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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

18/09/2016 22:13

 

Growing up together is kind of romantic, at least for Catherine and her adopted brother, Heathcliff. But then, they're separated. Robbed of his love after first her marriage and then her death, Heathcliff takes a second shoot: in setting up his son and her similar called daughter... But Catherine Jnr. is a so much better person than her mother – and Linton so much more a self-centred, weak coward than his father...

 

Tudor Court by Philippa Gregory

10/09/2016 18:13

  

 

Henry VIII's court is a place of intrigue, love and lies. The new king loves himself more than anything else in the world and thinks he's the best person on Earth. This is the story of how his women (wives or others) have accompanied and influenced him over time. The tragic fate of his brother's wife, Catherine of Aragon (The Constant Princess), who tried to make England a better place and had her own wars to fight, her most hated, loved and envied allies and enemies: Her sisters Margaret and Mary Tudor (Three Sisters, Three Queens). The rise and fall of the most intriguing of Henry's wives, Anne Boleyn, is told from her sister's point of view (The Other Boleyn girl). Next is the book about Anne of Cleves, Anne Boleyn's sister-in-law, Catherine Howard and the woman who has served five queens and ruined 3, Jane Boleyn  (The Boleyn Inheritance), while his last wife's fate, Kateryn Parr's fate hangs in the air (The Taming of the Queen). After Henry's death, the Tudor's reign does not end. Young Hannah's sent as fool and spy to Mary Tudor's court and is caught between to queens (The Queen's Fool). Elizabeth Tudor herself has her own problems to worry about, when she finally comes into power: She has to marry, and not for love (The Virgin's Lover) and she has a rival queen, Mary Stuard (The Other Queen). 

 

SPQR by John Maddox Roberts

10/09/2016 18:19

 

Murder isn't unusual in the district of Decius Caecilius Metellus the younger. As the equivalent of a policeman in the ancient Rome, he's used to many deaths and violence. But no one knows what happened. Not even the people who own most of the criminals. When more powerful and rich people die before their time, Decius gets suspicious: Everything leads to the two consuls and the guest in Rome, the Persian Prince... But a conspiracy is as unhealthy for the victim as for the one who tries to reveal it.

 

Other parts: The Catiline Conspiracy, Sacrilege, The Temple of the Muses, Saturnalia, Nobody loves a Centurion, The Tribune's Curse, The River God's Vengeance, The Princess and the Pirates, A Point of Law, Under Vesuvius, Oracle of the Dead, The Year of Confusion, 

Shadowhunters by Cassandra Clare

29/03/2017 17:37

The Infernal Devices (read after City of Glass)

  

England is… rainy. And far more dangerous than Tessa Grey thought – as she has to find out when to witches pick her up and tell her they’ve her brother in their custody. And will kill him if Tessa doesn’t learn to change her shape… and marry a man she never met before. Fortunately, the young Shadowhunter Will Herondale comes by and decided to save her... Slowly, Tessa begins to understand what hides under London's civilized facade – a world full of demons, vampires, werewolves, witches, fey and shadowhunters, of course, who keep the order. But where does Tessa fit in? And why would the Magister give anything to have her in her power? With the help of the secretive Will, the dying Jem and the other inhabitants of the institute, Tessa begins to dig deep in the history of her family – and finds out that more lives are at stake than she thought possible.   

 

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

26/03/2017 14:44

  

 

Gwenny was never supposed to jump through time – that was her cousin. Her perfect, red-haired and always polite, all-knowing and beautiful cousin. But that doesn't stop Gwendolyn from ending in a grand house instead of her school. Suddenly, she has to learn everything about politeness, dancing, and talking properly for every freaking year she might end in! And about time travel – all the while, she has to keep up in school, guard her heart against her fellow time traveller and solve the mystery at hand: The secret behind the secret on which the whole organisation is built. A secret she's not supposed to find out... 

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

23/11/2016 20:48

 

To divert their friend from his broken heart, Mercutio and Benvolio take Romeo to a forbidden party at their family's arch-enemy's house: The Capulet's. But on the party, Romeo falls irrevocably for Juliet, the daughter of the house... But the forbidden love is doomed already...

 

Perfume by

02/10/2016 19:05

 

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is able to smell everything – and a dangerous murderer. Because the necessary scents for the best perfume known to mankind are the scents of beautiful women. And taking their scents means to kill them...

On tangled paths by Theodor Fontane

23/11/2016 19:55

 

Knowing this won't last, the poor stitcher Lene gives in to the advances of the officer and baron Botho. But after a wonderful summer together, reality catches up with the young couple: To pay his high debts, Botho has to marry his rich cousin Käthe...

Mail Order Brides of the West by Claire Dawson

02/10/2016 18:47

 

The lovely romances of two girls who lost everything and became Mail Order Brides. Sent to the same small, hateful village in Nowhere, Texas, to marry the Middleton brothers, Jeanetta and Anna have different problems: Anna with the people, Jeanetta with her husband – and a past she just can't leave behind, no matter how hard she tries to…

 

Other parts: Valentine's Bride

Love and Intrigue by Friedrich Schiller

23/11/2016 19:44

 

18th century, Germany: While his daughter Luise is on cloud nine, the musician Miller is not convinced of rich Ferdinand von Walter's feelings for her. He is not the only one who doesn't approve of this relationship: The secretary, Wurm, manipulates his master and Ferdinand's father, the president. And soon a plot is formed to separate the lovers and marry Ferdinand to the sovereign's mistress, Lady Milford, who is herself desperately in love with Ferdinand...

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