon is still grieving the loss of his grandmother, and Miyoung is distant as she grieves...

Of The Lion of St. Mark, G.A. Henty wrote: "I have laid my story in the time not of the triumphs of Venice but of her hardest struggle for existence, when she defended herself successfully against the coalition of Hungary, Padua, and Genoa, for never at any time were the virtues of Venice, her steadfastness, her patriotism, and her willingness to make all sacrifice for her independence more brilliantly shown.

“Douglass sets a classic on fire with an inspired recasting that strips away time and all expectations." — Rita Williams-Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of A Sitting in St. James From New York Times bestselling author Ryan Douglass comes a gripping and tender reimagining of The...

PRE-ORDER THE SWAN'S DAUGHTER, THE LATEST FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSHANI CHOKSHI! Will divinity be their demise? Returning to the dark and decadent world of her instant New York Times bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the trilogy's final, riveting tale...

Im Jahr 1610 versenken Piraten vor der Küste Japans ein englisches Handelsschiff. Jack Fletcher, der Sohn des Steuermanns, ist der einzige Überlebende. Der berühmte Schwertmeister Masamoto Takeshi adoptiert ihn und lässt ihn zum Samurai ausbilden. Doch noch immer schwebt Jack in Lebensgefahr. Der gefürchtete Ninja Drachenauge hat es auf einen großen Schatz abgesehen, den Jack aus dem Schiff gerettet hat: das Logbuch seines Vaters. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

Hunting Prince Dracula: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the...

Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood and Small Favors, this genre-bending page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux follows two girls who transport themselves into the world of their favorite book only to encounter the sinister alternate reality that awaits them. No matter...