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Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: 13-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.

September 1241. Robert of Hadlow, Templar knight, is on trial for his life. Twenty years ago, his accusers say, he turned his back on his Brethren to join the army of the most bloodthirsty warlord the world has ever known – Genghis Khan. Robert claims he was on a secret mission to bring the Mongol hordes to the defence of the Holy Land to aid its beleaguered Christian knights.

Loyal until the end. In the frostbitten dawn of 14th-century England, when loyalty is as fleeting as the winter sun, one man stands at the crossroads of history. Gerald Warbow, the last of the storied archers who fought at Evesham and Falkirk, has all but hung up his bow and settled into the...

Lassen Sie sich entführen ins Sachsen des 12. Jahrhunderts … Das Deutsche Reich unter Kaiser Barbarossa: Weil sein Sohn tot geboren wurde, will Burgherr Wulfhart der jungen Hebamme Marthe Hände und Füße abschlagen lassen. Nur mit knapper Not gelingt ihr die Flucht aus ihrem Dorf. Um zu überleben, schließt sich das Mädchen einer Gruppe Siedler an, die ostwärts in das heutige Sachsen ziehen, um sich in dem noch unerschlossenen Gebiet ein neues, freies Leben aufzubauen.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Los Cenci es uno de los relatos recogidos en Crímenes célebres. Publicada a partir de 1839 en ocho volúmenes, que reúnen dieciocho de los procesos criminales más célebres de la historia europea; antes de que el autor alcanzara fama universal con Los tres...

An ancient blade, fit for the gods but tainted with a deadly curse. Bjarki Bloodhand has finally managed to subdue his gandr, the spirit that gives him the ferocity of a bear in battle. Yet losing his berserker prowess may leave him at the mercy of his foes. Meanwhile, his half-sister, the...

'Compelling, disturbing, entertaining, this is a bloody riot from start to finish. In every good sense' Theodore Brun, author of A Burning Sea Conflict flares once more in Saxony... March, AD 773. Bjarki Bloodhand is now Fire Born a legendary berserker inhabited by the ferocious spirit of a bear...

'Donald is a writer not only at the top of his game, but of the game' Giles Kristian, author of the Raven series'Donald delivers a masterclass' Theodore Brun, author of A Burning Sea'A gory, gleeful treat' The Times The greatest warriors are forged in the flames Two pagan fighters 771AD...

The historical saga that has enthralled millions of readers, Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series continues continue with World Without End. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a...

An epic, spellbinding tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...

From master storyteller Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins. A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better...

Kingsbridge, 1327. Quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Leurs quatre destinées s’en trouveront changées.

España, 1490. Gonzalo Palencia, comerciante adinerado, enfrenta la Inquisición con un secreto que no puede revelar. Su hija Mariana navega entre dos mundos—el que le heredaron y el que ella misma construye. A lo largo de un siglo, la familia lleva ese secreto de España a Colombia, de la colonia al presente, inscrito en márgenes codificados, libros de cuentas ocultos y lenguas que se hablan y callan según la época. Un siglo después, una mujer contemporánea que busca la ciudadanía española descubre que los documentos que necesita guardan más de lo que esperaba.

As his father's second son, Rogar was always meant to be a soldier... But everything changes when he sees the girl on the anvil.

Seville, present day. A gray archival box. A manuscript no one was expecting to find. When Roberto Alvarado, a Mexican-American historian of colonial Latin America, is summoned to the Archivo de Indias, he finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript in the hand of Bartolomé de las Casas—the sixteenth-century Dominican friar who witnessed the Spanish conquest of the Americas and spent fifty years bearing witness to its destruction.

Selene Brookhaven has always known exactly how to fight with Aster Lakeborne. Their childhood betrothal was shaped by insults, pride, chestnut tarts, and a rivalry neither family could fully control. When Aster returns from captivity under a cloud of scandal, Selene claims his damaged reputation makes him unworthy of her, but her anger cannot hide the fact that she still remembers the boy who once saved her from drowning. Then Aster is taken again, and a ransom note demands that Selene bring one hundred gold sovereigns into the mountains herself.

A poet, a lover, and a royal scandal... Margaret Douglas is a close confidante of Princess Mary, and at court with Anne Boleyn where she joins a collective, writing romantic verse for 'The Devonshire Manuscript'. There, she also falls deeply in love with the dashing young Thomas Howard, a fellow...

Toledo, 1108. El rey Alfonso VI agoniza. Abraham Cohen corre contra el tiempo para terminar el Testamento—el fundamento filosófico de todo lo que el pacto ha protegido durante tres décadas. Cuando la traición golpea y la hermandad se dispersa por tres continentes, el plan exige un último acto audaz: los cálculos de un navegante que apuntan hacia tierras al otro lado del océano occidental. El volumen final de la trilogía sigue al pacto hasta su contingencia más atrevida—sembrando no solo para la próxima generación, sino para un futuro que ningún vivo verá.

Toledo, 1086. El arzobispo Bernardo ha llegado con mandato de purgar el saber infiel. Pero bajo el mecenazgo improbable de clérigos suspicaces, la famosa Escuela de Traductores de Toledo toma forma — y los herederos del pacto original caminan sobre el filo de una navaja. Satisfacer a los clérigos de día. Poner textos filosóficos a salvo de noche. Codificar el conocimiento médico en patrones de bordado femenino. Inscribir pistas en la piedra de los edificios que solo los iniciados encontrarán. La Segunda Cruzada se moviliza. La invasión almorávide avanza desde el sur.

"Ich verfluche euch! Mein Tod wird mir die Rache ermöglichen, welche mir im Leben verwehrt war." Deutschland, Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts: Das große, jährliche Dorffest in Furtenblick endet unerwartet, als ein Fremder das Podium besteigt und den grausamen Tod von vier Bürgern ankündigt. Um seinen unheilvollen Fluch zu stärken, stürzt er sich über eine Klippe in den nahen Fluss. Am Tag danach findet man flussabwärts die zerschmetterte Leiche. Kurz darauf gibt es das erste Opfer. Genau wie im Fluch angekündigt, liegt der Tote nackt im Wald und ist von Insekten übersät.