Die Krone Englands - und zwei Männer, die um sie kämpfen
Nur dank der Hilfe einiger weniger Getreuer konnte Guilhem als Kind die Verfolgung durch seine Widersacher überleben. Doch er hat sich durchgekämpft und als Herzog der Normandie behauptet. Als es ihm gelingt, den letzten Widerstand zu brechen, und sein Werben um die schöne Matilda erfolgreich ist, scheint er am Ziel all seiner Träume zu sein. Erst recht, als sein Onkel, König Eadweard von England, ihn überraschend zum Thronerben erklärt. Englands Krone - wer würde das ablehnen? Matilda aber hat größte Bedenken, denn Guilhem hat einen mächtigen Gegner: Harold Godwinson, dessen Familie ebenfalls Anspruch auf den Thron erhebt ...
England am Vorabend der berühmten Schlacht von Hastings - Ulf Schiewes neuer Roman macht Geschichte lebendig
A Card Sharp/Con man works the Mississippi River on one of the first class steamboats and plans to relieve as many people as possible of their gold and cash. But the arrival of a wealthy planter and his slave, changes the card sharps plans.
'Marie' erzählt die Geschichte zweier Schwestern mit jüdischen Wurzeln, die beide ein großes Ziel haben: Sie wollen den Zweiten Weltkrieg überleben. Ihre Wege trennen sich jedoch schon bald. Während Marie von dem verbitterten Fritz Heider entführt wird und unter seinen Übergriffen leidet, wird Sarah in ein Arbeitslager gebracht, wo sie andere Widrigkeiten überstehen muss.
Marie versucht mit allen Mitteln das Versprechen einzulösen, das sie ihrer sterbenden Mutter gegeben hat und klammert sich am Leben fest. Zu ihrem Glück bekommt sie von unerwarteter Seite Hilfe. Das Buch zeigt eine atemberaubende Flucht aus Deutschland und, dass es mehr gibt als Krieg und Zerstörung.
Marie ist siebzehn Jahre alt, als sich ihr bisheriges Leben drastisch verändert. Gemeinsam mit ihrer jüngeren Schwester Sarah wird sie im Frühjahr 1941 als Ostarbeiterin nach Berlin gebracht.
In Nazideutschland hat sie als Mensch mit jüdischen Wurzeln keine Rechte mehr, weshalb sie alles daran setzt, ihre wahre Identität zu verschleiern.
Ihr Leben wird zu einem Kampf, an dessen Ende nur der Tod zu warten scheint. Doch für ein gegebenes Versprechen will Marie stark sein und stellt sich wagemutig ihrem Schicksal.
Eine atemberaubende Flucht beginnt.
Not everything they told you is true…
…because it was my job to ensure you never knew the whole truth. If the American people understood what really happened, the U.S. government feared life would have irrevocably changed for the worse.
In Space Chase, the premier installment of The Palmdale Files, former agent Harold Anderson reveals the true story behind a mysterious Lockheed U-2 'Dragon Lady' crash in the mountains of Nevada and the extreme efforts the U.S. government went through to hide what happened. Space Chase—also known as Event 21 Zeta—is the first in a series of forgotten and buried events the author once destroyed to protect the peace and security of the United States—events the government would rather hide forever.
Never heard of Palmdale? The author isn't surprised, and believes you never will outside of these short stories. The Palmdale Files share highlights from Harold Anderson's U.S. Air Force career, where he worked to defend the nation and the world from paranoid hysteria about unexplained phenomena and threats from above.
Within the city walls, a monster hunt rages. Outside, an army marches.
For Ahsan and the beast hiding under his skin, the safest place to hide is behind enemy lines. These days, the trick is knowing where that is. When the Blight Hunt comes to Sippar, it's all he can do to escape scrutiny. Yet when his plans go awry and his deadly secret risks being exposed, he finds he's not the only one harboring dark truths—nor the only one in peril.
Nirah has advanced in her priestess arts, but when disaster arrives on her doorstep, she will stop at nothing to save the city she loves—and the man she loves. Yet as a mysterious force advances and Sippar is thrown into chaos, everything she knows crumbles, and she must decide where her faith truly lies.
It is a wicked evil that coils around Sippar, and an enemy older than anyone realizes. Amongst epic floods and bloodshed, royal cabals and allegations of dark magic, Ahsan and Nirah are again drawn together, each other's best chance for survival.
Book 2 in The Imposter King series, The Wretched Spy is packed with ancient monsters, sizzling romance, bronze-age warfare, and more. Continue the saga today.
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It’s known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to share the same nightmare, one so horrific that they dare not speak of it?
Kitty finds a dangerous ally in Jack Yates, an inmate who may be a war hero, a madman… or maybe both. But even as Kitty and Jack create a secret, intimate alliance to uncover the truth, disturbing revelations suggest the presence of powerful spectral forces. And when a medical catastrophe leaves them even more isolated, they must battle the menace on their own, caught in the heart of a mystery that could destroy them both.
