Historical Fiction Religion Thriller

In this third and final novel in the Lancaster Burning series, author Linda Byler takes us inside the home of Davey Beiler, the leader of this Amish district. He clearly feels the heat in more ways than one. Some of the younger members of his church are ready to testify against the man who has allegedly started at least several of the fires. Davey counsels patience and forgiveness.

Garnering three RITAs and a Christy Award, Francine Rivers is acclaimed for classics like Atonement Child. Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, this Gold Medallion-winner tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater, she uncovers a hideous secret and finds the truth.

A governess with no past. A family with everything to lose… 1884. Oxfordshire. When Florence arrives at the grand estate of Branleigh Park to take up her post as governess, the Spencer family believes she is a blessing — gentle with the children, well-spoken, and impeccably devout. But beneath the polished veneer of this perfect household, something is beginning to shift. Lady Georgina senses it first: a presence, quiet but unsettling, winding its way through the nursery, the halls, and her husband’s thoughts. The children grow strangely attached to their new governess. The servants ...

Amidst the chaos of World War II, Wehrmacht Bishop Schneider charges headfirst into the dangerous game of moral ambiguity and political scheming within the Third Reich. Racing across the ravaged landscapes of Europe, his religious convictions clash violently with the twisted ideals of Nazi doctrine, shaking the very foundation of his beliefs. But lurking beneath his righteous facade lies a labyrinth of treachery and deceit, poised to shatter everything Schneider once held sacred. From the shadowy depths of occupied cities to the blood-soaked battlegrounds of Stalingrad, and through the ...

From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins. 'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' – The Times A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country...

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, she and her neighbors live apart from the outside world.

The body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, 10 years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a mystical voice, a young Muslim woman recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer.

Five ancient coins, stained with history's most infamous betrayal, vanish into the Holocaust's darkness. Their secret passes from dying hands to desperate souls, a sacred burden haunting generations. Decades later, an Australian photographer discovers his grandfather's wartime diaries and a cryptic clue hidden in a Polish Bible. What begins as curiosity becomes deadly obsession as he uncovers a conspiracy stretching from the Warsaw ghetto to modern Europe. The biblical relic, once hunted by Hitler's occult-obsessed officers, is now pursued by neo-fascist descendants and Mossad operatives, ...

Unholy conspiracy or scientific sensation?For centuries, the occult society AETERNA has guarded an incredible secret: The Shrine of the Black Flame, an artifact as old as the Earth and as sinister as the apocalypse in the darkest prophecies. Now, the supernatural power of the shrine seems unleashed — with fatal consequences for all life on earth. Interpol investigator Isabella Cassini is on the trail of the secret circle and tries to prevent the worst, while quantum physicist Dr. Daniel Slovak hunts the source of a mysterious burst of neutrinos. Yet, he has no idea that these are the ...

Seule au cœur de la bibliothèque vaticane, Patricia Escalona, éminente paléographe, étudie le "Codex Vaticanus", l'un des plus anciens exemplaires de la Bible. Un document aussi sacré qu'exceptionnel qui causera sa perte : elle est égorgée, et un message codé est laissé près de son corps. D'abord suspecté, Tomás Noronha, historien et cryptologue, finit par apporter son aide à Valentina, l'inspectrice chargée de l'enquête. Alors que les meurtres s'enchaînent, ils vont devoir plonger dans les mystères du livre sacré pour comprendre les motivations de l'assassin.

You're about to discover the crazy details about Bigfoot/Sasquatch. With the easy access of the Internet, people all over the world have been interested in knowing whether or not Bigfoot exists. While I don't claim to know the answer to that, this book serves as an informative guide that provides confirmed information and is unbiased. There are so many random stories on the Internet with no basis and they serve to misguide the masses.

A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' – Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' – Irish Times Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously...

October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.

Assassiné dans le train Rome-Paris, le père Andrei était sur le point de découvrir un secret susceptible de faire vaciller l'Occident, et que l'Eglise s'acharne depuis sa fondation à dissimuler. Ce secret, il avait eu le temps de le confier à son ami, le père Nil. Poursuivant son enquête, Nil se lance sur les traces d'une épître et d'un compagnon de Jésus occultés au cours des siècles. Rome va tout faire pour l'en empêcher, Jérusalem et La Mecque aussi : car c'est l'ordre du monde qui est en jeu.

Une famille plongée dans l'enfer de la Saint-Barthélemy : l'Histoire de France comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue ! 1572. Depuis dix ans, les guerres de Religion ravagent la France. Aujourd'hui, enfin, un fragile espoir de paix renaît : Catherine de Médicis a manœuvré dans l'ombre et le royaume s'apprête à célébrer le mariage de la future reine Margot et d'Henri, le roi protestant de Navarre.

Hellis, Juni 1914: Ein verwegener Plan. Eine Zerstörung, die die Welt noch nicht erlebt hat. General Iblis, den alle nur "Meister“ nennen, lässt nichts unversucht, um den geheimnisvollen Garten aufzuspüren und zu vernichten. Ein tödliches Spiel beginnt, doch gerade seine stärkste Waffe macht ihn extrem verwundbar. Verwoben in die Ereignisse des 1. Weltkriegs nimmt die Geschichte ihren Lauf. Verzweigte Lebenswege, eine unheimliche Verschwörung, berührte Seelen, fallende Masken. In einem Netz aus Gefangenschaft und Zwängen führen alle Fäden zu der Stätte, an der die Schönheit geboren wurde.

ET SI UNE DÉCOUVERTE POUVAIT CHANGER LE MONDE ? SON FUTUR, SON PRÉSENT ET MÊME SON PASSÉ... Istanbul, 1682 : Mehmed IV, sultan de l'Empire ottoman, s'apprête à lancer le second siège de Vienne, alors capitale du Saint-Empire romain, quand un mystérieux visiteur s'introduit dans sa chambre. L'homme, couvert d'étranges tatouages, déclare au souverain pouvoir l'aider à mener à bien ses rêves de conquête.