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After 20 years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar.

Privilege, tragedy, and family secrets shape the lives of Alice and Juniper, two young women brought together on the cusp of adulthood. When Alice’s parents are tragically killed, she moves to Paris to live with her mother’s society sister. Despite the opulence of her new life, she prefers the bohemian friends of her late parents and parties in Montmartre. It is here she meets her passionate first love, the enigmatic artist Xavier.

When Lydia finds the courage to start a new life, she grapples with the legacy of a disinterested family, her own inadequacies and disappointments in love. A fragile stranger, himself recovering from a mysterious trauma, becomes the first of Lydia’s new friends. When she joins a sewing group and meets the gorgeous Jonathan, events take a turn that none of them could have anticipated.

Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance from the wisdom of desktop calendars. She lived quietly in Gold Street, Brunswick, for 60 years until events drove her to the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel. As she waits for the crowds in the atrium far below to disperse, she contemplates what went wrong. Her best friend kept an astonishing secret from her, and she can't trust the home help. It's possible her firstborn son has betrayed her, that her second son might have committed a crime and her only daughter is trying to kill her.

When a hostage rescue mission intended to save innocent lives takes a devastating turn, Hayes, a Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialist, leaps into action and plunges headlong into danger to save Rosalie. He must summon all of his Navy SEAL training as his experience and skill are put to the test as he leads Rosalie on a daring rescue through the jungles of Nicaragua.

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father - an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard - a decision Phoeba's mother bitterly (and loudly) resents. But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money.

In Jazz-Age Shanghai, Jingwen dances at the cabaret by day and runs errands for a powerful gang by night. But when a mysterious attacker steals faces from her fellow dancers, Jingwen is plunged into a world of powerful businessmen, silver-limbed gangs and vengeful gods as she tries to uncover the culprit.

When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection and a new romance at the local bar.

The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never have fallen into the clutches of the truly awful Mandy, who now lords it over everyone as if she owns the place. So, now that Neralie has returned to run the local pub, the whole town is determined to reinstate her to her rightful position in the social order.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Katie always looked after her beloved younger brother Chris - until she left him alone for one selfish afternoon, and their picture-perfect family fell apart. Although Chris survived the attack, the scars ran deeper than the ones left across his face. Now they're adults, and they haven't spoken in years. Then she gets a call, from Detective Laurence Page. Page is facing an unusually disturbing crime scene. Alan Hobbes, a distinguished and wealthy philosophy professor, has been brutally murdered.

Do wartemborskiego palacu, obecnie funkcjonujacego jako hotel, przyjezdzaja goscie: pisarz zainteresowany historia drugiej wojny swiatowej, emerytowany architekt o nienagannych manierach, roztargniona, samotna dziewczyna, sympatyczne starsze malzenstwo, wscibska pani Róza z mezem pantoflarzem i tajemniczy milosnicy wedkowania, którzy znikaja na cale dnie.

L’histoire que je vais vous raconter se déroule dans Bellechasse, ma terre natale. On est en 1931. Eva et Hormidas, mariés depuis vingt ans, sont toujours aussi amoureux. Mais pour la première fois, un frette à faire péter les clous dans les murs s’installe entre eux. L’origine de cette chicane aux proportions bibliques ? Les agissements de leur fille Aline, maladivement jalouse de sa jumelle Alice à la jambe de bois.

Saint-Eustache, 1957. La famille Delorme est tissée serrée. Les parents, heureux propriétaires du dépanneur de quartier sont épaulés par Rosalie, la cadette de la famille. Au gré des rencontres quotidienne, la jeune femme adore s'enquérir des nouvelles des uns et des autres. Généreuse et toujours prête à aider, Rosalie est tout naturellement la première à prendre soin de sa soeur Suzanne, née avec une déficience intellectuelle.

"Das Rosalie", ein Edelbordell in Berlin Kreuzberg und Bühne des lustvollen Versteckspiels zwischen Frau und Mann. Christin, Julia und Olga sind unverkäuflich, aber für Geld zu haben. Doch die Flut der Sexualität ist tief, ihre Bändigung scheint nicht möglich. Sie sind umgeben von Voyeuren, die sich maskieren mit den Tugenden einer bürgerlichen Sittlichkeit, und alles tun, um das zu zerstören, wonach sie sich selber sehnen: Lust. Aber die Frauen wehren sich, schließen sich zusammen. Eine Geschichte über die verlogene Moral in unserer Gesellschaft und über den Wert von Freundschaft und Solidarität.

"There are many ways to tell a story... It is a question of choosing the right one." - "Sparks from the Fire" The stories in Sparks from the Fire explore a wide variety of familiar characters and settings, yet there is always something else a shadow world that haunts, disturbs, and threatens. Sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, recluses and lovers all find themselves shifting between realities: the prosaic and the mystical, even between life and death. The horrors and wonders of these parallel existences are often glimpsed, sometimes revealed, and occasionally overwhelm.

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father - an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard - a decision Phoeba's mother bitterly (and loudly) resents. But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money.

1872: Clara Winterfeld hat Hals über Kopf Berlin und ihre Familie verlassen, um sich und ihre Tochter Celia an Bord eines alten Teeklippers vor dem wütenden Ehemann Franz in Sicherheit zu bringen. Ihr fernes Ziel ist Japan, wo sie mit ihrer großen Liebe Akeno einen Teegarten bewirtschaften und endlich glücklich sein will. Als Akeno nicht wie verabredet im Hafen von Nagasaki auf sie wartet, macht Clara sich auf die Suche nach dem Geliebten – und findet ihn seltsam verändert und abweisend in seinem durch ein Feuer zerstörten Teegarten.

Berlin, 1870er-Jahre: Um das familiengeführte Teehaus Winterfeld finanziell zu retten, geht die 24-jährige Clara Winterfeld eine Zweckehe mit Franz ein – ihrem reichen Freund aus Kindertagen. Doch ihr Herz gehört dem Teehändler Akeno aus Okayama, der mit japanischem Grünen Tee handelt. Akeno reist zurück nach Japan und Clara bleiben nur heimliche Briefe und eine kostbare Teedose. Als sie erfährt, dass sie schwanger ist, weiß sie nicht, wessen Kind sie in sich trägt. Verzweifelt und doch mutig will sie der Stimme ihres Herzens folgen und Franz verlassen. Doch wird sie Akeno jemals wiedersehen?