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Penguin presents the audio edition of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais. Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the...

The number of Deryni was small, for they had been hounded for generations and kept their identities secret. Those who managed to retain their arcane powers concealed their background - for bitter persecution once again swept the land of Gwynedd, inspired by a raving fanatic sworn to destroy all Deryni in a final bloodbath.

A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in...

Welcome to the Hotel Artemis - and an opening night to remember. The White Lotus meets Peaky Blinders in this page-turning new mystery from the bestselling author of The Housekeepers. 'Wildly entertaining, twisty, and elegant (with a modern twist)... Alex Hay is a rare talent' WILL DEAN 1926...

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions. Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England. But even as the...

Lydia's last chance. Will she improve when someone takes the trouble to check her? Running off with Mr. Wickham was a great joke - until everything turned arsey-varsey. That spoilsport Mr. Darcy caught them and packed Lydia off to a hideous boarding school for girls who had lost their virtue. It would improve her character, he said. Ridiculous, she said.

Alex Loevsky is a medical student and an inspiringly rebellious poet who becomes enmeshed in a battle against the rampant cruelty of the communist rule, where the simple desire to think freely is a crime on par with treason, and being born Jewish is more than a mere hindrance.

Desde el cretácico terciario, hace 65 millones de años, cuando un asteroide del tamaño del monte Everest impactó la tierra a una velocidad de 60 veces la velocidad del sonido, creando un cráter en la península de Yucatán de 200 kms de diámetro, un monstruoso sunami con olas de 100 metros de altura, que casi le dio la vuelta al mundo—exterminando a los dinosaurios—y una onda expansiva de vientos ardientes a 9000 grados, que a una velocidad de 3000 kms por hora desaparecieron el 70 por ciento de las especies vivas en 1800 kms a la redonda.

تنقلب الأحداث بطريقةٍ مرعبة في الجزء الثالث من الرواية الأشهر "كش ملك" وتتكشَّف الحقائق بسهولة فبين حقيقة الفارسيّ ابن "بوران" وتتلمذه على يد السامرائي، وبنود...

When sword-for-hire Teodoro Ciéza de Vivar accepts a commission to "rescue" Lord Christian Blackwood from unsuitable influences, he has no idea he's landed himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate King Philip IV of Spain and blame the English ambassador for the deed. Nor does he expect the spoiled child he's sent to retrieve to be a handsome, engaging young man.