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The legends that speak of the Sword of Paros say that it can bestow either prosperity or ruin on its kingdom...depending on the heart of its wielder. The kingdom's current princess, the beautiful yet resentful Elminia, laments being treated as a soulless tool simply for being born in a woman's body. Accompanied by Count Yulias, Elminia rides as far away from the kingdom’s politics as possible. One day, Elminia meets a beautiful young girl named Fiona, and their lives and the kingdom are changed forever. (Source: Manga Mavericks)
Rose was born in Martinique island of France and raised by a poor aristocrat family. One day, Rose was told by a fortune-teller that she would be "a strong presence more than the Queen" and she decides to go to homeland France...!? Josephine the French Rose, story of the upheaval of the French history unveils. (Source: Creek ＆ River Co.)
Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Annie. And she met the "Prince of the Hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage. She was adopted by the Leagan's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Neil and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "Prince of the Hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Anthony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins. (Source: AnimeNfo) *Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1977.*
A tough tomboy named Georgie lives with her family in Australia. They live on a big farm out in the country. Georgie is very playful and cute girl. She loves her brothers, Abel and Arthur, and they´re the best of friends. She always wears a bracelet that carries a big secret, which she is unaware of. Her mom is very strict with her, and she can´t figure out why. The secret is soon to be known, and her whole world will crash. Georgie tries always to be brave.
Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy from the asylum as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, what ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island.
Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to continue her education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. She tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises…including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson.
This is based on the book Anne of Avonlea and it's a sequel to Anne of Green Gables. It follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. Anne discovers the delights and troubles of being a teacher, takes part in the raising of the twins Davy and Dora and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society), which tries to bring improvements to Avonlea with questionable results.
It's the time of the pioneers of the Far West, when lots of people of the population leaves on the track of the Oregon, to fulfil their dreams of conquest. Mayme is a little girl who lives peacefully with her mother and her sisters. She meets a boy called Johnny. One day Johnny leaves for the Oregon and her dream since forever is to leave for the West to find back the love of her childhood. Finally comes the day of the big departure towards the Far West in trolley, but also of the meeting with Sammy and other characters. A trip that promises a lot, but that will be the occasion of many pitfalls...
The story revolves around a young girl named Uiba Shikatani and her newly found pet dinosaur, which is named after the only words that come out of its mouth, Muka Muka. (Wikipedia)
Ann is a little girl living between her two separated parents. She acts differently in front of each of them: In Texas, she behaves as her father's ideal daughter, and in New York, she becomes her mother's beloved daughter. Thus she lives two different lifes in order to reconciliate her parents and return to their old life together. With the help of her teacher Miss Merry, she will try to realise her dream..