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After losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has found a new calling as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate anything—or anyone. Now famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel needs Crispin to locate his wife, Perenelle, and his apprentice, Thomas Cornhill. But the case takes a sinister turn when Flamel's apprentice is found murdered. The kidnapper promises that Flamel's wife will be next...unless he hands over his precious Philosopher's Stone, a magical object that can turn lead into gold.

Piran Chegwin had known since he was just a boy that he wanted to be a priest—to bring comfort and care to ordinary folk in a little parish church. So when his father manages to scrape together the money for him to study theology at Oxford, it seems his future is set. That is, until he encounters Martin de Villiers, an ambitious, self-important fellow student who takes an instant dislike to Piran. Piran's only offense? Having been born a Cornishman. But to Martin's eyes, it's an offense that must be set right.

In the Name of the Worm is a historical dark fantasy adventure of heretical proportions, complete with lost gods, entombed nuns, witch-knights, and a breathless plot interwoven with a heady dose of heterodox Christian and German folklore.

En 1610, en Logroño, han sido condenadas a la hoguera once personas acusadas de brujería. Sin embargo, amplias zonas del señorío de Vizcaya y Navarra siguen sufriendo la presencia del demonio y sus secuaces… Para tranquilizar al pueblo, el Santo Oficio envía a Alonso de Salazar y Frías...

In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar...

‘This was the original GAME OF THRONES’ George R.R. Martin Available for the first time in English, THE KING WITHOUT A KINGDOM is the seventh and final volume of The Accursed Kings series. The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, ‘The Good’, second of the Valois dynasty...

"ALIENA" : 1140. La construction de la grande cathédrale est sur le point de commencer. À l'appel du clergé, des travailleurs de toute l'Angleterre affluent vers la ville de Kingsbridge, dans l'espoir de racheter leurs péchés par le dur labeur de la pierre. Déterminé à s'emparer du comté de Shiring, William Hamleigh, l'un des prétendants au trône, dresse une armée contre ses rivaux : une guerre civile éclate. Dans son sillage de flammes et de dévastations, le peuple, assoiffé de justice, de vérité ou de vengeance, œuvre à reconstruire la vie qu'on lui a arrachée.

Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to the Dominican Priory at Blackfriars where Gaveston's corpse awaits burial. But, on arrival, Corbett discovers that a series of macabre murders has turned the priory into a mansion of death, and a killer is roaming free. Meanwhile, rumours spread that the pirate ships of the Black Banner Fleet are intent on entering the River Thames and, if the Sea Beggars succeed in their mission, they will weaken the king's power throughout the city.

Na Inglaterra do século XIV, quatro crianças se esgueiram da multidão que sai da catedral de Kingsbridge e vão para a floresta. Lá, elas presenciam a morte de dois homens. Já adultas, suas vidas se unem numa trama feita de determinação, desejo, cobiça e retaliação. Elas verão a prosperidade e a fome, a peste e a guerra. Apesar disso, viverão sempre à sombra do inexplicável assassinato ocorrido naquele dia fatídico.

France, 1095. Le pape appelle à une reconquête des lieux saints, annonçant la première croisade. Quelques années plus tard, Hugh de Payns erre dans Jérusalem mise à feu et à sang. Envoyé par une confrérie dont il n'a plus de nouvelles afin de découvrir le trésor caché de la ville du Christ, ce chevalier traumatisé par la guerre fonde un nouvel ordre de moines. Ils prendront le nom de Templiers.

"The king will decide what is treason..." These are words Catherine Carey has heard before, and they’ve always led to the block. As a girl, she saw her aunt Anne Boleyn go to the scaffold. Now, she might see yet another queen suffer the same fate. She has to decide. To serve her mistress would be treason, to abandon her would mean the doom of a good lady.

Beyond the forests, beyond the valleys, beyond the mountains... there's another world. From the Red Book of Hergest, these are the tales of the Mabinogi. Tales of of romance, tragedy, comedy and fantasy, of a mythical pre-Saxon era of Medieval Wales: a land of magic, of dragons, fairies and...

At Eleanor of Aquitaine's palace in Poitiers, fourteen-year-old Lady Joanna of Agen is coming of age. Her aunt and guardian, Alice, rescued Joanna from her brutal father by bringing her to court. But now Alice fears Joanna could once again be at risk from the men around her. When Queen Eleanor's son, Henry, arrives at court, Joanna quickly catches his eye. But Alice overhears the lewd conversations of the male courtiers and worries that Joanna's honor is at stake.

When a beggar at her door turns out to be a high born lady, Margaret learns of a family destroyed by the Norman invasion. She resolves to help the woman find her missing daughter—abducted and enslaved by a local mormaer. When the mormaer’s daughter is found murdered, the foreigners quickly become scapegoats. Can Margaret save her displaced countrywomen’s lives, while navigating her new role as queen in a foreign court?

A life-changing diagnosis sends Avery Stuart on a last-chance Christmas road trip. The cheery bed and breakfast offers a festive way to spend the holidays alone. But when she finds her name listed on an ancient family tree next to an English baron, her trip suddenly takes a startling turn - no fairy godmother included. She might have gotten the Cinderella dress, but her prince is more beast than charming.

England, 1123 - 1173. Eine Zeit blutiger Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Krone und Adel, Klerus und Volk. Der junge Prior Philip träumt von einem Zeichen des Friedens, einer gotischen Kathedrale. Doch bis dieser kühne Traum Wirklichkeit geworden ist und in Kingsbridge das großartige Gotteshaus endlich emporragt, müssen der Klosterherr, sein Baumeister Tom und die Grafentochter Aliena sich in einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod gegen ihre Widersacher behaupten.

Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse - before the devil gets his due. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann’s services to replenish the papacy’s drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else.

Talon de Gilles, son of a Christian knight of Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades, is only 13 when ferocious Saracens attack his family's caravan and take him captive. Instead of selling him into slavery, or ransoming him, his captors impose a dire fate upon the boy, forcing Talon to become one of them, an Assassin of the Ismaili, the most feared and hated sect in all of Persia, and beyond.

It started with a knife to the throat … When a young clan-chief travels to meet his bride-to-be, their violent first encounter ignites a tempestuous relationship—one that risks ending in tragedy. High stakes collide with epic romance in Medieval Scotland. Makenna MacGregor is about to slit a man's throat when she discovers he's not one of the hated Campbells but her betrothed. Unfortunately, Bran Mackinnon isn't quick to forgive and forget. Worse still, her husband-to-be is prickly, proud, and dislikes the idea of having a warrior wife.

Willkommen zurück in KINGSBRIDGE! Mit seinem neuesten Werk läutet Ken Follett für die Menschen in Kingsbridge eine neue Ära ein. Eine Ära, in der Tradition und Fortschritt aufeinanderprallen, Klassenkämpfe in alle Teile der Gesellschaft vordringen und der gesamte Kontinent von einem erbitterten Krieg erfasst wird: die Zeit der Industrialisierung England 1770. Mit Erfindung der "Spinning Jenny" bricht eine neue Ära der Fertigung und Industrie an. Innerhalb nur einer Generation verändert die Webmaschine das Leben der Menschen grundlegend. Die Welt ist in Unruhe, auch in Kingsbridge.