Nouveautés

Charlotte’s success on the RMS Provence has afforded her a certain measure of time and assurance. Taking advantage of that, she has been busy, plotting to prise the man her sister loves from Moriarty’s iron grip. Disruption, however, comes from an unexpected quarter. Lord Bancroft Ashburton, disgraced and imprisoned as a result of Charlotte’s prior investigations, nevertheless manages to press Charlotte into service: Underwood, his most loyal henchman, is missing and Lord Bancroft wants Charlotte to find Underwood, dead or alive.

Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz. Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances.

Having returned to Herouxville, capital of Vestonia, Max Renard has found himself drawn into the dangerous game of courtly intrigue. King Carl III is ill and weakened by his wounds. This leads to tensions between the various princely parties at court. The struggle for influence inside the country is spilling over onto a whole new level. Carl III's foreign enemies are taking advantage of his weakness and ramping up their pressure.

Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and heal from her loss. When she arrives, she begins to unravel the truth about her past, but discovers the mysterious elderly proprietor is harbouring her own secrets…

Färöer-Inseln im 9. Jahrhundert: Nur knapp entkommt die Flotte des Wikingerhäuptlings Gorm mit seiner Geliebten Thyra den ersten Winterstürmen und erreicht den Archipel des ersten Siedlers. Thyras Freiheit ist nah, die nordischen Göttinnen prophezeien ihr eine mächtige Zukunft. Sie lässt sich zur Kriegerin ausbilden, kämpft hart. Doch Intrigen, geprägt von Eifersucht, Machtgelüsten und Brutalität drohen alles zu vernichten

A man shot through the heart with an arrow - the victim a rich outsider who has moved into Ashton Hall in the village of Ashton Steeple...which is Lennox's own village, and everyone is watching as he and Swift try to hunt down the killer. Persi, Lennox's new wife, is keen to help, so is the whole household, including Tommy the boot boy and Greggs the ever stalwart butler. But the killer is clever, and devious and is always a step ahead, and it will take all of Swift's dogged detective work and Lennox's erratic intelligence, to track the murderer down.

Spellmaster Geraldine Hartford has everything she could want — a successful spell shop and close friends and family — but she's still waiting on her own swoon-worthy romance. Her friends think their matchmaking efforts are helping, but it's the tall, handsome stranger in town who immediately catches Gerry's eye. Basil Thorne's life has turned upside down. After his father's death, he's found himself uprooted from Bath to become the head of a family he barely knows.

In the years following the end of the Shah’s dynasty, a major petrochemical refinery is being constructed in northern Iran by the Islamic Regime. While this is good for Iran, it’s not so good for the West. Enter the Organization for Reorganizing Business (ORB), led by Murray Stockman. ORB sends their senior field operative, Matthew Black, into Iran to “fix” the refinery problem. But this won’t be an easy task.

Journaliste Floor keert terug naar de plaats waar ze als jong meisje een geest ontmoette. Ze wil voor eens en altijd bewijzen dat de paranormale wereld daadwerkelijk bestaat - om te beginnen aan haar broodnuchtere collega Kevin, die ze meesleurt naar de plek waar ooit kasteel De Nevelhorst stond. Eenmaal daar wordt Floor geconfronteerd met een verleden dat diepere kraters heeft geslagen dan ze had gedacht. De klauwen van Fredegunde strekken zich verder uit dan ooit tevoren en de entiteit is niet van plan het dodelijke spel dat ze al eeuwen speelt te staken.

Deutschland 1940, ein Volk im Kriegstaumel. Die 25-jährige Elisabeth scheint für ihre Umgebung etwas merkwürdig, da sie lieber zeichnet und Klavier spielt, als den Eltern bei der Bewirtschaftung des Hofes zu helfen. Durch ein dramatisches Ereignis fällt sie in eine tiefe Depression und soll in der Landesheilanstalt Stadtroda genesen. Wovon die Eltern jedoch nichts wissen, ist das Vorhaben von Hitler und seinen willigen Vollstreckern in weißen Kitteln, "lebensunwertes Leben" in der Aktion Gnadentod zu beenden.

Después de la destrucción, ¿qué queda para volver a empezar?, se pregunta David Toscana en La ciudad que el diablo se llevó, una novela coral que hace de la imaginación un proceso de supervivencia en un país devastado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde el futuro parece que no llega nunca. Feliks, Kazimierz, Eugeniusz y Ludwick conviven con las heridas de una ciudad que no acaba de resucitar y recorren las ruinas de Varsovia como si recorrieran sus propias vidas despedazadas por la guerra.

