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Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream. Jacquetta is married to the Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, and he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy.

Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half sister, Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom.

In The Kingmaker's Daughter, number one New York Times best-selling author Philippa Gregory presents the riveting story of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel, and their ever-changing fortunes. The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping and ultimately tragic story of the daughters of the man known as the "Kingmaker", the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of a son and heir, he uses the two girls as pawns in his political games.

In her first tell-all collection, writer and notorious tell-it-like-it-is sass machine, Kate Bailey regales us with her tales of all things lesbian sex, growing up gay, girls, guys, relationships, and everything else necessary to being a bad-ass bitch.

Alessandra Fleming has spent most of her life running from her past. Her budding photography career, her life in Manhattan, all serve to distract from the secrets and guilt she's never been able to face. Then the call. Her estranged father is in the hospital . . . and Alessandra must return home to Sag Harbor, crumbling the first wall between her past and her present. For some, coming home is a relief. For Alessandra, it's a reminder of the family she's lost, of the time she'll never regain. But the answers—the secrets—of her family are hidden in the house, waiting for her.

An age ago, The Overseers were chosen from amongst the ranks of humanity’s finest, the boldest, the bravest, the most balanced, fair and intelligent. The elite. These leaders of humankind were tasked with the preservation of humanity at all costs, their power supreme and complete, the truth of their words to be considered beyond question or reproach.

Als ein Mörder seine Familie vor deren Zeugenaussage vor einem Prozess zu einem Mord, auf den die Todesstrafe steht, bedroht, wird Patrick Flint alles tun, um sie in Sicherheit zu halten. Ein friedlicher Tag mit Skifahren für die Familie. Der Mord an der Ehefrau eines prominenten Richters. Ein Zeuge wird zum nächsten Ziel: der 13-jährige Perry Flint.

Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine - until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork”.

Rowan Summerwaite is no ordinary woman. Physical vessel to the Celtic goddess Brigid and raised by the leader of the Vampire Nation, she's a supercharged hunter with the power to slay any vampire who violates the age-old treaty. A recent string of murders has her at odds with Las Vegas's new Scion, the arrogant and powerful Clive Stewart. The killings have the mark of Vampire all over them, and Rowan warns Clive to keep his people in line - or she'll mete out her own brand of justice.

Canny and ferocious, with the power of an ancient Goddess in her belly, Rowan Summerwaite is the only person who can renegotiate the fragile Treaty between the Vampire Nation and the Hunter Corporation, the last line of defense for humanity. A meeting of this Joint Tribunal, as well as her new status as Liaison, sends Rowan straight to the last place on earth she wants to be, the childhood home she'd escaped so many years before - The First's Keep.

Starting a business isn't easy. In fact, it can be scary, exhausting and demoralising. When it finally takes off, even though you're fulfilling a lifelong dream, it can be a struggle to keep up with the rest of your life. How can you cope with the inevitable stresses and strains along the way? In The Business Survival Kit, serial entrepreneurs Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole prepare you for the ride of your life.

Le ciel était étrange. Entre la nuit et le jour. Et le balayage des faisceaux du Créac'h, là-bas. La valse lumineuse qui rythme les heures nocturnes d'Ouessant. « On n'en a pas fini, toi et moi », lança-t-elle au phare. À la mort de son père, Adèle découvre chez lui des lettres, dont l'une lui révèle l'existence d'un secret autour de la mort de sa mère, alors qu'elle n'avait que quatre ans.

Margaret loves her job, writing important stories about the impact of government decisions on day-to-day lives for a respected newspaper in Johannesburg. There’s only one problem: her co-worker, Jagger Villain. Is that even his real name? She often wonders. Jagger spends his days writing fluff pieces on everything from the worst-rated barber to speed dating to male sex toys. To make matters worse, they share a cubicle and a desk. She needs a vacation!

Christina Rice offers the first biography of the actress and activist perhaps most well-known for her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Despite the fact that her movie career was stalled for nearly a decade, Jane Russell's filmography is respectable. She worked with some of Hollywood's most talented directors—including Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Josef von Sternberg—and held her own alongside costars such as Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope.

Lily Valance is determined to forget the horrors of the war by throwing herself into the decadent pleasures of the 1920s and pursuing her career as a music hall singer. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated veteran, she's immediately drawn to his wealth and status. And Stephen, burdened by his guilt over surviving the Flanders battlefields where so many soldiers perished, sees the possibility of forgetting his anguish in Lily, but his family does not approve.

Seeds Planted in Concrete is Bianca Sparacino's raw testament to the beauty that is found within the contrasts of life. Speaking truthfully about the intricacies of both love and loss, Sparacino's first collection of work will speak to the very depths of those who hear it, inspiring a will to love and live. This collection is a manifesto of the journey every human being takes throughout life - an assembly of words that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of hurting, feeling, healing, and loving.

"Wohin, wenn nicht nach Venedig?", denkt sich Ben, als er nach seiner Scheidung ein paar Tage raus will, um den Kopf für einen kompletten Neustart in einer renommierten Kanzlei freizubekommen. Doch dieser Trip verändert ihn mehr, als er anfänglich vermutet. Es ist nicht nur die Schönheit der Lagunenstadt, sondern auch ein überraschendes Wiedersehen mit seiner Schulfreundin Lilly, das einen bleibenden Eindruck bei ihm hinterlässt. Er und die Wahl-Venezianerin haben sich seit über dreißig Jahren nicht gesehen und halten auch nach seiner Rückkehr nach London über Kurznachrichten Kontakt.

La vita di Bennett Ryan non è facile: ha trovato la donna giusta, l'unica in grado di tenergli testa, ma non riesce a stare insieme a lei quanto vorrebbe... Lei è Chloe Mills, la sua ex stagista, ora un'affascinante giovane donna in carriera, che continua a farlo impazzire di desiderio ogni volta che si incrociano negli uffici della Ryan Media Group. Proprio quando il lavoro di Chloe arriva a una svolta importante e sta per decollare, Bennett desidera che tutto rallenti un po' per poter finalmente passare una notte selvaggia con la sua fidanzata. Metterà Chloe di fronte a due biglietti aerei, destinazione una meravigliosa villa in Provenza, deciso a non accettare un no come risposta e a rimandare ogni discussione a una lotta sotto le coperte.

In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence - burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger is thrown to his death from the roof onto the marble palazzo floor.

Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreave's husband Colin. But the stately calm of country life is destroyed when their neighbor, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering. But who has a motive for murdering the young aristocrat? The lovely cousin who was threatened by his engagement, the Oxford friend he falsely accused of cheating, the scheming vicar's daughter he shamelessly seduced or the relative no one knew existed who appears to claim the Montagu title?