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Have you ever fallen victim to the system? Felt humiliated and helpless? Have you fought back? Meet four such patriots: Varun, an NRI software engineer; Salman, CEO of Coffee Moments; Raghav, a virtuous politician; and Aditya, an altruistic businessman. Fate brings these four lives together at a crossroads, pushing these unlikely heroes out of their comfort zones to fight a seemingly unstoppable evil force which wants to hold our country captive.

Summer is coming to the four streets - but so is trouble, especially for its redoubtable women, who've struggled through a bitter winter to put food on the table. Peggy Nolan, with seven boys and a husband too lazy to work, has hit rock bottom and is hiding a terrible secret. Maura and Tommy Doherty always looked out for any neighbour in trouble, especially Peggy, but they're far away, running a pub in Ireland and corrupt copper, Frank the Skank, is moving into their old house on the four streets. Can anything bring them home in time?

1630: after long years of peace the reign of Charles I brings brutal civil war to England. The clash between King and Parliament is echoed at Morland Place when Richard brings home a Puritan bride while his brother, Kit, joins Prince Rupert and the Royalist cavalry, leaving their father Edmund desperately trying to steer a middle course between the fighting factions. As the war grinds on, bitterness and disillusion replace the early fervour, and the schisms between husband and wife, father and son, grow deeper.

The final installment in The Red Cross Orphans series from the Globe & Mail bestselling author! When the war is over, what will remain? With six hard years of war behind her, former nurse Kitty McCarthy should be facing a bright future. But her husband Michael shatters her peace in an instant...

Matty has had to care for her three younger sisters ever since their mother’s death 10 years ago. She and the girls’ beloved father have worked hard to keep the family together, and now it’s time to celebrate as Matty turns 18. But their joy is short-lived when tragedy suddenly strikes and their father disappears on his way to London. The sisters have no way of knowing what has happened to him – only that he hasn’t returned home. With little money left they’re now forced to battle life’s misfortunes alone....

My name is Saraphina Proctor...and that’s the only thing I can remember. I woke up alone, surrounded by darkness with no memory. No one here knows who I am, I don’t fit any of the missing persons reports, and the doctors can’t find a single thing wrong with me…my memory…my life…they’re just…gone. But something lurks in the shadows in Salem, watching me…waiting.

From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up troubled in working-class Hawaii and struggles to raise her young son alone. Alternating between the present and the past, Yamanaka depicts Sonia's difficult childhood, her addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her string of bad lovers. As she tries to gain control of her life, she is haunted by the ghosts of three children she never had.

Three husbands have tested Phyllis' aspirations of marriage and motherhood to the full, and now she faces a dilemma. If she accepts a fourth marriage proposal, might the consequences rock the turbulent path she already treads alongside her four offspring? Her decision could change her future and family dynamics forever.

Beauty and the Beefcake is a vegan-friendly standalone romantic comedy featuring a hockey player whose vocabulary is the only thing smaller than a hockey puck, a book smart but aimless ventriloquist with too many voices in her head, a dilapidated old house that may or may not be haunted, and no cheating or cliffhangers.

Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow’s department store this Christmas For Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow’s Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff – not to mention a store coping with war damage –...

Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867, se graduó en derecho en 1888. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dividió su vida entre la política, la literatura y el amor a las mujeres. Escribía con inusitada rapidez. Quiso que su vida fuera su mejor novela, y lo logró. Fundó el diario El Pueblo en Valencia, fue varias veces diputado a Cortes y se batió en duelo en reiteradas ocasiones. En uno de estos desafíos estuvo a punto de perder la vida, la bala le dio en la hebilla del cinturón, gracias a lo cual se salvó. Tuvo amores tormentosos.

STERNENTOCHTER: Deutschland, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Als Tochter aus gutem Hause ist es die Pflicht der jungen Caroline Caspari, eine vorteilhafte Ehe zu schließen. Daher willigt sie in die Verlobung mit einem Mann ein, der ihr zutiefst zuwider ist. Doch dann verliebt Caroline sich Hals über Kopf in Georg, den neuen Postillion der Stadt …. DIE LIEBE DER STERNENTOCHTER: Verzweifelt und mit einem Kind unter dem Herzen kehrt die junge Caroline nach einem tragischen Ereignis in das Heimatdorf ihrer Familie zurück.

Les enfants quittent l'un après l'autre la maison familiale. Il y a les Jeux olympiques de 1976, le scandale du docteur Morgentaler, le référendum de 1980 ainsi que la retraite, la maladie et les colères de Maurice. La vie suit son cours, inévitablement.

Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867, se graduó en derecho en 1888. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dividió su vida entre la política, la literatura y el amor a las mujeres. Escribía con inusitada rapidez. Quiso que su vida fuera su mejor novela, y lo logró. Fundó el diario El Pueblo en Valencia, fue varias veces diputado a Cortes y se batió en duelo en reiteradas ocasiones. En uno de estos desafíos estuvo a punto de perder la vida, la bala le dio en la hebilla del cinturón, gracias a lo cual se salvó.

In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power and the ever-present realities of war.

Desde que Homero contó las venturas y desventuras de Ulises, la humanidad conoce dos metáforas sobre la vida del hombre y su destino: el viaje y el mar, ese espacio mágico donde todo puede ocurrir. En esta ocasión, Javier Alonso plantea una adaptación en prosa del poema clásico de Homero...

Septembre 1939. Quelques semaines après l’entrée en guerre du Canada, la famille Gélinas vit dans la crainte constante de voir partir ses hommes au front. Tourmenté par des désirs qu’il a du mal à comprendre, Laurent se réfugie un peu trop souvent dans l’alcool. Ça vaut mieux que les questionnements terrifiants auxquels il est confronté tous les jours!

The Quality Street girls are gearing up for Christmas, but with the factory now making gas masks, as well as the nation’s favourite chocolate sweets, it’s anything but normal. They’re having to make other adjustments too. Reenie is in the doldrums after being demoted at work, while Mary has got her hands full getting used to married life and a ready-made family. New girl, Ada, isn’t sure she fits into factory life at all. Then, just as the Christmas party season gets into full swing, Toffee town gets a shock, and soon it isn’t just Christmas cheer that’s in short supply.

Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship—until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now 18 years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But she can’t help wondering who her parents really were. When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton—kind and warm-hearted, he might just be the man of Nancy’s dreams. But she knows his wealthy parents would never let him marry a penniless foundling.

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family, so when she blossoms into a swan, she’s not quite sure what to do. When amateur boxer Bryn Thompson walks into her life, it seems happiness really is possible. But then a well-kept family secret rears its ugly head, a secret that could put her very life in danger.... Helen Hall, a newly qualified doctor, may just be able to help her, but will she risk the job she loves in order to do it?