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A courageous young woman struggles to rise above her dirt-poor beginnings and outsmart a Nazi threat on U.S. soil during WWII in this thrilling Southern tale of bravery, love, and forgiveness. While war rages overseas, Laurette Lowe faces a more personal battle when she lands a job teaching math at La Porte Academy, a prestigious Black finishing school.

The call comes at dawn. Three words. Come to Pompeii. Marcus Russo has spent his career excavating the past. He has never been afraid of what he might find—until now. The chamber shouldn't exist. Neither should what's painted on its walls. The seven-petaled rose. The geometric cross. The unmistakable iconography of Rosicrucian tradition, preserved beneath two millennia of volcanic ash—etched into Roman plaster nearly fifteen centuries before the brotherhood claims to have been born. The discovery doesn't just rewrite history. It destroys a myth that powerful men have killed to protect.

Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alive comes a pulse-pounding horror novel set in 18th century colonial America amid a reimagined French and Indian War, in which a member of the legendary Rogers’ Rangers with indigenous ancestry must protect his father’s homeland from a...

An ancient secret. A terrorist cell. The truth will change everything. Former soldier Marc O'Hara is acting as a reader for an intelligence service in London when the call comes in. He's to be re-activated as a field agent and assigned to solve a thirteenth century alchemical riddle. A terrorist...

After the sudden death of her husband, Eleanor Whitcombe returns to Blackthorne Manor expecting grief, uncertainty, and the quiet burdens of inheritance. Instead, she finds something far more dangerous.

In postwar Moscow, Soviet secretary Olga Simonova is instructed to destroy a painting from Mexico by Diego Rivera’s wife, Frida Kahlo. Her boss condemns the surrealist depiction of a woman’s suffering as bourgeois and anti-Soviet. Once a painter herself, Olga has experienced devastating losses and oppression by the Soviet regime, and she identifies with the anguish in Kahlo’s self-portrait. She secretly resolves to rescue the painting, even though her decision could cost her dearly.

A prophecy awakens. A weapon resurfaces. And Jonathan Rose is the key to both. Ancient secrets, modern warfare, unstoppable tension. A prophecy older than the Templars. A weapon powerful enough to reshape the world. And one man caught in the crossfire. After uncovering the truth behind his sister’s murder, Father Jonathan Rose is drawn deeper into the hidden war the Templars have fought for centuries. When brutal attacks strike from Panama City to Romania, all signs point to one terrifying conclusion: the prophecy is unfolding.

Barbarossa und Heinrich der Löwe, ein Reich vor dem Zerbrechen und ein unvergesslicher Held: Berengar ist ein brillanter Stratege und ein junger hitzköpfiger Kämpfer an der Seite der mächtigsten Männer des Reiches - und auf einer persönlichen Mission, die ebenso gefährlich ist wie seine Schlachten. Die faszinierende Erfolgsserie ist perfekter Hörstoff für Fans von Bernard Cornwell und Daniel Wolf. Italien, 1159. Das Reich ist ein Pulverfass. An der Seite von Kaiser Barbarossa und Heinrich dem Löwen zieht Berengar, Hitzkopf und Stratege zugleich, gegen die rebellierenden lombardischen Städte.

Paris, 1945. Alors que la guerre vient tout juste de se terminer, un cadavre est découvert dans un hôtel borgne de Pigalle. L’assassin, arrêté sur les lieux, est un vagabond, dont la dernière adresse était le camp d’Auschwitz. L’homme qu’il a tué d’une balle dans la tête était...

Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer nerve than others. Vanesa Neuman is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her childhood in the cramped intimacy of south Tel Aviv is shadowed by her parents' unspoken wartime experiences. The past for her was a closed book… until her father passes away and that book falls literally open. Vanesa must now unravel the mystery of the diary she has received—and the strange symbol within—at all costs.

Asturias, 1818 - El párroco de una aislada aldea aparece brutalmente asesinado en su iglesia. Los vecinos no tienen dudas, han sido las brujas. La Inquisición inicia un proceso jurídico marcado por la superstición y donde la política pesa más que la verdad. Juan de Espiga, un cura escéptico con olfato de detective trata de encontrar una explicación racional al suceso. Pero lo que descubre desafía toda lógica: aquelarres, faunos, hasta la mismísima hija del diablo parece implicada.

"It's true what they say. That Americans have interests, but no friends." A CIA officer in Iraq, at odds with his own agency. An Iraqi sheikh, whose alliance with the Americans has earned him many enemies, and few friends. The former KGB officer tasked with the destruction of that alliance, once...

Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But to the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies soon led to the gruesome act of graveyard bodysnatching, a heartless crime that would soon spread like a disease throughout the city. And when stealing cadavers turns to murder, Burke & Hare became two of the most notorious serial killers of their time.

Dive into the heart of an archaeological thriller where history's shadows and the thrill of the hunt collide. Mark Lockheed, an archaeologist famed for his daring escapes and unraveling of historical mysteries, yearns for a tranquil life beyond the chase. Yet, destiny has etched a path filled with more than ancient artifacts and lost civilizations. The quest? To uncover the mystic seven cities of gold, hidden within uncharted territories and shrouded in the myths of time.

“William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun.”—Mick Herron “One of my favorite authors—he never disappoints.”—Kate Atkinson From the internationally bestselling author, the third literary thriller starring beloved...

Un secret interdit… Le destin de l'Église en suspens… Un duo de limiers amateurs révélera-t-il une vérité qui pourrait bouleverser le monde chrétien ? La Résurrection est la pierre angulaire de la foi chrétienne. Toutefois, lorsqu'un indice jaillit qui suggère un récit différent, les conséquences pourraient bien changer la chrétienté à jamais. Le poste du prêtre Michael Dominic aux légendaires Archives secrètes du Vatican l'amène à découvrir un papyrus perdu, enseveli dans les sous-sols de Rome : les écrits jusqu'alors inconnus de Marie Madeleine.

Un prêtre curieux découvre un secret mystificateur... Un secret qui mène à une relique longtemps enterrée que certains feraient tout pour posséder. Pourra-t-il déjouer des adversaires qui ne reculeront devant rien pour l'empêcher de révéler un objet qui remet en cause l'histoire telle que nous la connaissons ? Le père Michael Dominic découvre un puzzle du XIIIe siècle étrangement construit, caché dans les archives secrètes du Vatican.

It is May 1944. Something huge is coming. After a well-earned rest following their collective escape from the Reich, Monika Ritter, her husband, Michael, her cousin, Sarah, and her fiancé, Oliver, resume their respective duties. Michael returns to Switzerland to fly for the OSS once more. Sarah goes to Berlin alone to continue the flow of information from the most critical OSS asset in Nazi Germany.

When the past comes for blood, you either draw first or die trying. Tom Callahan was once the government's deadliest secret—a lethal gun-for-hire leading a team of assassins no one knew existed. Now those days are long gone. Or so he thought. Now an aging cowboy trying to keep his ranch alive, Callahan wants nothing more than peace… and a sliver of forgiveness. But when word reaches him that his wife and son—long believed dead—may still be alive, that peace turns to dust.