Tobsha Learner Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Londra 1613. Shimon Ruiz de Luna, un alchimista ebreo in fuga dall'Inquisizione spagnola, viene accusato di stregoneria e bruciato sul rogo. Ma Shimon sa che il suo segreto è al sicuro, custodito tra le righe dì un preziosissimo diario... Kensington, Londra, 1953: August Winthrop, studioso di botanica e occultismo e donnaiolo impenitente, riceve la visita di Jimmy, un suo vecchio amico con il quale ha combattuto in Spagna nelle Brigate internazionali. Jimmy è molto malato e gli chiede di esaudire il suo ultimo desiderio: tornare in Spagna, nei Paesi Baschi, e restituire da parte sua al legittimo proprietario un antico libro che ha in custodia da molti anni. Incuriosito dall'antico manoscritto, August comincia a leggerlo e scopre tra le sue pagine una misteriosa mappa... Decifrando uno ad uno gli indizi e inseguito da misteriosi persecutori, August Winthrop percorrerà l'Europa dilaniata dalla guerra e, con l'aiuto di una misteriosa donna basca dall'ambiguo passato, tenterà di risolvere un enigma che potrebbe cambiare le sorti dell'umanità...

A compulsively gripping debut and one of Sphere's most exciting thriller launches in 2010.

From the author of Quiver, this is a collection of desires.

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit Köln im 17. Jahrhundert. Die jüdische Hebamme Ruth, die als Mann verkleidet in Holland Medizin studiert hat, rettet mit ihren ungewöhnlichen Methoden viele Leben. Aber der mächtige spanische Inquisitor klagt sie der Hexerei an. Kann der Kirchenmann Detlef von Tennen, der Ruth heimlich liebt, sie vor dem Scheiterhaufen retten? „Eine rasante und wunderschön geschriebene Geschichte.“ The Booklover „Ein wahrer Page-Turner und eine Hymne an die Freiheit des Geistes.“ Publisher's weekly „Frivol, romantisch und voller ausgereifter Figuren. Learner schreibt so sinnlich wie Geraldine Brooks und Diana Gabaldson.“ Library Journal

A Time of Peril The Inquisitor, Carlos Vicente Solitario, charges a young Jewish midwife, Ruth bas Elazar Saul, with heresy. Ruth may be the daughter of the city's chief rabbi, but this is no protection against the Inquisition's accusations. A Quest for Justice Detlef von Tennen, nobleman and canon, cousin to the Archbishop, suspects that something other than religion drives Solitario to persecute Ruth. Determined to ensure that justice is done, Detlef joins the investigation--and finds his passions fully aroused by Ruth's impressive intelligence and darkly exotic beauty. Two Hearts' Desires All her life, Ruth bas Elazar Saul has thirsted for knowledge, despite the price she paid by concealing her gender and being cast out of her father's house. Her faith sustains her through all, even the attentions of the Inquisition. Then, in the very heart of danger, God blesses her with the greatest love she has ever known.

Quiver is twelve interlinked short stories that explore lust and human sexuality in all their sensual manifestations. In her first collection of erotic writing, Tobsha Learner transports us into a world of love, power and obsession, often blurring the line between reality and fantasy, bringing us face-to-face with delicately observed passion and pain. Experience the angry fearlessness of youth, the pleasure of the new, sexual friction at its most primal, and the lingering fingers of a past that refuses to let go. Witty and provocative, Quiver explores desire in all its complexity.