Novedades

Anna-Marie needs to escape before her aunt arranges her marriage to a high society gentleman. She's lived a sheltered life but she's ready for adventure. Better a husband of her own choosing than one Aunt Mildred bullies into proposing. Too bad she doesn't have any suitors lining up to offer her their hands. Her cousin is the flirtatious one while she prefers the company of books. Signing up to be a mail order bride is a risk that could end up being a disaster, but she's done letting someone else control her life. Henry is ready to retire. Men his age have homes filled with children and ...

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war — for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon.

Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickins meets Harry Holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself. White organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It is party season and the university crowd are celebrating end-of-year exams. Zara loves dancing with the boys and flirting with them, but it's a game to her. Nothing serious. Until Harry. He plans to be a politician once he finishes law. She, a fashion designer, if she can find a way to break out of the secretarial pool.

His quest might be the salvation she needs… Cowboy-turned-banker Sam Castlerock arrives in Bear Creek, Wyoming, in a last-chance bid to prove himself to his father. He has one job to do: make the local bank profitable. The last thing he needs is a distraction—but she's the first thing he runs into. Emily Sands has never forgotten the cowboy she fancied as a teenager. And now he's back in town. But she's not the carefree youngster she once was. She's a woman now—with a woman's worries. Top on the list: keeping the family store afloat. Next: caring for her younger sister who needs extra help.

Viena, 1952. Andreas y Lilian se reencuentran inesperadamente en un café tras una larga separación. Mientras pasean juntos por el Prater, Lili recuerda su historia de amor con Andreas, su enamoramiento incondicional y juvenil, el primer desengaño, el fracaso en su intento de olvidarlo, la reconciliación y los años locos que vivieron juntos en el salvaje Berlín de entreguerras. Recuerda cómo, a pesar de las separaciones y las distancias, nunca dejaron de amarse. Porque el de Lili y Andreas es uno de esos amores que perduran a través del tiempo y las pruebas. Porque las verdaderas ...

This Side of Paradise is a 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of unfulfilling romances with young women. The novel explores themes of love warped by greed and social ambition.

The Philippines, 1941. Rose Williams arrives in Manila on her first assignment as a US Army Nurse, enthralled by the new environment and its promise of adventure. Although worlds away from the land she grew up in, Rose feels connected to her father, who worked in the Philippines before he died. War seems like a distant threat as Rose takes midnight dips in a warm sea with the other nurses, explores secret corners of the island, and strikes up a romance with a locally stationed US Army soldier.

Twenty-four-year-old newspaperman Ray Sargent is a hardened cynic in the ways of the world: he’s lost his parents and brothers, served in the Marines in France, survived the deadly flu pandemic of 1918, and written up everything from labor strikes to gambling dens. And he has a way with women—or so he supposes. But he’s never met a woman like Marian Newhouse, the beautiful, brilliant reporter with a mysterious past who shows up in Toledo, Ohio, just as the Midwest’s “glass city” is getting ready to host the biggest sports event in the world—a heavyweight championship fight ...

Second chances, long-lost love, and one final wish that changes everything… When Belladonna Rossi dies, she leaves her granddaughter Lucy an unusual final request—return a priceless painting to a mysterious man in Italy. With her childhood best friend, newly divorced lawyer, Jack Hamilton in tow, Lucy sets off on a journey filled with family secrets, Tuscan sunshine, and a love story that spans generations. But Belladonna’s past hides more than just romance. During World War II, she helped the Monuments Men protect priceless art from the Nazis and lost her heart to one of them. Now, ...

A neighborhood grocery store has been firebombed and the owner killed. Some woman is going around town selling "insurance" so the same thing doesn't happen to them. Baltimore City was really living up to its name of "Mob Town" in 1921. Will the police be able to stop the St. Louis Woman? And is she the only guilty party?

Forbidden love, forgotten horror, murder, deceit, a prohibited alliance spurs a young couple's intense desire to escape the upland coteau, which masks the 1920's sinister veil of the Klan's Invisible Empire. Based upon actual events, the story begins with the murder of Fr. Arthur Belknap, a young priest serving in the South Dakota Black Hills, then sears across the state to the Prairie Coteau, considered the birthplace of the South Dakota Klan, at a blazing cross cut deep upon the earth that teared the eye of God. The ominous cross of terror still survives to this day, untouched by a ...

