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Sergeant Lillian Armfield leans forward. What about Black Ada's, Webber? I know you two went there. What sort of people go there? Iris smiles. The sort of people you coppers like to bash. In late 1932, Iris Webber arrives in Sydney looking for work but the city is still in the grip of the...

1930. Seventeen-year-old Iris Mitchell dreams of designing clothes, but there's little spare cash for fashion in their shanty-town home. By day, Iris scrubs the floors at Caron's, an upmarket department store. By night, she designs and sews in her family's tiny, crowded house. When John reappears, passions are reignited, and Iris must face not only their religious divide, but the apparent impossibility of having a career once married.

Jean Marc Andreas wanted what was his by right. He was seeking justice—and he would use any means to get it. Juliette de Clement, a confidante of the royal family, could aid his search for the priceless treasure so many had killed to possess...and died to protect. But in eighteenth-century revolutionary France, a world of power and intrigue, soldiers and assassins, royalty and rebels, death could come in many forms and from any direction, and none more lethal—or more likely—than from the person you trusted most.

In Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a family—and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will need the help of a thief—one he can control body and soul.

High Ambo, in England, is the setting. It is winter, and Caroline West - a very human, placid, and unexcitable person - has gone there to escape her late husband's relatives. Like so many good-hearted people, she is immediately put upon. Caroline's sister Iris comes first, full of impulse and determination to be a reporter - an ambition abruptly deflected by a handsome young schoolmaster - an authority on birds. Then comes Robert, with his sweet, ingenuous fiancée Polly, and thus making the three-ring circus of a genuine Cadell household.

After a bloody and expensive war, the British Army can’t afford to keep the lake and build a convalescent home on its shores yet they still battle with Walden Council and a railway company for ownership. But an old mansion used as an officer training academy stands where the railway company plans to build a lakeside hotel. It belongs to General Cheverton – and he won’t leave his home.

Reporter Iris Woodmore plans to move to London to avoid a shocking hometown scandal. Longtime enemy Archie Powell has been threatening to reveal her darkest secret – and she’s desperate to flee before he does. But when he’s found murdered after a violent argument with her, there’s no escape. Iris must stay and clear her name even though the truth could ruin her reputation. With the police closing in, Iris has to find the real killer if she’s to keep her secret. Can she prove her innocence without revealing the identity of the one man who can provide her with an alibi?

It’s 1922, and after spending a year travelling through Europe, Iris Woodmore returns home to find a changed Walden. Wealthy businesswoman Constance Timpson has introduced equal pay in her factories and allows women to retain their jobs after they marry. But these radical new working practices have made her deadly enemies. A mysterious sniper fires a single shot at Constance – is it a warning, or did they shoot to kill? When one of her female employees is murdered, it’s clear the threat is all too real – and it’s not just Constance in danger.

King Henry V's beautiful widow, Catherine, is determined to marry Owen Tudor, a Welsh gentleman-at-arms. But her life decisions are not her own, overshadowed as she is by more powerful men who are closer to the Throne. The Duke of Bedford would marry her off to a foreign prince, Henry Beaufort would give his allegiance in exchange for a Cardinal's hat, and the handsome Duke of Gloucester, brother of the dead king, openly desires her. Added to that, her son, the King, is a weak child. She must use all her wits and courage if she is to forge a new life for herself.

Gitel’s Freedom: A Novel by Iris Mitlin Lav is a deeply moving work of historical fiction that brings to life the struggles, resilience, and quiet courage of Jewish immigrants in early-twentieth-century America. Narrated with warmth and emotional depth by Catherine Divaris and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, this audiobook offers an intimate and immersive listening experience.

Japan, 1709. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu has left him puzzled and wary. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes place. In his own palace, the shogun is stabbed with a fan made of painted silk with sharp-pointed iron ribs.

Siberian Iris is the story of a young immigrant woman driven from her Russian village in 1912. She becomes a servant in the palace of Tsar Nicholas II and is swept up in the court intrigue. Her creativity and imagination carry her from the palace basement laundry to the rooms of Rasputin and the Dowager Empress. As events unfold, she is sent to a Siberian monastery where she becomes involved with the forest insurgents who call themselves the "People's Army".

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is happy with her steadfast fiancé, Luke. Then, one day, a terrible mining explosion rocks the town, and, suddenly, everything Charlotte thinks she knows is thrown into doubt. The arrival of wealthy businessman Justin Harvard complicates things further. Charlotte must marry him to save the school she loves even if it means sacrificing everything else that is dear to her. There are secrets and lies at every turn to challenge her; will she ever make it as a bargain bride?

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the job - it's as if she was born for a life in the theatre. Unlike Kathleen, who wants her name in lights, backstage is where Ella's heart lies, running the show under the watchful eye of Anthony. It's not long before she realises that she has fallen in love.

Esperanza Iris, quien deslumbró por su tesón, incomparable gracia y talento, fue una diva prodigiosa que en 1918, con capital propio, edificó uno de los teatros más emblemáticos de la Ciudad de México. Lamentablemente el esplendor de su trayectoria artística fue nublado al final de sus días por un monstruoso atentado: su tercer marido, Paco Sierra, puso una bomba en un avión de Mexicana de Aviación el 24 de septiembre de 1952.

Rhian Grey left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack, a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner. When Rhian returns to Sweyn’s Eye, it is to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty, by the devastation of the Great War, a town whose workers' lives are governed by fear. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind, Rhian must decide where her own future lies.

Even the vision granted to her from the goddess Hathor keeps Tey from the man she loves. Tey does not understand why her mother will not fight for her. She cannot see why his family does not accept her, until it is too late.

"Warum, glaubst du, blinken all die Sterne nachts am Himmel? Damit wir danach greifen, Grete. Verstehst du das nicht?" Vier Jahre sind vergangen, seit Augusta diese verheißungsvolle Aussage traf. Inzwischen ist von ihren Träumen nur ein kümmerlicher Rest übrig geblieben. Dennoch kämpft sie verbissen weiter und übermittelt geheime Informationen an die Rote Armee, die längst vor den Toren Berlins steht. Das Ende des Krieges und die Freiheit sind zum Greifen nah.

The Flame Iris Temple continues the story which began with The Burning Tower, and continued in The Fire Sword. The Flame Iris Temple is a fantasy where a group of knights take up residence in a land quite different from their own. They must fight off shape-changing assassins, kidnappers, and other human enemies who are cunning and ruthless.

Hoffnung auf Freiheit und Glück im geteilten Deutschland: die packende Fortsetzung der Löwenthal-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Iris Krumbiegel. Berlin 1948: Lorenz Löwenthal wünscht sich nach den Kriegswirren vor allem Versöhnung – sogar mit der Familie seines einst besten Freundes Bertram. Seine Frau Frida dagegen versucht, Bertrams Familie für ihre nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Doch ihre Entscheidung, brisante Unterlagen an die Russen zu übergeben, hat fatale Folgen.