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Hay secretos de familia que merecen ser contados.Esta es la historia de uno de ellos. Una noche de febrero de 1900, recién estrenado el siglo XX, en el pazo de Espíritu Santo llegan al mundo dos niñas, Clara y Catalina, cuyos destinos ya estaban escritos. Sin embargo, una venganza inesperada...

Married to a man of importance in 19th century St.Petersburg, Anna's world crumbles when she falls passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky, and is forced to choose between her lover and her young son. Her tragedy lies in the cruelty meted out to her in high society by those who had...

Un misterioso libro, tres mujeres en distintas épocas y un pasado que las une Tres mujeres valientes en tres épocas cruciales -una maestra cubana en 1900, una bibliotecaria rebelde en 1966 y una buscadora de libros en la actualidad- arriesgan su libertad y sus corazones cuando un misterioso...

Lady Edith Darling is supposed to live a quiet life in her family’s manor. She is not supposed to go unchaperoned on a quest to find Excalibur. But Edith won’t let that stand in her way, especially not when she's on this mission to honor her beloved grandmother’s dying wish. Determined to prove her grandmother right, Edith packs her satchel with Arthurian legends, pastries, and her grandmother’s ashes and runs off to hire a mercenary.

A Mail Order Bride He Doesn’t Want —A Woman He Can’t Resist. Nancy Mitchell refuses to marry the man her father chose for her. Her only escape from the dreadful arrangement is to find another husband quick —so she concocts a desperate plan and agrees to become a mail order bride. When a drastic change in circumstances dumps her into the arms of Hal Grayson, a handsome, grieving man who hates her family, she is forced to rethink her hastily made plan. Can her fierce resolve and inner strength help him piece his world together again even when her own begins to unravel?

Beautifully told by Anna Massey, this is the engaging story of sisters Elinor and Marianne, whose lives are turned upside down when they are left almost penniless following the death of their father. Two men with whom the sisters form attachments present more unforeseen challenges along the way...

The Ryskamp family fortune is in trouble. And Arden’s gift for invisibility can’t stave off his creditors…or the shame of catastrophic courtships. His only recourse is to marry a highborn Luster girl of his great-aunt’s choosing. But when Arden goes to meet her, another woman catches his eye: the copper-haired beauty who ran away with his heart. And engagement ring.

Alles scheint wie immer: Mrs. Bennet leidet unter ihren Nerven, Mr. Bennet leidet unter Mrs. Bennet, und alle fünf Töchter leiden unter einem Vermögen, das ausschließlich an männliche Erben übergehen darf. Doch Lydia treiben völlig andere Dinge um: Ihre liebste Schwester Kitty ist in Wahrheit eine Katze, ihr Liebhaber Wickham ist tatsächlich so ruchlos, wie alle behaupten – was sollte man auch anderes erwarten von einem Dämon? –, und wer glaubt, Mr. Darcy sei beim Thema Tanzetikette ohne jeglichen Humor, der sollte erst einmal sehen, wie er auf Hexerei reagiert.

Tras la muerte de sus padres y su paso por un internado para señoritas, Emma ha pasado los últimos tres años viviendo con su insoportable y tiránica prima Matilde. Mientras tanto, el primo Archibald ha estado a cargo de Lapis Lazuli House, la casa que los padres de Emma le dejaron al morir en el encantador barrio de St. Crispian's, y manejando la herencia de la joven a su antojo. A punto de alcanzar la mayoría de edad, Emma está decidida a recuperar su casa y a tomar las riendas de su vida.

Una novela inolvidable que removerá tu corazón Madrid, principios del siglo XX. Paola es apenas una muchacha cuando, cansada de ser una carga para su familia, decide mudarse a la capital con una maleta repleta de sueños anhelando experimentar la vida lejos de su pequeño pueblo. Allí espera...

Un país en silencio. Un misterio que aún respira. Un drama familiar de posguerra. Sofía nace en el otoño de 1939, tras una tragedia familiar, y crece rodeada de secretos en la Galicia rural de la posguerra. Sus abuelos paternos la crían bajo una estricta vigilancia, mientras su padre, un...

New York City, 1883. Keira O'Day has spent her life scraping by in the tenements, haunted by the mystery of her parents' abandonment. When wealthy widow and social climber, Maude Hill, offers her a daring proposition—to be adopted, polished, and presented as a society bride for an English...

Die junge Dschinda Samira sieht nur noch einen Ausweg, ihr Volk vor der Tyrannei des Pharaos zu retten: Sie muss in die Unterwelt und dort das Göttergericht um Hilfe anflehen. Begleiten soll sie Kadir, ist er doch genau wie sie ein Ausgestoßener. Zwischen Samira und Kadir entsteht schon bald eine tiefe Verbindung.

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

She escaped a forced marriage with nothing but the clothes on her back. He wanted no part of a wife. Neither of them planned to end up side by side in the Oklahoma land run—or falling in love. For years, Rebekah's mother told her that sooner or later a handsome man would come along and sweep...

A burdened earl. A determined ballerina. Saving the theatre was part of their bargain. Losing their hearts wasn't. London, 1815 Emmeline Laurent has survived by grace and grit. After her parents' execution in France, she has learned to live unseen as a humble ballerina instructing young pupils...

Read by Belinda Lang, and seen through the eyes of Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen paints a charming, often ironic, picture of courtship and love. The novel is set in Highbury, a sizeable village in Surrey, where social life is dominated by the intelligent and wealthy young lady Emma, who has too...

The Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1881 and is arguably Henry James' finest novel. It is set in England and Europe, but the main characters tend to be American, including one of fiction's great heroines, Isabel Archer, around whom the plot revolves. A young innocent abroad, Isabel...

Scarlett O'Hara vive en Tara, una gran plantación del estado sureño de Georgia, y está enamorada de Ashley Wilkes, que en breve contraerá matrimonio con Melanie Hamilton. Estamos en 1861, en los prolegómenos de la guerra de Secesión, y todos los jóvenes sureños muestran entusiasmo por entrar en combate, excepto el atractivo aventurero Rhett Butler. A Butler le gusta Scarlett, pero ésta sigue enamorada de Ashley, que acaba de hacer público su compromiso con Melanie.

El audiolibro del primer volumen de la saga «Las guerreras Maxwell». Lady Megan Phillips es una joven y bella luchadora que tiene a su cargo a dos hermanos pequeños. La vida no le ha resultado nada fácil, por lo que ha forjado el carácter de una auténtica guerrera que no se doblega ante...