In the time of the Pharaoh, a tiny infant is rescued from the banks of the Red Sea. She is named Zipporah, "the little bird." Although she is a Cushite by birth--one of the black people of the lands to the south--she is taken in by Jethro, high priest and sage of the Midianites. Jethro adores ... more »

Prix Goncourt 2001 1555, la baie sauvage de Rio en pleine tourmente : terre obscure faite de jungles et peuplée de tribus d'Indiens cannibales ; terre magique où croît le fameux « bois rouge », à la couleur très recherchée. Terre conquise par les conquistadors français qui se livrent à une double bataille ... more »

Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath ... more »

When an old friend's family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He's soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory--matching kill for kill, outrage for outrage. Defying both ... more »

Der Antoninuswall ist zwar zerstört - aber auch die keltischen Stämme. Verzweifelt begibt sich die schöne, eigensinnige Keltin Neeve auf die Suche nach den beiden Menschen, die ihr alles bedeuten: ihre große Liebe Vectis, römischer Centurio, und ihr stolzer Bruder Taranis, der als Anführer der Kelten ... more »

Product Info Julius Wolff - Das schwarze Weib (Roman aus dem Bauernkriege). 1. eBook-Auflage 08/2003. more »

E-book extras: Stephensonia/Cryptonomica: ONE: Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ (Neal addresses Frequently Anticipated Questions and other fascinating facts); TWO: Mother Earth Motherboard (Neal's landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on ... more »

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world ... more »

The War Comes to Witham Street follows the lives of a group of families living in Lincoln, England, from August 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945. A rest and recuperate scheme for two servicemen, one British and one American, places them with two families. The effect they have on those who have ... more »

This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and ... more »

Indien in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts: Eine Zeit mächtiger Fürsten und großer Kriegsherren, ein Schauplatz dramatischer Kämpfe und ein Land für Abenteurer aus aller Herren Länder. Als der irische Bauernsohn George Thomas - eine historische Figur - 1781 an Bord eines englischen Kriegsschiffs ... more »

Mr. Caryll, lately from Rome, stood by the window, looking out over the rainswept, steaming quays to Notre Dame on the island yonder. Overhead rolled and crackled the artillery of an April thunderstorm, and Mr. Caryll, looking out upon Paris in her shroud of rain, under her pall of thundercloud, felt ... more »