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Die Verschwörung um das geheimnisvolle Smaragd-Collier reicht bis in die höchsten Kreise. Daher ist Richard Hawksburry, Duke of Handsbrock, nun fest entschlossen, die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt er jedoch auf unvorhergesehene Hindernisse. Wer ist die Frau, die genau der Person aus seinen dunklen Fantasien entspricht? Und warum durchsucht sie auf dem Ball das Zimmer des Gastgebers? Lady Abigail Preston ist nach London gekommen, um den Mord an ihrem Bruder aufzuklären.

Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves in, bones are uncovered in the orchard . . . and odd strangers arrive. When her curate father returns his family to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs, gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations—until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious past leads to alarm that the killer may have been after his notebook, which she now possesses.

In this world, I'm the heir to the princely Morozov line, but I don't have any talent for the magical arts. When my enemies find out I'm alive, they'll definitely come looking for me. I think someday I'll have a warm welcome prepared for them, but in the meantime I have to continue my training, kill demons, and juggle my schoolwork on top of that. Wait up, Imperial Academy! Here I come!

Hace poco más de un siglo, una familia partió de Sorrento y se instaló en la ciudad argentina de Mar del Plata para abrir un hotel y luego una trattoria cerca de la playa. Podría tratarse de una familia cualquiera de las tantas que inmigraron por esos años, pero esta tuvo una participación especial en la cultura argentina: inventó los sorrentinos, una pasta que hoy se come en todo el país.

En 1974, Edgardo D. Holzman integró el grupo de abogados de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos de la OEA que visitó Chile a un año del golpe de Augusto Pinochet. Más tarde, en marzo de 1981, cuando trabajaba en el departamento de idiomas del FMI, le tocó oficiar de intérprete de Roberto Viola, sucesor de Jorge Videla, durante su visita a Washington, invitado por el entonces presidente Ronald Reagan.

Set in South Texas in April of 1963, Silent tells the story of Thomas Riley, a WWI veteran who came back from the Great War middle-aged and silent. He can speak, but he doesn’t speak in this lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel dry land of Texas.

Un bambino viene al mondo; si chiamerà Johannes, sarà un pescatore. Un uomo ormai anziano muore; si chiamava Johannes, era un pescatore. Mattino e sera si estende tra i due estremi della vita, come tra i due estremi del giorno, tra i pensieri di un padre che vede nascere suo figlio e quelli di un vecchio che affronta le cose di ogni giorno, nel suo ultimo giorno, cose sempre identiche, riconoscibili, eppure definitive.

PREMI PRUDENCI BERTRANA. Un relat apassionant sobre la resistència i la perseverança dels nostres avantpassats. Al segle XIII, en una època de conquestes i fervor religiós, Cornèlius Papapoulus, nascut a la noble ciutat de Famagusta, veu la seva vida marcada per una sèrie de renaixements que el transformen profundament. Després de conèixer Ramon Llull, Cornèlius s'uneix als temuts almogàvers, liderats per Roger de Flor, per lluitar en les històriques campanyes contra els otomans que assetjaven Constantinoble.

"Er kannte das – er hatte Hunderte von Menschen so sitzen sehen, Emigranten, verschlagen in fremdeste Fremde. Eine kleine Insel ungewissen Daseins – so ...

Una sorprendente novela que descubre los secretos ocultos del Camino de Santiago. Corre el año 824 d. C. El ermitaño Paio, el obispo Teodomiro y su ayudante Martín de Bilibio hallan una tumba cuyos restos, aseguran, pertenecen a Santiago Apóstol. Crean así, cerca de la tierra del fin del mundo, el Lugar Santo Jacobeo para atraer a la cristiandad. Dos siglos después, una joven noble, Mabilia, junto con el cantero Arno comienzan la búsqueda de La Inventio, en donde se relata la verdad del "milagroso" hallazgo y cuyo paradero se encuentra oculto tras unas marcas talladas en la piedra.

Rebecca Shipton, a driven career woman fed up with the modern dating scene, never expected her life to be turned upside down—until she discovers a mysterious antique ring that transports her back to 1658 Puritan England. Thrust into the turmoil of Oliver Cromwell’s reign. Rebecca finds herself in a land ravaged by civil war, where the Roundheads reign and religious strife fuels fear and persecution.

In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, is invaded on their east and west borders by German and Russian forces, and the small Polish army is easily overwhelmed. The people of Warsaw, among them Dr. Otto Steiner and his great love Ariel, are rounded up and put on trains and shipped to secret Nazi prison camps.

Jack Sullivan has sacrificed nearly everything chasing an untold secret—hidden for centuries during the chaos of war. Heartbroken and alone, he’s granted one last chance for redemption, plunging into historical mystery and peril. Transport yourself between the heat of battle during the French & Indian War and today’s high-stakes treasure hunt. When Major General Braddock faces his final foe, a fortune vanishes. Centuries later, Jack deciphers cryptic clues, evades traps, and battles enemies to uncover it.

1941: When Nancy’s world is blown apart by the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, she volunteers to travel to the Philippines to serve at the front. She soon finds herself working in a field hospital on the Bataan Peninsula in the thick of the fighting, experiencing the horrors of war first hand.

Pam Geiger’s longstanding role as an esteemed fashion and beauty artist began years before she ever coiffed Jacqueline Kennedy, Cheryl Tiegs or Christie Brinkley. Long before working with Bill King, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel, Hiro, Neil Barr and Irving Penn, Pam was in front of the mirror in her childhood home in Lexington, Massachusetts, fretting over her own evolving adolescent looks and experimenting with ways to improve them.

By the Rivers of Babylon presents the early life of the prophet Ezekiel, from his childhood to his service in the Temple to the Babylonian Captivity, where he was enslaved among the exiles along the River Chebar.

Als Adlige geboren, wie ein Wildfang aufgewachsen, bewegt sich Lady Narissa mit Leichtigkeit zwischen der Londoner Elite und den nicht ganz so ehrenwerten Einwohnern. Ihre Rolle als Tochter eines Earls nie ganz annehmend, eröffnet sie eine geheime Spielhölle nur für Frauen, um zu der Unterhaltung der Damen der feinen Gesellschaft etwas beizutragen. Sie ist entschlossen, ihr Lebenswerk um jeden Preis zu schützen.

When Millie Hudson is introduced to Dr. Winston Felton, it’s love at first sight. She can hardly wait to become his wife and eagerly makes plans for their new life together. However, days before their wedding, her new mother-in-law, Mother Nola, announces she’s moving in. And everything changes.

HONORIA SMYTHE-SMITH SABE QUE, PARA SER UMA VIOLINISTA RUIM, AINDA PRECISA MELHORAR MUITO... Mesmo assim, nunca deixaria de se apresentar no concerto anual das Smythe-Smiths. Ela adora ensaiar com as três primas para manter essa tradição que já dura quase duas décadas entre as jovens solteiras da família. Além disso, de nada adiantaria se lamentar, então Honoria coloca um sorriso no rosto e se exibe no recital mais desafinado da Inglaterra, na esperança de que algum belo cavalheiro na plateia esteja em busca de uma esposa, não de uma musicista.

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.