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Tyrian purple, the color that denotes Byzantine imperial power, is embargoed and under close guard in Byzantium. To steal it is punishable by death. However a Jewish merchant from Venice has sourced an illegal supply, and Tobias, a minstrel, and his twin brother, Tomas, begin a dangerous journey to retrieve the dye and deliver it into the merchant’s eager hands. But is this supply as secret as they had hoped?

It’s a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the girls must cling to their friendship like a life raft, determined not to let their neighbourhood drift out to sea.

Eine Liebe auf Hiddensee. Juni 1934: Die dänische Schauspielerin Asta Nielsen will den Sommer auf Hiddensee verbringen. Eine schmerzliche Trennung liegt hinter ihr, und sie ist in Sorge um ihren Freund Joachim Ringelnatz, dem die Nazis Auftrittsverbot erteilt haben. Doch der Zauber der Insel Hiddensee wirkt, und Asta verbringt unbeschwerte Sommertage voller Leichtigkeit. Als sie bei einem Bootsausflug in Seenot gerät, kommt Kai, einer der Fischer, ihr zu Hilfe.

In the end, there is no accurate portrait of a human life. There is a coming and going, a squawking arrival and an unknown unavoidable departure. But there is no rational passage from point A to point B, and eventually point Z. Life is a turbulent journey that produces a blurred and disorienting picture to any objective observer. But we do have our stories, and that's what this audiobook is about. These are the stories of Thomas Kemera. They are stories told by him and told about him by another.

As the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for a swift Northern victory. But as the body count rises, Mary can't help but fear each bloody gain. Because her beloved sister Emily is across party lines, fighting for the South, and Mary is at risk of losing both her country and her family. Emily Todd Helm has married the love of her life. But when her husband's Southern ties pull them into a war neither want to join, she must make a choice. Abandon the family she has built in the South or become a true rebel fighting against her sister.

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led 129 officers and men into the Arctic to try to find the Northwest Passage. None of them returned. Trapped is a novel that tells the harrowing, grueling fascinating story of the disastrous, ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin of 1845, which resulted in the deaths of the entire crew of 129 officers and men and the loss of the two expedition ships.

Mary Tudor, the headstrong younger sister of the ruthless King Henry VII, has always been her brother's favorite—but now she is also an important political bargaining chip. When she is promised to the elderly, ailing King Louis of France, a heartbroken Mary accepts her fate, but not before extracting a promise from her brother: When the old king dies, her next marriage shall be solely of her choosing. For Mary has a forbidden passion, and is determined, through her own cunning, courage, and boldness, to forge her own destiny.

París, 1889. Obsesionado con la torre de metal, una estructura de acero de 300 metros de altura que se ha propuesto construir en medio del Champ-de-Mars, el ingeniero Gustave Eiffel apenas pone un pie fuera de su taller. La gran Exposición Universal de fin de siglo es la ocasión perfecta para que Francia le muestre al mundo que no ha perdido su grandeza. Pero ¿esta es la única razón que motiva al Mago de Hierro a dibujar planos sin parar hasta encontrar la forma perfecta?

Nura är 25 år gammal och redan fyrbarnsmamma när hennes make kommer hem med flygbiljetter till ett land långt borta. Familjen ska fly det fattiga liv de lever som förtryckta kurder av stammen Bertyian i Turkiet och söka en bättre tillvaro i Sverige. I den här boken berättar Dilsa, ett av Nuras fyra barn, om denna livsomvälvande resa.

"Los deseos no son solo palabras" es una novela basada en hechos reales, sobre la vida de una mujer convencida de las segundas oportunidades. Crecer junto a una bruja alimenta a la protagonista a dejar su Veracruz natal y embarcarse en una odisea que la llevará primero a la ciudad de México y luego a media docena de países diferentes. De la noche a la mañana, con 17 años y una maleta, deja todo lo que conoce para convertirse en la mujer más bella de su país.

"Die Weltminute von Waterloo" ist ein Teil von Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit", eine Sammlung historischer Prosa-Miniaturen. Die acht sprachlich verdichteten Kapitel handeln von Napoleons bedeutender Schlacht bei Waterloo. Fesselnd werden dabei die wetterbedingten Schwierigkeiten der Truppen sowie die Rolle des Generals Emmanuel de Grouchy beleuchtet.

