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A mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War. A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front. A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity. An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books. Each will make a journey that changes history. Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, chessmen, cyanide, butterflies, and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India, and Latin America, it is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry, and resistance.

In the dense jungles of 1530 Peru, King Manco Inca finds himself in a hell that he cannot escape. The evil and vicious Pizarro Brothers and their fellow Spanish conquistadors have wreaked havoc on his lands and have conquered his kingdom. A violently real portrayal of the Spanish Conquest of the New World, Brothers and Kings is an epic historical-fiction thriller that presents men at their best and their most cruel.

Los servicios de inteligencia soviéticos diseñan para ese bebé el más audaz plan de espionaje jamás imaginado. Unos años más tarde, Lavrenti Beria, el sanguinario jefe de la policía bolchevique, presentará ese plan a Stalin, que se apropiará del operativo y lo convertirá en una misión personal y extremadamente secreta, advirtiendo a su ejecutor de algo muy importante: no se le puede escapar de las manos. Será la Operación Kazán.

1517. Il giovane Thomas attraversa l'Europa rinascimentale, in fuga dal suo passato. Sono gli anni che seguono la scoperta dell'America e l'invenzione della stampa, un periodo di profondi cambiamenti che segna ormai la fine del Medioevo. La curiosità per il Nuovo Mondo, che Thomas ha accresciuto con numerose letture, lo conduce in Spagna, dove comincia a lavorare come mercante di libri.

Dunkle Machenschaften in der größten Metropole ihrer Zeit! London, 1830: Constable Graham Cluskey von Scotland Yard ist der Verschwörung gegen die Krone auf der Spur. Für seine Fahndungserfolge wird er zum Chief Inspector befördert. Doch ist die Gefahr gebannt? Da wird Cluskey zu einem Unglück gerufen: Bei der Eröffnung der Liverpool and Manchester Railway wird der Parlamentsabgeordnete von Liverpool von der Lokomotive "The Rocket" überfahren. Alles deutet zunächst auf einen Unfall hin - bis Cluskey die Beteiligten vernimmt.

Roma, 1555. Dopo la morte del papa, il conclave è imminente. Ma sono molte le forze che si muovono nell'ombra per aggiudicarsi il soglio pontificio. Il potente cardinale Gian Pietro Carafa, inquisitore del Sant'Uffizio e fautore della Controriforma, temendo di non riuscire a ottenere la maggioranza dei voti per farsi eleggere, decide di ricorrere al frate benedettino Brenno Corrino. A Montecassino il religioso conduce una vita di feroce penitenza.

As the son of a crofter family, young Berend Bouters natural talent finds him in the prestigious Art Academy of Amsterdam. It is early 1900. Everything points to a successful career as an artist; he works along Mondrian, becomes part of the Barbizon movement, until life throws him a curve ball. During the First World War, Holland remains neutral, Berend becomes the owner of a barge, and during heart-stopping escapades, smuggles goods to occupied Belgium for which he is richly rewarded. When the war is over, authorities confiscate all his belongings.

Every pirate in the Caribbean is searching for The Holy Grail—a ship carrying the treasury of Hanover and the countess Aurora of Calenberg, suspected of orchestrating the theft. Prinz Maximilian will stop at nothing to catch her and regain the fortune, even if it means following her into the deepest, darkest recesses of Samaná Bay. With pirates and cutthroats at every turn, will she be reunited with her handmaiden, Helena, and her portrait painter, Dodo?

In 1974, local farmers outside Xi'an, China, discovered an army of more than 8,000 life-sized ancient terracotta warriors buried in a series of pits. Historians believed that the warriors were placed there to guard the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. The historians were wrong. The Terracotta Army was there to prevent the evil buried within from ever surfacing again. Now Sam Reilly must disentangle fact from fiction, and discover what ancient danger has been uncovered…and if there is any way to stop it.

The Conquistadors Trilogy is a sweeping historical fiction epic that explores the violent and horrific Spanish Conquest of the New World from the years 1527 to 1542. Told through the eyes of a Spanish soldier named Sardina, each journey, from the jungles of Peru, through the vast Arizona deserts, and finally to the great Mississippi River, brutally reveals the traumatic events of the Spanish Conquest of the Natives of the Americas. But each story also depicts the beauty and bravery of these people, and the unyielding courage of each tribe, kingdom, and village.

