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Molly Baird is a wealthy debutante in 1887 New York City, searching for love in a society riddled with hypocrisy. In desperation, Molly relies on an old wives’ tale, which states that if she counts 99 white horses, the next unmarried man to tip his hat to her will be her love. But when fate delivers on the horses and a young man tips his hat, she loses him in the crowds of a busy street. However, her father’s financial ruin takes her to live on a Vermont horse farm, where she finds that fate has not deserted her, after all—only the man it has delivered is not the one she wants.

For many Loyalists during the American War for Independence, the perilous journey to Canada is just the beginning of a long and arduous struggle to find a new home and a new life amid the upheavals of war and separation, death and privation. For Elisabeth Van Alen, it also means finding new strength and the will to survive in a new country. Married to Gerrit, an educated Mohawk warrior, she is filled with fears when he must go away shortly before the American rebels force her and her family out of their ancestral home.

Grace MacKinnon’s widowhood promises little but a life of drudgery under her father-in-law’s oppressive rule. When quiet rebellion turns to opportunity, she books passage on an Atlantic steamer only to face near disaster in Halifax harbor. Her future looks doomed from the start until, with the help of a sympathetic stranger and a chance meeting with Lucy Maud Montgomery, she changes destination and arrives on Prince Edward Island. Her newfound independence drives her to undertake a brave new adventure in a male-dominated world.

It’s Christmastime, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar’s daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family’s reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot’s family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn’t dead. He’s alive and well, and looking for answers.

In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American government confiscated the homes, animals, businesses, and personal possessions of Japanese Americans, citizens all. At the Tule Lake Internment Camp, a Japanese American girl sought solace by retreating to the furthest edge of the camp’s barbed-wire enclosure. Outside the barbed-wire-crowned metal fence, with its frightening armed guard towers, a curious American boy one day cautiously approached on his bike to say a nervous hello to the girl who so intrigued him from a distance. This visit started four years of meetings.

When Mestenga arrives in Mexico the time of the conquistadors is over—it is no longer the time of the warrior, but that of the settler, and the planter. But when their Capitán discovers a map that promises lost treasure they embark on one last exploration. The treacherous journey through jungle swamps teeming with dangers tests not only their faith in God but in each other.

Vlad Dracula has long lived in the shadows of his bloodthirsty father, the voivode, and his older brother, Mircea. Despite their cruelty, Vlad has yearned to prove himself worthy of the throne his whole life. In the cold halls of the voivode's palace, Vlad can only rely on his cousin and closest friend, Andrei Musat. When Vlad and Andrei meet Ilona Csáki, the daughter of an influential boyar, they each find themselves drawn to her. But then Ilona is betrothed to Mircea as part of a political alliance, and Vlad's resentfulness of his brother begins to seethe into something far darker.

Eighteen-year-old Ingrid Tirsdatter is a shieldmaiden - a Viking warrior tasked with protecting her clan while upholding their virtues of honor, valor, and total domination. She's 100-percent focused on climbing the shieldmaiden ranks, and not at all focused on Axel Andersson - the overly confident and unnaturally good-looking warrior who saved her life exactly one time...and hasn't let her forget it.

For an extraordinary love, Emmie Grace has given up her life in the modern world to move to the 16th century and marry the Tudor king she bravely saved from a dreadful fate. However, not everyone is pleased to see the glorious King Nick betrothed to the unknown and uncultured Emmie - especially the noblemen commanded to protect her. As Emmie is drawn deeper into Nick’s sumptuous and savage world - where beheadings are way more popular than time travelers - the Tudor court heads on progress across the country, and a growing rebellion against the promised queen looms.

Despite Germany’s stranglehold on the French, Benjamin Cohen, an introverted but musically talented adolescent, alters the course of his life when he defies his father to study the 55-bell carillon in the Catholic cathedral. Can Benjamin’s budding mastery of the carillon and his love affair with the troubled novitiate nun Marie-Noëlle give him le courage he needs to perform the one act that can save his people from Nazi arrest and earn back the respect from his father he craves? Or will it doom them all?

