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In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power. France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He's also a minor asset in the U.S.'s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, it falls to Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world.

Anno Domini 1076. Sopravvissuta alla strage della sua famiglia, Doralice di Lacus trova ospitalità a Canossa, dove la grancontessa Matilda la accoglie come una figlia. Quando l'orrore per l'assassinio dei suoi genitori sembra aver lasciato posto a una tranquilla quotidianità, i piani di conquista di Enrico IV sconvolgono il suo mondo. Tristan di Holstein, indomito guerriero forgiato da mille battaglie, ha un'ultima missione prima di riconquistare la libertà: deve colpire al cuore Matilda, strappandole quanto ha di più prezioso.

Deux héros échappés de la tourmente révolutionnaire enquêtent sur l'attentat de la rue Saint-Nicaise contre Napoléon Bonaparte au soir du 24 décembre 1800. Le soir de Noël 1800, Bonaparte échappe de peu à un sanglant attentat au cœur de Paris. Aussitôt, le ministre de la Police, Fouché, se lance dans une folle traque pour arrêter les responsables. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu... et les cadavres se multiplient. Alors que la France prend peur et que le pouvoir vacille, Talleyrand fait appel à son ami Armand de Calvimont pour découvrir la vérité.

Une enquête criminelle à rebondissements dans le Paris de 1800 qui bruisse de la rumeur de la mort de Bonaparte à Marengo, propice aux intrigues des puissants, Talleyrand et Fouché en tête. Tableau des mœurs politiques sous le Consulat autant que roman criminel à rebondissements, 1800. La Main de sang se déroule pendant les trois jours de juin 1800 durant lesquels Paris est resté sans nouvelles de Bonaparte en pleine bataille incertaine de Marengo.

"Liebster Ehemann, es ist mein vordringlichster Wunsch, dass unsere Ehe fortbestehen wird." Voller Sehnsucht schreibt Francesca an Tristan des Îles. Seit zwei Jahren ist der Graf in der fernen Bretagne, hat auf keinen ihrer Briefe geantwortet. In ihren Träumen fühlt sie sich ihm so sinnlich verbunden wie damals. Doch was, wenn Tristan sich nicht meldet, weil er ihre Ehe annullieren will? Denn inzwischen hat Francesca durch einen Schicksalsschlag ihr Erbe verloren. Und dann steht sie ihm unerwartet auf einem Fest gegenüber! Beim Blick in seine tiefblauen Augen schlägt ihr Herz rasend schnell.

Symbole et mythe de la passion amoureuse, chef d'œuvre de la littérature médiévale, "Tristan et Iseut" est une œuvre intemporelle. Elle happe le lecteur et résonne en chacun d'une étonnante modernité.

The transdimensional empire, the Unity, has dissolved, its ruling powers forced into exile - but empires don't die easily. The living planarship Ways and Means has come to medieval Earth and ended the Black Death, but it keeps its intentions to itself. Someone is trying to kill its agent Osia, who is suffering through her own exile. Spy-turned-anthropologist Meloku becomes a target, too, when she catches Ways and Means concealing the extent of its meddling.

Simon Venne, quarante-neuf ans, démissionne de son poste de professeur au cégep du Vieux Montréal. Il ne donnera pas le cours « L'Occident en mutation » à la rentrée d'automne. Trop de douleur, trop de remords. Ses pas le conduisent à La Nouvelle-Orléans, où, dans un bar du French Market, il fait la connaissance d'une femme qui s'exprime dans un français indéfinissable. Elle s'appelle Ruth. Leurs rencontres, placées sous le signe de l'alcool et du désir, prennent des allures de chassés-croisés où chacun protège ses secrets.

Sir Tristan opuszcza Camelot, by bronić Tintagelu przez irlandzkim najeźdźcą. W trakcie walki odnosi groźną ranę, której nie da się uleczyć na miejscu. Pomóc mu może tylko podróż to Irlandii. Tam Tristan poznaje Izoldę, która zostanie prawdziwą miłością jego życia... Niestety nie wszystkie historie miłosne mają szczęśliwe zakończenie. Szczególnie gdy w grę wchodzą eliksiry i trucizny.

Miss Dina Campbell wants a soulmate, and hell will freeze over before she'd marry a horse-mad man who loves horses more than a woman. However, with her father aging quickly and her Indian heritage drawing interest in town, she may not get the say in her future that she’d hoped. Those prize horses belonging to her father are drawing attention from suitors, and time may be over for her to find a love match.

Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots’ bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed...

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Xu Min ends up in the Immortal Valley, but how can he settle down and forget about his need for revenge when the Zhong family lives as well as ever before? He sets out on the final part of his journey, reuniting with his old friends, meeting new ones and fights to keep his life safe while struggling to continue fighting for the vengeance, which has kept him living for the last many years.

I never wanted much from life: a simple job as a guard, and to provide for my sister. But jealousy of man destroyed my dreams, and thus I thread upon the road to vengeance. I've entered a world with danger lurking around every corner - where only the strongest can survive. Filled with unwavering determination, I will not back down. I will gain my vengeance!

Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she'd never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents itself when Alice is invited to a lavish ball. The high-society guests are in high spirits as they imbibe the finest wines. But one man, detested by nearly all the partygoers, quaffs a decidedly deadlier cocktail.

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