Im Jahr 1032 ist das Leben im Kloster von Farfa von Kargheit geprägt. Nur die reich bestückte Bibliothek ist der ganze Stolz des jungen Mönches Vilderico da Sutri. Mit meisterhafter Feder kopiert er dort die alten Schriften, bis er eines Tages als neuer Chronist des Papstes nach Rom berufen wird. Die ... more »

Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court-but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. Paris, 1575. The consort of some of Europe's most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined ... more »

Product Info A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince. by Evelyn Everett-Green. more »

Boudicca--Queen, Priestess, mother, woman ... Emerging from her recent widowhood, Boudicca (Boadicea) is unwillingly plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue between the Celtoi tribes and the conquering Romani. Victim of her own still raw emotions and Romani greed, Boudicca is approached by an elusive Druid ... more »

Etheldreda, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria and Abbess of Ely, was a remarkable woman who lived in restless, violent times when old beliefs were dying and new ones were struggling to emerge. Pagan clashed with Christian as the seven kingdoms of the Germanic tribes warred against each other ... more »

The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchant's factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that the purchase ... more »

Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanishes in the Pacific, Vincent Carlson, designer of her spy plane, now ex-CIA, still searches for the answer to her disappearance. His obsession with A.E. changes when Amelia Adams, a young, mysterious Amerasian, linked to A.E. by more than name, walks into his life ... more »

 In 1973 maakt Anton Haakman tijdens de voorbereiding van een televisiefilm over Athanasius Kircher kennis met volgelingen van deze geleerde zeventiende-eeuwse jezuïet, die de wereld deed geloven dat hij de hiërogliefen kon ontcijferen. Eind 1989, tijdens de omwenteling in de DDR, gaat hij op­nieuw ... more »

Anlässlich des Ablebens seines Großvaters entdeckt Gideon, ein Ägyptologe wie auch sein Großvater, ein abgegriffenes Manuskript mit vergilbten Seiten. Was folgt, ist nicht nur die Schilderung einer abenteuerlichen Expedition in Ägypten mit allen Hochs und Tiefs, bedingt durch Hoffnung, Enttäuschung, ... more »

This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel. more »

Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan barbarians, who slaughtered, plundered, and destroyed at will. You may gain, perhaps, a fair conception ... more »

When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which they saw, and every sound which they heard, was caused by some intelligent ... more »