Historic Fiction
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418089909
The savior of the Empire, Flavio Aecio
In 476, the leader of the Heruli, Odoacer, deposed the Emperor of the West, Romulus Augustus. The Western Roman Empire had come to an end through fighting, corruption, and barbarous interventions... However, in that period, the Roman general Flavio Aecio exercised the functions of Head of State duri..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418089947
The Lord of the Seas
After the magnificent victory of Álvaro de Bazán on Terceira Island, King Felipe II granted him the rank of Captain General of the Ocean Sea. Now his goal is to attack England on its own territory. Everything seemed to be perfectly prepared for the great battle, but it was not really like that. / D..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416100330
The Vienna Talmud
Esther, who is member of a Jewish family, was born on the same day that the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War, was signed. His father, Dr. Paul Dukas, is obsessed with his personal and professional ascent, and after converting to Christianity, he will discover that the Jewish pas..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788417128050
The Last Summer
The year is 1906, and the governor of Saint Petersburg, Yégor Rasimkara, has closed the university as a result of student protests and has taken refuge in his country house, where he intends to protect himself and his family from death threats. It's all in vain, because the man his wife has chosen t..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517770
Finding Dorothy
Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set, Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to ..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517916
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416750030
Wild Strawberries for Miss Freud
On an autumnal afternoon in 1982, Anna prepares to enter for the last time at her home in Maresfield Gardens, London, where she has lived since her family went into exile from Vienna to flee from the Nazis. A autobiographical novel which narrates the Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter’s life, who bec..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411311472
Gadir
In the year of the one hundred and seventy-seventh Olympiad (70 B.C.), Posidonius of Apamea, a famous Rhodian philosopher who had devoted his life to the search for knowledge, finally fulfills an ancient longing: to travel to Gadir, the mythical Canaanite city of distant west, to visit the famous te..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030924
Jirones de seda
In 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unifies China under the Mandate of Heaven. His empire standardizes laws and launches massive works like the Great Wall and his mausoleum. Yet in Xianyang, the imperial jewel, lies a darker, dangerous city. There, a blind healer, a war-scarred young woman, and a disgraced s..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418757754
The Battle of the Spices
Encouraged by the commercial success of the Magallanes expedition after the return of the nail-laden Victoria under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, Carlos I decides to send a second more ambitious fleet to Las Molucas under the command of Don García Jofre de Loaísa, seconded by Guetaria's own ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418414329
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
In the late 1920s, Nikodem Dyzma came to Warsaw in search of employment. His limited intelligence and abilities seem to condemn him to misery, but his life changes after a fortuitous encounter during a banquet in which he sneaks in and meets very influential people. Then his personality changes radi..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418205866
The Girl in the Letter
1956. When Ivy Jenkins becomes pregnant, she is sent to St Margaret, a dark and gloomy house for single mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Today, Samantha Harper is a journalist who comes across a letter from the past written by a young mother who begs to be rescued from St Margaret...
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