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More than one hundred years after Columbus blundered onto Hispaniola, the West Indies are held in Spain's iron fist, and no threat to that absolute rule is tolerated. But such total control cannot last, and one threat will emerge as the most dangerous of all: the buccaneers. Camped on the shore of Hispaniola, these half-wild men eke out a living hunting the island's feral livestock. Among them, Jean-Baptiste LeBoeuf lives out his exile, content that no one in the hunters' camp is curious about his past. But when a hurricane sweeps through the Caribbean, it upends their rough existence.

From Germany come rumors of a mad man threatening to rule Europe and maybe the world. On the Night of Broken Glass, his browns shirts and storm troopers move into Baden-Baden and begin their methodical termination of the Jews. In America, so far away, the violence is nothing more than a protest over a Jewish boy who murdered a German diplomat because the Third Reich had removed and maybe killed his family. But word is leaked that one Jewish photographer took pictures of the rampage of brutality and murder that night.

Sposata da poco con Luigi XVI, Maria Antonietta è già annoiata dal suo nuovo ruolo. Merletti e fronzoli non sono certo sufficienti a intrattenerla e a riempire le sue giornate. Quando però viene a sapere del furto dei gioielli della Contessa du Barry, decide di darsi da fare e sviluppare nuove abilità, questa volta come detective. Per il bene della missione, assegna a Rose, una modista, e Léonard, un parrucchiere, l'improbabile ruolo di spie.

In the old South, a haint was a ghost or evil spirit. George Haint, originally begun by Helen Diessner in 2012, takes us into the most unusual ghost story you will probably ever hear. It is not only a ghost story but a short story of murder most foul and takes place in the mid-1800s, in the Virginia City, Nevada, area during the gold- and silver-mining days. The story contains a lot of local history of the area.

Amid a revolution, archaeologist Christopher Jordan and ancient manuscript expert Kathryn Ferguson travel to Syria in search of the original scroll of Marks' Gospel. Paralleling their quest is the story of the evangelist's escape with the scroll from the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., his struggles to complete the manuscript, and his journeys and efforts with the daughter of Peter the Apostle to protect and save it for the ages. For both couples, time is running out and enemies are closing in.

Redemption and revenge: can they be one and the same? Marcus Sempronius Gracchus, a soldier of Rome, has spent two thousand years cursed to walk the earth, but that journey may soon end. He has secured the only weapon capable of stopping ultimate evil, but is he already too late? Will Thomas find the ancient seal and open the gates of hell, ushering in the end of times?

December, 1942. Conor Thorn will stop at nothing to end Hitler's terror. So when a brilliant nuclear physicist is discovered holed up in Italy, the elite OSS agent reunites with his MI6 counterpart and slips behind enemy lines on a recruitment mission. Now pitted against rival forces also on the hunt, Thorn is hell-bent on preventing the key to an atomic weapon from falling into ruthless Nazi hands. With the clock ticking on the escalating war, Thorn struggles to keep clear of an ever-tightening deadly trap. Can he deliver victory to the Allies before the world goes up in flames?

Brinley Knight has a photographic memory. Bored with his mundane job, he accepts an offer from MI5 to become a full-time spy in a shadowy world of espionage. As Britain stands at the edge of war, Brin learns to his cost that "defending the realm" means duty before family. Hitler’s fifth columnists in Britain emerge from the darkness as Germany’s military might eyes new territories east of the Rhine. German spies and fascists operate in opulent dining rooms and in the back alleys of London’s East End. Menacing predators, they hunt for information that could aid the Führer.

Noor Inayat Khan, princesa india que trabaja como espía para el bando aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundia, es apresada en París por las fuerzas nazis. En su poder hay una información que podría sacudir el tablero político internacional del momento. Sin embargo, sus enemigos están a punto de descubrir que Noor Inayat Khan es mucho más que una mujer desvalida.

Ci sono persone che nessuno vede, sofferenze che nessuno aiuta e malattie che nessuno cura. É un morbo letale. Colpirà duro. S’insinua subdolo. E sei spacciato. Non ci sono antidoti. Non ci sono cure. Il mondo neanche sa dell’esistenza di questo virus. Sono gli anni della sanguinosa guerra dei Balcani. Tempo di grossi cambiamenti politici in Italia. Cambia tutto per non cambiare niente. Carlo ha le sue brave ambizioni, chi non ne ha. Ci mette l’anima e arriverà lontano. Neanche lui immagina quanto....

La primera trascurre en los principios del tribunal de la inquisición de Valencia, dónde es protagonista destacado el humanista Luis Vives, la inquisición y sus secretos. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad histórica. La segunda historia es protagonizada por un grupo de amigos en la Valencia actual, que descubren que el misterio que creían resuelto, en realidad no ha hecho más que comenzar.

