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After losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has found a new calling as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate anything—or anyone. Now famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel needs Crispin to locate his wife, Perenelle, and his apprentice, Thomas Cornhill. But the case takes a sinister turn when Flamel's apprentice is found murdered. The kidnapper promises that Flamel's wife will be next...unless he hands over his precious Philosopher's Stone, a magical object that can turn lead into gold.

York, 1367. Owen Archer and his old comrade, Ned Townley, are each leading companies of the king's men north of York to Fountains and Rievaulx abbeys respectively, on a mission to win the support of the powerful abbots for William of Wykeham becoming the Bishop of Winchester. But trouble stalks Ned Townley—Sir William of Wyndesore's men at Windsor suspect he killed a page in a jealous rage over his betrothed. Is the rumor true?

Wales, 1369. Owen Archer is travelling to Wales on a mission for the Duke of Lancaster, recruiting archers in anticipation of King Charles of France's invasion of England. Joining him are Brother Michaelo, Geoffrey Chaucer and his father-in-law, Sir Robert D'Arby, who is on pilgrimage to the shrine of St David. When the body of John de Reine, one of the Duke of Lancaster's men, is found at the gate of St David's, the bishop asks Owen to return the corpse to John's father, Sir John Lascelles.

York, 1371. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, has made many enemies since York knight Sir Ranulf Pagnell died imprisoned in France while Wykeham negotiated his ransom. After escorting Sir Ranulf's body back to the city, Wykeham realises that his own life is in grave danger. The bishop's woes increase when one of his properties in the city is set alight, with horrific consequences. Was it a thoughtless act of revenge or a deliberate murder? Why was someone searching for important documents in the house just before the fire, including those linked to the Pagnells?

Private investigator and former knight Crispin Guest faces his most complicated case yet when he witnesses a body fall from London bridge into the frigid River Thames. Though the man's death is declared a suicide, Guest sees evidence of foul play. His investigation leads him to Sir Thomas Saunfayl, an old acquaintance from his knighthood days. It seems the dead man was bargaining with Sir Thomas for the Spear of Longinus, the weapon used to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross, which grants invincibility to its owner.

Anno Domini 1483, Firenze. La città del Magnifico, Lorenzo de' Medici, è scossa da una serie di delitti raccapriccianti, che gettano un'ombra oscura sulla vita dei suoi ignari abitanti. Un predatore spietato caccia bambini innocenti, lasciando nelle loro bocche le carte degli Arcani Maggiori. Anche un prete viene brutalmente assassinato: sul suo corpo viene trovato un messaggio criptico che solo la mente più brillante di Firenze può decifrare.

July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving, invincible cavalry of Genghis Khan has smashed the proud, steel-clad knights of Russia, Poland and Hungary – and now Austria lies directly in their path. At a skirmish outside the walls of Vienna, German knights capture a squad of Mongol scouts, and are astonished to discover one of their number is an Englishman – a Templar knight – who has been riding with these Devil’s horsemen for more than 20 years.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people.

Spring 1152. Once she was a Queen, and will become so again... Eleanor of Aquitaine has escaped her marriage to Louis of France, as well as various lords bent on capturing her and forcing her into marriage with them, and is safe in her homeland once more. Sending a message to Henry, Duke of Normandy, Eleanor arranges her second marriage, this time to a lord of her choosing, a man already in possession of an empire of his own, an heir to the English throne about to take back the crown stolen from his mother, the Empress Matilda.

Anna Thalberg is a villager shunned for her red hair and provocative beauty, so when she is dragged from her home and accused of witchcraft, her neighbors do not intervene. Only Klaus, her husband, and Father Friedrich, a priest experiencing a crisis of faith, set out to Würzburg to prove her innocence. There, locked in a prison tower, Anna faces isolation and torture while anxiety builds over strange happenings within the city walls. Can the two men convince the Church inquisitors to release Anna, or will she burn at the stake?

A quest to save the free world. In this third and final book in Jerry Sanders’s epic trilogy, Troy Kensington, a powerful and talented warrior, faces his most ambitious quest yet. A secret underground society of misguided but brilliant Ashkenazi Jews has but one mission: military domination. If they succeed, millions of people from England to Israel will be killed.

For Hasting the Avenger, fame and glory were supposed to last forever. Two years after the legendary sack of Paris, Hasting remains haunted—not by his triumph but by the bitter twist of fate that Ragnar’s name made it into the songs of the Skalds and not his. Drowning in resentment and drink, he has become a shadow of the Viking warrior he once was. When his wife divorces him, strips him of his wealth, and takes his son, Hasting’s world collapses around him.

