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Astoria Blairwood liebt das Verbrechen – was leider nicht auf Gegenseitigkeit beruht. Des Mordes angeklagt, versucht sie mit allen Mitteln herauszufinden, wer die Schülerin tatsächlich ermordet hat. Dafür greift sie sogar auf ihre akademischen Rivalen zurück, die ihr bei den Ermittlungen helfen sollen: Isaac, der unerträgliche Sohn des Premierministers, und Theodore, der mysteriöse Einzelgänger der Schule. Obwohl sie sich auf andere Dinge konzentrieren sollte, fühlt sie sich immer mehr zu Isaac und Theodore hingezogen.

Widerwillig kehrt Eden in die Heimat ihres verstorbenen Vaters zurück, um an der Testamentseröffnung teilzunehmen. Doch bereits in der ersten Nacht entdeckt sie die mit Motten bedeckte Leiche eines Mädchens im Wald – die spurlos verschwindet. Hat sie sich alles nur eingebildet? Wem kann Eden noch trauen? Als Eden erfährt, dass sie ein beträchtliches Vermögen erbt, scheint ihre Zukunft gesichert. Doch dafür muss sie ihr letztes Schuljahr an der rätselhaften Wyndhouse Academy verbringen.

Zurück an der Wyndhouse Academy kämpft Eden damit, ihre entfesselten Kräfte zu beherrschen. Ein fragiler Deal bindet sie an Ace Holmesworth, einen verschlossenen Absolventen der Akademie und den Bruder des Jungen, der ihr so viel Schmerz zugefügt hat: Wolf. Eden muss Ace bei dessen Rache unterstützen, dafür lehrt Ace sie Kontrolle über ihre Macht. Doch Edens Kräfte fordern einen Preis.

Dieses Lied kann dich dein Herz und dein Leben kosten – tauche ein in die einzigartige Welt der Sirenen und in eine düster-romantische Liebesgeschichte. Zeit ihres Lebens musste sich Imogen Nel verstecken. Vor einem grausamen Königreich, das Sirenen für blutrünstige Ungeheuer hält. Vor einem nicht minder grausamen König und seinem Kapitän, die Imogens Volk gnadenlos jagen. Und vor der verführerischen Macht, die Imogen nicht kontrollieren kann.

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

This collection of really funny short stories in easy Italian can be used by English native speakers to improve their Italian and gain fluency by having fun with the funny story.

Susan Bell spends her days within the confines of Westminster Abbey, one of many who live in the grounds of the ancient building. Her father, the kindly but foolish Dean of Westminster, is always busy keeping the many canons and vergers in check, when not being romantically pursued by forceful widows. Life at the abbey is uneventful, even after the unwelcome arrival of Susan's cousin Lindley and his unusual scientific demonstrations. That is until the Society of Antiquaries come armed with a letter from King George III. 

This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stories and he had edited them before his demise. It is a collection of stories that are a bit different than the Fairy Books: still colorful and well written but telling tales about decidedly odd topics. A word of Caution: please read the stories before your children do, some of them contain some violent imagery. - Summary by Linda Andrus

The slender young highwayman who held up Lord Raven's coach was shocked to discover he had made a terrible mistake. He turned and fled, but not before Lord Raven had put a bullet in his shoulder. It was then Raven's turn to be shocked. For the wounded highwayman turned out to be a beautiful young woman, the kind of woman the rakish Raven had been seeking all his life - Lady Tara. It was some time before Lady Tara could tell Raven the truth about this frightening masquerade.

'A wonderfully clever historical novelist' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Leonora Nattrass is a master storyteller' - JANICE HALLETT Leicestershire, 1774. Following a minor royal scandal, Susan Bell's father has lost his post as Dean of Westminster, and the two find themselves exiled to the family's country...

July 1794, and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to the Foreign Office - is ever more reliant on the Black Drop to ease his nightmares. A highly sensitive letter has been leaked to the press, and Laurence is a suspect. Then, he discovers the body of a fellow clerk, supposedly a suicide. Blame for the leak is shifted to the dead man, but Laurence is certain both of his friend's innocence and that he was murdered.

This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. It is his great chance to redeem himself—except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave.

Rok 1795. Jago ma za zadanie pomóc urzędnikowi państwowemu w dostarczeniu do Kongresu kopii traktatu, który ma uniemożliwić Amerykanom zawarcie sojuszu z Francją przeciwko Wielkiej Brytanii. Kiedy jednak urzędnik ginie w niefortunnym – i najwyraźnie „przypadkowym" – wypadku, a traktat znika, Laurence uświadamia sobie, że tylko on może zapobiec nadciągającej katastrofie.

Full Fat Marketing is a daily strategy podcast for food and hospitality brands that want to be chosen, and remembered.Hosted by Leonora Brebner, a growth and marketing strategist specialising in restaurants, cafés, and food & drink brands, the show breaks down the real reasons some F&B businesses become the place people choose… while others struggle to stay relevant.Through bite-sized episodes, you’ll learn the psychology behind restaurant marketing, food brand strategy, customer loyalty, and what actually drives repeat customers in today’s hospitality industry.Expect honest insights, ...

Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds and colours of Cardiff to boldly explore race and history. With each electric story, Brito introduces a unique cast of characters, vibrantly elevating their everyday lives. From 59-year-old Dorothy taking up nude modelling to black aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle, from the assassination of JFK to what's going down at the Blue Bayou, Brito blends the surreal and the mundane to redress history and immerse the reader in a vibrantly painted world.

Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston in Cornwall in the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in the middle of a tumultuous election. Only two men may vote in this rotten borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances, Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's political patron, his old master the Duke of Leeds.

You love reading historical romance fiction, but no one around you gets it. Join me, Lenora, a fellow historical romance fan, as I talk about a different historical romance novels. I break down the exciting ways our characters fall in love, the characters themselves, and the quirky things you learn when you read historical romance. If you want to have fun and love reading about lords, dukes, and lairds, this is the show for you.

I have created this special collection of stories because…in my youth and even today I love the fantasy and magic of fairytales, and I grew up longing for a prince charming of my own one day. Of course being a little boy, back then, I tended to imagine myself in the role of a princess as that seemed the only option.

Marion Letharby, novantanovenne inglese ormai sorda da anni, riceve in dono dalla sua migliore amica un imponente cornetto acustico tempestato di argento e madreperla e la sua vita, sorprendentemente cambia. Quando il bisnipote sceglie per lei un non troppo costoso ospizio per vecchi, la Confraternita del Pozzo di Luce, Marion, invece di abbattersi per la perdita della sua amata solitudine, comincia a guardarsi intorno. Nel vasto parco della Confraternita trova padiglioni a forma di casine di gnomi, di fungo velenoso, di orologio a cucù, di vagone ferroviario, di stivale e di mummia.