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Sea Star is a swashbuckling historical novel that chronicles the adventures of beautiful red-haired, green-eyed Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen. The saga passionately brings to life Anne's rebellious Southern girlhood, her sensual awakening in the arms of a buccaneer, and the courageous mastery of her own ship and crew. Pamela Jekel's sparkling tale transports you to the exotic Charles Town of the precolonial South; to teeming Port Royal, Jamaica; and to the infamous pirate island of New Providence for duels, plundered treasures, and torrid love scenes on palm-fringed cays.

Self-taught artist Rose O'Neill leaves the Midwest for New York in 1893, determined to become an illustrator in a field dominated by males. Mindful of her duty to the impoverished family she left behind, Rose’s obligations require her to yield to the men who hold the reins of her career, as well as the men she grows to love.

New York City, 1868. They beguiled the suffragists, seduced the millionaires, and answered to no one. Spiritualist sisters Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. The establishment vowed to destroy them.

Se dice que sin él la historia del mundo hubiese sido distinta. Juan de Prado, médico judeoespañol del siglo XVII, es considerado el padre olvidado de la modernidad. Tuvo en su contra dos condiciones: ser de origen judío y fiel creyente de la razón y la ciencia.En una época en que la Inquisición perseguía fervientemente no solo otras doctrinas religiosas, sino también todas aquellas corrientes de pensamiento que no fueran dogmáticas, el universo filosófico de Juan de Prado se consideraba el de un hereje.

Basierend auf einer wahren Begebenheit... Wir schreiben das Jahr 2001. Die Unterseeboote der Bundeswehr U 24 und U 28 begeben sich auf den Weg in die Karibik, um auf dem Manöver einer US-Trägergruppe als dankbares Ziel zu dienen. Die Planer der Übung aber haben ihre Rechnung ohne Kapitänleutnant Dellnitz gemacht, seines Zeichens Kommandant von U 24. Dellnitz sieht es gar nicht ein, einem stupiden Drehbuch zu folgen, und ist wild entschlossen, dem arroganten US-Trägergruppenkommandeur einen Denkzettel zu verpassen.

John Turner Radmore dreams of a life in the wild American West, far from the cold, dark mining tunnels of South Wales where he works hauling coal. But when he finally gets the opportunity to immigrate to America in 1868, he must first survive a near-shipwreck to begin his quest: to become a cowboy and write a book about his adventures and the stories he hears along the way.

The year is 1458. Young Frenchwoman Estelle de Montavon sails to Cyprus imagining a bright future as tutor to a princess. Instead, she is betrayed by those she loves most—and forced into a dangerous new world of scheming courtiers, vicious power struggles, and the terrifying threat of war.

Él era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario alemán, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadía e ingenio, se convirtió en un héroe en medio del horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En este gran hito de la literatura sobre el Holocausto, Thomas Keneally recrea magistralmente sus peligrosas proezas y cómo utilizó su fortuna para comprar una fábrica cerca de un campo de concentración y así salvar la vida de más de 1.300 judíos.

His name conjures images of the Wild West–of gunfights, gambling halls, and a legendary friendship with Wyatt Earp–but before Doc Holliday was a Western legend, he was a Southern Son. The story begins in Civil War Georgia, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his mother, with his only confidant being his favorite cousin Mattie.

In this fictional memoir of Singer’s remarkable life, novelist Cap Daniels and pastors Dave Mason and John Grossmann will take the listener on an unforgettable walk alongside Singer and explore unimaginable pain, loss, and heartbreak beyond compare as well as celebrate a life of incomparable courage, devotion, and self-sacrifice to both his God and his fellow man.

Justine ha scelto di vivere a Milly – un paesino di cinquecento anime nel cuore della Francia – e di rifugiarsi in un lavoro sicuro come assistente in una casa di riposo.

Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise buddies intertwine their stories.

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she...

Who is the Secret Royal? Some say they’re a disgruntled courtier; others that it’s King Charles’ Head of Pens. Perhaps it’s just the Countess of Wessex (as you’ll see they do appear to be close to the late Queen). But then they do have the same cadence as Camilla... Whoever it is they’ve written a rip-roaring diary of 18 months behind the Palace walls, during one of the most tumultuous periods of The Firm’s existence.

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss. 6. Januar 1877 – Die Woche hat sehr melodisch mit einer neuen Operette von Johann Strauß begonnen, ich war seit einigen Jahren nicht im Karl-Theater und ich kenne daher den jetzigen Direktor der Hofoper Herrn Jauner schon lange nicht, da sich unsere Unbekanntschaft noch vom Karl-Theater herdatiert, wo er früher ein ziemlich beliebter Schauspieler und später ein sehr glücklicher Direktor gewesen sein soll.

„Vom Schaugerüste aus erblickte Johanna ein schwangeres Weib am Pfahl. Durch die Heftigkeit der Flammen sprang das Kind aus der Mutter Leib, doch nach einer kurzen Beratung der Priester schleuderte man es als eine Ketzerbrut wieder ins Feuer. Niemals vergaß Johanna den tierisch-jammervollen Schrei der Mutter. Ihr in eine weite Ferne, gleichsam auf ein fernes Licht gerichteter Blick suchte nach einem Pfad zu diesem Licht; die Erwartung besiegte die Erfahrung.

Ercilla y las contradicciones del imperio narra los periplos de un autor tan adelantado como talentoso, testigo privilegiado de la conquista española y los abusos que sus compatriotas ejercieron sobre los nativos, en nombre de Dios y la Corona. Pero es, sobre todo, una exploración del proceso que llevó a Alonso de Ercilla a escribir La Araucana, el poema épico fundacional de una patria ajena que el español hizo propia.

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid...

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New...

How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate the siblings' genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing tolls of illness, isolation, and loss.