يأخذنا الكتاب في رحلة عبر القرون الوسطى حيث كان الصراع غاية في الشراسة للسيطرة على حوض المتوسط كونه معبرًا اقتصاديًا مهمًا، ولكن الاقتتال بين الطرفين لم يكن كل شيء كما يكشف الكتاب. الذي يتناول الحديث عن مالطا، باعتبارها كانت - ولا تزال - حلقة الوصل بين القارتين: السمراء والعجوز. وفي العام 1530 اكتسبت مالطا أهمية إضافية؛ إذ أصبحت واقعة تحت حكم فرسان القديس يوحنا؛ لتصبح مهمة البحرية المالطية مطاردة والتصدي للقراصنة الترك والأمازيغ

King Harold lies dead on the battlefield, and William of Normandy has been crowned King of the English in Westminster Abbey. Far to the north, however, Oslac, thegn of the village of Acum, has only one thought on his mind. Revenge. Descended from the ancient line of the Kings of Bernicia, Oslac is a man of honour for whom debts must always be repaid.

De Clovis et Clotilde nous connaissons surtout les images d'Épinal de l'épisode du vase de Soissons ou du baptême du roi franc à Reims. Au-delà de ces représentations collectives, Marie-Céline Isaïa spécialiste en histoire du haut Moyen Âge et maître de conférences à la Faculté des Lettres et Civilisations à l'Université de Lyon 3, nous invite à redécouvrir ces personnages historiques.

Ein zerrissenes Land. Der Kampf um die Krone. Eine junge Frau inmitten der Rebellion... Der zweite Teil der ergreifenden Trilogie um Cromwells Töchter: Ely, 1643. England wird vom Bürgerkrieg erschüttert. Der tyrannische König Charles kämpft gegen sein eigenes Parlament. Nachbar kämpft gegen Nachbar. Als die Unruhen ihr Elternhaus in Ely erreichen, gerät die 19-jährige Bridget Cromwell mitten in den Konflikt. Während der Stern ihres Vaters Oliver Cromwell, Kavalleriekommandeur des rebellischen Parlaments, in ungeahnte Höhen steigt, hegt Bridget eigene Ambitionen für ihr Leben.

Rungholt, 1361. Gelegen auf den weitläufigen Salzwiesen der nordfriesischen Küste, ist Rungholt durch den Abbau von Salz, durch Fischerei und internationalen Handel reich geworden. Zwei verfeindete Familien teilen sich die Macht: die von Tammo Jaspers, dem die meisten Salzwiesen gehören, und die von Ove Barwegen, der im Besitz der Fischereiflotte ist. Tammos Tochter Fenna und Oves Sohn Jorik lieben sich, doch das darf niemand erfahren, sonst käme es zur blutigen Fehde. Und nicht nur ihr Glück ist bedroht: Der Salzabbau schädigt die Küste.

Jest rok 1602. W Zamościu krzyżują się ścieżki Polaków, Ormian i sefardyjskich Żydów. Kupiec Menachem Campos i jego syn Ruben wracają ze Stambułu z niedawno poślubioną żoną Rubena, Szikmą o różnobarwnych oczach. Mądrej i pięknej zielarce, uśmierzającej choroby ciała i duszy, towarzyszy młodsza siostra, tkaczka Miriam, której palce wyczarowują pełne życia i namiętności gobeliny. Zamojski dom Camposów znów jest pełen śmiechu, rozmów i miłości, a głowę i serce Hili poza córeczką zaczyna zaprzątać ktoś jeszcze. Wydaje się, że rodzinie tułaczy nareszcie sprzyja los. A jednak tylko do czasu…

Średniowiecze, XI wiek. Skandynawia. Halfdan Ivarsson to wojownik odznaczający się nie tylko siłą i odwagą, lecz także niezwykłą przebiegłością oraz bystrością umysłu. Przydomek „mądry” nie został mu nadany przypadkowo. Kiedy jarl Eryk, królewski doradca, dowiaduje się o spisku na życie władcy, nie ufając najbliższym dworzanom, wzywa najemnika Halfdana Mądrego, by zapobiegł tragedii.

Questo libro racconta di una battaglia che ha cambiato la storia del mondo ma non è famosa come Waterloo o Stalingrado: anzi, molti non l'hanno mai sentita nominare. Eppure secondo qualcuno segnò addirittura la fine dell'Antichità e l'inizio del Medioevo, perché mise in moto la catena di eventi che più di un secolo dopo avrebbe portato alla caduta dell'impero romano d'Occidente. Parleremo di Antichità e Medioevo, di Romani e barbari, di un mondo multietnico e di un impero in trasformazione e di molte altre cose ancora.