Showing results for "Sybil" in Genre Fiction

Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

Ausgerechnet zum großen Fest in Haus Tide – Inge Boysen wird 80, ihre Enkelin 18 - hat sich Komet »Fortune« über der Nordseeinsel angekündigt. Eine ungewöhnliche Festgesellschaft versammelt sich im alten Haus hinter dem Deich: Familie Boysen, geladene und ungeladene Gäste, Glücksritter, Spinner und Sternengucker. Die einen hoffen, »Fortune« verheiße Fülle und Freuden, andere sehen den Weltuntergang nahen, Inge stellt für alle Fälle Champagner kalt.

Hedda Krause, a young widow in search of a new rich husband, checked into the Menger Hotel in 1915 with a case full of jewels - and never checked out. In 2017, Dini Blackstone gives ghost walk tours in San Antonio. Her favorite is the tale of Hedda Krause who, in Dini's estimation, perpetrated the world's longest con, dying old and wealthy. Hedda adamantly claimed a ghost apparition lured her into a long, dark hallway, and when she returned to her room, her precious jewelry had been stolen. Can Dini see another side of the story that is worth God's grace?

Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood.

Struggling to remain independent in the 1800s, four women reluctantly open up to help from lumberjacks - and love.

The mysteries enjoyed in books come to life, threatening four businesses. Amber's new bookshop and tearoom draws rare book collectors, but when one ends up dead in the mystery section, the shop's future is questionable. Lilly's pirate themed bookshop fits right into Harbor Inn, Maine, but she never expected to find a young pirate dead on her shop's floor.

A lovely full-cast, family-based saga by Catherine Czerkawska. It follows Alison, as she discovers a yacht which belonged to a family of boat makers whose lives were tinged by turbulent love, sorrow and death. She finds the lady the boat was named after and discovers the history of the boat she has fallen in love with, and the family behind its excellent craftmanship.