Auschwitz, 1943. It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret—he is suffering from a degenerative disease. The only way for him to survive is to give his support to the Reich and hide his condition.

South Africa, 1871. Jack Lark no longer walks alone. With the worldly Anna Baker by his side, he travels to the Cape Colony diamond fields determined to seek their fortune—and an adventurous new life together. The journey north soon turns violent as tensions erupt between other hopeful diggers and a gang of Boer men. Everyone has their eye on the same elusive prize—and some will stop at nothing to get it. For Jack and Anna, unearthing a diamond is only half the battle. Getting out of the mines alive will prove far more difficult—and dangerous.

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed.

Seized by the vicious killings of Jack the Ripper, Victorian London's East End is on the brink of ruin. Elizabeth Covington, desperate and failing to follow in her beloved father's footsteps, risks practicing medicine in the dangerous and neglected Whitechapel District to improve her studies. Elizabeth crosses paths with a man she believes is the villain, triggering a downward spiral that exposes her to a depth of evil she never knew existed. Only she knows the truth that drives the madness of a murderer.

Nachdem Robin Hood einen korrupten, aber mächtigen Kirchenmann zusammengeschlagen hat, flieht er aus dem einzigen Heim, das er je gekannt hat—Wakefield in Yorkshire. Er wird zum Mitglied einer berüchtigten Band von Geächteten, und Hood und seine neuen Kameraden—einschließlich John Little und Will Scaflock—verstecken sich im großen Wald von Barnsdale, wo sie um ihr bloßes Leben kämpfen, als das Gesetz sie wie Tiere jagt.

When saving a life in 1946 Alabama, Amish giant Konrad took one in return and must run before the electric chair claims him. In New York, Nazi propaganda fools him into jumping on a ship to Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich. In 1965, at Gothengau, an SS-run colony in Ukraine, a terrorist rocket attack on Berlin compels soldier-farmer Konrad to focus on his duty: commanding an SS convict battalion. He must flex his muscle for the armed forces or the Holocaust's perpetrators--his superiors, colleagues, and neighbors in Ukraine.

Dos historias narradas en paralelo. La primera trascurre en los principios del tribunal de la inquisición de Valencia, dónde es protagonista destacado el humanista Luis Vives, la inquisición y sus secretos. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad histórica. La segunda historia es protagonizada por un grupo de amigos en la actualidad, que descubren que el misterio que creían resuelto, en realidad no ha hecho más que comenzar.

When journalist Zoe Quint loses her husband and child in a tragic accident, she returns home to Guyana to grieve, but her curiosity leads her to the Americans who have set up camp in a rundown village nearby. Their leader, Jim Jones, dark-eyed and charismatic, claims to be a peaceful man who has promised his followers a paradise. But everything changes when Zoe meets one of his followers, Lucy. Lucy grabs Zoe’s arm, raw terror in her eyes, and passes her a note with a phone number, begging her to call her mother in America. Zoe is determined to help Lucy.

With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappears, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and Southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left.

November 1925: Eine Leiche wird aus ­einem Berliner ­Kanal gezogen. Das Mordopfer ist ein ­Journalist, der für den "Völkischen ­Beobachter" geschrieben hat. ­Während Spiro zweifelhafte Kontakte nutzt, um eine Spur zu ­finden, bewegt sich Nike in den spirituellen Kreisen von Berlin und nimmt an Séancen teil. Plötzlich taucht der Ausweis eines Jungen auf, der in Verbindung zum Toten stand. Aber der "blonde Hund", wie er genannt wird, ist in ­München untergetaucht.

Letitia Carberry is not your ordinary spinster aunt. Letitia, Tish to her friends, entangles her friends Aggie and Lizzie into all sorts of adventures and scrapes from solving a murder, car races and camping, and horse trekking. Letitia Carberry is a force to be reckoned with.

