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From wild and rugged Cornwall, the setting of Poldark and Jamaica Inn, comes another fabulous, dramatic story…The rake’s return!For years Valerian Inglemoore, Viscount St Just, lived a double life as a secret agent on the war-torn Continent. Returning home, he knows exactly what he wants – Philippa Stratten, the woman he gave up for the sake of her family…But Philippa isn’t the naïve debutante he …
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.In addition to the other famous adventures come three episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer.Plumbing the depths of dishonour, Flashman’s upto his old tricks ag…
Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Lady Delilah Everly no ha tenido una vida tan maravillosa como algunos podrían creer. El mal ni siquiera empezó a describir a su madre o como debería tratar a las personas que se suponía tenía que amar. A Dalilah se le endureció el corazón y aprendió pronto a depender de sí misma comenzando …
From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times, discover the people, places and events that built a country. A concise but comprehensive guide to English history and how England has come to be what it is today.Key events, people and places include:• The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings• 1066, Battle of Hastings• Richard 1 and The Crusades• Henry VIII, Thomas More, The Spanish Armada, …
上帝的圣约应许不会反悔。本书旨在助你实现上帝对你生命的所有应许。经过钜细无遗的研究，加之见证，可以得知上帝有能力也愿意成就对我们作出的许诺。祂说，祂会监守并成就祂所许下的话语。 本书中我们将以批判的眼光构释上帝的应许：上帝缘何许下承诺、上帝会如何持守应许，以及应许如何成就丰硕生命。每个圣约背后都有其缘起、时机和条件，这些我们都要清楚明白，以活出上帝于我们生命当中的美好意愿。毫无疑问，在上帝里一切都有可能！ 往下细阅。祝福您！
BBC’s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Books 1-2 now available in one eBook collection.The beginning of the tale of Uhtred. Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred’s fat…
An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – before it’s too late.‘It couldn’t happen here’Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump’s election was soundt…
Decadent and evocative storytelling at its very best., by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, Beatriz Williams1966, FloridaPepper Schuyler is the kind of woman society loves and loves to talk about – a dazzling being who men watch across crowded, smoky rooms, and women keep their husbands away from. Yet the legend of Pepper is far from the truth…1935, Côte d’AzurNineteen-year-old ingénue Annabelle de Créou…
This is the story of the man who conquered and seduced the one who, immortalized indecipherably by Leonardo, with her gaze then seduced the world. It is the story of Tristan, a young pontifical diplomat with a mysterious and dark past who, among strategies and deceptions, between adventures and plots, between intrigues and the wars of Renaissance Italy, brilliantly carried out his missions, one af…
Um livro para entender a história da China. Embora o objetivo deste livro seja fornecer ao leitor uma história curta e compreensível da China, o interesse do autor pelas culturas dos povos da fronteira e das minorias é percebido ao longo de suas páginas. A construção da China, desde os pequenos reinos nas margens do Rio Amarelo, que criaram as primeiras sementes da civilização chinesa, até um país…
Un libro per capire la storia cinese. Scopo di questo libro è fornire al lettore una breve e comprensibile storia della Cina. L’interesse dell’autore, che si percepisce scorrendo queste pagine, si rivolge soprattutto alle culture di frontiera e alle minoranze. La costruzione della Cina va dai piccoli regni sulle sponde del Fiume Giallo, che crearono i semi della civiltà cinese in un Paese di nove …
Now, thanks to their cagey uncle's ironclad will, saloonkeeper Lucas MacIntyre was forced to find himself a bride. So he proposed a chaste businesslike «merger» to Miss Emily Smythe, a uniquely enterprising schoolmarm. But how could he keep them wed in name only when all he wanted to do was bed down with his bride in her brand-new inn?And as for his brother….The fur would fly sure enough when his …
«Антихрист. Пётр и Алексей» – историософский роман Дмитрия Мережковского, третий в трилогии «Христос и Антихрист». Воплощением борьбы двух мировых начал («Христа» и «Антихриста») в истории стала эпоха петровских реформ в России. В романе сходятся несколько ранних нитей трилогии: воскресает разбитая в «Леонардо да Винчи» Афродита Праксителя, священники-старообрядцы спорят о чистоте веры, как спори…
After eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia Grey and her detective husband are ready to put their investigative talents to work once more. At the urging of Julia's eccentric family, they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly widowed Jane Cavendish.Living on the Cavendish tea plantation with the remnants of her husband's family, Jane is consumed with the impending birth of …
“Una original novela histórica que afronta con maestría, lingüística y estilística, las intrincadas vicisitudes de la Corte francesa. Con extrema credibilidad cobran vida las dinámicas de palacio sin que nada sea omitido u otorgado a la casualidad. Una escritura coherente y adaptada al contexto de la narración acompaña al lector, de manera apasionante y nunca aburrida, gracias al dinamismo y al ri…