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A novel of family secrets hidden through two generations, set against the stunning backdrop of the Lake District in midwinter. From the author of The Villa in Italy.One family Christmas uncovers two generations of secrets…The year of 1936 is drawing to a close. Winter grips Wetmoreland and causes a rare phenonmenon: the lakes freeze. For two local families, the Richardsons and the Grindleys, the frozen lake entices long-estranged siblings and children to return home for Christmas.Some are aware...
| Автор | Elizabeth Edmondson |
The first instalment of the highly anticipated biography of Henry VIII, written by one of the UK's most popular, established and exciting historians. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne, 'Henry: Virtuous Prince' is a radical re-evaluation of the monarchy's most enduring icon.Henry VIII was Britain's most powerful monarch, yet he was not born to rule. Thrust into the limelight after the sudden death of his elder brother, Prince Arthur, Henry...
| Автор | David Starkey |
A lost legacy puts one of England’s great families in mortal peril …Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender family, is a house under siege. The heir is abroad, pursuing his own adventures, so the family estates fall under the control of his sister, Campion. Meanwhile, The Fallen Angels, a powerful and dangerous secret society in Europe, need the Lazender fortune to bring their rebellion to England.Surrounded by deceit, Campion draws ever closer to a subtle trap that has been laid for her,...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
Rok 966. Osada Polana przed przyjęciem nowej wiary żyje według pradawnych pogańskich zwyczajów. Matka puszcza karmi, odziewa i chroni ludzi. Pory roku i dni naznaczają ich dolę odwiecznym rytmem pracy i odpoczynku, a bogowie czuwają. Dwie siostry – Rzepka i Dziewanna – zakochują się w Dobromirze, mężnym woju z książęcej drużyny. Jedna z nich zwraca się po pomoc do szeptuchy, ale czy ziołami i magią można zdobyć miłość? Mieszkańcy pogańskiej kniei wiodą proste życie, lecz okrutny los o nich nie...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Związek Dziewanny i Dobromira zakończył się tragicznie. Ukąszona przez jadowitą żmiję młoda żona i matka przed śmiercią łączy dłonie Rzepki i swego męża, wyrażając pragnienie, by się pobrali i zostali rodzicami małego Radosława. W niedługim czasie Rzepka rodzi bliźnięta – Milenę i Ludomira – które wychowują się razem z synem Dziewanny. Mijają lata i dzieci dorastają. Każde poznaje miłość i musi wybrać własną drogę, na której szczęście przeplata się z bólem, radość ze smutkiem, a nadzieja z...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Związek Dziewanny i Dobromira zakończył się tragicznie. Ukąszona przez jadowitą żmiję młoda żona i matka przed śmiercią łączy dłonie Rzepki i swego męża, wyrażając pragnienie, by się pobrali i zostali rodzicami małego Radosława. W niedługim czasie Rzepka rodzi bliźnięta – Milenę i Ludomira – które wychowują się razem z synem Dziewanny. Mijają lata i dzieci dorastają. Każde poznaje miłość i musi wybrać własną drogę, na której szczęście przeplata się z bólem, radość ze smutkiem, a nadzieja z...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Rok 966. W osadzie Polana wciąż żyje się według pradawnych pogańskich zwyczajów. Matka puszcza karmi, odziewa i chroni ludzi. Dni oraz pory roku naznaczają ich dolę odwiecznym rytmem pracy i odpoczynku, a bogowie czuwają. Dwie siostry – Rzepka i Dziewanna – zakochują się w Dobromirze, mężnym woju z książęcej drużyny. Jedna z nich zwraca się po pomoc do szeptuchy, ale czy ziołami i magią można zdobyć miłość? Mieszkańcy pogańskiej kniei wiodą proste życie, lecz okrutny los o nich nie zapomina. ...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Trzeci tom cyklu krzyżackiego. Akcja powieści osnuta jest wokół Bitwy pod Grunwaldem. Podobnie, jak w poprzednich tomach wątki fantastyczne, łączą się z historią. Plastyczna narracja i wartka akcja, to niewątpliwie największe atuty książki. Dodatkową zaletą jest idealne wyważenie proporcji pomiędzy fantastyką i historią. Świetnie poprowadzony wątek kabalistyczny oraz niebanalne zakończenie, czynią z audiobooka Domagalskiego pozycję obowiązkową dla koneserów gatunku.
| Автор | Dariusz Domagalski |
Najbardziej niewygodne prawdy o niemieckiej historii, kontynuacja bestsellerowych „Żydów” i „Sowietów” Trzecia po bestsellerowych Żydach i Sowietach książka z niepoprawnego politycznie cyklu autora Obłędu ’44 i Paktu Ribbentrop–Beck . W Niemcach Piotr Zychowicz jak zwykle zmusza czytelnika do przemyślenia i ponownej oceny spraw – jak nam wmawiano – nie podlegających dyskusji. Burzy mit Hitlera ultraprawicowca, w rzeczywistości zatwardziałego lewaka. Pisze o fatalnych błędach Niemców...
| Автор | Piotr Zychowicz |
<P>Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts...
| Автор | Rachel Haywood Ferreira |
First published in 1958, Centenary at Jalna brings us to 1953 when the Whiteoaks gather to mark the 100th anniversary of their estate. It has now been a century since Captain Philip and Adeline Whiteoak arrived in Canada and built their legacy. While this should be a time of festivity for the clan, tension and discontent surround the forthcoming marriage of a new generations Adeline and Philip, grandchildren of the originals. To make matters worse, young Dennis risks tragedy and Wakefield...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
First published in 1935, Young Renny takes us even further back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don...
| Автор | Kiril Feferman |
In <i>Haj to Utopia</i>, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as «mutiny»—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa. Ramnath brings this epic struggle to life as she traces Ghadar’s origins to the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, its establishment of headquarters in Berkeley,...
| Автор | Maia Ramnath |
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. With detailed descriptions and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, courtiers, priests, entertainers and outcasts come to life in this magnificently illustrated portrait of a colorful society. Most works of Japanese...
| Автор | Charles Dunn |
Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the subject («The Iguala 43: The Truth and Challenge of Mexico's Disappeared Students» (Semiotext(e) – February 3, 2017) is, according to Gibler, based on Web searches and conjecture: the writer...
| Автор | John Gibler |
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism. Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why...
| Автор | Perry Anderson |
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for democratic, civil, and human rights by black Americans and demonstrates that only during crises...
| Автор | Clarence Lusane |
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New YorkerOne week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the foremost contemporary translators of...
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
Five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality for all. Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley Stone, Barbara I. Cook, and Betty M. Nelson opened new avenues for women and became conduits for change, fostering...
| Автор | Angie Klink |
How emigrants were lured to Ontario’s Muskoka in the 1870s in a vain attempt to farm the Canadian Shield. When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario’s Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district’s poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was...
| Автор | Donna E. Williams |
This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out...
| Автор | Mary Alice Downie |
Once home to over 60 flourishing villages, Middlesex County, in the heart of southwestern Ontario, has a rich history just waiting to be discovered. Anthropologist and local history enthusiast Jennifer Grainger has, through extensive research and much personal exploration, produced a valuable document chronicling the «rise and fall» of these pioneering settlements, truly the foundation of all that exist in the area today. Nostalgia buffs, armchair adventurers, genealogists and curious...
| Автор | Jennifer Grainger |
From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed poised to sweep across the Niagara frontier to Lake Ontario, link up with the American fleet, and complete the final expulsion of the British allied forces from Upper Canada. However, only a month later, the...
| Автор | Richard Feltoe |