1936, quattordicesimo anno dell'èra fascista. Dopo la recente scomparsa della moglie Betti, il commissario Augusto Maria Bendicò, condizionato dal proprio dolore, preferisce sbrigare pratiche burocratiche al sicuro della scrivania piuttosto che essere in prima linea a dialogare con sé stesso o, meglio, con quella che lui crede sia la voce della sua amata. Ma un nuovo caso lo costringe ad affrontare i fantasmi del passato. Il corpo di Eleonora Picchio, affascinante e giovane promessa canora del Cavallino Bianco, viene ritrovato

July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It’s clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American soldiers, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Earl Swagger, an Army Major assigned this crucial and bloody mission.

Eine untergegangene Kultur. Eine bösartige Falle. Ein mystischer Hort. Tom Wagner, Archäologin Hellen de Mey und Gentleman Gauner François Cloutard stehen kurz vor dem ersten offiziellen Auftrag durch Blue Shield. Als Tom aber kurzfristig im Vatikan gebraucht wird, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Gemeinsam mit dem russischen Patriarchen finden sie Hinweise auf einen uralten Mythos: das russische Atlantis. Von Cuba bis ins tiefste Russland geht die mörderische Hetzjagd um ein uraltes, verloren geglaubtes Relikt.

Bologna, dicembre 1311. Mondino de' Liuzzi, medico anatomista, viene incaricato dal podestà di far luce su una morte strana e orribile: un membro del Consiglio degli Anziani è stato rinvenuto carbonizzato in casa sua, eppure nella stanza nulla fa pensare a un incendio. Perfino la poltrona su cui l'uomo era seduto è rimasta quasi integra, mentre il corpo è bruciato in modo irregolare. I piedi sono illesi, un braccio è interamente ustionato, tutto il resto è ridotto in cenere. Mondino fa trasportare le spoglie nel suo studio per esaminarle.

Hösten 1979 anländer Alexejev Rostov vid den skånska ostkusten. Han är specialutbildad sovjetisk spion och har färdats till Sverige med ubåt. Målet är att kartlägga Österlen - och förbereda den sovjetiska invasionen. Från och med nu är han en yrkesfiskare från Göteborg. En vanlig, hederlig svensk som idogt arbetar för att få vardagen att gå ihop. Men kommer han lyckas lura lokalbefolkningen med sin nya identitet? Alexejevs täckmantel är övertygande och snart får han smeknamnet "Sillastryparen".

Im Jahr 1927 ist New York die Stadt der Träume und eine Verheißung für eine große Zukunft. Eine ebensolche erhofft sich auch der Archäologieprofessor Frederick Crichton, der aus Boston in die Stadt kommt, um eine Beschäftigung im Museum aufzunehmen. Allerdings zerplatzt dieser Traum schnell. Stattdessen findet Crichton sich im Haus eines exzentrischen Millionärs wieder, um diesem die Authentizität eines ägyptischen Artefakts zu bestätigen. Doch die einfache Aufgabe wird zu einem Albtraum für den Archäologen.

A mysterious race of North American giants. An ancient Hebrew inscription in a Cherokee burial mound. A blood oath made by blindfolded Freemasons. Are these three historical oddities the reason the CIA is trying to brainwash historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancee Amanda Spencer-Gunn? The answer lies buried in the legends of the Knights Templar, within the rituals of the secretive Freemasons and, most significantly of all, inside the bowels of the Smithsonian Institution

Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Autumn 1930. Journalist Nell Fagan knows there's only one person who can get to the bottom of this mystery: Rachael Savernake. But someone wants Nell dead, and soon, while investigating a series of recent deaths at Blackstone Sanatorium, she's missing entirely. Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell, with its eerie moor, deadly waters and sinister tower.

Travin es un joven judío apasionado de la política comunista y admirador de la Unión Soviética. Junto a su madre y su hermana, viajan a Córdoba, Argentina, para pasar el verano. Ahí, con un país dividido por las fuerzas armadas, Travin queda fascinado con la presencia de un grupo social totalmente diferente al suyo. Bajo una identidad falsa, la vida de Travin se desdoblará.