"Painting Mona Lisa" offers an explanation behind the mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the "Mona Lisa" with him until his death? It is April 26, 1478. Lorenzo De Medici, the head of the powerful Florentine...
Akcję powieści Sienkiewicz osadził w okresie wojen z Turcją (1668-1673), obejmując ważne historyczne momenty, jak: wolną elekcję Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego, oblężenie i przejęcie Kamieńca Podolskiego przez Turków, zwycięstwo...
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...
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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