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The latest action packed novel from Vincent FormosaIt has been a long war for Tim Chavell. A veteran of operations in France, Malta, the Adriatic, and off the Dutch coast, he is long overdue for a rest. Instead, he finds himself posted to Scotland to take command of a Mosquito strike wing at RAF Aberdour. In headlong retreat, the Germans are being pressured from all sides. The iron ore that keeps heavy industry going comes from a precarious supply line that must be protected at all costs.

UNA MISSIONE PERICOLOSA. UN TRADIMENTO IMPERDONABILE. UN SEGRETO NASCOSTO NEI MEANDRI DEL TEMPO. 1584. Da poco arrivato in Inghilterra dalla Francia, Tom Lutton, giovane erborista sordomuto, viene ingaggiato come assistente dallo speziale di corte e per una serie di circostanze fortuite entra nelle grazie della sovrana. Donna di acuta intelligenza, Elisabetta I intuisce subito quanto possa rivelarsi utile un domestico che non può parlare né sentire e tuttavia riesce a capire ciò che si dice attorno a lui, e in breve lo trasforma nella sua spia personale.

Baudet’s destiny is foreshadowed by a mysterious old woman in black, who predicts he will accomplish great things in his life. Leaving his village of Vordan in 1673, he plans to forge a new life in Marseilles. Finding lodging in a tavern, he makes fast friends with Father Philippe of the church in the poor quarter of Panier. Unwittingly, he is drawn to the Abbey Saint Victor across the harbor, where his future is to be with the Benedictine Order of monks.

Il giovane Caravaggio, arrivato da poco a Roma, comincia a lavorare nella bottega di Cavalier d'Arpino, famosissimo pittore tardo-manierista. Si dedica soprattutto a realizzare nature morte, cosa che detesta perché vorrebbe dipingere figure e mettersi alla prova con nuove sfide. Ma il Cavalier d'Arpino, oltre a dipingere, commercia anche in dipinti, soprattutto nel Nord Europa. E la sua bottega ne è piena. Ed è così che Caravaggio adocchia tra i nuovi arrivi una tavoletta di piccolo formato, opera di Hieronymus Bosch. Rappresenta una scena minuziosa e complicata.

Firenze, inverno dell'anno di grazia 1500. Un enorme blocco di marmo giace immobile da quasi mezzo secolo. Un uomo lo osserva in silenzio, poi ci gira attorno, liberandolo dai rovi che lo ricoprono: è Michelangelo Buonarroti. Dopo quattro anni passati a Roma per servire i più potenti cardinali della Chiesa, ora è tornato a Firenze ammantato di gloria. La Repubblica fiorentina ha bisogno di lui per difendersi dalle mire di Cesare Borgia, pronto alla conquista rapida e spregiudicata di un intero regno.

February, 1586. When the queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent recently. On arrival in the small Devon village of Zeal Aquatio, Ursula discovers that both spies in question have met with mysterious - and fatal - accidents. Or is there more to it than that? What did the two spies find out that got them killed?

Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state at the Pantheon. At the nearby convent of Sant'Apollonia, a young woman comes to the Mother Superior, seeking refuge. She is Margherita Luti, a baker's daughter from a humble neighborhood on the Tiber, now an outcast from Roman society, persecuted by enemies within the Vatican. Margherita was Raphael's beloved and appeared as the Madonna in many of his paintings. But now that Raphael is gone, the convent is her only hope.

When Sir Guy promised Will's dying mother he'd look after her son, he couldn't imagine where that oath would lead. So he takes Will on as a man-at-arms for the worst job in England—guarding the deposed king. Will's fondness for making friends in the tavern and for the occasional company of barmaids runs contrary to Guy's personal code of honor-devotion to God and king. But the young man is a competent soldier and well-liked, so Guy settles for the occasional, public admonishment to keep the others from going down what he considers Will's path of dissolution.

It’s 1605 in London, and Ben Jonson, a contemporary of Shakespeare, is finding life a struggle. With his career waning and his patron, Lord D’Aubigny, growing tired of him, he throws caution to the wind and writes a satirical play, Eastward Ho! But its laughs at the expense of the monarch cost Jonson dearly, and he lands in jail with his reputation in tatters. On his release, he searches for his estranged wife and discovers that his own long absences and the deaths of their three children from the plague have led her to take comfort with a furtive crew of ardent papists.