Two women - one a German officer's daughter, the other a young Greek woman filled with fury - race against time to help Jews escape a Greek town during World War II. They are moments from death if their clandestine operation is exposed. Eva and Zoe should be enemies, but fate brings them together to work as a team to accomplish their life-saving mission. They find themselves in an unlikely friendship that transcends the barriers between them, and while they work to help Jews escape, their unlikely friendship turns to love.

Als die 15-jährige Zoe nach einer Party erwacht, findet sie sich im London des Jahres 1821 als Zofe der jungen Miss Lucie wieder. Lucie hat panische Angst vor ihrem Debüt bei der nahenden Ballsaison: Sie neigt zu Stressflecken, hysterischem Schluckauf und fällt bei jeder Gelegenheit in Ohnmacht. Zum Glück ist Zoe hier in ihrem Element! Sie erfindet den "WhisperWhisper"-Kettenbrief, in dem sie offenherzig und mit modernem Blick auf die heimlichen Fragen der jungen Londoner Ladys eingeht. Die Ballsaison beginnt und Zoe trifft auf den gutaussehenden Lord Falcon-Smith.

""With a love story for the ages, this vivid tale takes the history we know and recasts it into an exciting, technicolor, future world that challenges what we know here in the present, and how we know it. I loved it! I couldn't put it down!"" —Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author...

An epic story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests In Heiress Apparently, Gemma Huang’s big acting break led her to Beijing, where she uncovered an incredible family secret. This second novel in the Daughters of the Dynasty series delves further into...

A surprising and romantic YA retelling-mashup of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz. Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. And thank goodness, since their boarding school is basically...

'WINTER CALLS FOR A GOOD BOOK, AND WE'VE FOUND ONE TO RIVAL THE BOOK THIEF' -- The Australian Women's Weekly Margot Baumann has left school to take up her sister's job in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin...

Buchspringer-Autorin Mechthild Gläser greift in dieser humorvollen Fantasy-Romance erneut ein literarisches Thema auf. Zum 200. Todesjahr von Jane Austen adaptiert sie Figuren und Motive aus den Büchern der beliebten Autorin und greift damit die schönsten Liebesromane der Literaturgeschichte auf, nicht ohne daraus eine ganz eigene fantastische Geschichte mit vielen Überraschungen zu zaubern: Als Emma beim Aufräumen in der Bibliothek ihres Internats ein altes Notizbuch findet, denkt sie zunächst, es wäre eine Art Chronik der Schule.

Die 16-jährige Lori verkleidet sich für ein historisches Festival wie ein Mädchen aus der Zeit von Napoleon. Während eines Gewitters verliert sie die Besinnung. Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, begegnet sie dem jungen Engländer Thomas, der ebenfalls historisch kostümiert ist. Wegen seiner altmodischen Ausdruckweise hält Lori ihn für ziemlich verwirrt. Schnell stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass Thomas wirklich aus dem Jahr 1813 stammt. Lori will ihm bei der Rückkehr in seine Zeit helfen, aber dann ist da auf einmal dieses Knistern zwischen ihnen beiden...

Michaela Dunn, living on present day Cape Cod, dreams of getting into an art school, something her family just doesn't understand. When her stepfather refuses to fund a trip for a poetry workshop, Michaela finds the answer in a local contest searching for a poet to write the dedication plaque for a statue honoring Captain Benjamin Churchill, a whaler who died at sea 100 years ago. She struggles to understand why her town venerates Churchill, an almost mythical figure whose name adorns the school team and various tourist traps.

Spring 1662. In the wake of Fouquet’s defeat, Henriette of England is keeping her promise to the Sun King and helping him build the enchanted Palace of Versailles he’s always dreamed of. But when her poor health worsens, her magic wanes, and her husband, Philippe, fears for her well-being to such an extent that he forbids her to remain Louis’ Source.