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She survived captivity. Now she needs to survive becoming queen.Princess Lian of Aldon returns a ruined woman in the eyes of her kingdom. By every law of Aldon, she should have died in humiliation and disgrace.Instead, she is named heir to the throne.With her father and brother dead, and the...

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

When the self-effacing 10-year-old Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. Growing up in the Bertram household, she is always treated as an inferior, only finding an ally in her cousin Edmund. But Fanny's steadfast and purposeful character eventually makes her an indispensable part of the household. During the absence of Fanny's uncle, the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue upon the arrival of Mary Crawford and her brother Henry.

Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's most famous novels and a powerful classic of Victorian literature. The story follows Oliver, an orphan born into poverty, as he moves from the cruelty of the workhouse into the dangerous streets of London, where innocence, survival, crime, and compassion collide. Through unforgettable characters such as Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes, and Nancy, the novel exposes the harsh realities of child poverty, social injustice, criminal exploitation, and moral corruption.

I thought my hometown was supposed to be safe.If it was, then how did I wake up in a trunk after a first date?Terrified, still woozy from the drugs my date slipped me, I had enough clarity to know I had to escape before things got even worse. So I risked my life to get away from him.When the...

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe.

On a beautiful May morning at JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? Her...

"Seasoned narrator Kreinik showcases her prowess as a dialect coach as she embodies McConaghy’s vast cast...With deft agility, Kreinik guides McConaghy’s spectacular Moby Dick-esque journey towards an all-too imminent dystopia in which humanity faces a future alone." -- Booklist, starred...

Twenty-year-old Diana Buckingham was bred to be the wife of an important man. Now the nation is at war and the enemy is preparing to invade. Diana must choose between her aristocratic life, and being who she really is she cant have both. She joins the hundreds of thousands of enlistees training...

In tempo di guerra cambia ogni cosa, anche per chi non combatte in prima linea: i gesti, le parole, gli sguardi, i sogni non sono più gli stessi. In tempo di guerra ci sono bambini che, nello spazio stretto di una notte, si trasformano in piccoli uomini che devono affrontare e comprendere il mondo da soli. Questa è la storia di Jarek che, pochi giorni prima dei suoi dieci anni, pochi giorni dopo l'invasione russa dell'Ucraina, attraversa il Paese da solo per cercare rifugio a Bratislava, a migliaia di chilometri da casa.

È un mercenario delle Highland. Lei è la nobile donna che ha abbandonato. Il figlio di cui non era a conoscenza e la donna che non ha mai dimenticato potranno salvarlo da un oscuro destino questo Natale? Le Highlands scozzesi, 1308. L'infame mercenario Hamish Dunn ha tradito un potente capo clan ed è ora inseguito da assassini quasi altrettanto spietati di lui. Dopo un duello mortale, una fata delle Highland lo convince a recarsi a Carlisle per un incarico che gli fornirà abbastanza oro per fuggire e vivere in pace. Deidre Maxwell ha un segreto pericoloso.

Bestseller in Women’s Crime Fiction! For Kelly Jensen, blind justice masked the truth … Fleeing an abusive foster home, Kelly Jensen transforms into an elusive, daring, and seductive criminal who will do anything to protect those she loves. She’s become a master of disguise and voice to...

The thrilling third instalment in the Millennium's Rule series by international number one best-selling fantasy phenomenon Trudi Canavan. Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years in which the boy Rielle rescued, Qall, has grown up among the Travellers, with no memory of the life that was stolen from him. Five years of chaos barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by deadly machines, some drained of magic by power-hungry sorcerers.

Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, "Marmee". With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in "society", and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.

IT'S MURDER BEING A HIT-MOM 'Entertaining, funny and wholly original' CULTUREFLY 'Proves you only need to get mistaken once for a contract killer to solve all your problems' LISA GARDNER 'It is a widely known fact that most mums are ready to kill someone by eight-thirty AM on any given Monday...

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Her marriage was a secret. Now it’s primetime TV. Simone Allen lives for speed, danger, and knowing exactly when to leave. As a stunt double, she built a career on taking risks without sticking around for the consequences. So when she drunkenly eloped with her longtime situationship, Kyle, she...

A northern tale, narrated with a voice that turns quiet moments into pure poetry. The Salt Between Us-A Homecoming to the Quay Wall is a quiet, powerful novel about returning home, facing the past, and the salt, wind that never forgets. When she comes back to the Quay Wall after decades away, the summer is blistering so hot the asphalt shimmers and the air holds itself still. Only the wind by the water remains unchanged: cool, salty, and rough, speaking in the same fierce language it once used on her childhood skin. In that first gust, she sees the girl she used to be. The one from 1985.

Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.

»Genieße deine Angst, denn es wird das Letzte sein, was du jemals spüren wirst. «Ein grausamer Leichenfund schockiert Deutschland, weshalb die Verhaltensanalysten der OPE, Lisa Seifert und Jan Theurer, zu dem Fall hinzugezogen werden. Der Tatort ist alles andere als gewöhnlich und zeigt ein perfides Verbrechen. Die Leiche einer jungen Frau wurde wie ein Kunstwerk im Wald drapiert. Getrieben von dem Wunsch, den Täter schnell fassen zu können, nehmen Seifert und Theurer jedes Detail der Tat unter die Lupe. Schnell wird klar, dass das Opfer unvorstellbare Qualen erleiden musste.