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From the author of the international bestseller "Year of Wonders" comes a powerful love story set against the catastrophe of the Civil War. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and adds adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.

In the untamed outback of Western Australia, the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like insurmountable odds. For Cassandra, reunited at last with the man she loves, the Swan River Colony is a refuge that seems like a miracle after her ordeals. Two of her sisters have fallen in love with their new way of life. But then a messenger arrives from faraway England and it is the fourth sister, Pandora, who jumps at the chance to make her way back to the Lancashire moors she misses so badly.

Separated from all that she loves...Cassandra Blake has raised her three sisters. The girls are the pride of their impractical father Zachariah, and not in a hurry to marry. Then the American Civil War cuts off supplies of cotton to Lancashire and the mills fall silent. There is a stark choice: stay and risk starvation or begin again elsewhere. Then an old feud tears the family apart. Cassandra is kidnapped and her sisters are forced to sail with a group of desperate cotton lasses to the Swan River Colony.

Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual coup, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard instead chose to set the action of the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized American people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the American spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet takeover.

Based on the real life of a remarkable young woman at the beginning of the last century, this is the gripping, heart-wrenching story of Jessica and her courageous fight for justice and love against enormous odds. Born into a life of hardship on the dusty black plains of the Australian outback, Jessica is strong, spirited and fearless, riding and working the land like a man. She could not be more different from her ladylike sister Meg, groomed by their ambitious mother Hester for marriage to wealthy Jack Thomas, Jessica's childhood friend.

Story of an English woman shipwrecked off the WA coast in the 1830's.

Thomas Pitt is summoned to the offices of Victor Narraway, head of the Secret Service in Queen Victoria's vast empire. He is to investigate the shooting at Eden Lodge of an ex-army officer and promising young diplomat.

It is a house on the beach. Honora doesn't mind renting-despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton throw themselves into fixing it up, just as they throw themselves into their life together.

On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. Stephen's adventure begins when he meets four local residents - a beautiful Japanese girl and three older people.

In this exciting adventure Capt. Ramage RN must rescue a mixed group of people being held hostage by Napoleon amongst whom he hopes to find his wife.