The Dressmaker and the Duke A sweeping Edwardian romance of secrets, scandal, and stitches of the heart. With nothing left but a silver thimble and a borrowed name, Evelyn Bright boards a midnight train to Windmere Hall, summoned to craft a mourning wardrobe for the reclusive Lady Helen Greystowe. What she finds is a house draped in shadows—and a family bound by silence. Julian Ashborne, the Duke of Windmere, returned from war bearing scars no uniform could conceal. Haunted by the death of his brother and rumours whispered in drawing rooms, he rules Windmere with precision and ice. But ...

Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman. Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart should be, Dolly’s mam is in hock up to her ears and in dire need of assistance. But when Jack offers to wipe the slate clean, Dolly just can’t bring herself to trust him. Instead, she takes him on at his own game and in the process endangers everything she holds most dear as a revelation about the past rocks the very foundations of her world.

Het is oktober 1949 en de Tweede Wereldoorlog is alweer een paar jaar voorbij. Betty wordt dertig en viert haar verjaardag omringd door familie en vrienden. Haar huwelijk met Olof is gebaseerd op vertrouwen en vriendschap en het gaat goed met hun zoon Anders en met Martina, Betty's dochter uit een vorige relatie. Toch is niet alles zoals het zou moeten zijn. Olof trekt zich steeds meer terug en Betty begrijpt niet waarom. Daarnaast wil Martina's biologische vader, Martin Fischer, in contact komen met zijn dochter en haar zangopleiding financieren.

In the spring of 1905, Lady Penelope Penhaligon, esteemed curator of the British Museum and secret author of scandalously steamy pirate novels, finds herself in quite the predicament: she’s boarded the wrong ship. Instead of sailing to a conference on antique maritime weaponry, she’s now a reluctant guest aboard the Siren’s Revenge, captained by none other than Thaddeus “Cutthroat” Morgan—a real, if slightly outdated, pirate with a taste for theatrics, rum, and poetic monologues. What begins as a farcical clash between corset-bound propriety and swashbuckling chaos quickly ...

From Michigan to New York is the third book in this incredible true life story. Bill and Patsy are struggling to stay together. All they want is each other. But family and war want them apart. Her family think it is a good idea to send her away. This book is the follow up to Don't Separate Us. Can these teenagers make it? Can love conquer all?

Chris was amazed when a lady from the US contacted him and said “Dear Chris, I have read your books and I have thoroughly enjoyed them. Would you like to write my late Mom and Dad’s story?” Two weeks later a giant box filled with over 1000 beautifully handwritten love letters arrived on his doorstep. Chris has spent over two years copying every single word, sentence, and paragraph. The Teenage Romance of Michigan is the first of six books that follows the true detailed love story of the most wonderful teenagers from Flint, Michigan. Travel back in time to the years 1949-1953 and watch...

Chris was amazed when a lady from the US contacted him and said “Dear Chris, I have read your books and I have thoroughly enjoyed them. Would you like to write my late Mom and Dad’s story?” Two weeks later a giant box filled with over 1000 beautifully handwritten love letters arrived on his doorstep. Chris has spent over two years copying every single word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't Separate Us is the second of six books that follows the true detailed love story of the most wonderful teenagers from Flint, Michigan. Travel back in time to the 1950s and join our love struck couple ...

Love, Hope and Bootcamp is the fourth book in this incredible true love story. All the information has been carefully transcribed from over 1000 original love letters. For four years the teenagers Patsy and Bill have fought to be together. But now is perhaps their biggest battle. The country is at war, and they are separated yet again. Poor Patsy is devastated as her one true love is prepared for war.

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried mother, it could have been very different, and she is happy. But when new maid, Susie, arrives at the Beach Hotel, it isn't long before sparks fly. Susie begins to meddle in Fanny's friendships and even in her budding romance with Walter, an American working at the aerodrome. Meanwhile, a flu epidemic starts to spread and as more people fall ill, the hotel is forced to close. Matters come to a head when Susie plots to reveal secrets about Fanny that could spell her ruin.