Les aventures du Chevalier de Pardaillan sont celles que l'on dévore sans voir passer les heures, pour retrouver, confus et enthousiaste le bouillonnement d'une épopée traversée par la générosité d'un héros qui se place aux côtés de d'Artagnan et de Cyrano de Bergerac.

Sette famiglie, sette sovrani, sei città: questa è l'Italia del XV secolo, dilaniata da guerre, intrighi e tradimenti, governata da signori talvolta lungimiranti, ma molto spesso assetati di potere e dall'indole sanguinaria. A Milano, Filippo Maria, l'ultimo dei Visconti, in assenza di figli maschi cerca di garantire la propria discendenza dando in sposa la giovanissima figlia a Francesco Sforza, promettente uomo d'arme. Intanto trama contro il nemico giurato, Venezia, tentando di corromperne il capitano generale, il conte di Carmagnola.

Ten-year-old Agata’s world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known orphanage, hidden from everything she’s ever known. Agata auditions for the conservatory style music school where music is both salvation and spectacle.

Mustafa was the prince with the most potential of any other, during the 600 plus years’ existence of the Ottoman Empire. He was the hope for the majority of the people living in and out of the empire, to ascend to the throne. His father was Lawmaker Sultan Suleiman, who ruled the empire during the empire's zenith years. He was untouchable, revered, and feared, but once looking past his mighty title, name, and qualifications; study shows that Suleiman made questionable decisions, one of them being the decision to order the execution of his eldest son - Mustafa.

1590. À Rome, Fausta, après avoir mis au monde le fils de Pardaillan, bénéficie de la grâce du pape Sixte Quint, qui se prépare à intervenir auprès du roi d'Espagne Philippe II dans le conflit qui l'oppose à Henri IV roi de France. Fausta est investie d'une mission auprès de Philippe II : lui faire part d'un document secret par lequel le roi de France Henri III reconnaissait formellement Philippe II comme son successeur légitime sur le trône de France.

Carcassonne, 1526: Minou Joubert wächst als Tochter eines katholischen Buchhändlers auf. Eines Tages erhält sie einen versiegelten Brief mit den Worten: "Sie weiß, dass Ihr lebt." Noch bevor sie herausfinden kann, was hinter der mysteriösen Botschaft steckt, wird die Begegnung mit dem jungen Piet Reydon ihr Leben für immer verändern. Denn der Hugenotte hat eine gefährliche Mission, und er zählt auf Minous Hilfe, um aus der Stadt zu fliehen.

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Paris, March 1908. Francois Meyer was content with his café and his simple life, but that all changed with the arrival of the mysterious Imogen DiRossi. She was unlike anyone he had met before–beautiful and intelligent, yet aloof with a penchant for the local wildlife. When the reason behind her arrival becomes clear, Francois becomes entangled in an adventure that would see both of their lives change forever.

When Cédric is recruited by the Knights Hospitaller to the Greek island of Rhodes, his wife Sophie jumps at the chance to improve their fortunes. After a harrowing journey to Rhodes, Cédric plunges into the world of the knights—while Sophie is tempted by the endless riches that flow into the bustling harbor. But their dazzling new home has a dark side.

King Henry V's beautiful widow, Catherine, is determined to marry Owen Tudor, a Welsh gentleman-at-arms. But her life decisions are not her own, overshadowed as she is by more powerful men who are closer to the Throne. The Duke of Bedford would marry her off to a foreign prince, Henry Beaufort would give his allegiance in exchange for a Cardinal's hat, and the handsome Duke of Gloucester, brother of the dead king, openly desires her. Added to that, her son, the King, is a weak child. She must use all her wits and courage if she is to forge a new life for herself.

Haunted by nightmares, doubts, and hints of depression and PTSD that she keeps denying, Christine decides to embark on the riskiest journey of her life so far: the one that ends with meeting her birth father. Despite her mother’s pleas to reconsider, she jumps on a plane to America, gets a room at a cheap motel and tries to work up the courage to approach the man who created her. The man who still has no idea she exists.