Im Schatten des Kriegs zieht das Böse durch Berlin. Berlin im Winter 1939. Der Zweite Weltkrieg hat begonnen. Immer weiter schränkt das Nazi-Regime die Freiheit der Bevölkerung ein. Doch in der Hauptstadt wird der sich ankündigende Schrecken der Kriegsjahre von einer tiefgreifenden Angst überschattet. In den kalten Stunden der Verdunkelung, die die diktatorische Regierung zum Schutz gegen Fliegerangriffe ausspricht, zieht ein brutaler Mörder durch die Metropole. Als die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden wird, gerät Kriminalinspektor Horst Schenke unter erbarmungslosen Druck.

Whatever became of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti? She was the wife of Akhenaten and disappeared completely from all historical records. Her grave has never been found, although her eternal fame was assured by the discovery of a portrait bust in 1912 depicting who has been called “the most beautiful woman of the ancient world”. More puzzles involve the relationship between Moses and Aaron. In the Bible, they are said to be brothers, but is it possible different ties bound them?

È il 10 settembre 1314, e Bologna freme per il passaggio di una cometa - a detta di alcuni preludio di un luminoso domani, secondo altri il presagio dell'imminente apocalisse. Mondino de' Liuzzi, medico anatomista e accademico, sta per tenere una delicata lezione alla scuola di medicina quando in aula irrompe Rambertuccio, il capitano del popolo: un uomo è stato ucciso, ma prima di morire ha pronunciato il nome del medico, e Rambertuccio è convinto che stesse indicando il suo assassino.

Berlin in den Goldenen Zwanzigern! Ein jüdischer Bankier wird erschlagen im Hausflur seiner Geliebten aufgefunden. Kommissar Ariel Spiro ist gerade aus der Provinz nach Berlin gezogen und übernimmt direkt seinen ersten Fall. Zunächst deuten die Ermittlungen auf ein politisches Motiv hin. Doch auch die wohlhabende und exzentrische Familie des Toten gibt Spiro Rätsel auf.

Siglo XVII. La pugna por el poder en la Nueva España se intensifica con la llegada de un nuevo virrey. Las prebendas y privilegios otorgados por el antiguo representante de la corona han levantado envidias y enfrentamientos entre la burguesía, el Estado y la Iglesia, representada en esta lucha por su brazo armado, la Santa Inquisición. En medio de este choque una nueva fuerza está surgiendo de las sombras: una hermandad secreta de mujeres que han heredado las imprentas de sus difuntos maridos.

Sybil makes a serious mistake. Everyone who knows her or of her is aware that she and Attorney Paul Bel Geddes have locked horns for a decade, and each regards the other as the nemesis. Sybil's error is to get angry, then loud and demeaning, at Paul at a very public black tie New Year's Eve gathering after having received yet one more intent to sue 90-day letter from the man. Her billionaire husband tries to shush her, but she all but shouted, "Don't patronize me, Charles. That bottom feeder has gone too far. Somebody needs to do something about him."

Er zeigt dir ein Geheimnis, doch es ist tödlich. Gegenwart: Maras Leben verwandelt sich schlagartig in einen Albtraum. Als sie nach Hause kommt, liegt ihr Vater tot in der Badewanne. Kommissar Oliver Bergmann untersucht den Mord an dem renommierten Arzt. Der Täter hat die Wanne mit einem merkwürdig riechenden und schlammigen Wasser gefüllt, dessen Zusammensetzung das Ermittlerteam vor ein Rätsel stellt. Die Ermittlungen laufen an, doch schon wird eine Ärztin aus der Klinik des Vaters ermordet. Und dann verschwindet auch noch Mara.

Richard Thomson is a burnt-out CIA agent the Agency dumped in Egypt because they couldn’t think of a worse place to send him. Already gnawed on by Langley and set up by the Cairo police, his day can't get much worse until someone leaves a dead body on the rear steps of his hotel with its head lopped off. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and wannabe spy peddling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. While the world focuses on missiles in Cuba, no one notices the ones in the Egyptian desert pointed at Israel—no one except Thomson.

After the death of her grandmother, there’s nothing left for Rose in England. She’s sold her house and packed her money and possessions in a single canvas bag, and now a six-week voyage across the Atlantic is all that stands between her and a new life in America. Emily has been accused of a crime she hasn’t committed. Options are scarce, but if she can escape London, she might be able to build a new life somewhere else. On the packet ship Merryweather, drawn to Emily, Rose faces a hard decision. Does she risk everything to help her new friend?