Showing results for "Assassin" in World Literature

1868. The Boshin War is about to break out. A 16-year-old Japanese girl, Atsuko grew up in the neighborhoods of Aizu City, in the shadow of her brother Ibuka. Promised to an arranged marriage, the young girl hides a secret: she wields weapons just as well as her brother, whose talent with the sword actually masks an insurmountable fear of combat. When war is declared, Ibuka must leave to fight alongside their father for the honor of the family. Defying the tradition forbidding women to take part in battles and wanting to protect her brother, Atsuko enlists in secret as a simple soldier.

Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing. The wars of independence for Scotland are on the brink of changing the history of Great Britain. Under assault from King Edward I, the besieged city of Berwick-upon-Tweed is delivered into the hands of the English, who massacre and burn everything in their path. Aileas and Fillan, 16-year-old orphan twins, get separated on that horrific night. Aileas is carried away and disappears while Fillan manages to join forces with a Scottish clan fleeing to the north, into the very heart of the Highlands.

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina’s journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic—and not all magic is good. In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year student at the...

Shim Eunouk ha cinquantotto anni, è vedova, disoccupata e invisibile. Una di quelle donne che il mondo smette di notare quando non servono più a niente. Dopo aver perso la sua macelleria a causa dei debiti, si imbatte in un annuncio misterioso su un giornale locale: "Cercasi casalinga sopra i quarant'anni. Stipendio mensile di 3 milioni di won garantito". L'agenzia Smile, gestita dal signor Park, non è quello che sembra.

From award-winning audiobook narrator comes this duet-style romantic thriller narrated by the author and William MacLeod. Callum MacLachlan is the owner of the elite close protection company, Caledonia Security. He met a cute nurse, Lea Bonifacio, at a gala in an idyllic Swiss lakeside town. He was about to get her number when screams rang out, and another guest was found facedown, floating in the water. After losing sight of the woman who'd piqued his interest, he goes about his business, unable to get her out of his head.

Back When Kings Led: A time in history when Kings had to be on the battlefield and do their share of the fighting & possibly dying.

Ésta es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afectó a Medellín durante el auge y caída del cartel dirigido por el narcotraficante Pablo Escobar. Aquí, Vallejo se representa como un anciano homosexual de conservadoras costumbres y de espíritu elitista que se dedica a la gramática y que regresa a su ciudad natal después de largos años de exilio en busca de amantes adolescentes y en espera de la muerte.

In the wake of the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, a wave of Palestinian terror hits Jewish targets. Israel responds with a clandestine war in Paris, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. When a beautiful Mossad agent is critically wounded in Amsterdam, master spy Jerusalem Gerster pursues the attackers back to Israel, where he uncovers a sinister conspiracy to perpetrate an unprecedented national catastrophe--the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin.