This is the third book in the "House of Niccolo" series. Set in 15th-century Cyprus, this novel continues the saga of Nicholas van der Poel, international mercenary who started out as a dyer's apprentice, as he plays for the highest stakes with the greatest super-powers in Europe.
Quinta parte de la impresionante saga, tras un largo periplo, nuestros héroes llegan finalmente al hogar de Jondalar.
The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa in this brilliant new novel from the celebrated international bestselling author. At the close of Wilbur Smith's bestselling Monsoon, Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled on the high seas and finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous 'Robber's Road'. It is a journey both exciting and hazardous, that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. At heart a story of love and hatred, vengeance and greed, Blue Horizon is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists.
Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.
While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill or destroy" the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat--and have stunning repercussions for two men on oppositesides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Mooreand a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fortis the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between asuperpower and a nation in the making.
Een stelletje, dat hun kerstvakantie doorbrengt in een oude boerderij in Yorkshire, vindt er een interessant manuscript, waarin de schrijfster een gruwelijk geheim in haar leven onthult.
UN MISTERIOSO PASSATO AVVOLGE LA CASA SULL'ISOLA DI GUERNSEY, IN INGHILTERRA. In preda a una profonda crisi personale e professionale, la giovane insegnante berlinese Franca Palmer decide di rifugiarsi nell'isola di Guernsey, nel canale della Manica. Qui trova alloggio presso un'antica villa a Le Variouf, dove l'anziana inglese Beatrice Shaye si prende cura di uno splendido roseto. Con lei vive Helene Feldmann, una tedesca trasferitasi sull'isola con il marito ufficiale al tempo dell'occupazione tedesca durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Ben presto Franca si accorge che la sua presenza ha un effetto dirompente sul rapporto fra Beatrice e Helene, un rapporto che in realtà nasconde odi e rivalità mai sopiti risalenti agli anni della guerra.
L'histoire drôle et poignante d'une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres explore le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l'exil et les mirages de l'intégration. Nazneen, née en 1967 dans un village du Pakistan, est considérée morte à la naissance, mais elle survit. Soumise à son destin, elle épouse un homme, Chanu, choisi par son père, et s'installe à Londres. Chanu, exilé depuis longtemps, aspire à une ascension sociale mais reste bloqué dans ses ambitions, tout en étant protecteur envers Nazneen. Isolée dans une cité de Tower Hamlets, Nazneen trouve du réconfort dans la maternité, ayant deux filles. Cependant, elle aspire à plus que son rôle d'épouse et de mère. Lorsqu'elle commence à faire des travaux de couture à domicile, elle découvre les prémices de l'indépendance et entame une liaison avec Karim, un jeune fondamentaliste musulman. Les tensions communautaires augmentent dans le quartier, tandis que sa sœur Hasina, restée au Bangladesh, vit une déchéance. Lorsque Chanu décide de retourner au pays, Nazneen se retrouve face à un choix déchirant : suivre son mari et retrouver sa sœur ou rester dans une ville en effervescence qu'elle commence à peine à connaître.
In this thrilling adventure, Kurt Austin and his NUMA team confront an eco-extortionist aiming to control the world's freshwater supply. Their journey begins in the Venezuelan rainforest, where legends of a white goddess and an advanced tribe spark intrigue. Few believe in the tribe's existence, and even fewer realize that the goddess may possess knowledge capable of altering history. Austin's investigation into the mysterious deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where an attempt on his life reveals a larger conspiracy. Meanwhile, another NUMA crew uncovers the truth behind the white-goddess legend, only to face a ruthless group of bio-pirates determined to steal valuable medicinal secrets. As Austin and his team connect the dots, they discover a billionaire tycoon poised to monopolize the earth's dwindling freshwater resources. Austin suspects that the mythical goddess may have scientific roots that could unlock a formula to convert seawater into fresh water. However, as they delve deeper into the jungle, they encounter a treacherous web of enemies, blackmail, and murder, making their mission increasingly perilous.
In the 14th century, dark days fell on the Church as two popes, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, each supported by different political empires, struggled for supremacy. Hearing of a secret which may bring them victory, one side hired a mercenary to retrieve this priceless information. Thomas of Hookton is an English archer. When his village is sacked by raiders, he escapes and becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. The King and his son are going to France with a great force of knights and men-at-arms, led by great lords. But it is the archers, the common men, who will decide the success or failure of the invasion.
