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While Cassandra’s prophecies fall on deaf ears, Ritsa instead remains focused on surviving once they make land. When a mysterious young girl begins to shadow them, and Agamemnon’s cruelty takes a new turn, Ritsa must find a safe place for Cassandra, whose mood alternates between cruelty and frenzy. But it’s the ongoing ire between Queen Clytemnestra and Agamemnon that could prove fatal for everyone.

Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes of Europe in the grip of the Cold War. When he is offered the chance to interview Patrice Lumumba, newly elected president of the People’s Republic of the Congo, he finds himself drawn into a web of duplicities and betrayals.

Disgraced eldest sister Claire Summers has been living in exile as companion to a stern great-aunt in Scotland. About to lose her place and longing to be reconciled with her estranged family, Claire sees an advertisement from someone looking for a “respectable female partner” in a Sidmouth boarding house. Is it a sign? She answers the ad, hoping she has not made another reckless mistake. When she meets the handsome, secretive proprietor, she wonders what he’s hiding and if he’s any more trustworthy than the nobleman who betrayed her years ago.

After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn’t dare tell Gavin why she’s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave—confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party, she knows there's more to the invitation than a weekend of revelry. She's old enough to be married and her family are hoping for a good match. Sparks fly when she collides with dashing Jack Carter, the hotel housekeeper's disreputable brother. A visit to a home for waifs and strays makes Charity question her values.

With Christmas days away, the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lottie feels far from festive cheer after her sister's death. But with the help of handsome vicar and injured veteran Matthew, she begins to feel hopeful once more. Then one frosty night, a German bomber plane crashes nearby. A survivor is missing, injured and in desperate need of help. But this is no ordinary German airman: his capture would change the course of the war.

Sebelius Sallow, a clockmaker in the snowy-streets of 1836 London, is often overlooked and unappreciated. But on Christmas Eve, a series of life-changing events opens up a world of paranormal uncertainty. Guided by the personified Seven Deadly Sins and their counterparts, the Seven Heavenly Virtues, Sebelius is forced to confront the echoes of his past in a darkly humorous and thought-provoking tale of redemption, steeped in gothic gloom and moral reckoning.

九代将軍家重の治世。親の代からの浪人・諫山左馬介は、馴染みの棟梁の紹介で割のいい仕事にありついた。雇い主は、江戸屈指の両替屋・分銅屋仁左衛門。夜逃げした貸し方の店の片付けという楽な仕事を真面目にこなす左馬介を仁左衛門は高く評価するが、空店から不審な帳面を見つけて以降ふたりの周りは騒がしくなる。一方、若き田沼意次は亡き大御所・吉宗からの遺言に頭を悩ませていた。「幕政の中心を米から金にすべて移行せよ」

「ぜんや」の常連の旦那衆を狙った毒酒騒動。犯行にかつての同僚・長吉が関わっていると確信した熊吉は捜索に走る。一方、長吉に騙されて常連客に毒を出しそうになってしまったお花は、意気消沈。

どぶ鼠の伝次は元々はへっつい直しのこそどろ。今では世間に知られたくない秘め事を探る商売――影聞きで食い繋いでいる。その伝次、飛脚を商う「兎屋」の主人・浮世之介にお呼ばれされた。

A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India's divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...

One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort’s commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians – and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder…

An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin’s youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide.

Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever.

If you love early rock & roll, poodle skirts, clever who-dun-its, a charming cat, and an even more charming detective, you're going to love this series. Enjoy books 1 and 2 of the 1950s Cozy Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lee Strauss!

You’ve heard about the handcart pioneers, but have you ever walked in their footsteps? Join master storyteller Gerald Lund and pioneers from across Europe as they leave their homes and begin the most harrowing journey in the history of western migration. Now 980 saints are trying the handcart experiment and have narrowed their possessions to just 17 pounds, including their clothing and bedding. And these cityfolk are undeterred at the goal of walking 1,300 miles in 100 days, knowing that they may face buffalo stampedes, ravenous wolves, howling storms, blistered feet, and icy creeks.

Die ersten beiden Romane der Familiensaga in einem Hörbuch-Bundle! Das Kaufhaus - Zeit der Sehnsucht. Der Laden der Zukunft Stralsund, 1879: Die junge Schneiderin Flora zieht mit ihrem Verlobten Leonhard Tietz in die schöne Hansestadt. Für ihr Brautkleid findet sie im Textilwarengeschäft eines alten Kaufmanns die feinsten Stoffe, doch der betagte Besitzer steht seit dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau kurz vor dem Bankrott. Flora beschließt spontan, ihm ihre Hilfe als Ladenmädchen anzubieten.

Into the Flames, the sixth and final installment of Gerald N. Lund's Fire and Steel series, brings new experiences, new challenges, new opportunities, and not a few tragedies into the lives of the Eckhardt and Westland families. In America, Mitch and Edie continue their struggle to hang on to the ranch that has been their family's home for nearly fifty years, while Benji's quest to find work turns catastrophic and sets him on a new path that will take him to exotic climes and an unexpected reunion.

浅草の油屋・利根屋の娘お玉に、本所髄一の大店の主人との縁談が持ち上がった。
しかし見合いの前日、お玉は置手紙を残して姿を消した。
利根屋の体面と命運を賭して身代わりとなったのは、奉公人のおまい。
当日、〈えにし屋〉を名乗る謎めいた女の元で、おまいは美しく着飾らせてもらい見合いの席に臨む。
しかしその後もお玉の行方は一向に摑めないままで……。
浮世には結びたい縁もあれば

血相を変えて飛び込んできた北町奉行所同心・服部左門の一言が、一郎太と藍蔵を絶句させた。犯行現場の路地に横たわる弥佑は、正面から袈裟懸けに一刀両断されたらしい。