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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。

1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings.

The youngest of four daughters, Primrose Ainsworth is used to getting lost in the shuffle. But when her parents decide to delay her debut into English society, Prim hatches a plan to go rogue on the night of her 16th birthday. Donning a mask, Prim escapes to the infamous Vauxhall Gardens for one wild night. When her cover is nearly blown, a mysterious stranger intercedes, and Prim finds an unexpected partner in mischief...and romance. But when it's revealed her new ally isn't who he says he is, her one night of fun may last past dawn.

In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird - a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.

Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are enchanters - the only two in Russia - and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side.

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.

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 Halloween en la que ella y Carter descubrieron aquello que les haría cambiar su vida para siempre.

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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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.

Hazel Sinnett is alone. She's half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham's vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do is run her free clinic, helping people and maintaining Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly daughter of King George IV.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren't thrown off-schedule.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham’s vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III.

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.

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.

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place - its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past.

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?

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.

Grausame Entdeckungen in den dunklen Gassen Edinburghs. Edinburgh im 19. Jahrhundert: Die junge Hazel Sinnett möchte lieber Chirurgin werden, als zu heiraten. Der arme Jack Currer ist Leichengräber, der nur versucht, in einer Stadt zu überleben, in der es zu leicht ist zu sterben. Als die beiden eine zufällige Begegnung außerhalb der Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society haben, denkt sich Hazel zunächst nichts dabei.

Einatmen, ausatmen, Schultern locker, ganz lässig: Sei bereit für eine magische Zeitreise! Zoe und Hayden sind in London, nur leider immer noch im Jahr 1816. Die beiden müssen dringend einen Weg zurück in ihre Zeit finden! Doch das ist leichter gesagt als getan. Immerhin haben sie eine erste Spur, die sie zu einer geheimen Gesellschaft führt – und mitten auf einen rauschenden Ball. Dumm nur, dass Zoe als Zofe eigentlich gar nicht daran teilnehmen darf. Aber von Verboten oder Anstandsregeln hat sich Zoe ja noch nie aufhalten lassen.

Eden Creswell finds herself in River Bend, Wyoming, without a man to marry. Knowing she can’t go back to her Delaware home, she does the only thing she can: pretend to be someone’s fiancée. Ryder Graham is surprised by one thing after another. First, his depressing paralyzed state, and then a woman shows up on his doorstep claiming to be his mail-order bride. He wonders if it is possible he ordered a bride and didn’t know it, but without another option, he takes her up on her gracious offer to help, alleviating his sister from the duty.

An orphan caught in an unhappy situation, Abigail Summer accepts an invitation to assist her friend in her pregnancy. Little does she know the invitation will change her life more than she ever dreamed possible. Jacob Whitcomb is finally ready for a wife, though the minute he finally takes the initiative to bring his mail-order bride out West, he discovers that his bride has more in her arms than a few bags and a hat—a brand-new baby! Brought together, both with secrets to share, Abigail and Jacob will have to overcome more than they ever expected in order to preserve their family.

Melissa Bradley was orphaned at a young age and knew nothing of what it was like to have a true family. At the age of 16, she is now forced to leave the only home she’s ever known to become a mail-order bride. She only hopes for one thing, though: a family. Nathan Warren grew up a troublemaker in the midst of a large family. In order to escape, he ran off to become a sailor and travel the world. Along the way, he found more than he bargained for. With faith firmly planted in the Lord and the desire for marriage, he sets out on a new journey with the woman he’s brought out west.

Martha Plinket’s plans are derailed when a group of Indians intercept her train. Stranded in the mountains, how will Martha escape and find her way home? Gabriel Marsh has given up living in society for his secluded mountain cabin. His only interaction with humans is with the Indians he trades with. His peaceful quiet is interrupted when it becomes clear his only option is to rescue Martha and take her into town. A place he hasn’t been to for years. Their troubles are far from over when Gabriel discovers the fate of his family.

Dana Jones is getting married—or at least that’s what she tells her poor uncle when he’s all but forced to throw her from his house. But when Dana Jones finds out that the husband-to-be she made up actually exists, everything changes! For Kyle Miller, stepping into the job as sheriff in town is the perfect step for him. Unfortunately, the townspeople don’t see it that way. They want the stability and example of a married man guiding the laws of their town and tell Kyle as much. He’s got to find a wife or get out!

When 16-year-old Charlotte Stevens discovers an unusual map and letters among her grandfather’s things, she becomes obsessed with the inscription on the back of the faded papers: “If you care, take this dare. Beyond the shadows, radiance blazes.” Her curiosity carries her to North Dakota, to an old acquaintance of her late grandfather, but before her arrival, the man who held the secrets she so longed to uncover dies. It seems her search has come to an abrupt end, but a new discovery awaits her in his dusty home—one that will introduce her to a treasure beyond any price.

Doris Watson comes from humble circumstance, but when her family is blackmailed and her life threatened, the young lady is sent to safety. Her trip to safety is hijacked by the evil intent of a dangerous yet beautiful lady on the train—a stranger with a clever plan to implicate Doris in a spate of jewelry robberies and crush her family. Only Basil Dermott, a young man from Nebraska with a nose for the truth and an eye to uncover wrongdoing, has the means to absolve Doris from these spurious accusations. In his quest, Basil discovers not just the missing riches, but Doris' heart too.