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Em 1770, a invenção da máquina de fiar inaugura uma nova era na indústria da tecelagem. Na Inglaterra, um governo despótico está determinado a fazer do país um poderoso império comercial. No entanto, ao mesmo tempo que a capacidade de produção se multiplica, os perigosos equipamentos recém-inventados tornam alguns empregos obsoletos e destroem famílias.

The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as “the master of the intellectual thriller.” (Chicago Tribune) His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste, comes Pérez-Reverte’s most...

It's the summer of 1922, and 19-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris - broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocence - and exact revenge on George.    

Esta novela clásica de Charles Dickens ha sido adaptada a la pantalla grande y reversionada muchas veces. Hoy se presenta en audiolibro por primera vez en esta traducción e interpretada por Nacho Casas. Pip, un niño huérfano de 6 años, tiene un terrorífico encuentro con un preso evadido...

Eighty-three-year-old billionaire Andrew Whitlock recruits Rachel Hunt, a thirty-three-year-old former homicide detective with a tarnished reputation, for a daring mission: travel back in time to Honolulu, just days before December 7, 1941. Rachel's task is to locate and save Andrew's father—a man he never met—from perishing in his fighter plane during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

En la ciudad de Feixes, con la revuelta obrera de la Semana Trágica de 1909 como telón de fondo, las luchas e intrigas para hacerse con el control de una fábrica textil centran un complejo entramado de relaciones. Julià Rigau, propietario de la fábrica, aprovecha la muerte de su hermano...

HISTORIA JOSEFA MENGELEGO, OSŁAWIONEGO ANIOŁA ŚMIERCI Z AUSCHWITZ. Wydarzenia w tej książce są oparte na faktach. Prawda bywa bardziej przerażająca od najwymyślniejszej fikcji. Josef Mengele był nie tylko zbrodniarzem, ale również opętanym szaleństwem pseudonaukowcem, który więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych wykorzystywał jako żywy materiał do swych chorych badań. Umyślne zarażanie wirusami, zszywanie tułowi kilku osób, operacje bez znieczulenia i wyrywanie płodów. To nie upiorne science-fiction, a prawdziwa historia. Do tego jedynie jej niewielka część. Ta książka opisuje znacznie więcej. Będziecie przerażeni tym, do czego zdolny jest człowiek.

Abridged edition. Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third title in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Shardlake series. Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York...

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharoah’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea…...

Berlin, 1928. Les corps de quatre prostituées sont retrouvés massacrés dans le même quartier. Bernie Gunther, jeune flic idéaliste à la brigade des mœurs est invité à rejoindre le chef de la Kripo pour enquêter sur cette sinistre affaire. Alors que ces meurtres laissent la population indifférente, le père de l'une des victimes, un chef de la pègre très influent, est prêt à tout pour se venger de l'assassin de sa fille.

La nouvelle enquête du profiler espagnol Kraken ! Une personne qui est morte ne peut pas se faire kidnapper. C'est du moins ce que croyait l'ex-inspecteur Unai López de Ayala ‒ alias Kraken ‒ avant de recevoir un appel anonyme qui allait changer ce qu'il pensait savoir de son histoire familiale. Car son interlocuteur lui annonce qu'il a une semaine pour retrouver un livre d'heures noir datant du xve siècle, une inestimable œuvre d'art, sinon sa mère, qui repose au cimetière depuis des décennies, mourra. Rien de tout ça n'a de sens.

Des millions de lecteurs captivés : le chef-d'œuvre du thriller historique ! Sud de la France, printemps 1790: la Révolution menace les biens des monastères et des couvents. À l'abbaye de Montglane, la mère supérieure charge deux jeunes novices d'une mission urgente : mettre à l'abri des pillages les pièces d'un mystérieux jeu d'échecs. Beaucoup parmi les grands d'Europe veulent en effet s'en emparer : Talleyrand, Robespierre, Bonaparte ou encore Catherine II de Russie.

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the...

“You frighten me,” the Gypsy said. “Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.” For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with gypsy lore help Flavia to solve it?

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pins all Britain’s hopes for peace on a face-to-face meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich, but behind their civilized discussions, Germany amasses armaments and moves its plans forward for its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gerhardt von Kessler continues to operate his deadly rogue operations in Britain, and he is always one step ahead of MI5.

The follow-up to the best-selling Heresy sees the return of Giordano Bruno, religious exile and renegade monk…Autumn, 1583. As an astrological phenomenon heralds the dawn of a new age and Mary Stuart’s supporters scheme to usurp Elizabeth, a young maid is murdered, occult symbols carved into her flesh. Giordano Bruno is called on to use his cunning to infiltrate the plotters and find evidence against them. In fear for his life, Bruno discovers that the young woman’s murder could point to an even more sinister truth…

For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them–and why. What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in their work, they have the means to make people talk.

Up the remote James River lies a small fort. This first outpost of the new colony is besieged by natives, beset by danger and sabotaged from within. Christian Hardy is there to protect the new possession on behalf of young Prince Henry, heir to the English throne. Ranged against him are King James I and his spymaster Robert Cecil as well as his old adversary Realm, who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on Hardy. A desperate fight for survival begins....

After the sudden death of her husband, Eleanor Whitcombe returns to Blackthorne Manor expecting grief, uncertainty, and the quiet burdens of inheritance. Instead, she finds something far more dangerous.

"It's true what they say. That Americans have interests, but no friends." A CIA officer in Iraq, at odds with his own agency. An Iraqi sheikh, whose alliance with the Americans has earned him many enemies, and few friends. The former KGB officer tasked with the destruction of that alliance, once...