Every night, Tayauh offers a new beating heart to Huitzilopochtli so he would deign to rise again the next morning. However, could he make one more sacrifice to please the Sun God and save the doome……続きを見る
著者:Sara Houghteling
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年02月17日
A sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
Max Berenzon’s father is the most successful art dealer in Paris,……続きを見る
著者:James D. Houston
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer storiesーthe ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumo……続きを見る
著者:Raymond Khoury
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月08日
Raymond Khoury, the international bestselling author of The Last Templar, is back with another ingenious, fast-paced thriller that straddles present-day NYC and Russia in the early 1900sーthe time o……続きを見る
What would old Abraham tell us if he could talk to us today from his tent in southern Canaan? What would he say about sacrificing his son Isaac? about Sodom and his fickle nephew Lot? about Lot’s wi……続きを見る
"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."--Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times
From the author of Gate of ……続きを見る
Frances Wiseman’s first six years were filled with fear and sleepless nights. Halten, the mining village where she lived, housed not just a working coalmine, but also an armaments factory within its……続きを見る
The Young Alaskans On The Missouri
by Emerson Hough
The Young Alaskans By Emerson Hough The Young Alaskans follows the outdoor adventures of three Alaskan boys in a series of books initially publish……続きを見る
In this richly imagined novel based on the life of seventeenth-century painter, Johannes Vermeer, Barbara Shoup evokes the artist's world through the eyes of his favorite daughter. Willful, dreamy, ……続きを見る
EXTRAIT:
À la fin d’avril 1830, je partis de Paris pour m’aller mettre aux ordres de M. le lieutenant-général Berthezène. Il commandait la première division de l’armée d’Afrique, et j’étais nommé so……続きを見る
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Presque au même instant où le malheureux Nietzsche perdait la raison, un jeune professeur de philosophie mourait à Berlin. Heinrich von Stein, qui avait été, lui aussi, admis dans lïntimité……続きを見る
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Il a fallu à M. Charles-Frédéric Glasenapp, le consciencieux biographe de Richard Wagner, cinq gros volumes pour raconter l’histoire de la vie du maître allemand, sans même en exagérer, le ……続きを見る
A novel covering the 'lost' years of Leonardo da Vinci when he lived in France at the end of his life. The story is based within the factual background of the patronage of Francois I, when he invite……続きを見る
The book contains 37 short-stories:
A B-Mans Nightmare
How the English Language got its strange Tune
The New Earl of Balmore
How Are You, Today?
A Matter of Concentration
Nightly Departure
The Emper……続きを見る
Denne bog blev konciperet i 1971, hvor det meste af handlingen foregår, men skrevet blev den først 27 år senere. Titlen hentyder dels til hovedpersonens navn, dels til en væbnet aktion i 1944 under ……続きを見る
(Originally titled SuperMom in Galilee)
A unique, absorbing journey in time crafted by a USA-Today bestselling novelist and a New Testament scholar.
Rachel did everything right. But no matter where ……続きを見る
Written by a retired British soldier, Deep Trouble is the first in a trilogy of novels telling the breathless, vivid story of one young recruit's experience of one of the greatest military invasions……続きを見る
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David Teniers, dit le jeune, ou Teniers II, est le plus célèbre et le plus remarquable des peintres de la dynastie artistique de ce nom. Avec Rubens, Van Dyck et Jordaens, il est des quatre……続きを見る
In 1956, the Yakima Indian Reservation in Central Washington is thrown into turmoil when the son of the most powerful White-man on the Reservation is found dead in his family’s swimming pool. Derek ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Houston
出版社: University of Arizona Press
発売日: 2016年01月15日
Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of t……続きを見る
It’s not Roots, Twelves Years a Slave, or even Django Unchained. Shade of the Sun is not the traditional telling of the events of slavery. Then how should Shade of the Sun be described? In a word, B……続きを見る
The Story of the Outlaw discusses the career of John A. Murrell, a cunning criminal who masterminded a gang of hundreds of killers and thieves that ranged across the South before the Civil War; the ……続きを見る
Heraklion, May 1941. On the north coast of Crete, the British forces are redeploying troops, ahead of a German invasion of the island. A brutal defeat in Greece has forced them to withdraw from the ……続きを見る
著者:Emerson Hough
出版社: The Floating Press
発売日: 2017年02月21日
Born in Iowa, Emerson Hough moved to a frontier town in New Mexico to practice law after finishing his schooling. Over time, his focus shifted to journalism and eventually to fiction. Like many of h……続きを見る
In the early 1960s, a golden age for newly-discovered writers, Chris Duffy
was something of a nearly man. His debut novel was reasonably successful;
his second was turned down as being too like the ……続きを見る
Frances Housden returns with her best–selling, award–winning Chieftain series in this short novel about a young woman with a strong will and a sharp mind, and the man who has nothing to offer but hi……続きを見る
The award–winning Chieftain series continues in a new, full–length novel about duty, determination and the power of love to heal all wounds.
Rob is the McArthur heir and is determined to prove himse……続きを見る
2014 RWA RITA Award finalist for Best Historical Romance and 2014 Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ) KORU Readers' Choice Award winner!
Euan McArthur is a chieftain in need of an heir.
While stil……続きを見る