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『椿姫』（原題：La Dame aux camélias）は、『三銃士』などで知られるアレクサンドル・デュマ・フィスによって1848年に書かれた長編小説。19世紀のパリ。男の人に恋人のようなふりをしてお金を稼ぐ仕事をしていた高級娼婦、マルグリット・ゴーティエは、贅沢な生活に心も身体も疲れていた。

Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the handsome drifter who works as a hired hand at the boarding house. When the group decides to forage for building materials at an abandoned cider mill, they discover a magical passage that sends them back to the mill in its prime.

London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To maintain an illusion of benevolence, Queen Mor grants each of her subjects one opportunity to bargain for their deepest desire. As Ivy Benton prepares to make her debut, she knows that not even a deal with the queen could fix what has gone wrong: Her family’s social standing is in shambles, her sister is a shadow of her former self, and Ivy’s marriage prospects are nonexistent.

Duas semanas se passaram desde que Iris Winnow voltou para casa com o coração partido, mas a guerra está longe do fim e a cidade de Oath permanece em estado de completa descrença e ignorância. Apesar do perigo, Iris não hesita em voltar à linha de frente como correspondente de guerra para reportar os movimentos de Dacre. Afinal, é apenas uma questão de tempo até que a batalha chegue a outra cidade despreparada e prestes a ruir.

Felicity Vane denkt nicht im Traum daran zu heiraten. Sie will Mathematik studieren! Um den gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen zu entfliehen, beschließt sie, ihre Universitätsgebühren beim illegalen Kartenspiel zu gewinnen.

Mientras el corazón de America Singer se debatía entre Aspen y el príncipe Maxon, Marlee, su mejor amiga, sabía exactamente lo que quería, y pagó un precio para conseguirlo… La favorita está narrada desde el punto de vista de Marlee, quien nos cuenta lo sucedido durante la noche de...

Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom where Verities rule. Thrust onto the throne, Mary and Francis face a viper's nest of conspiracies, traps and treason. And if Mary's secret is revealed, heads are bound to roll.

When a dolphin takes up residence in Carrig Cove, Emer and her best friend, Fee, feel like they have an instant connection with it. Then Dog Cullen and his sidekick, Kit, turn up, and the four friends begin to sneak out at midnight to go down to the beach, daring each other to swim closer and closer to the creature. But the fame and fortune the dolphin brings to their small village builds resentment amongst their neighbors across the bay. Something wild and intense simmers in the air. Love feels fierce, old hatreds fester, and suddenly everything feels worth fighting for.

Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father's bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that'll inspire a work worthy of her parentage – and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley. Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond the arts – in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Pan, a.k.a.

Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters—Lavinia and Mattie—run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood.

The Winter Soldier is the Soviet Union's greatest weapon. Assigned the most dangerous covert missions from the USSR's secret military branch, and guided by a handler who knows him better than he knows himself, he has only one purpose: to obey orders. But he wasn't always the Winter Soldier....

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Bienvenidos al mundo de una riqueza fabulosa en el Londres de 1909, donde los vestidos y las casas rebosan opulencia, la clase social a la que se pertenece lo es todo y las mujeres son educadas para ser madres y esposas, pero nada más. Y en este mundo crece Victoria Darling, una muchacha de...

Known as Snow White, Lady Sophie has led a sheltered life in the mountains of Bavaria. Until now. Her father, the widowed Duke Maximilian, is at last remarrying, and on the day of his historic wedding, Sophie is making her high-society debut. At the ball, Sophie charms the dashing Prince Philip, heir to the Spanish throne. But as Philip and Sophie start falling deeply in love, the king of Spain loses his temper. His wish is that Philip would marry a princess. And now, his command is Sophie’s death.

Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed—when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, Lord Keston Osborn, heir to the Duke of Harbridge. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined.

Modern girl Jillian time travels to the 1900s to meet the Wright brothers and beat her fear of flying. There, she encounters dashing Everett, who broke from his wealthy family to pursue a passion for flying—and who claims they kissed five years ago. Soon she's falling for him and facing a heartbreaking choice that could destroy her happiness or possibly unravel history itself.

Berlin, 1963. Julia is a hard-working student who dreams of freedom. Drogo is an elusive rebel; a bad boy with a big heart. They were by no means destined to be together, however… Behind the iron curtain, in a climate of oppression and distrust, when Julia meets Drogo she has no idea that it will change their lives forever. That they will get to know each other, challenge each other and love each other passionately, in a city where so much is prohibited. How do you create a shared future when you have grown up on the wrong side of the wall?

In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there’s only one way the curse can be broken. Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca.

Deutschland, 1944. Regines 17. Geburtstag wird von einem Fliegeralarm unterbrochen. Auf der Straße findet sie den verletzten Polen Jan und beschließt ihm auf seine Bitten hin zu helfen - trotz ihrer überzeugten nationalsozialistischen Gesinnung. Jan und Regine verlieben sich ineinander, ihre Treffen können jedoch nur heimlich stattfinden. Je mehr Zeit sie mit Jan verbringt, desto mehr beginnt Regine den Nationalsozialismus zu hinterfragen. Doch eines Nachts wird das Liebespaar verraten und getrennt.

Nach einem Skandal rund um ihren Exfreund Wickham ist Georgiana Darcys Ruf an der Pemberly Academy vollkommen ruiniert. Als sie an das Eliteinternat zurückkehrt, schlägt ihr daher von allen Seiten Misstrauen entgegen und auch ihr Bruder Fitz umkreist sie ständig wie ein Helikopter. Einzig der charmante Avery steht ihr zur Seite. Georgie schmiedet einen Plan: Sie will ihre Mitschüler*innen für sich gewinnen und Fitz loswerden, indem sie ihn mit seiner Kommilitonin Elizabeth Bennett verkuppelt.