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Travancore, côte de Malabar, 1900. Une fillette monte à bord d'un bateau qui la conduit à la cérémonie de son mariage. Son futur époux est un bon parti, mais elle découvre bientôt que sa famille est frappée d'une étrange malédiction : à chaque nouvelle génération, au moins une personne meurt noyée—ironie du sort particulièrement cruelle dans cette région du Kerala où l'eau est omniprésente, modelant la terre en un entrelacs de lagons et de lacs, accompagnant les existences de son chant feutré, reliant toute chose dans le temps et dans l'espace.

The epic conclusion to The Dagger and The Coin series, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin. Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final...

Una vela lascia la luminosa Tangeri per risalire la costa atlantica d'Europa e inoltrarsi sulla Senna verso Parigi, gelido borgo sperduto fra oscure contrade. Siamo nell'estate del 999, nel cuore di un continente selvaggio e in fermento per l'approssimarsi del fatidico Anno Mille. Due realtà inconciliabili - la solare sensualità del Sud e l'austero rigore europeo - vengono a conflitto, incarnandosi in due diversi codici di comportamento all'interno di una fede comune.

Abrangendo os anos de 1900 a 1977, O pacto da água se passa em Kerala, na costa de Malabar, no sul da Índia, e acompanha uma família que sofre de um mal: em cada uma das três gerações, pelo menos uma pessoa morre afogada — e naquela região há água por toda parte. A narrativa começa com uma menina de doze anos, enviada para seu casamento com um homem de quarenta anos. A jovem — e futura matriarca, conhecida como Grande Ammachi — testemunhará uma série de mudanças ao longo de sua vida, marcada por alegrias, triunfos, reviravoltas, dificuldades e perdas.

Deciding on her 39th birthday that a baby is the best present she could give herself, single Manhattan public relations executive Nina Kitchener makes an appointment to undergo artificial insemination at the Human Fertility Institute. Nine months later the nightmare begins. Just hours after she gives birth, someone kidnaps her infant son from the nursery. The police aren't helping, the fertility institute has shut down, and Nina believes that the only way to find her baby is to learn the identity of the sperm donor.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

Zvi Luria ha poco piú di settant'anni quando un neurologo gli diagnostica un principio di demenza senile. All'inizio la malattia lo porterà soltanto a commettere piccole distrazioni, sbagliare un nome, confondere un altro bambino per suo nipote, oppure visitare il letto di uno sconosciuto in ospedale convinto di essere al capezzale di un vecchio amico in coma. Poi però tutto diventerà più duro e passo dopo passo la sua lucidità finirà con l'essere completamente compromessa.

Siamo in una città del Nord Italia, durante le feste di fine anno a cavallo del millennio. Rachele Luzzatto è la figlia unica di una facoltosa famiglia ebraica. Curiosa e irrequieta, spiazzante osservatrice capace con i suoi commenti di ribaltare i luoghi comuni degli adulti, Rachele è però piuttosto confusa riguardo alla propria identità. Da un lato, per prepararsi alla cerimonia del suo Bat Mitzvah, deve impegnarsi nello studio della lingua ebraica, delle preghiere e dei precetti.

Ezra Justice and his elite group of special operation soldiers have just helped General William T. Sherman put an end to the Civil War and must go their separate ways . . . but not for long. Scattered to the Ku Klux Klan-ridden South (former slave Nathaniel York), a hostile Midwest Sioux reservation (medicine man Harry Whitecloud), and the rugged goldmine towns of California (the notorious Hawkins twins), these pioneering men face plenty of dangers apart from one another.

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When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they also run deep."

A nation shattered by its president’s murder Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O’Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a...

When the name Abraham Lincoln is mentioned , we usually think of the highlights of his career.We think of Lincoln the politician, the statesman, the orator and the man who did away with slavery.What is not as well known, however, is that Lincoln did produce one piece of fiction, The Trailor Murder Mystery. When Lincoln was practicing law, it was common for lawyers to write summaries of their cases and present them as fiction.

Kreaturen, dunkel wie die Nacht und leise wie Schatten. London 1851 Fürchtest du dich vor der Dunkelheit? Seit ihrem siebten Lebensjahr kann Mirabelle diese Frage mit einem aufrichtigen Nein beantworten. Damals war sie ihr zum ersten Mal begegnet: der wahren Finsternis. Augen, schwarz wie die Nacht, durchbrochen von lodernden Flammen, und Klauen, die mühelos in der Lage wären, ihr das Herz aus dem Leibe zu reißen. Und da kamst du auf mich zu. Ohne Furcht.

Mariano piensa hacer un recorrido en motocicleta con sus amigos; sin embargo, es secuestrado en un llano junto con otras personas. Los criminales exigen un cuantioso rescate por cada liberación, y poco a poco van soltando a los cautivos hasta que unicamente queda él. Deberá caminar del Estado de México a Guerrero en un secuestro duplicado.

Im Juni des Jahres 1063 erlebt der zwölfjährige König Heinrich IV. den sogenannten Goslarer Rangstreit – einen der blutigsten innerkirchlichen Machtkonflikte des hohen Mittelalters, der in einem Massaker endet. Auf der Flucht vor Verantwortung und Schuld zieht er sich in die Kaiserpfalz zurück. Doch dort wartet nicht Trost, sondern der Fürst der Finsternis.