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"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." -- As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...

Molly Robbins is finally stepping into the spotlight. Her unique dress designs have caught the eye of London's elite. And if it means her own dress shop, proper Molly will make a deal with the devil himself-the notoriously naughty Earl of Everscham. But becoming his mistress is not a part of their arrangement. It's right there in the contract's fine print: No Tomfoolery. He's an Expert at Taking Them Off Carver Danforthe has a reputation for beautiful...

"After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry-- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment...

By April 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is indiscriminately cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's -land, Joseph finds the body of the controversial (& much despised) war correspondent Eldon Prentice, a nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford. Prentice appears not to have been killed by the Germans, but by one of his compatriots. What Englishman...

A manga adaptation of the classic literary novel by Jane Austen about a well-meaning, but bumbling young matchmaker.