Sigrid Haldorsen entfuhrt ihre Leser in eine Welt, die zugleich fremd und verbluffend vertraut ist: das antike Babylon, jene machtige Stadt zwischen Euphrat und Tigris, in der Recht und Unrecht keine abstrakten Begriffe, sondern Fragen des taglichen Uberlebens waren.
October 1854: Admidst brutal cannonade and flashing sabers, the Plain of Balaclava thundered to two of the most incredible military maneuvers of all timethe charge of the Heavy and Light Brigades.
A Return to Duty, the eighth volume in the award-winning Cutler Family Chronicles series, is set in Massachusetts and the Far East in the early 1850s during the aftermath of the First Opium War fought between China and Great Britain.
A Return to Duty, the eighth volume in the award-winning Cutler Family Chronicles series, is set in Massachusetts and the Far East in the early 1850s during the aftermath of the First Opium War fought between China and Great Britain.
Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat: A Story of Travel and Adventure by Oliver Optic epitomizes 19th-century American juvenile fiction, blending maritime adventure with coming-of-age themes.
The Kentons by William Dean Howells is a quintessential American novel embodying the essence of social realism within the intricate tapestry of 19th-century United States.
Titel: Die letzte Wache der BlucherDas Buch basiert auf den personlichen Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen von Heinrich "e;Heini"e; Kowalski, einem einfachen, 1918 geborenen Matrosen aus Stettin.
Dans les vastes etendues de l'Afrique australe, la ou le veld brule sous un soleil de cuivre et ou la terre elle-meme semble parler a ceux qui savent l'ecouter, Nolwazi Dlamini nous convie a un voyage litteraire d'une rare profondeur.
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow by Herbert Strang is an exhilarating historical fiction adventure set against the backdrop of 18th-century naval warfare in the Caribbean.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah is a captivating book that transports readers to the enchanting realm of ancient China through a tapestry of fantasy, adventure, and Oriental storytelling.
The second volume in the Markham of the Marines trilogyWith his fiery Irish blood and well-known reputation for trouble, Lieutenant George Markham leads his embattled Royal Marines against the French in Corsica.
The second volume in the Markham of the Marines trilogyWith his fiery Irish blood and well-known reputation for trouble, Lieutenant George Markham leads his embattled Royal Marines against the French in Corsica.
The Plan stars Canterbury, a jaded ETF officer tired of the hypocrisy of the force and his life on the rocks, trapped in an impossible situation on the last train of the night when it's attacked by creatures that he and the passengers are no match for, forcing an impossible decision to be made.
More than twenty successive months, Charles Dickens captivated perusers with his regularly scheduled payments of the clever Bleak House, an intricate and convincing depiction of the English legal framework.
Two years after the Shroud of Turin was recovered from a brazen heist committed by billionaire zealot Pierre Delacroix, Nicole McHenry and her team at the University of South Carolina have discovered something amazing encoded into the Shroud.
