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When 16th-century printers Henri and Bertrand Dubois find a stack of letters among their grandmother's memorabilia, they realize their lives are about to change, for in those missives is incontrovertible proof that the legend of the lost chronicles of King Alfred is no legend at all. Publishing those chronicles would be the coup of a lifetime, elevating not only the brothers' prestige among publishers in two kingdoms but also their position in society. But first, they have to find them.

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing a certain piece of his anatomy.

Brilliantly read by Nigel Gore, this audiobook joins together George Robert Minkoff’s three critically acclaimed historical novels about the founding of the first English colony at Jamestown - The Weight of Smoke, The Dragons of the Storm, and The Leaves of Fate. The novels are visionary epics chronicling lesser-known aspects of the Elizabethan world, including the importance of alchemy to Queen Elizabeth and her court. The canvas is vast, intertwining the life of John Smith, as a narrator, with that of Sir Francis Drake, the great Elizabethan explorer.

Das Marschland und Watt der Nordseeküste sind ihre Heimat, der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten, die raue Schönheit dieser Gegend zwischen Land und Meer geben Mieke Ruhe. Als sie schwanger wird, steht sie vor der Frage: Will sie das? Ist sie bereit, ihr Leben in der Natur aufzugeben, das Alleinsein und ihr Forschungsprojekt, die Seeschwalben? Dann der Jahrhundertwinter, der alles unter sich begräbt, das Leben aus den Angeln hebt. Am Ende bleibt Mieke die Gewissheit, dass sie alles schaffen wird, solange sie auf sich hört.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An immersive, sensual experience.” —The New York Times "Essential." —The Washington Post "Narrator Lauren Fortgang channels the currents of magic and intrigue running throughout Bardugo’s layered historical...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558...

Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power/ "...outstandingly read by Simon Vance, whose versatility with voices and intonations brings the cast to life." — Fran Wood, NJ.com...

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper. Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a...

A novel of scent memory, the secrets mothers hold close to their hearts, and the daughters who uncover them A mysterious confession leads one woman to Grasse, France, the perfume capital of the world, where she uncovers a deep-rooted secret that reverberates across decades. 2022: Eva never...

Kat Cooke's daughter, Alice, joins the court of Queen Mary I, where faith and power intertwine in dangerous ways. Alice supports the Catholic queen, but her heart is torn by her loyalty to the Protestant heir, Lady Elizabeth. Placed in a perilous position, she struggles to remain true to both royal sisters. As England trembles under religious division every friendship is suspect, every whisper may be treason. Alice is caught between two futures, one bound to Mary's fervent restoration of Catholicism and another determined by her relationship with the pragmatic Elizabeth.

Ten-year-old Agata’s world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known orphanage, hidden from everything she’s ever known. Agata auditions for the conservatory style music school where music is both salvation and spectacle.

1673, Paris, rue Pastourelle : le corps d’une jeune femme, les lèvres cousues d’un fil de soie, est découvert. C’est la première victime d’une série de meurtres identiques. La Reynie, lieutenant général de police, missionne deux enquêteurs ainsi qu’un jeune artiste italien...

David Copperfield es un niño al que su padrastro abandona tras la muerte de su madre. Sin embargo, el chico hace todo lo posible para demostrar que tiene lo necesario para triunfar. Ambientada en 1840, David viaja por un mundo que trata de apartarle mientras él busca un hueco en el que encajar.

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid...

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper. Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a...

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne...

The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who—against all odds—became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King...

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America. “Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the...

Im 16. Jahrhundert ist das Wallis Schauplatz im Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Europa. Inmitten von Krieg, Pest und der Jagd auf Hexen hat die Kräuterfrau Magdalena Capelani einen riskanten Beruf. Zwar wird ihr Wissen gebraucht, aber man traut ihr nicht: Wer sich mit den Kräften der Natur auskennt, steht mit dem Teufel im Bund. Und tatsächlich verfügt Magdalena über ein zweites Gesicht. Sie sieht den Tod ihres Bruders voraus, der in einer der Schlachten stirbt, in denen sich Kardinal Matthäus Schiner mit dem mächtigen Volkstribun Georg Supersaxo befehdet.

In 16th century France, Marguerite de Valois is growing up in one of Europe's most dysfunctional families - the Medici clan. Their extreme inbreeding has led to an alarming number of genetic defects in France's kings. Marguerite alone has escaped this curse. Uncharacteristically beautiful, intelligent, and sane, she is seen as a useful pawn by her mother, Catherine de Medici. In a scheme to unite the country during the raging religious wars, the queen decides to marry her Catholic daughter to Protestant Henri, Prince of Navarre, a charming libertine.