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.
De serie De Aardkinderen vertelt het verhaal van het mysterie van het ontstaan van de mensheid en de harde strijd om in de prehistorie te overleven. Jean Auels boeken hebben al miljoenen lezers meegevoerd naar de boeiende prehistorische wereld van Ayla en haar tijdgenoten. Eindelijk, na een reis vol gevaren over de grote gletsjer, arriveren Ayla en Jondalar bij het volk van de Zelandoniërs. Marthona, de moeder van Jondalar, ontvangt hen met open armen. Ook Zelandoni, de geestelijk leidster van het volk en de vrouw die Jondalar inwijdde in de liefde, is onder de indruk van Ayla en wil haar tot leerling maken. Maar behalve bewondering dwingt Ayla ook afgunst en wantrouwen onder de grotbewoners af. Het doet haar beseffen dat ze nog een lange weg te gaan heeft voordat Jondalars volk haar zal accepteren. Maar wil ze dat ook werkelijk? En zal de geest van de holenleeuw het toestaan?
Sir Hal Courtney vertrok aan het begin van de achttiende eeuw, op verzoek van de Engelse Oostindische Compagnie naar Afrika om de piraten die de kust teisterden te bestrijden. Nu zijn het zijn nazaten die hun stempel zullen drukken op zuidelijk Afrika. Zij reizen langs de beruchte roversroute om aanspraak te maken op een stuk land. De Courtneys ondernemen een spannende en avontuurlijke tocht door de ongerepte wildernis van het schitterende Afrikaanse land. Maar de reis is niet zonder gevaren, want het achterland wordt nog bevolkt door strijdende stammen en wilde dieren.
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.
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.
Een stelletje, dat hun kerstvakantie doorbrengt in een oude boerderij in Yorkshire, vindt er een interessant manuscript, waarin de schrijfster een gruwelijk geheim in haar leven onthult.
UN MISTERIOSO PASSATO AVVOLGE LA CASA SULL'ISOLA DI GUERNSEY, IN INGHILTERRA. In preda a una profonda crisi personale e professionale, la giovane insegnante berlinese Franca Palmer decide di rifugiarsi nell'isola di Guernsey, nel canale della Manica. Qui trova alloggio presso un'antica villa a Le Variouf, dove l'anziana inglese Beatrice Shaye si prende cura di uno splendido roseto. Con lei vive Helene Feldmann, una tedesca trasferitasi sull'isola con il marito ufficiale al tempo dell'occupazione tedesca durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Ben presto Franca si accorge che la sua presenza ha un effetto dirompente sul rapporto fra Beatrice e Helene, un rapporto che in realtà nasconde odi e rivalità mai sopiti risalenti agli anni della guerra.
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naÏve and disillusioned Chanu? As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos. Monica Ali's splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvellous and the terrifying spiral together.
Professor Francesca Cabral is op weg naar een conferentie in Rio om een sensationele ontdekking wereldkundig te maken. Haar vliegtuig wordt gekaapt door terroristen en stort neer in de jungle van Venezuela. Tien jaar later onderzoekt Kurt Austin, de moedige leider van NUMA (National Underwater & Marine Agency) de mysterieuze sterfte van een school walvissen voor de kust van Californië. Het spoor leidt naar een groep bio-piraten die erop uit is de snel slinkende zoetwatervoorraad van de wereld te monopoliseren. Om hun plannen te dwarsbomen vertrekt Austin naar Zuid-Amerika, op zoek naar 'de blanke godin van het regenwoud'. Deze mythische vrouw zou over een geheime formule beschikken die de loop van de wereldgeschiedenis kan veranderen.
In the 14th century, dark days fell on the Church as two popes, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, each supported by different political empires, struggled for supremacy. Hearing of a secret which may bring them victory, one side hired a mercenary to retrieve this priceless information. Thomas of Hookton is an English archer. When his village is sacked by raiders, he escapes and becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. The King and his son are going to France with a great force of knights and men-at-arms, led by great lords. But it is the archers, the common men, who will decide the success or failure of the invasion.
