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Als die Kräuterhexe Briar von Drachen auf eine entlegene schottische Insel entführt wird, fürchtet sie das Schlimmste. Doch statt als Snack zu enden, soll sie das Unmögliche schaffen: einen Drachen von einer rätselhaften Krankheit heilen. Als ihr dies tatsächlich gelingt, entpuppt sich das Biest als der faszinierende Krieger Darragh. Und Briar steht vor der Aufgabe ihres Lebens–als Außenstehende soll sie die Heilerin eines Drachenclans werden. Zwischen uralten Clangeheimnissen und neuen Gefahren brodelt die Insel vor Magie, und auch Briars Herz steht bald in Flammen …

It’s 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange’s family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father’s choosing.

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize­–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and...

It’s 1863, nearly twenty years since Ida Lange came to New Zealand to change her life and realize a dream. With her best friend, Cat, she established a thriving sheep farm on the continental plains where their combined families settled - and succeeded. But the idyll of Rata Station could be reaching an end. The fires of change are coming again, and this time it’s Ida’s and Cat’s daughters - Mara, Carol, and Linda - who will get swept up in the ensuing chaos.

It’s 1880 in the North Island town of Otaki, where Aroha lives contentedly with her mother, Linda - until a fateful tragedy leaves Aroha traumatized and plagued by a cursed guilt. For the long recovery ahead, Aroha is sent to Rata Station, a thriving sheep farm that Aroha’s mother and grandmother once called home. Linda knows it’s the perfect place for her daughter to heal, find hope, and start a life she can call her own.