This is the third book in the "House of Niccolo" series. Set in 15th-century Cyprus, this novel continues the saga of Nicholas van der Poel, international mercenary who started out as a dyer's apprentice, as he plays for the highest stakes with the greatest super-powers in Europe.
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold.
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.
La storia vera di "Tre figlie della Cina": l'autrice, sua madre, sua nonna, le cui vite e le cui sorti rispecchiano un tumultuoso secolo di storia cinese, un'epoca di rivoluzioni, di tragedie e di speranze. Dal 1909, quando nasce la nonna di Jung Chang e la Cina è ancora una società feudale, al 1932, che vede, sotto l'occupazione giapponese, la nascita della madre, fino agli anni '60 quando tocca a Jung Chang il compito di vivere, riflettere e sopportare la realtà del Paese.
The "New York Times" bestselling adventure writer creates a truly exciting tale of danger, courage, and suspense set in colonial South Africa
Siamo a Brahmpur, nell'India settentrionale; è il 1951. La signora Rupa Mehra ha appena benedetto il matrimonio della figlia Savita e già sta pensando all'altra figlia, Lata, e al "buon partito" che sicuramente troverà anche per lei. Ma Lata ha deciso di opporsi all'usanza dei matrimoni concordati: vuole scegliere da sé l'uomo con cui dividere l'esistenza... Da qui, pagina dopo pagina, il quadro si allarga e accoglie un'intera genealogia di personaggi, uomini e donne che vivono, lavorano, si scontrano, si amano, intrecciando le loro avventure e i loro sentimenti agli avvenimenti storici e politici del loro Paese sontuosamente magico e drammaticamente povero, saggio e dissennato, antichissimo e bambino.
While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill or destroy" the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat--and have stunning repercussions for two men on oppositesides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Mooreand a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fortis the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between asuperpower and a nation in the making.
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Harlequin, this is the second instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.
The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.
A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.
In 1861, after centuries of isolation, Japan finally has opened its doors to the West, and Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with a group of Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle. A first novel. Reprint.
" Et soudain, elle eut comme une vision : c'était un soir d'été, il faisait chaud, des enfants jouaient sous les arbres fruitiers, une jeune femme était assise sur le mur. La maison était pleine de vie et de bruits, oubliés le silence et la solitude d'une vieille femme que personne n'attendait quand elle revenait. La maison avait une histoire, sans doute plus heureuse autrefois qu'aujourd'hui. " Barbara et Ralph viennent d'arriver à Westhill Farm pour passer Noël et tenter de sauver leur couple, quand une violente tempête de neige s'abat sur la région. Prisonniers de la vieille demeure, sans chauffage, sans téléphone et sans provisions, ils se retrouvent face à la réalité de ce qu'est devenu leur mariage. Mais alors qu'elle cherche de quoi faire du feu, Barbara découvre un manuscrit, le récit de Frances Gray, la femme qui vivait là autrefois avec sa sœur. Elle se plonge alors dans cette vie mouvementée, en 1910... Un grand roman sur des femmes engagées et passionnées, éprises de liberté.
Il cadavere di un bambino viene trovato nella brughiera. Ha i piedi bruciati e presenta i segni di orribili violenze. Nessuno ne ha denunciato la scomparsa. Gli investigatori della polizia di York sono sconvolti: questo non è un caso come gli altri. Qualcosa di ambiguo, di segreto, di tremendo è nell'aria. Un testimone è in grado di fornire qualche indizio su chi ha abbandonato il corpo. Un'indagine parallela condotta dai servizi sociali, sul caso di alcuni bambini vittime di abusi sessuali, sembra in qualche modo essere collegata. Nel frattempo, altri personaggi fanno rivelazioni inaspettate. Una presunta schizofrenica, un uomo incarcerato per traffico di pornografia infantile, un proprietario terriero locale, un gruppo di famiglie nuove della zona: tutti appaiono coinvolti, ma in cosa esattamente? Donne e uomini della polizia e dei servizi sociali, ognuno profondamente turbato da quel che va scoprendo, riescono a strappare singoli frammenti di verità. E il quadro complessivo che si comporrà ai loro occhi, lasciandosi appena intravedere come un'ombra beffarda, sarà agghiacciante. Un cancro mostruoso con mille diramazioni, talmente grave da sembrare impossibile.
Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to see another day
Si l'incendie de l'élégant cottage de Springburn, dans le Kent, était presque parfait, le crime ne l'était pas moins. Un bouquet d'allumettes, une cigarette qui se consume lentement, et voilà un système de mise à feu à retardement à la portée du premier amateur venu. Mais l'examen des lieux et du corps carbonisé prouvait que Kenneth Fleming avait d'abord été assassiné. Le meurtre d'un champion de cricket dont le talent divise l'Angleterre concerne le tout-Londres, et donc Scotland Yard. Linley et Havers enquêtent, lui avec sa rudesse coutumière d'ancien d'Eton, elle avec sa fausse timidité. Trop humains, tous deux, pour juger les actes atroces qu'ils découvrent.
A fabulously wealthy Chinese businessman is making a fortune smuggling Chinese immigrants. Dirk Pitt becomes suspicious and begins to track him. The trail leads him from Washington to Louisiana where the villain is building a huge shipping port - apparently in the middle of nowhere. Pitt's continuing investigation reveals that his instincts were right - he is on the tail of a master villain and not only lives are at stake. Dirk Pitt must stop him at all costs.
When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.
Hals über Kopf verlässt die junge Lehrerin Franca Palmer ihren Mann und damit ein Leben, dem sie sich nicht mehr gewachsen fühlt. Sie reist auf die Kanalinsel Guernsey und mietet sich in einem alten Haus ein, dem Rosenzüchterhaus von Le Variouf. Doch ein Geheimnis umgibt das alte Gebäude und seine Bewohner - ein Geheimnis, das seinen Anfang nahm in den Jahren, als die idyllische Insel von deutschen Truppen besetzt war, und das für Franca lebensbedrohlich wird...
NB There is another edition with the same ISBN & coverIt is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him.Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. And, at the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt's own life that will be changed forever. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, Valhalla Rising is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America’s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA® team discovers a murdered body—a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and are rumored to be led by a mythical white goddess. Now they are in danger from a vicious cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal discoveries worth millions. Soon, Austin and his crew realize that they’re working opposite ends of the same grand scheme and must race against time to save the world’s freshwater supply from a twisted eco-extortionist. But every step toward salvation takes them deeper into a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and death.
Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.
The deep. The deadly. The damned... For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier school of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous mystery by men willing to kill and a beautiful woman willing to lie for what rests far beneath the sea. Now, Harry has no choice but to enter full bore into an international battle to raise an extraordinary object from the deep. Because possessing this treasure isn't just about getting rich—it's about staying alive...
A quattordici anni, Teo, intelligente e curioso, è afflitto da un misterioso male spirituale che lo logora e di cui ignora l'origine. Per indagare le radici di questa sofferenza, e per guarirla, la stravagante zia Marthe porta con sé il nipote in un singolare viaggio: un giro del mondo delle religioni. Dalle catacombe di Roma al Muro del pianto di Gerusalemme, dalle piramidi d'Egitto ai templi di Benares, da Bahia a New York, dal Tibet a Praga, in questo viaggio alla ricerca del divino, Teo trova la ragione del suo male e il modo per guarirlo: abbandonarsi al divino, credere in "Dio", quale che sia il suo nome.
