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Confident and strong willed, Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. A constant and abiding love of the ocean would prove to be the making of him. When the call of war is heard in the early 1910s, Kelly knows that he must answer it. Enlisting in the Royal Navy, he hopes to win both the war and personal glory. But from the barbarous battles of Gallipoli to the nightmarish action at Antwerp, Kelly, along with his young shipmates, begins to learn the trials a sailor must face, trials that will forge him from a boy into a man.

Thrilling, authentic, and action packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire. Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall, and lie low until he can hope for justice.

On August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. During the inquest into the deaths, Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the murder of her father and her stepmother. Through the eyes of Lizzie's sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, the enigmatic stranger Benjamin and the beguiling Lizzie herself, we return to what happened that day in Fall River. Lizzie Borden took an axe. Or did she?

1558. After years of waiting, Princess Elizabeth accedes to the throne of England. For many, Elizabeth’s ascension is a glorious new dawn. Not so for Amy Dudley, whose ambitious husband, Sir Robert, is the acknowledged favourite of the new queen - a queen who must marry to secure her survival. But Robert Dudley has many powerful enemies. And although she is clearly besotted with him, the virgin queen will not risk her hold on the throne.

Rudolf takes portraits of hundreds of souls marked for deportation, his heart shattering with every click of his camera. He knows what the Nazis are doing to families just like theirs. One day, when the guards aren't looking, he takes a picture of a little girl on a train to Auschwitz, her tear-filled eyes pleading for help. His photograph could change the course of the war.

In 1002, 15-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her, and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son.

1919. On the desolate battlefields of Northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yet bring himself to go home. First he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest.

Everett Ross often feels like a fish out of water, an ex-Texas Ranger who traded his horse and six-gun for the cockpit of a pursuit aircraft in the British Royal Flying Corps. Through his inimitable West Texas narrative, Ross thrills the reader with a riveting tale of authentic aerial combat in the skies above the stalemated trenches of World War I.

Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend.

Nevica sangue nei tre inverni della paura. Sono le stagioni più dure della guerra civile italiana e dell'interminabile dopoguerra. Tedeschi, fascisti e partigiani combattono con obiettivi diversi, ma compiono le stesse atrocità. È questo disordine crudele a travolgere Nora Conforti. Diciotto anni, ragazza di famiglia ricca, Nora si rifugia con il padre sulle colline fra Reggio Emilia e Parma. Non immagina che proprio lì incontrerà il primo amore e subito dopo orrori in grado di sconvolgere la sua esistenza.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London's seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill - he ripped with a butcher's glee - and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

Novela número 1 en España, en México y en Estados Unidos (en Español) - Más de 500.000 lectores la avalan - Saga de misterio histórico más vendida de los últimos dos años. ¿Quieres entrar en el universo de Las doce Puertas? Piénsalo, porque te costará salir… Dos historias narradas en paralelo. La primera trascurre en la judería de Valencia de finales del siglo XIV, dónde unos niños se tropiezan por causalidad con una sociedad secreta. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad.

Tra le calli della Serenissima, i Lupi di Venezia sono di nuovo a caccia...Venezia, XVI secolo. Marco Gianetti, l'assistente di bottega del celebre Tintoretto, deve fare i conti con le conseguenze delle proprie azioni. Corrotto dallo scrittore Pietro Aretino, al cui ricatto ha piegato il suo volere, è ormai odiato dagli ebrei del ghetto, che lo incolpano di un crimine atroce. Più passa il tempo e più Gianetti si convince che il denaro sia un subdolo alleato: invece di proteggerlo, ha messo in pericolo la sua vita.

Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor. Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain a fundamental secret of Christendom.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London's seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill - he ripped with a butcher's glee - and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

První příběh z akční detektivní trilogie odehrávající se v nejvýchodnějším cípu naší země. Trujkunt je autorův název pro trojmezí Česka, Polska a Slovenska, kde prolnutím sousedských jazyků vzniklo originální nářečí zvané "po naszymu". Svébytná oblast Jablunkovska a Třinecka, se srdcem Třineckých železáren, zvaných werk, pracoviště většiny obyvatel silně religiózního kraje, potomků mladých mužů, kteří kdysi museli narukovat do wehrmachtu. Zdejší lidé ctí a udržují staleté gorolské tradice.

Bologna, 1314. L'inverno è alle porte, e il buio assedia il mondo ogni giorno più presto. Dopo una di queste notti lunghissime, viene ritrovato il cadavere di un giudice. Non si tratta di morte naturale: il corpo è orrendamente sfigurato, sembra sia stato sbranato. Nell'indagine viene coinvolto Mondino de' Liuzzi, medico anatomista e accademico, capace come pochi di ricavare indizi dallo studio dei cadaveri. L'esame di Mondino, però, questa volta getta sul mistero più ombre che luci: l'accanimento sulla vittima è quello di un animale, ma i denti che l'hanno dilaniata sono umani.

Bologna, dicembre 1311. Mondino de' Liuzzi, medico anatomista, viene incaricato dal podestà di far luce su una morte strana e orribile: un membro del Consiglio degli Anziani è stato rinvenuto carbonizzato in casa sua, eppure nella stanza nulla fa pensare a un incendio. Perfino la poltrona su cui l'uomo era seduto è rimasta quasi integra, mentre il corpo è bruciato in modo irregolare. I piedi sono illesi, un braccio è interamente ustionato, tutto il resto è ridotto in cenere. Mondino fa trasportare le spoglie nel suo studio per esaminarle.

Lotingen. Tre anni dopo gli omicidi di Könisberg, Hanno Stiffeniis e la moglie Helena conducono una vita di ristrettezze dopo la sconfitta dell'esercito a Jena contro le truppe napoleoniche. Quando vengono ritrovati i cadaveri mutilati di tre bambini, figli di un ufficiale ussaro, appare evidente che Stiffeniis dovrà indagare spalla a spalla con il nemico.

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1956: Da Ivy Jenkins bliver gravid, bliver hun i vanære sendt til St. Margaret – et dystert hjem for ugifte mødre. Hendes barn bliver bortadopteret mod hendes vilje. Ivy kommer aldrig derfra igen.