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Paris, 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost—one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long-lost artefact rumoured to grant its possessor the power of God. Their hunt lures them far from Paris and into the icy heart of Russia, where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all.

It is the first century BC. Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh’s six children, is the one that her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace rife with intrigue and murder. Smart, courageous, ambitious and sensuously beautiful, she possesses the charm to cause two of history’s most famous leaders to fall in love with her. But as her cruel sisters plot to steal the throne, Cleopatra realizes there is only one person on whom she can rely—herself.

In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined.

Drew is an army brat, a hotshot athlete poised to be his high school’s star pitcher, when he has to move for the sixth time in fifteen years—this time to West Berlin, where American soldiers like his dad hold an outpost of democracy against communist Russia in Hitler’s former capital. Meanwhile, in East Berlin, his cousin Matthias has grown up in the wreckage left by Allied bombing during World War II, on streets ruled by the Communist Party’s secret police.

March 1888. A blizzard has frozen all of New York, and Nellie Bly is going stir-crazy, stuck at home with her mother and her detestable brother Albert. When a political speech inspires her, she and Colonel Cockerill plot out her most daring undercover assignment since she emerged from the Blackwell's Island insane asylum: She's going to trap the most crooked man in politics, Edward R. Phelps, the self-styled "King" of the Albany lobby. But catching a fox as wily as Phelps will take all her nerve, and she's learning that her rise has left her with few allies in the newspaper world.

Ronans Abenteuer geht weiter! Ronan ist nach Raukland zurückgekehrt, doch sein Vater sieht auch in Broghan einen Anwärter auf den Thron. Die beiden Kontrahenten führen einen erbitterten Kampf um die Gunst des Königs. Ronan rechnet fest mit dem Sieg, als Broghan ein ungeheuerliches Geheimnis aufdeckt. "Ich habe meinem Vater einmal gesagt, dass es nur Frieden zwischen Angent und Raukland geben würde, wenn ich Rauklands Königssohn zum Mann nehme", sagte Hannah mit ruhiger Stimme. Ronan starrte auf ihren Hinterkopf.

In the wake of September 11, 2001, Sammy attempts to use her powers to turn back time and change the course of history in search of her lost father, whom she affectionately calls Rhubarb Pie. However, in her botched attempt to manipulate fate, she falls down a rabbit hole and becomes lost in a virtual wonderland. As she wanders the fantastical City of @, she meets a variety of zany characters with questionable motives. In order to break free of this wacky world and find her way back home, she must restore her faith and connect with her powers before she disappears forever.

Der fünfzehnjährige Bauernjunge Adam Brown würde alles tun, um seinen Freund Tip, einen Sklaven auf der benachbarten Plantage, zu beschützen—auch wenn es bedeutet, sich mit Nathan Billings, dem Sohn des reichsten Landbesitzers in Tennessee, anzulegen. Aber als es so aussieht, als hätte Adam Nathan im Streit getötet, gerät er in Panik und tritt unter falschem Namen der Unionsarmee bei. Während sich seine Seele durch die Gräueltaten des Krieges verdunkelt, will er nur noch nach Hause. Aber um dorthin zurückkehren zu können, muss er sich, seiner Vergangenheit stellen.

Fresh from her harrowing escape from the madhouse on Blackwell's Island, undercover reporter Nellie Bly receives a letter that launches her next crusading investigation—what becomes of unwanted children in Victorian New York? Discovering the wide range of reasons children are abandoned, even Bly's characteristic pluck fails her as she chases down the doctors who buy and sell babies! Based on real events, Bly's own reporting, and actual letters left with orphans, this heartrending story follows Nellie Bly as she struggles to answer a devastating question: "What becomes of babies?"

Enraged by a sexist article in the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Elizabeth Cochrane pens a furious letter to the editor that results in a job offer! Saddled with the name Nellie Bly, she struggles against the male-dominated newspaper industry to report what no one else will—stories of women. Bly can break into New York’s Newspaper Row if she can nab a major scoop—life inside a madhouse! Feigning madness, she is committed to the Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where matters are far worse than she dreamed.

Sixteen-year-old Rachel Abramson will do anything to protect her friends and family. It’s a tall order for a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Denmark, but Rachel is no ordinary girl. She has the ability to erase people’s memories, making German soldiers forget her face or easing her friends’ grief. When the Danish resistance attempts to smuggle Jews to neutral Sweden, her sister is forced to stay behind. Rachel delays her own escape to look after her, but they are caught and deported to the Terezin ghetto, where Rachel is confronted with more fear and grief than she could ever erase.

Sie wollten nicht wegsehen - da wagten sie alles! Der 16-jährige Daniel freundet sich mit dem alten Josef Gerlach an. Aber etwas zwischen ihnen bleibt unausgesprochen. Da überlässt ihm der alte Mann sein Tagebuch. Es erzählt, wie Gerlach als 14-Jähriger die HJ verlässt und sich einer Clique anschließt, die sich "Edelweißpiraten" nennt. Ihr Markenzeichen: lange Haare und coole Klamotten. Ihr Motto: Freiheit! Zunächst beginnt alles ganz unpolitisch. Doch als die Lage immer schlimmer wird, planen sie gefährliche Aktionen gegen die Nazis.

England, 1937. Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something in common. Their parents are all abroad, leaving them in their English boarding school, where they soon form an intense friendship. The four friends think that no matter what, they will always have each other. Then the war comes. The girls find themselves flung to different corners of the war, from the flying planes in the Air Training Auxiliary to going undercover in the French Resistance.

Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish. Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that's all that matters.

Das Abenteuer beginnt. Ein Land, gefangen in seiner grausamen Geschichte. Ein Königssohn, der nie gelernt hat, was Freundschaft und Liebe sind. Eine Reise, die alles verändert. Der Königssohn Ronan wächst unter seinem machtgierigen Vater auf, der Raukland mit Grausamkeit regiert. Ronan hat nie gelernt, das infrage zu stellen: Sein einziger Freund ist das Schwert. Ein folgenschwerer Fehler verschlägt Ronan auf die nordische Insel Lannoch. Will er jemals nach Hause zurückkehren, muss er eine uralte Prüfung bestehen.

Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa’s bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war.

In Volume Two, Falling Star, listeners follow the journey of Falling Star of a Cheyenne village in present-day Wyoming. The 14-year-old girl is taught the spiritual ways of the Cheyenne by an old shaman, Raven’s Wing. Star has a vision telling her to go to Canada, and as her group makes their way north, the white-eyes attack her tribe, killing Raven’s Wing and all of the rest.

Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. And thank goodness, since their boarding school is basically insufferable. When one of the friends suffers a personal tragedy, a plan—and a secret—change everything for the trio...for good.

Mysteries and intrigue draw in the intrepid young girl detective, and family secrets are revealed as cases unfold. The saga begins in Chicago in 1881, when the city was just recovering from the great fire of '71. Emma works at her family bakery, but wishes for more adventure. There is an opportunity for her to have more adventures by working with the boys on the delivery wagons. Her observation begins to pull her into cases ranging from robbery to murder. One case pulls in her family. To protect them and herself, will her skills with knives and self-defense see her through?