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Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo – are drawn together in a small Baltic city in 1989, just as the DDR begins to collapse around them.

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). ‘Somehow, she...

Gigi, the daughter of a struggling theatre singer, is left in the care of her great-aunt and grandmother, both former courtesans. Determined to teach Gigi the family business, they begin a series of lessons involving lace, expensive meals and cigars – all in the art of pleasing men. Gigi, soon bored of their antics and unconvinced of their instruction, rebels.

När 18-åriga Iola står inför ett tvångsäktenskap med en rik, äldre man ser hon ingen annan utväg än att fly. Hon söker skydd hos sin gamla barnskötare Nanny som precis ska ge sig av för att ta ett nytt barnvaktsjobb hos en lord i södra Frankrike. Iola vet inte vad hon ska ta sig till, hon har ingen annanstans att ta vägen och snart försvinner hennes sista trygga hamn. Men under natten dör Nanny och Iola fattar ett drastiskt beslut som leder henne rakt i armarna på hennes livs kärlek och äventyr.

Em "A parada da ilusão", é ela, a ilusão – ilusão do amor, da paixão –, o tema central. "A paixão é quase sempre o desejo de um triunfo, que se imagina de um certo e determinado modo." O estudante de medicina Geraldo finge ser um "banhista" (auxiliar de um estabelecimento de praia), analfabeto, para conquistar Alda. E é bem-sucedido. Ela se propõe a alfabetizá-lo e uma paixão ardente sobrevém... ou seria uma ilusão?

Léa de Lonval, a wealthy, beautiful forty-nine-year-old courtesan, is coming to the end of her career. Her lover, the young and fiercely handsome Fred Peloux – otherwise known as Chéri – is having to face his own reality, with an advantageous marriage arranged by his mother on the horizon. Both lovers, despite their six-year history, reluctantly decide it's time to end their affair. Yet their connection is more difficult to let go of than either of them care to admit…

Corren los primeros días de enero de 1903 y el profesor Alexander Quills, un hombre sabio que estudia las nuevas ciencias que exploran el mundo del más allá, vuelve a su casa de Oxford después de asistir a unas conferencias en Londres. Oliver Saunders, joven y tímido, trabaja mientras tanto en su pequeño cuarto de Balliol College, rodeado de diccionarios y novelas, y Lionel Lennox, amante de la buena vida y de las mujeres, está en Egipto, a punto de profanar la tumba de una princesa para llevarse una joya de inestimable valor.

När Sally St. Vincents faster går bort bestämmer hon sig för att lämna det lugna livet på den engelska landsbygden och återvända till sin mor, Lynn Lystell, i London. Det finns bara ett problem. Sally är inte alls säker på att hennes mor kommer vilja ta emot henne. Lynn Lystell är nämligen en världskänd skådespelerska och det faktum att hon har en dotter är en väl bevarad hemlighet som hon haft i 18 år nu. Mot alla odds tar Lynn emot Sally men det dröjer inte länge förrän konflikter börjar pyra under ytan. Samtidigt tvingas Sally konfrontera sina känslor gentemot sin fästman.

She gave up the stage for love. Now the man she married barely looks at her. For listeners who love emotionally intense historical romance, forbidden love, and impossible choices, The Soldier and the Swan is set in World War II–era San Francisco, where duty collides with desire and one woman must choose between the life she vowed to protect and the one she can’t forget. San Francisco, 1943: Vivienne Hartley, the city’s prima ballerina, gave up the spotlight to care for her war-wounded husband, Charlie Sterling.

A passionate young artist falls disastrously in love with a woman he can never truly have. What begins as longing soon becomes obsession, drawing him deeper into a world where beauty, desire, and despair are impossible to separate. Set against the restless intensity of youth, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a timeless portrait of emotional excess — the kind of love that feels larger than life and more dangerous because of it.

Eis o espírito em que está imerso este conto extraordinário de João do Rio. Laurinda Belfort é o nome de uma socialite que tudo tem. Aconselhada por uma dama de companhia, decide ter um amante, Guilherme. Com o tempo, ele a enfastia também. Laurinda considera-se superior a tudo e a todos.

Bertha Lindberg, eine junge Frau der feinen Stockholmer Gesellschaft, soll endlich standesgemäß heiraten. Doch während ihr Vater nach einem geeigneten Ehemann sucht, träumt sie von einer großen Bühnenkarriere. Als sie an einem Dezemberabend Baptiste begegnet, einem gefeierten Artisten aus Österreich, verliebt sie sich nicht nur in ihn, sondern auch in die schillernde Welt des Zirkus. Denn obwohl Bertha sich für eine moderne Frau hält, lernt sie hier eine Freiheit kennen, die ihre Vorstellung bei Weitem übersteigt.