Esta espléndida biografía novelada de Hernán Cortés empieza con su llegada a Santo Domingo, y en seguida se resumen los principales episodios de su vida anterior. Es escribano, se traslada a la isla de Cuba, donde mantiene tensas relaciones con el gobernador, se casa y por fin se le pone al mando de una expedición que se dirige al imperio azteca.
A partir de ahí se relatan todas las peripecias de la conquista de México, siempre con el mayor rigor histórico, que se hermana con una extraordinaria amenidad y una gran fuerza narrativa, consiguiendo que el libro pueda leerse como una novela en la cual todos los hechos que se refieren son reales. Una vez más José Luis Olaizola demuestra su singular pericia en el género histórico, dando vida y perfil humano a unos personajes de siglos atrás que protagonizaron una de las aventuras más increíbles de toda la historia de la humanidad.
Rusia. Finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Los pequeños pueblos del interior del
Imperio ruso viven con simpleza, situación que contrasta con la fastuosidad que
envuelve a la nobleza y las clases altas relacionadas con la capital y su poder. A
medida que avanza el siglo XX, las diferencias entre campo y urbe se acentúan,
extremándose cada vez más.
Una familia de campesinos de Bui vive inmersa en su día a día cuidando la tierra e
intentando sobrevivir a la hambruna propia de las épocas de mala cosecha. Tres
niños —Misha, Katya e Illya—, sin saberlo, van a tener un papel fundamental en los
cambios que van a marcar el devenir de Rusia a lo largo de todo el siglo.
La lucha social de las clases obreras frente al régimen del zar Nicolás II, agraviada
por las decenas de miles de bajas que provocó la Primera Guerra Mundial en el país, es el polvorín que detona la crisis interna en Rusia.
Esta apasionante historia, contada desde dentro, y que tiene como protagonistas a
los tres hermanos, es una muestra de cómo se gestan las revoluciones, de cómo un
poder absoluto ejercido con abuso e imposición se acaba convirtiendo en un arma
de doble filo.
Esta novela es, también, la historia de millones de personas que quisieron alzar la
voz contra la tiranía y las desigualdades; una historia de lucha e inconformismo
Dublin 1950 Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She’d been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is so torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family, would it be too harrowing, or would it feel like home? In Berlin, a chance encounter with an old family friend sparked emotions for Liesl that she’d suppressed since she was a child. She finds herself desperately wanting to go back to those carefree days before Hitler, when life made sense, but why was her family so set against her return? Was it because they were worried about her as they claimed, or was there a darker, more sinister reason? The Hard Way Home is the heart wrenching third book in the best-selling Star and the Shamrock series.
Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958 For eighteen year old Lena O'Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different. Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet. An only child of a wealthy, if peculiar father, a large inheritance, a beautiful house and a fine education are his due. Nobody is in favour of Lena and Malachy’s friendship, but why not? What harm are they doing? Why is everyone so dead set against it? Then fate takes a hand, and Lena realises that secrets and lies have bound her and Malachy in an impossible situation. And their future seems determined by events that happened long before they were born. From rural Ireland to post-war Cardiff, Lena and Malachy’s story winds its way back to wartime Germany and occupied France in a web of deceit that threatens to destroy them both.
Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955 Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three, it feels like all of his friends are drawn to The Promised Land, and he can understand why, but Israel is not for him. One by one, they leave, and Erich is bereft.He feels lost but a chance encounter with an Irish Catholic girl gives him hope. All he and Róisín want is to be allowed to love each other but the traditions and rules of their backgrounds forbid it. By the time he learns that Róisín wasn’t honest with him about her family and what kind of people they really are, it is too late and he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a dangerous world from which there seems to be no escape.When Róisín disappears, events take a sinister turn and Erich wonders if their relationship really was all he thought it was.. Reluctant to place his family in danger, he has to solve his problems alone, something he’s never had to do before. From rural Ireland, to the glitz of 1950’s America, from the orange groves of Israel to the dark streets of post-war Liverpool, The World Starts Anew, is the fourth book in the best-selling Star and the Shamrock series.
Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1974 For each member of the O’Sullivan family there are turbulent times ahead. Eli’s need to do his best by his patients is a cause for a bitter divide in the community. Emmet seems hell bent on going down a path in life his parents dread but they’re unable to stop him. Jack’s life and liberty are in grave peril as his secret faces exposure, while Emily’s troubles are, it seems only just beginning with the return of someone she would much rather had disappeared forever. And Maria must decide, is blood really thicker than water, and should family always come first, no matter the cost? In More Harm than Good, the Kilteegan Bridge Series continues, as the modernity of the 1970’s challenges Irish traditional ways, and generations clash, sometimes with deadly consequences.
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