Il 18 dicembre 1922 è una delle tante date rimosse dalla memoria collettiva. Eppure, in quel giorno e poi in quello successivo, il Partito nazionale fascista, diventato da poco forza di governo, mette alla prova per la prima volta la propria totale impunità: fa strage di oppositori politici, uccidendone una trentina. Uno di loro, l'operario Pietro Ferrero, viene addirittura legato vivo a un camion e trascinato per le strade fino a che non esala l'ultimo respiro. Tutto questo avviene in una delle città meno fasciste d'Italia: Torino.

Palermo, 1977. Il direttore di una sede periferica delle Poste viene trovato morto, in una pozza di sangue, nel suo ufficio. Dell'arma del delitto non c'è traccia, ma dalla cassaforte mancano dieci milioni di lire, così le indagini vengono archiviate: una rapina finita in omicidio, un faldone tra i tanti stipati negli scaffali della Mobile. Fino a quando quel caso, per uno strano scherzo del destino, finisce sulla scrivania di Giulia Vella, una giovane ispettrice e profiler che deve individuare il colpevole, a quasi cinquant'anni di distanza.

Londra, 1921. La giovane Opaline fugge dal matrimonio combinato a cui il fratello vuole costringerla per risolvere i problemi finanziari della famiglia. Appassionata da sempre di libri, si rifugia in un'incantevole libreria nel cuore di Parigi, la Shakespeare and Company, dove, con l'appoggio dell'eccezionale proprietaria Sylvia Beach, impara il mestiere di libraia. Quando il fratello riesce a rintracciarla, Sylvia prontamente la manda a Dublino, al numero 12 di Ha'penny Lane, presso un'antica bottega che, con talento e intuito, Opaline trasforma in una libreria specializzata in testi antichi e rari.

È il 1957 e la giovane Elisabetta II, di ritorno dal suo primo viaggio a Parigi nei panni di sovrana del Regno Unito, viene informata di un duplice omicidio: un uomo e una donna sono stati uccisi in un pied-à-terre frequentato da alcuni membri del Club Artemis, un esclusivo gruppo dell'alta società inglese di cui fa parte lo stesso principe Filippo. L'ultima cosa di cui ha bisogno la giovane Elisabetta, che sta lavorando alacremente perché il suo paese abbia un ruolo rilevante nell'Europa del dopoguerra, è uno scandalo che la coinvolga.

The author of this book captures the listener's attention from the start by weaving a tale of a son's grief over the loss of his mother, which is intensified by the coincidental alignment of his mother's burial with his birthday. The man's memories of his mother and the special ritual they shared on his birthday provide a lens through which the listener can explore the anthropological phenomenon of a woman's transition into motherhood.

Yrsa ist eine junge Wikingerin, die sich seit vier Jahren allein um ihrem Bruder Sjalfi kümmert. Schmerzvoll haben die beiden ihre Mutter verloren. Als Yrsa eines Tages von der Jagd nach Hause kommt, ist Sjalfi verschwunden. Verzweifelt macht sie sich auf die Suche und den gefährlichen Weg nach Haithabu: durch dunkle Wälder, auf ihren Fersen ein Mann, der sie aufhalten will. Doch Yrsas Traum war immer schon, eine Kämpferin zu werden.

Blood Pudding renders vividly, at times violently, the raw struggles of the colorful Malinowski family, immigrants from Poland. Gritty, patient, always loving, their son Tad runs a gauntlet of painful and humiliating boyhood cruelties. Above Tad's clear voice, we hear the cold constant heartbeat of a growing industrial city, whose restless yet noble soul surely resides in the lives of these very immigrants.

Hitler is marching across Europe. When the book begins, war is only a rumor. Mary Rosie enjoys the excitement the influx of young servicemen bring to the area, especially one charismatic RAF pilot, to the dismay of Johnny, the boy who expects to marry her. When the first bomb strikes her home town, Mary is catapulted into the grim realities of war. A grim discovery on the beach changes her life forever.

Redeemed From the Ashes is the story of a misguided young woman named Evelyn Richardson whose maimed husband Carl goes missing as a result of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Bedridden because of an injury, she is unable to immediately search him out. The chances of finding him grow thin as the days pass into cruel winter and the chaos of a shattered city remains.