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Wir schreiben das Jahr 1535. Der Bischof von Münster hat die Stadt von den Wiedertäufern zurückerobert, und auch das Moordorf Ahlbeck, wo der Bauernsohn Ambros Vortkamp mit seinem Vater lebt, ist von dem Aufruhr nicht unberührt geblieben. Ein verwundeter Müller erscheint im Dorf und will die Wassermühle wieder aufbauen, die vor Jahren durch ein Feuer zerstört wurde.

As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the rebels, John escapes to the royalist colony of Virginia, a land bursting with fertility that stirs his passion for botany. Only the native American peoples understand the forest, and John is drawn to their way of life just as they come into fatal conflict with the colonial settlers.

Das Münsterland nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Im Sommer des Jahres 1668 kehrt der Schausteller und Taschendieb Daniel Wagenknecht anlässlich einer Kirchweih in das Moordorf Ahlbeck zurück, in dem er als Säugling von drei Bauern lebendig begraben wurde. Daniel will die Geheimnisse von damals lüften - und sich an den Schuldigen rächen. Begleitet wird er von seinem Ziehvater Roloff.

Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of 17th-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and finally becomes Hester's symbol of self-affirmation. This dramatic reading heightens the sense of lyric poetry that permeates every line of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great novel.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle. Lady Jane Grey has just been executed by her cousin Mary Tudor and her two younger sisters, Mary and Catherine, live in the shadow of their sister's tragic demise. Lady Catherine's fatal flaw is her compulsive desire for love, while clever Lady Mary is burdened with a crooked spine and tiny stature - and both have inherited the curse of royal blood.

Karibik 1635: In den spanischen Kolonien hat der Schwarzhandel überhand genommen. Der neue Gouverneur von Hispaniola schwört, jeden Schmuggler, den er erwischt, eigenhändig aufzuhängen. Die schöne Doña Maria zittert um ihren Gemahl, einen reichen Pflanzer und heimlichen Drahtzieher des verbotenen Handels. Im fernen Bremen hat der junge Handelsherr Jan van Hagen nur die Wahl zwischen Schuldturm und Flucht in die Neue Welt, um als Schmuggler das verlorene Familienvermögen wieder herzustellen. Noch in der Nacht entkommt er den Schergen und nimmt Kurs auf Westindien. Seine Suche nach dem Gold des Südens hat begonnen.

lnés de Suàrez nasce all'inizio del Cinquecento in Spagna, figlia di un modesto artigiano di Plasencia. Dotata di un forte temperamento che male si addice alla condizione femminile sottomessa all'autorità del clero e del maschio, lnés sposa contro la volontà della famiglia Juan de Malaga, che presto la abbandona per cercare fortuna in America. La giovane non si dà per vinta e, con i soldi guadagnati ricamando e cucinando, si imbarca anche lei per il Nuovo Mondo.

Chi se non Paolo Poli poteva calarsi nei panni di Don Abbondio e della Monaca di Monza, dando una voce inconfondibile a ciascuno dei memorabili personaggi manzoniani e tirandoci dentro nelle vicende umane e storiche del grande romanzo? Il libro di tutti e per tutti, in una lettura che è un vero spettacolo!

Raised on the battlefield and in the most beautiful Moorish palace in the world, sent to England alone at the age of 16 to take her place in a court where she couldn't speak the language, and abandoned and forced to endure poverty after the death of her husband, Katherine remained a woman of indomitable spirit, unwavering faith, and extraordinary strength. Philippa Gregory brings to life one of history's most inspiring women and creates one of the most compelling characters in historical fiction.

The newly-married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question.

Phantasiereise ins England des 16. Jahrhunderts: Rebecca Gablé zählt zu den bekanntesten Autorinnen für historische Geschichten. Mit "Der dunkle Thron" knüpft sie an ihre erfolgreiche Waringham-Trilogie an. Detlef Bierstedt erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Waringham in diesem Hörbuch spannend weiter.

The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power - as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life: the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold.

Questo luogo è il rifugio segreto del mio maestro, il pittore Michelangelo. Qui si è rifugiato mentre tutta Roma lo cercava. E qui, a volte, si riunisce con un gruppo di persone il cui scopo principale è la conoscenza. È una notte del 1534 quando Jacopo, che da grande vuole diventare un pittore, fugge da Pistoia e dal padre, che non condivide il suo sogno e lo vorrebbe costringere a lavorare in bottega.

La famosa caza de brujas en Zugarramurdi, el auto de fe de Logroño de 1610, las cárceles secretas de la Inquisición, los bucaneros de La Española, los Hermanos de la Costa y la república libertaria que intentaron crear en la isla Tortuga, los corsarios vascos del mar Caribe… Joanes de Sagarmin, protagonista y narrador de esta novela vivirá todas estas peripecias tras huir de la pequeña aldea navarra de Zugarramurdi. Perseguido por la Inquisición, encontrará refugio junto a otros huérfanos y huidos de la justicia.

In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain.

In Oberammergau herrscht kurz vor Pfingsten 1670 helle Aufregung. Bei den Proben zum berühmten Passionsspiel wird der Christus-Darsteller tot aufgefunden. Er wurde gekreuzigt. Der Schongauer Henker Jakob Kuisl und der Bader Simon Fronwieser werden um die Aufklärung des Todesfalls gebeten, doch sie stoßen auf eine Wand des Schweigens. Als ein weiterer Darsteller den Märtyrertod stirbt, glauben die Dorfbewohner an eine Strafe Gottes und wollen erst recht nicht mit den beiden Fremden reden.

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of 14, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king, and take her fate into her own hands.

BROTHER TURNS ON BROTHER to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.

In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. But one woman hears the tidings with utter dread. Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, knows that the peal of bells she hears will summon her husband once more to power, intrigue, and a passionate love affair with the young queen.

Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alley hard by Rudolf’s great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born—or was, for her throat has been slashed.