I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of...
En débarquant à Constantinople le 13 mai 1506, Michel-Ange sait qu’il brave la puissance et la colère de Jules II, pape guerrier et mauvais payeur, dont il a laissé en chantier l’édification du tombeau, à Rome. Mais comment ne pas...
"A masterful tale of treachery and duplicity… Spellbinding."-New York Times
The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his...
"A masterful tale of treachery and duplicity… Spellbinding."-New York TimesThe year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of...
This book is the story of a Rebel girl who sympathizes with General Lee and his troops as they face Union army preparing to attach their encampment. One soldier of the Yankee troops endeavors to keep her safe from attack by his Union comrades.
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The fateful passions and chequered fortunes of a rich, landed family, the Castallacks, and their illegitimate parish brothers, are recreated with the clash of character characteristic of the author's other novels which include "Cashelmara" and "Sins...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the...