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Jane Eyre is a plain orphan girl, unloved and abused by her Aunt Reed, who is sent away to boarding school. Strong of heart and craving independence, Jane embarks upon a life of governess to a young French girl named Adele, the benefactor of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Life at Thornfield Hall proves just as mysterious as its owner with haunting laughter and a dark secret living in the attic.

Chekhov’s masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long.

Cleanness is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme “ the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean. The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of stories and examples, whose main source is the Old Testament. The three major stories are the Flood, then Sodom and Gomorrah, followed by Belshazzar's Feast.

Since her daughter grew up and left home, Sandy has found herself filling her house with things - impulse purchases that she just has to have but that quickly lose their sheen. Why would she need an expensive set of copper pans when she has no one to cook for? Realising that her shopping habit...

Fearless, frank and very funny, Honeybee is the must-read novel for every woman ‘A gorgeous celebration of female friendship' ELIZABETH DAY ‘I love the way Dawn writes' MATT HAIG 'A lot of fun… a fabulous confection' JACQUELINE WILSON...

Dans le monde magique de Troy, Lanfeust, jeune forgeron, découvre qu'au contact d'une certaine épée, il possède le pouvoir absolu. S'il ne souhaite qu'en connaître l'origine, ce n'est pas le cas de Thanos, doté du même don. Pour retrouver l'épée et vaincre Thanos, Lanfeust devra, accompagné de ses amis (dont un troll), affronter mille dangers et voyager jusqu'au bout du monde.

I always knew I was different; I just didn’t realize I belonged with the characters from horror movies. It turns out my abnormally accurate intuition is a bit more than that. I’m a psychic. And a witch. And the people that raised me? Not my biological parents. I would have loved a second to absorb this information, but the night I’m told the truth I get shipped off to a school for people like me...and shifters...and vampires (because they exist in real life, too).

Ein verführerischer Gothic-Roman voller Nervenkitzel und Dark Romance. Dies ist mein letzter Liebesbrief an dich, auch wenn manche ihn ein Geständnis nennen würden ... Kurz bevor der Tod sie ereilt, wird die Bäuerin Constanta von einem mysteriösen Unbekannten gerettet - in dem er sie in einen Vampir verwandelt. Dass sie dafür seine Braut wird und tun muss, was er verlangt, ist ein Preis, den sie zunächst nur allzu gern zu zahlen bereit ist. Bald schon nimmt Dracula sich zwei weitere Geliebte: die spanische Edeldame Magdalena und einen armen Künstler namens Alexi.

From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another ""gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence"" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern...

'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice Szafran May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days...

Baby Worth Billions A one-night baby can only mean one thing to the richest man of all—a wedding! Enjoy this sparkling marriage of convenience story by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham. Cinderella is pregnant…and must marry the world’s richest man! Raj Belanger has everything...

GOD'S PRESENCE IS NOT ABSENTEven in the Wilderness.Life can feel like a wilderness.A place where prayers seem to echo into silence.Where the nights are long and the answers are few.Where the fire burns hotter than you thought you could endure.Where the flood rises higher than your strength can...

Psyche is a willful mortal held prisoner by the god of love.Loki is a mischievous god driven by his lust for power.Together they will break the universe. And their own hearts...

Lián has survived eight centuries, seventeen dead emperors, and 645 deaths. None of that prepared her for what her own body does next.She's carrying a child — the first in eight hundred years she's let anyone close enough for that to happen. The court has opinions. The dragon has advice. The...

Maya Clarke heads to Rome expecting a semester of adventure—new friends, unforgettable memories, and a chance to experience life somewhere completely different from home. What she doesn’t expect is how quickly Rome starts to feel less like a trip and more like the beginning of a whole new...

I dropped my phone in the trash and drove north.Twenty years of making myself smaller than I was. Twenty years of asking permission for things that should have been mine. When my kids finally leave home, and an unexpected inheritance shows up, like the universe finally taking my side, I sign the...

When winter holiday chaos turns feral… run, scream, and maybe fall in love on the way. Goldie Hawkins has survived a lot as a strata manager at The Rook, a remote ski resort buried deep in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. But nothing - NOTHING - prepared her for a pack of...

A wife's fight against leukemia. A war that closed the skies. A faith that held.In the spring of 1990, Shahid Malik and his wife, Kaukab, were living a full life in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. They were raising two young daughters in the close-knit expatriate community of Saudi Aramco. Then...

Den Glauben an die Liebe hat die schöne Sunny längst aufgegeben. Stattdessen steckt sie ihre ganze Leidenschaft in ihre Karriere als Anwältin. Bis sie Tycoon Stefano Gunn kennenlernt. Vom ersten Moment an herrscht zwischen ihnen eine magische Spannung, der sie sich nicht lange entziehen kann...

Have you ever thought about going on a mission trip? Not just to South Africa, but anywhere? What is stopping you? Maybe it's time for you to step up!...