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After fleeing Blackthorn Manor, Eleanor Grayson and Lord Nathaniel Ashwood settle in a remote coastal estate in Cornwall, seeking a fresh start where her writing and their love can thrive away from societal scorn. They adopt new identities—Eleanor as a reclusive authoress, Nathaniel as her enigmatic patron—and begin hosting clandestine literary salons to share her sensual tales with a select few. One night, a mysterious widow, Lady Isolde Vayne, arrives uninvited, cloaked in mourning black and wearing an ornate mask. She claims to be a fellow writer, but her provocative stories and ...

The explosive conclusion to The Last Vocari series is here. Follow Rose as she takes her place among the monsters she once hunted to fight her greatest battle yet.

Nicholas and Alexander majesties and massacre is a book about: love, life and death of the Russian Czar Nicholas the second and his family. The Czar’s reign commences in the end of 19th century with his father’s burial and inheriting the Crown with an absolute power. His reign begins with Coronation, wedding day, birth of his five children, including son with haemophilia, and the strong love between Nicholas and his wife Alexandra.

In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the two protagonists are now in their 30s. Lila, married at 16, has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage and has now joined the workforce. Elena has left the neighbourhood in Naples, been to university, and published a successful novel, all of which has brought her into a wealthier, more cultured world. Both women are seizing opportunities to flee a life of poverty, ignorance and submission.

From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, The Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the friendship between Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who grew up in the tough, rough streets of postwar Naples. This is no normal friendship; it's a friendship that loves, hurts, supports and destroys - and yet it is one that lasts a lifetime. These four full-cast BBC adaptations bring the streets of Naples vividly to life.

Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird', a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change. As he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death of his sister and the absence of his brother, taking care of his parents, raising his granddaughter, coming to terms with his love for the enigmatic Luisa - Marco Carrera comes to represent the quiet heroism that pervades so much of our everyday existence.

Antología de cuento cuyo tema en común es el amor a la pintura, la literatura, el amor filial, el amor sexual, la amistad. El cuento es poner en situación algo de nosotros mismos. Sus propiedades camaleónicas son fuente desbordante y último reducto para la imaginación, que se niega a dejar que las palabras vuelen con el viento.

The Story of a New Name is an extraordinary novel about two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s. At 16 Lila marries the shopkeeper Stefano. She is filled with pleasure at her new wealth and horror at the life she has chosen. Elena’s own attempts at romance seem to be sabotaged by Lila’s turbulent affairs. As she tries to plot her way out of poverty via academic and literary success, her constant anxiety is that she is just a shadow of the brilliant Lila.

Acerca de la primera y única edición, hasta este momento, de Celia en la revolución dice Andrés Trapiello en su prólogo: "lo que sucedió con (este) libro fue misteriosísimo, un caso único. Apenas publicado, desapareció de las librerías y únicamente en el mercado de viejo ha ido apareciendo desde entonces, con cuentagotas, algún que otro ejemplar, siempre a precios fabulosos, de todo punto infrecuentes en un libro reciente, lo que habla de su carácter excepcional".

¿Te has dicho alguna vez "No puedo porque tengo miedo"? En ese momento, pisamos el freno y renunciamos a ver qué hay más allá de la emoción. Al otro lado del miedo se encuentran las cosas más bonitas de la vida. Para llegar a ellas, hay que cruzar ese límite, muchas veces doloroso, que nos lo impide; romper la barrera que no nos deja avanzar. La autora de este audiolibro lleva mucho tiempo investigando la emoción del miedo y nos enseña a comprenderlo y gestionarlo. No se trata de un enemigo, sino de un compañero de vida a veces limitante que debemos aprender a manejar.