Unearthly Disclosure is a story of alien bases, alien contacts and abductions, genetic mutants, animal mutilations, and government paranoia. schovat popis
I Maya, popolo misterioso che edificò straordinarie piramidi nelle foreste tropicali dell'America centrale, sono ancora circondati da enigmi irrisolti: da dove arrivarono, perché scomparvero improvvisamente e perché costruirono templi così eccezionali? Decodificando le loro complesse rappresentazioni astronomiche, gli autori rivelano il significato delle profezie, giungendo alla conclusione che la nascita e la fine della civiltà coincidono con i cicli delle macchie solari e che le antiche civiltà dell'America centrale furono fondate dagli antichi egizi sopravvissuti alla scomparsa di Atlantide.
Le long périple d'Ayla et de Jondalar touche à son terme. Après un voyage épique à travers l'Europe, les deux héros de la grande saga " Les enfants de la terre " arrivent à l'emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l'âge de pierre situé dans ce que l'on appellera de nombreux millénaires plus tard le Périgord. C'est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l'a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L'accueil fait à l'étrangère qui l'accompagne est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la rescapée du Clan étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur faon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Alors qu'elle donne naissance à un enfant très attendu, la jeune femme prend conscience du rôle qu'elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii... Dans ce cinquième volume de sa somptueuse saga préhistorique, Jean Auel puise de nouveau dans ses connaissances scientifiques pour décrire avec son immense talent de conteuse les débuts de l'agriculture et de la domestication des animaux, ainsi que ce tournant dans l'histoire de l'humanité que représenta la maîtrise de la pensée abstraite, du langage et de l'art.
Da quando ha comprato il regno di Landover dal mago Meeks è passato un anno e, dopo tanti problemi, Ben Holiday spera di godersi un po' di pace insieme con i suoi bizzarri e fedeli amici: un mago maldestro, una bella fanciulla capace di trasformarsi in albero e un cane parlante. Invece dei sogni terrificanti cominciano a disturbare il loro sonno. Non è una coincidenza, ma una nuova minaccia di Meeks, che può essere sventata solo dal mitico Paladino.
Based on thirty years of living with dogs, wolves, and dingoes and of the ways their lives intertwined with her own, the novelist and anthropologist presents an ethological poem of the lives of dozens of dogs
Pierre, un libraire à la retraite, reçoit une mystérieuse lettre d'Amazonie, écrite peu avant son décès par son ami Edgar Grosrouvre. Ce dernier lui lègue une fabuleuse bibliothèque consacrée aux sciences. Pour comprendre les circonstances de la mort d'Edgar, dont on a étrangement retrouvé le corps dans les restes de sa maison de Manaus emportée par les flammes, Pierre, avec sa compagne et ses trois enfants, devra se remettre à l'étude des mathématiques... Dans ce roman, parfaitement construit à l'aide d'une intrigue à plusieurs énigmes, Denis Guedj réconcilie littérature et mathématiques, et retrace l'avènement des plus grandes avancées dans cette matière. Un récit qui se lit comme un roman policier, mêlant connaissance et fiction, humour et suspense.
L'histoire drôle et poignante d'une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres. Un roman généreux, foisonnant et épicé sur le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l'exil et les mirages de l'intégration. Une formidable galerie de personnages. Une écriture étincelante. Un pur joyau. En 1967, dans un village de l'est du Pakistan, une femme croit donner le jour à une enfant mort-née. Mais Nazneen survit et devient " celle qui a été livrée à son Destin ". Un destin qui l'attend à Londres, auprès de l'époux choisi par son père : Chanu, la quarantaine bedonnante, ennuyeuse et pontifiante, des rêves en pagaille, sans les moyens de ses ambitions. Isolée dans ce pays dont elle ne parle pas la langue, Nazneen n'a d'autre choix que se soumettre. Dans la cité de Brick Lane où règnent racisme ordinaire, fondamentalisme rampant et trafics en tous genres, elle découvrira pourtant la solidarité, la débrouillardise et l'amitié. Tiraillée entre traditions ancestrales et espoirs insensés, Nazneen va peu à peu prendre le contrôle de sa vie, jusqu'à franchir le pire des interdits... Et comprendre que s'octroyer le droit au bonheur a un prix.
