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Lotte Bonnet, chocolatière-confiseuse à la carrière florissante, vit heureuse aux Pays-Bas avec son époux Emil, un ancien réfugié bosniaque. Après le cancer qu'il vient de vaincre, rien ne la prépare à la nouvelle brutale qu'elle s'apprête à recevoir : Emil s'est suicidé alors qu'il marchait sur le chemin de Compostelle, pour fêter sa guérison. Dévastée, Lotte se rend en Bosnie pour disperser ses cendres. Là, elle découvre l'impensable : l'homme qu'elle a aimé n'était pas celui qu'il prétendait être. Lotte décide de faire le Camino, dans les pas de son mari, afin de comprendre.

Oslo, 1938. Johanna von Fehrsburg hat in Norwegen mit Sven ein neues Leben aufgebaut. Doch der Schatten des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands reicht weit. Als ihr Bruder Karl-Georg eine gefährliche Widerstandsmission plant, nimmt Johanna gegen dessen Willen seinen Platz ein. In Berlin taucht sie unter falscher Identität in eine Stadt ein, die sie kaum wiedererkennt. Während sie im Auftrag des Widerstands Informationen sammelt, begegnet sie Moritz – dem Mann, der ihr einst das Herz brach.

Three women. One unbreakable curse. One last chance for freedom… They call her the She-Wolf. France, 1312. Queen Isabella is a new mother. Her baby boy not only secures her ill-starred marriage but her own precarious future. And yet, she is terrified. A thirteen-generation curse hangs over her...

Montana, 1935. Bludgeoned and buried alive by his bank-robbing partner and half brother, Benjamin Kilt should have been a corpse. But now very much on this side of heaven, Kilt’s quest for revenge will be unlike anything the West has ever seen. Kilt is joined on his journey by Bonnie, a thirteen-year-old Indigenous girl he somewhat reluctantly rescues from her abusive “keeper.”

La novela exige una participación activa de sus lectores, quienes deberán, como un detective más, reconstruir las pistas que la historia va dejando a su paso. En ello, el fino humor de Andújar será pieza clave, pues bajo la burla, bajo la risa, como predicaba el italiano Luigi Pirandello, subyace siempre la crítica. La imagen "ideal", "armónica" y "feliz" de República Dominicana, será desdibujada por la ironía de Andújar, y cederá paso a un retrato invadido por la corrupción.

Spring 1924. Scotland. The ancient halls of Clan McFee’s castle echo with the whispers of history—and now, the stirrings of ambition and rivalry. The old Laird has passed away, leaving no will, no children, and no clear heir.

After surviving war, betrayal, and an assassination attempt, Lord Peregrine Fitzroy has been pressed into service as a double agent—caught between the Queen and a shadowy organisation threatening to bring England to its knees. His only advantage? The sharp mind and shrewd instincts he once learned to hide from the ton.

When historian Ethan Caldwell uncovers a cryptic message in the journals of Edward Hamilton, he and Mia Hamilton—Edward’s last living relative—are thrust into a conspiracy stretching back to the birth of the nation. Alongside Adler, a gifted cryptographer, they unravel coded journals, hidden chambers, and the lost writings of Dr. Benjamin Church, revealing that America’s true revolution was fought not just on battlefields, but in the shadows

THE MEN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. July 1947. Roswell. James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, architect of American power, stands in a desert hangar staring at the impossible. Three bodies on steel tables. One of them still breathing. What he builds to contain that secret will outlive him. What he discovers will kill him. November 1963. Dallas. A young president carries a question from that Roswell hangar into the White House. Sixteen years of buried files. Sixteen years of men who knew too much dying in ways that looked like accidents. Now Kennedy is asking questions again. And the machinery ...

Easter, 1177. Canterbury Cathedral, home to the tomb of martyr Saint Thomas Becket, bears the wounds of a terrible fire. Benedict, prior of the great church, leads its rebuilding. But horror interrupts the work. One of the stonemasons is found viciously murdered, the dead man’s face disfigured by a shocking wound. When the king’s clerk Aelred Barling and his assistant Hugo Stanton arrive on pilgrimage to the tomb, the prior orders them to investigate the unholy crime.

December 1941: As bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, singer Hattie James faces a personal nightmare when her sister Olivia vanishes. The kidnappers demand an impossible price—her father's classified list of undercover American and Nazi spies. Wartime paranoia and family loyalty take Hattie to Washington, D.C., with Maya and Commander Leo Bell to hunt an elusive, high-ranking mole in the War Department who is after those lists. Leo, a military intelligence officer with access to classified operations, becomes their crucial inside man, navigating the treacherous corridors of power.

In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the best-selling authors of all time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest trigger man in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his dying mentor that he will go straight. But with the Rangers on his tail, he struggles to find sanctuary.

Sometimes when a man’s luck turns, it turns hard. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are experienced drifters, but now the two trail pards are down to their last dime. So they accept the best job they can get, serving as deputies in a boomtown called Mankiller. Their boss is a drunken sheriff named Biscuits O'Brien, who would rather drink than work. Their tin stars are mighty pretty, but the job starts to get serious quickly, and soon the newly-minted lawmen are standing between a cunning clan of killers and the town's desperate citizens.

It’s 1941. Clyde and Abigail Cooper are happy newlyweds. She’s from Seattle’s upper crust, and he’s from the wrong side of the tracks. Yet the two are deeply in love. All Clyde wants is to give Abby the life she deserves. But his plans are dashed with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. However much he loves his new wife, Clyde can’t ignore his duty to serve.

The Marine Raiders are licking their wounds after the successful battle at Tasimboko. But that battle was only the preview of the main event to come…and now the clock is ticking down to destruction!

Harry Fox wants revenge. For a life stolen. For a family shattered. The only way to get it is by finding lost relics of Charlemagne. Harry is getting closer to recovering the relics of the great king when a man returns from his past. A man with an offer Harry cannot decline. A chance to locate the true prize of a Roman legend. A prize hidden by one of humanity’s most enigmatic objects – the Antikythera.

Some histories are erased for a reason. Some truths fight back. Dr. Adrian Voss built his life on patterns, proof, and the belief that truth survives scrutiny. After a career-ending scandal he didn’t commit, isolation is his refuge—until he uncovers a hidden cipher in a 15th-century manuscript that no one else is meant to see. The symbols feel familiar. Personal. Like echoes of the code his late father obsessively sketched before his unexplained death. As Adrian digs deeper, doors open that should have stayed sealed. Colleagues turn hostile. His apartment is quietly breached. A symbol ...

For centuries the Wilde women have lived at Foxglove—a cabin hidden deep in the woods, promising to shield them from the horrors and expectations of the outside world. But in every generation, danger lurks. For every Wilde woman who chooses to call Foxglove home, they do so with a warning passed from mother to daughter like a sacred heirloom: Foxglove’s secrets must never be spoken about—especially to men.

A breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The North Water A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AMC Miniseries event April 19 Tues 10/9c John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has...