A prim lady. A scandalous pirate. A high-seas seduction that could sink them both. Lady Priscilla Worthington has spent her life buttoned up—poised, polished, and promised to a man she can’t stand. But when her carriage is hijacked and she’s taken aboard the infamous Crimson Corsair, she finds herself in the clutches of Captain Rogelio Velmontaine—a rogue with a wicked grin, a silver tongue, and absolutely no sense of decency. Storm-tossed and scandal-bound, Priscilla is drawn into a world of rum-soaked revelry, moonlit danger, and pleasures she never dared imagine. But as desire ...

Being a hero of the department has its perks. Supposedly. I still haven’t found any. My crush is a mountain of tattooed silence, and my new boss sends me on more missions than a homing pigeon. Being a soul rescuer is seriously wearing out my Dr. Martens. When my pantheon’s soul is stolen, I must team up with the oldest playboy in existence and go to Las Vegas. What does Sin City bring to the table? More dragons than I can handle. With my smoke-breathing boss on my ass, fire elementals trying to punch my ticket, and a half-demon as my only reliable ally, I’m under a lot of heat.

In New York City everybody needs a side hustle, and perfumer Vic Fowler has developed a delicate art that has proved to be very lucrative: creating bespoke scents that evoke immersive memories - memories that, for Vic’s clients, are worth killing for. But the city is expensive, and these days even artisanal murder doesn’t pay the bills. When Joseph Eisner, a former client with deep pockets, offers Vic an opportunity to expand the enterprise, the money is too good to turn down. But the job is too intricate - and too dangerous - to attempt alone.

Elena ha quasi quarant’anni, un matrimonio alle spalle e due tatuaggi, il secondo dei quali fatto un po’ per esorcizzare il primo, e un po’ come tributo a Elizabeth Gilbert. Vive circondata dalle donne, la sua stessa famiglia da parte di mamma si è felicemente autodefinita Matriarcato Russo nel regno di Whatsapp, e da poco si è reinventata la vita per l’ennesima volta, lasciando il famoso posto fisso e sicuro per inseguire un sogno.

When you're looking for a little escape to the rugged mountain landscape that's as beautiful as it is wild, unwind at Castle Mountain Lodge. Morgan's looking to hide out from her life, but what she's not counting on is Bo, the handsome and rugged mountain guide at The Lodge who has his own heartache to bear and his troubled little girl who sneaks her way into Morgan's heart.

This sixth volume of the Hobbs series shows how a caring, inter-generational community can help everyone make the right connections. After a dark winter of loss and isolation, the summer people are returning, including forty-something Melissa Morgenstern, a trust lawyer from Boston. Melissa has been working remotely since the pandemic began. She has temporarily moved to Maine to comfort her widowed mother. Up to now, Melissa’s devotion to her tight-knit Jewish family and her legal career have made relationships difficult. Town doctor, Liz Stolz introduces her to the new assistant ...

Eleanor and Nathaniel, now settled into their liberated life at Veil House, prepare for their next literary salon after Isolde’s defeat. A letter arrives from Miss Clara Duval, a wandering poetess requesting a seat, her script “delicate but firm” and her words laced with cryptic charm. Intrigued, they invite her, expecting a kindred spirit. Clara arrives—a lithe, auburn-haired woman with a traveler’s weathered satchel and eyes that gleam with secrets. Her poetry, recited at the salon, is intoxicatingly sensual, weaving riddles of lost lovers and hidden truths that captivate the ...

Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars is about the life, death, and legacy of Louis XVI's tragic queen, based upon the author's 30 years of research. Whenever possible, the historical persons speak for themselves out of memoirs and letters.

Audible presents The Golden Knot, an Audible Original.

At one of the society’s infamous gatherings in the London townhouse, a shy seamstress, Eliza Treadwell, attends as a favor to her wealthy client, tasked with repairing a torn mask. She catches the attention of a brooding composer, Frederick Linwood, whose black silk mask conceals a face scarred by a past duel. Drawn to her quiet strength, he lures her into a soundproof music room where he plays a haunting melody on a pianoforte, each note stripping away her inhibitions. Their encounter unfolds as a symphony of touch and rhythm, with Eliza binding his wrists with silk thread from her ...