"Der versiegelte Zug" ist ein Teil von Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit", eine Sammlung historischer Prosa-Miniaturen. Dieser Teil handelt von der Reise Lenins im plombierten Zug, der ihn und weitere Emigranten von der Schweiz nach Russland führt. Doch die Rückreise, die unter anderem durch das Feindland Deutschland führt, ist nicht ungefährlich.

¡Esta temblando! Un romance a escondidas. Un departamento en la colonia Roma. Los objetos se desploman, las paredes se agrietan. « Moriremos?» La escala de Richter es alta y la fatalidad, tambien. Gritos. El pavor crece y se quiebra; de las fisuras manan los recuerdos de ella que, aterrorizada, espera la caida. Como destellos de vida, se dispara el recuento final de una historia hecha de tantas otras.

Basada en hechos reales, Amelio, mi coronel rescata del olvido a uno de los personajes más apasionantes y singulares de la revolución mexicana, quien con rebeldía rompió los moldes de la época. Una novela que nos recuerda que el destino se forja, aunque sea a balazos.

Margaret Beaufort was rich, beautiful and just 13 years of age when she discovered that she carried the future king of England within her body. Forced to give him up as a web of intrigue and danger was spun around her son, she entrusted the child to the care of his uncle, Jasper Tudor, who would have laid down his life for the Lancastrian cause. Caught up in the Wars of the Roses, Margaret was banished from court in disgrace, and although she later won the love and loyalty of three powerful men, her heart remained true to Edmund Tudor, the father of her son.

Im Sommer 1864 verkaufte ein Mann Zwangsjacken. Es war heiß auf dem Marktplatz am Heiligengeistfeld vor den Toren Hamburgs. Die Menschen bestaunten seine seltsame Ware. Der Mann kam aus der Heil- und Irrenanstalt Friedrichsberg. Er war kein Patient. Er war der Leiter. Am Abend des Tages lachte der Mann Fanny Nielsen an und sagte, es sei keine einzige Jacke übrig geblieben. Nicht eine. Er habe den Zwang verkauft. Fanny Nielsen, einer Schauspielerin, gefiel diese Formulierung. Sie legte dem Mann eine Hand auf den Unterarm. Bald darauf kam es zu einem Unglück.

En la China de principios del siglo XIX, la joven Ching Shih consiguió salir de un burdel flotante de Cantón para comandar la Armada de la Bandera Roja, la mayor fuerza pirata que ha existido jamás, con más de dos mil barcos y setenta mil hombres bajo su mando. Con ella llegó a enfrentarse y a vencer al mismísimo emperador de China. El coraje y la voluntad de esta mujer le hicieron pasar por encima de lo que nadie esperaba de ella, liberarse del futuro al que la destinaba su nacimiento y alcanzar el poder y la gloria en un mundo dominado por los hombres.

"Schon früh beschloss ich, eine Heldin zu werden." Niki de Saint Phalle. New York, 1947: Die siebzehnjährige Niki de Saint Phalle ist das Enfant terrible ihrer Familie. Als sie von einem Fotografen entdeckt wird, scheint ihr die Welt offenzustehen. Sie brennt mit dem Navy-Soldaten Harry durch, doch das Glück des jungen Ehepaares wird allzu schnell getrübt. Denn selbst als Niki mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter nach Frankreich zieht, kann sie der Vergangenheit nicht entkommen. In ihrer dunkelsten Stunde findet sie neuen Mut in der Kunst.

The year is 1975. Bill and Bob are two American friends on leave from their foreign study programs in Germany. They plan to drive across Europe and into the Balkans, with their sights set on visiting Istanbul and exploring the Turkish coast. Their plans take a sudden detour when they meet George—a renowned Armenian-Iraqi competitive bicycle racer with an irresistible personality and a flair for the dramatic. George says he is driving to Beirut with his girlfriend and her mother to sell his car, but in reality, he has a deeper plan.

Best-selling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, as well as many of Mantle's friends, family members, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, 7, Mickey tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family. In this fictional portrait, Mantle, now in heaven, needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them.