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¿Podemos imaginar que una sequía pudiera hacer estallar en pedazos el pacto federal mexicano porque un estado, por supervivencia, se negara a dar agua al vecino, o a la mismísima capital de la República? Francisco Martín Moreno da la voz de alarma respecto a la posibilidad de una nueva sequía, como las que han azotado al valle de México desde la época prehispánica. Con su prosa vigorosa y su incansable imaginación, nos revela que la sequía fue el gran detonador de la guerra de Independencia, como también lo fue de la Revolución de 1910.

Londra, 1880. Una donna si getta insieme al figlio nel Tamigi per simulare la sua morte. Si tratta di Angelica Chastain, in fuga dal passato e disposta a tutto per dare a suo figlio William l'opportunità di una vita migliore, lontano dagli orrori che si sono lasciati alle spalle. Dopo essersi assicurata un lavoro come governante in una bellissima casa, Angelica sposa il ricco vedovo Stanley Hampton, proprietario di una fabbrica di penne. Il futuro che Angelica ha sempre sognato comincia finalmente a prendere forma. Ma i debiti con il passato non sono ancora stati saldati.

Nick and Julia O'Connor's dream trip to Venice collapses when a haunting voice reaches out to Nick from Tintoretto's Paradise, the world's largest oil painting. Though Julia worries her husband suffers from a delusion, Nick is adamant the voice belongs to a woman from the 16th century—his soul mate from a previous life. He discovers a religious order that has developed a method of extracting people's souls, which they imprison in Paradise. Over the centuries, they've judged thousands of souls and sentenced them to eternal purgatory.

L'ultimo mistero dell'ordine sta per essere svelato. 1127. Nove cavalieri raggiungono l'abbazia di Clairvaux. Papa Onorio ii ha appena riconosciuto l'Ordine dei Templari, nato in Terrasanta a protezione dei pellegrini. I cavalieri che lo hanno fondato vogliono capire se si possa uccidere in nome di Cristo. Il frate Bernardo di Chiaravalle, raffinato teologo, li rassicura: non si tratta di omicidio, ma di malicidio.

Sur une route perdue de l'Ouest américain, un homme roule à tombeau ouvert. Cet homme, c'est Frank Guidry. À ses trousses, un tueur à gages mandaté par le mafieux Carlos Marcello, qui veut se débarrasser d'un témoin indésirable dans le crime du siècle : l'assassinat de JFK. Guidry sait que la première règle, quand on est en cavale, est de ne pas s'arrêter. Et que la seconde est de ne compter que sur soi-même.

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.

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.