Urban Historical

The year is 1645. A murderous war has been raging in the Holy Roman Empire for 28 years, and there seems to be no end in sight. Gustav and his master have been banned from the Black Feldsher Guild and have had to take leave of the Swedish army. In the middle of winter, they roam the battle-scarred land as simple healers, helping the war-weary people. But their enemies are still on their trail.

The year is 1642. As a decades-long war rages through Central Europe, military field surgeon Martin shares a shocking truth with his apprentice Gustav: Demons are real, and the victims of battle are their reward for fighting for mankind. A reveal that changes everything.

The Corvo Kingdom is on the brink of ruin. The wasting sickness is spreading, the queen is dying, and the people are living under the constant threat of invasion. The fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a woman reluctant to embrace her destiny.

First in a series of 10 titles about the Black Bats (BB) Motorcycle Club by Ochil Kinnaird, this first story unfolds at the start of Shug’s journey into the world of motorcycle MCs…a nostalgic look back at the biker scene in Scotland during the mid-'70s and '80s. It details the life of a young man as he progresses through to adulthood and the effects that being involved in a "biker gang" had on the way his life was continually shaped.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Verano de 1943. Todos los países de Europa han ido cayendo bajo el dominio nazi. El viejo continente, reducido a escombros, se ha convertido en un animal herido que agoniza víctima de los bombardeos y el fuego de artillería.

Drei Frauen und die schillernde Welt des Wintergarten-Varietés. Berlin in den 20er Jahren: Ganz unscheinbar und auf Fotos diejenige, die man gerne mal übersieht – das ist Nina von Veltheim - aber nur, solange sie stillsteht. Sobald sie in Bewegung gerät, ist sie ein Vulkan, das sagt nicht nur ihr Zwillingsbruder Carlo. Und wer sie einmal von ihrer Begeisterung für die Bühne hat sprechen hören, der vergisst sie nie wieder. So ist es denn auch kein Wunder, dass es sie aus der Uckermark ins brodelnde Berlin zieht, wo sie sich ihren Traum vom Theater erfüllen will.

A very small number of people with IQs of over 1,000 secretly live among us, concealing their extraordinary intelligence and mental powers. They call themselves Geniuses, and have—for millennia—influenced our world. Over the centuries, evil Geniuses have tried to control ordinary people, who they refer to as Ordinaries, and dominate the world. Good Geniuses have opposed them, defending the rights of Ordinaries to control their own destinies and live in freedom. A major confrontation between good and evil Geniuses is about to begin. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Isabeau Steelhaugh is unlike any other young lady of 1871 London—by day she is an aristocrat, by night a lab experiment. After escaping her insane mother at CinderElla's ball, Isabeau’s wolflike traits remain a secret until her sister is kidnapped. Now, Isabeau will stop at nothing to get her back. Even trust a secretive enemy. Commissioner Basil Traverson meticulously follows the Dangerous Mutant Directive: remove any mutant dangerous to society. When Isabeau is arrested, Basil offers a deal: He will help find Aurelia…if she will act as bait to lure her mother out of hiding.

Оперативного сотрудника Хронопатруля Виктора Нечаева ошибочно приговорили к смертной казни. Если бы не напарница Наташа Ростова, его жизнь так бы и закончилась. Теперь он в теле годовалого малыша в знатной венецианской семье двенадцатого века, и сама судьба предлагает ему выбор....

Eben noch kämpfte Alois Pokora im Weltkrieg. Dann erwacht er im Krankenhaus in Berlin – und die Welt ist eine andere: das Jahr 1918, der Kaiser geflohen, die alte Ordnung zerbricht. Der Bergmannssohn Alois, der Erste in der Familie mit Schulbildung, sehnt sich nach seiner Liebe Agnes – lässt sich aber bald von der soghaften neuen Freiheit erfassen, geistig, revolutionär, auch erotisch. Er gerät in die Berliner Halbwelt, schult für die dubiose "Baronin" eine Kampftruppe, trifft Rosa Luxemburg.

Ankhesenamun needs to produce an heir to the throne—quickly. Pharaoh Tutankhamun is young and weak. His chief advisors are planning his quiet removal, and Ankhesenamun hopes to hold them off by producing an heir who can become a stronger Pharaoh. When Pharaoh's advisors move the court from the desert city of Akhetaten back to ancient Memphis, Ankhesenamun is thrown into a new world of danger, secrets, and old gods. Her dreams warn her of a blond-haired man who she will fall desperately in love with—and who will die by her own hand.

The Eye of Horus is almost within Ankhesenamun's grasp. She now knows it definitely exists and she even knows where it was hidden just a few years ago. But when she reaches her destination, what awaits her there is nothing like she had expected. She was warned the gods wouldn't allow the Eye to be easily found. She was told she might crave its power for herself. She didn't take either warning seriously enough. Ankhesenamun will be tested until she breaks, and only then will the gods decide whether she is permitted to wield the Eye.

Mourning Thrax’s death, Ankhesenamun tries to find peace again. But as she resumes her normal life, her world is upended by another death—this time, that of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. As Ankhesenamun tries to keep control of her throne and her country, the chief advisors tighten their own hold on power. Stripped of all authority and confined to her chambers, Ankhesenamun finally does the unthinkable—she sends a message to the Hittite king offering the throne to one of his sons.

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.

München 1924: Der 18-jährige Leo und seine Freunde haben mit der Schule abgeschlossen. Die ganze Welt steht ihnen offen. Wenn da nicht die verflixte Sache mit der Liebe wäre: Schon seit Kindheitstagen ist Leo in seine Nachbarin Marilli verliebt. Doch die Liebe bleibt unglücklich. Ablenkung bieten ihm die Tanzabende mit seinem besten Freund Biwi und wechselnden Frauenbekanntschaften. Als eine von ihnen schwanger wird und die Freundschaft zu Biwi zerbricht, weiß Leo keinen Ausweg mehr.

In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gulledge is 11 years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother's native peoples, the Tsalagi, better known as the Cherokee.

Virginia Reed survived the Donner Party Werewolves only to find herself in a life and death struggle with a creature out of nightmares. When gold is discovered, California becomes flooded with miners who push Indian tribes from their lands, or kill them if they refuse to leave. But there is a creature in the mountains that won't be so easily removed, who reacts to the invasion of his territory by slaying everyone who trespasses.

The Grace family is back, facing some of their biggest challenges yet as World War II peaks, then reaches its cataclysmic finale. Old situations are put to rest while new ones spring up to set the stage for the follow-up series.

When Valeria Karjan's hand was given in marriage to the handsome and powerful Count Vlad Dracula, she dreamed of happiness but, instead, her life was filled with longing for her absent husband, their country ravaged by war. When Vlad a last returned from the battlefield, he was a changed man, an alluring and dangerous creature with a thirst for her blood...and more wives.

Год 1921-й от Рождества Второго Спасителя. В мире, как и всегда, неспокойно. Моря и океаны все так же полны чудовищ, а земля все так же иссечена шрамами Ожогов, что остались после войны Древних.