Historical

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape....

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry 18,000 frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, leading them to a new home and hope....

Evie Jenkins didn't know what she was thinking by agreeing to switch places with her American heiress cousin. After all, she's naught but a poor—and usually quite sensible—companion. All she has to do is spend six weeks among London society, pretending to be an heiress . . . and ensure that...

Latro now finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, his is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget....

The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who, while fighting in Greece, received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses....

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dallas, Texas. July, 1926. Detective Bill Drey has seen enough of this city to know two things: how to ask the right questions — and how to listen to the silence that follows. When a call pulls him to the Adolphus Hotel in the middle of the night, the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 1791. Saint-Domingue erupts in the most radical revolution the world has ever seen. Leopold d'Auverney is a young French officer on his uncle's plantation, engaged to his beautiful cousin Marie, living the privileged life of a colonial planter. Pierrot...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Shattered Union: Tensions, Glen Alan Garber weaves a gripping tale of ambition, memory, and the fragile peace of a shattered continent. In 2085, the United States is long gone, replaced by five rival nations born of civil war and bitterness. Tara...

İmparatorlukların gölgesinde, bir harfin kaderi değiştirebileceğine inanır mısınız? Kurtuba Medresesi'nin genç âlimi Mîran, Emir'in avuçlarına bıraktığı "ن" mührüyle yola koyulur: yüzyıllardır saklanan Kitab-ı Zâhir'i bulacak ve onu "okumaya ehil olanlara"...

Beautiful, brilliant, and utterly ruthless, Lady Susan Vernon always gets what she wants - no matter who she must destroy to get it. To the world, this recently widowed aristocrat is the very picture of grace and grief. In secret, she is a master manipulator who treats high society like her...

‘A smartly plotted historical novel offering an intriguing insight into the Suffragette movement and what they were fighting for. Highly recommended!’ – The Wishing Shelf A young woman in Edwardian England is expected to behave with propriety, especially if she is the daughter of a vicar...

1938 – På morgenen efter Pogromnatten er alt forandret for Ruth og hendes familie. Deres smukke hus er gjort ubeboeligt, og med venners hjælp må familien samle stumperne op for overhovedet at komme igennem de næste frygtelige uger. Hele det jødiske samfund er rystet i sin grundvold, og de...

In the heat of a wartime summer, black GIs gather at the Rivoli Ballroom, where music and dancing offer escape from the uncertainty of tomorrow. When local girl Ginny Lloyd asks American soldier Samuel Grant to dance, an unforgettable connection is born – one that will endure long after the war tears them apart. Fifty years later, Nant is preparing to honour the men it never forgot. Ginny, now married but still haunted by what was lost, reaches out to Dora Grant in Georgia – the mother of the soldier she once loved, and the keeper of a promise made long ago.

Step into the glittering but whisper-filled world of Gilded Age New York. Edgar Saltus’s Eden: An Episode (1888) is a sharp, atmospheric domestic drama that follows Eden, a beautiful and refined young woman who enters into marriage with John Usselex, a wealthy and socially prominent older man...

Irland, 1895. Seit Generationen begleitet Aydeen als Banshee die Verstorbenen der Familie O'Brien mit ihrem klagenden Lied durch die Unterwelt ins Jenseits. Ihre Bestimmung ist es, die Seelen zu behüten, ihnen Sicherheit und Frieden zu schenken. Doch in einer eisigen Winternacht verändert sich ihr Schicksal auf grausame Weise: Aydeen erwacht plötzlich in einem menschlichen Körper, gefangen zwischen den Steinen eines uralten Steinkreises – ohne ihre Stimme, ohne ihre Kräfte.

Mittelamerika, 1529: Als Gesandter des spanischen Königs soll Fernández de Oviedo den Vulkan Masaya erkunden. Ist er das Tor zur Hölle, wie die Einheimischen meinen? Oder die Pforte zu allen Reichtümern der Welt? Während der gefährlichen Expedition durch dichten Urwald und über karge Höhen denkt Oviedo zurück: an sein Leben bei Hofe als Vertrauter des Infanten, seine Zeichenstunde mit Leonardo da Vinci, an den Besserwisser Kolumbus oder die Königin Johanna, die sie die Wahnsinnige nannten und die doch klüger als alle anderen war.

تتناول رواية كوخ العم توم معاناة العبيد السود في الولايات المتحدة من خلال قصة العم توم، الرجل الطيب الذي يواجه القسوة والظلم بإيمان وصبر. تكشف الرواية الآثار الإنسانية المؤلمة للعبودية وتنتقد التمييز والعنف والاستغلال الذي تعرض له الأفارقة الأمريكيون. استخدمت هارييت بيتشر ستاو أسلوبًا عاطفيًا مؤثرًا ساهم في إثارة التعاطف مع قضية إنهاء العبودية.

يتابع كتاب ذهب مع الريح في جزئه الثاني حياة سكارليت أوهارا بعد اشتداد آثار الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية، حيث تحاول الحفاظ على أرضها ومستقبل عائلتها وسط التغيرات القاسية. تتصاعد علاقتها المعقدة مع ريت بتلر بين الحب والكبرياء والصراع النفسي، مما يخلق أحداثًا مليئة بالعاطفة والتوتر.

Et uventet møde skræmmer Elise, og hun beder Amund om hjælp. Men Rebekka frygter, at hendes mand ikke vil kunne styre sit temperament. Markus bliver pludselig stillet over for en frygtelig anklage: Hans syge hustru Iris er blevet fundet død, og politiet mistænker ham for mord. Han føres...

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