検索キーワード： "ジャガーン" 歴史小説

Historia del náufrago español Gonzalo Guerrero, un adversario conquistador español.

To the average citizen, the Lion of Salvador was a national hero, a military general of such renown that his accolades spanned two continents. To those in the know, however, the man was the cruelest of drug lords, a savage despot building an unstoppable empire that ranged from the Central American jungle to the bustling streets of New York.

From childhood, Tito has seen the unthinkable: a village swallowed whole and lives lost to a cruel disaster no one else can sense. Other visions haunt him too, because they’re not warnings—they’re memories from another lifetime.

What begins as a simple, late-night theft of Incan treasure propels Charlee, Sean, and Sydney Flynn into a perilous quest deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where something far more valuable—and far more deadly—awaits. A new discovery points them toward the Heart of the Forest, a precious stone pulsing with otherworldly energy, said to reside in an ancient city overflowing with the amassed riches of the Inca Empire. But the Heart’s shadowed history reveals a chilling truth.

From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing. Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken...

Berlin, 1942. Lilly Wust, 29, verheiratet, vier Kinder, führt das Leben von Millionen deutscher Frauen. Doch dann lernt sie die 21-jährige Felice Schragenheim kennen. Es ist Liebe, fast auf den ersten Blick. Als Jaguar-Felice ihrer Geliebten gesteht, dass sie Jüdin ist, bindet dieses gefährliche Geheimnis die beiden Frauen noch enger aneinander.

Two extraordinary women in 1865 establish a trading post in a southern jungle that grows to be a safe haven for cast-off women and the dispossessed. When a murderous forger sets up shop and the mayor on the right-side-of-the-tracks becomes intent on their destruction, the village fights for survival in its own special way. Told in evocative magical realism, Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar is a tale of wronged women who stand up to be counted.

Deformed and misshapen at birth, Ulemet is cursed by her Olmec village elders and taunted by her people. Rejected and alone, the young girl's only solace is her small jade carving of Uaxaca, the jaguar animal spirit she wagers will guard her as she makes her way to Tenochtitlán, the golden city of hope. Escaping danger after danger, only to be captured by slavers, Ulemet is forced to play in the ulama, the sacrificial ball game that could result in her freedom or end in her death. Will her hopes in Uaxaca prove misplaced?