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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.

"Die Götter sind Vögel, und die Vögel sind Götter." London, 1601. Shay ist Botenmädchen, Falknerin und Wahrsagerin, die in den Flügen der Vögel die Zukunft zu sehen vermag. Nonesuch ist der Star des sagenumwobenen Blackfriars-Theaters, wo eine Gruppe von Jungen für den Londoner Adel auftritt. Als sie über den Dächern Londons fliehen müssen, weil Shay gefangene Vögel befreit hat, lernen die beiden sich kennen - und verlieben sich. Dann gründen sie gemeinsam das Ghost Theatre, das in den versteckten Winkeln der Stadt phantastische Stücke aufführt.

A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip...

Il fascino della Firenze dei Medici. Un affresco maledetto. Una verità perduta. Firenze 1458. Lavinia, ferma davanti alla tela, immagina come mescolare i vari pigmenti: il rosso cinabro, l'azzurro, l'arancio. Ma sa che le è proibito. Perché una donna non può dipingere, può solo coltivare di nascosto il sogno dell'arte. Fino al giorno in cui nella bottega dello zio arriva Piero della Francesca, uno dei più talentuosi pittori dell'epoca.

Adelia Grey would consider herself an unremarkable girl born into a remarkable family. Plagued by crippling anxiety in her mundane life, she finds herself compelled by the opportunity to spend a summer abroad, with her grandmother, in her apartments at Hampton Court Palace. As soon as she arrives, she finds that the dark chaos of her mind is only compounded by the rich history of the Tudor palace.

A sensual and sizzling Regency romance filled with strong heroines, brooding heroes, and love that defies the odds. Perfect for fans of Beverley Watts, Eloisa James, and Bridgerton!✨ She was supposed to be the conquered… but she became the conqueror. When Mary Marlow elopes with the infamous...

La novela Lazarillo de Tormes es una novela anónima, una carta que explica en primera persona la vida de Lázaro, un niño pobre y con una infancia llena de adversidades, que se convierte en un joven pícaro que lucha por sobrevivir. Este clásico es precursor de la novela picaresca, un retrato irónico de la sociedad española del siglo XVI y un reflejo de sus vicios e hipocresía.

June 1589: Lord Sinclair, proud of his castle in Aberdeenshire, hosts the banquet to celebrate peace with England and the king's impending marriage. Celebrations have to be discreet, as the country is facing political and financial turmoil, but this won't be a quiet night's celebration for the king. It can't be, not for Lord Sinclair's sake.

The year is 1631. Charles d’Artagnan flees the ashes of his life in Gascony, seeking better opportunities in Paris. With his land seized by armed peasants and his family among the countless dead, he has nothing left to lose and little to gain beyond mere survival. Magic — once a useful tool for those rare individuals who still possess it — has become a weapon of incomparable power and destructiveness employed by France’s bitter rival, Spain.

A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself. Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held séances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum - which is where Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel begins.

Tenochtitlan, 1519. Strange, pale-skinned people have arrived on the coast of the One World. They hail from a far away land called Spain and fight for the mysterious Hernando Cortés. To confront Cortés’ army would be dangerous, but inaction may be even more dangerous. The Mexica are the most powerful people in all the One World and regard the uncouth interlopers with a mixture of curiosity and distrust. Keen to discover their intentions, the Mexica send an official envoy to the coast. What they learn is most troubling.

La lettera scarlatta è uno dei più celebri romanzi dello scrittore statunitense Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Salem, nella Nuova Inghilterra del Seicento, l’adultera Ester Prynne sovverte le regole puritane mettendo al mondo una figlia di cui non rivela il padre. Tra misticismo e passione, in...

In the castle at the heart of battle-scarred Elysia, Tessa Serafina di Acampora faces her wedding to Duka Yosef. She’s spent years building herself into a strategic advisor invaluable to the ailing leader of the nation, becoming a woman the world won’t forget. The betrothal should be a boon, a promise of the good life. But she can’t stop thinking of the other beautiful ladies of the court… Prema Nyssa, hero of Elysia who just ended their long war with Ermandi, finds herself dragged to Casteli Valoria to reap the rewards.

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. Though he...

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel of passion and power set against the deadly backdrop of Tudor history, this riveting new tale explores the fate of Kateryn Parr—King Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife—in a richly imagined work of historical fiction. Kateryn Parr, a...

It’s 1550 and Bethia has fled Antwerp, with her infant son, before the jaws of the inquisition clamp down, for the family are accused of secret judaising. She believes they've evaded capture but her husband, Mainard, unbeknownst to her, is caught, imprisoned and alone.

Granada, 1585. En una ciudad devastada tras la Reconquista, Sor Ana de Jesús, apodada «la capitana» por su mano firme, lucha por sacar adelante su convento cuando el cadáver de un hombre horriblemente desfigurado aparece en el claustro de su cenobio, poniendo así en peligro la reputación de su orden. ¿Quién era y cómo ha llegado hasta ahí?

The seventh novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Disney+ original series Shardlake! Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... The king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of...

Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.

Die Wiedertäufer in Münster: Sie wollen Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit, doch sie bringen Gewalt, Willkür und Schrecken. Das große historische Hörbuch über eine Idee und ihre Wirklichkeit – und über einen Mann und eine Frau zwischen den Fronten. Das Hörbuch des mit dem »Goldenen Homer« ausgezeichneten Autors erscheint zum 500jährigen Jubiläum der Täuferbewegung. 1534: Die Bewegung der Täufer wächst von Tag zu Tag. Die religiöse Gemeinschaft, die Freiheit verspricht, zieht viele an.