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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Chester, 1400. Riding for his life, with a copy of Chaucer's heretical Canterbury Tales in his possession, friar-sleuth Brother Chandler is ambushed on the road and wakes up in a stranger's house. Is his `rescuer', wool merchant John Willoughby, friend . . . or foe? Willoughby declares that he, like Chandler, has renounced the self-crowned King Henry IV and will help Chandler get his dangerous belongings to safety. He seems trustworthy, but Chandler...
Author
Publisher
Stone Publishing B.V
Pub. Date
2025
Language
Portuguese
Description
Quatro guerreiros das Highlands. Quatro viajantes do tempo modernos. Quatro viagens no tempo. Será que o amor pode sobreviver a uma guerra medieval escocesa? – Para todos os fãs de Outlander!
Quatro histórias de amor, mais de 800 páginas de romance de viagem no tempo repleto de adrenalina.
Descubra as aventuras de quatro pessoas dos tempos atuais lançadas em 1307, no meio das Guerras da Independência Escocesa de Robert
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off a frothy, irreverent, witty new series with an irresistible premise-Romeo and Juliet's daughter as a clever, rebellious, fiercely independent young woman in fair Verona-told from the delightfully engaging point of view of the captivating Rosie Montague herself.Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
20240423
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Thin Man's Nick and Nora Charles in this intrigue-filled debut from film and television writer Shaina Steinberg, as two former spies who shared more than just missions during WWII reunite in 1948 Los Angeles. Can they let go of heartbreak long enough to team up for one last operation?
A tightly-plotted, emotionally rich postwar mystery for fans of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor, as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine's main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia's dander, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhems. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead from a breakfast of poisonous...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a kingdom gripped by turmoil, privileged seventeen-year-old Iseul defies danger to rescue her sister Suyeon from the absolute power of tyrannical King Yeonsan, while Prince Daehyun, desperate to overthrow his despotic half-brother, forms an uneasy alliance with Iseul, leading them to join forces in a perilous gamble against the oppressive regime.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
German physicist Paul Haber fled to America to work on the atomic bomb and avenge the loss of his family to the Nazis, but when he learns that his family is alive in Nazi hands, he must spy on his new homeland to protect them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn't seen Major Ramsey--her handsome but aloof handler in the British government--since their tumultuous mission together three months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Berenice
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"1936. En plena Gran Depresión, en los montes Apalaches de Kentucky, Cussy Mary Carter, de diecinueve años, apodada Damisela y con una rara peculiaridad en su piel, es una de las libreras itinerantes del Proyecto de la Biblioteca Ecuestre auspiciado por Roosevelt como parte de su "New Deal". Huérfana de madre, animosa y obstinada, Damisela ha de hacer frente al desapacible clima, al terreno accidentado, a personajes hostiles y a todo tipo de peligros...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"La venganza de una mujer enfrentada al Olonés, el pirata más sanguinario del Caribe. En el año del Señor de 1667, un galeón inglés parte del puerto de Maracaibo y surca las aguas del mar Caribe en dirección a la isla de La Tortuga. Va tras los pasos del Olonés, un sanguinario bucanero francés. Al mando de la nave se encuentra un personaje a quien nadie conoce, de quien nadie ha oído hablar, pero que está decidido a llegar a su destino...
11) Puggleton park
Author
Series
Puggleton park ; 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a park of Regency-era London, Penelope, a little Pug, gets separated from her Lady and is found by Lady Diggerton, so Penelope does her best to mind her manners in order to stay with her new Lady.
Author
Series
Puggleton park ; 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.
13) Un verano loco
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, un sello de HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp."--
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history....