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Królowa Saby

Ewa Kassala

Królowa Saby

Czy wiecie, kiedy nastąpi koniec świata? Królowa Saby go przepowiedziała… Potężna władczyni starożytnej Saby od wieków działa na naszą wyobraźnię. Kim była? Co łączyło ją z Salomonem, uważanym za najmądrzejszego władcę starożytnego świata? Czy była współautorką Pieśni nad Pieśniami? Kto był ojcem jej jedynego syna? Kto wykradł z Jerozolimy Arkę Przymierza? Miłość trwalsza niż czas, legendarna świątynia Salomona, kapłanki bogini, magiczne rytuały, wojny, spiski, niezmierzone bogactwo, sunące...

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Ewa Kassala

Kleiner Mann - was nun? (Gekürzte H...

Ханс Фаллада

Kleiner Mann - was nun? (Gekürzte Hörbuchfassung)

Der Weltbestseller erstmals so, wie Fallada ihn schrieb. Zu brisant, um so gedruckt zu werden: Von der Urfassung des Romans, der Hans Fallada am Vorabend der Machtergreifung der Nazis zum international gefeierten Erfolgsautor machte, wurde ein Viertel noch nie veröffentlicht. Der Verkäufer Johannes Pinneberg und seine Freundin Lämmchen erwarten ein Kind. Kurz entschlossen heiratet das Paar, auch wenn das Geld immer knapper wird. Trotz Weltwirtschaftskrise und erstarkender Nazis nimmt Lämmchen...

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Ханс Фаллада

Daughter of Shiloh

Ilene Shepard Smiddy

Daughter of Shiloh

This historical novel is based on the life of young Clarinda Allington, taken captive by Indians in 1793. She was kept twelve years in the Cherokee nation by a handsome and powerful war chief named Chulio Shoe Boots, who she thought to be her savior. Her heart’s desire was to someday return back to her Kentucky home. Essentially fiction, the novel contains many documented facts that reveal the fascinating relationship between the chief and his white slave girl. The conflicts surrounding the...

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Ilene Shepard Smiddy

Atonement for Iwo

Lester S. Taube

Atonement for Iwo

During World War II, Keith Masters, an infantry officer, engages four Japanese in a cave on Iwo Jima, killing three outright. The fourth, a sergeant, is mortally wounded, but is finished off by one of Masters’ men. Twenty years later, Masters, a bitter failure with work and family, suffers a heart attack, and develops the fixation that his misfortunes are due to being responsible for what he concludes is the murder of the Japanese sergeant. He goes to Japan to seek the family of the dead man, to...

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Lester S. Taube

Esther’s Pillow: The Tar and Feathe...

Marlin Fitzwater

Esther’s Pillow: The Tar and Feathering of Margaret Chambers

The year is 1911. After attending college for two years, Margaret Chambers returns home to teach in the one-room school house of her youth. Trouble brews quickly. The God-fearing citizens of his small, weather-beaten town feel threatened by the bright-eyed, full-figured Margaret. She’s too smart by half and she needs to be put in her place. The men devise a plan to chase Margaret from the county forever. But fueled by whiskey and the shame of their own desires, their plan soon spins out of...

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Marlin Fitzwater

Daniel O'Thunder

Ian Weir

Daniel O'Thunder

Library Journal Best Books 2011: Historical Fiction selectionFinalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ PrizeFinalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fiction AwardFinalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize1851. London, England. Once a well-known prize-fighter with a terrifying right fist (known as The Hammer of Heaven”), Daniel O’Thunder has seen the light, and now the protection of the poor and the weak is his...

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Ian Weir

Prinzessin Diana

Bettina Arlt

Prinzessin Diana

Am 31. August 1997 schied eine Frau aus dem Leben, deren Popularität bis heute ungebrochen ist: Lady Diana Spencer, die Prinzessin von Wales und Mutter des zukünftigen britischen Thronfolgers. Mit ihrem politischen und sozialen Engagement sowie ihren spektakulären Auftritten erregte Lady Diana stets großes Aufsehen – nicht immer zum Vorteil der britischen Krone. So war das Ende eines schönen Traumes nur eine Frage der Zeit. Mit der Scheidung von Prinz Charles begann für Diana ihr letzter und...

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Bettina Arlt

Over the Plain Houses

Julia Franks

Over the Plain Houses

It’s 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband’s bed, storing strange keepsakes in a...

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Julia Franks

Vespasian: Der falsche Gott - Vespa...

Robert Fabbri

Vespasian: Der falsche Gott - Vespasian 3 (Ungekürzt)

Im Jahr 34 n. Chr.: Tiberius ist tot, Caligula ergreift die Macht. Wie so viele hofft auch Vespasian auf bessere Zeiten. Doch tatsächlich muss er zusehen, wie die große Hoffnung Roms zu einem blutrünstigen, verschwenderischen Despoten verkommt. Caligulas gewagtester Plan: eine Brücke über die Bucht von Neapel, über die er dekoriert mit dem Brustpanzer Alexanders des Großen reiten will. Vespasian soll die legendäre Rüstung rauben. Sein Unterfangen bringt Gewalt, Chaos und Mord – und einen Verrat,...

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Robert Fabbri

The Children Bob Moses Led

William Heath

The Children Bob Moses Led

Winner of the Hackney Literary Award and selected in 2002 by Time as one of the eleven best novels on the African American experience, The Children Bob Moses Led is a compelling, powerful chronicle of the events of Freedom Summer. The novel is narrated in alternating sections by Tom Morton, a white college student who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for the summer, and Bob Moses, the charismatic leader of the Mississippi Summer Project. With clarity and honesty, Heath’s...

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William Heath

Pale Blue Light

Skip Tucker

Pale Blue Light

Pale Blue Light is a rare espionage thriller set in the Civil War. Young Rabe Canon leaves his family's Alabama plantation at the start of the Civil War, befriending Major Thomas Jackson of Virginia Military Institute – later the esteemed Stonewall Jackson. When Jackson suffers a mortal wound at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Canon suspects foul play. Canon undertakes a cross-country journey to discover the truth behind Jackson's death, one that entangles Canon with a beautiful Yankee...

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Skip Tucker

The Magnetic Girl

Jessica Handler

The Magnetic Girl

In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father’s bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence .  Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection. “I only wanted to be Lulu Hurst, the girl who captivated her brother until he could walk and talk...

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Jessica Handler

The Strong Current

Robert Day

The Strong Current

Otci, a rising youth in the village of Attaugee in the great Muskogee nation, knew the rites of initiation to warriorhood and manhood would demand the best of mind, body and spirit. But what he didn’t know was how quickly the tensions mounting in the nation would bring the ultimate conflict, and challenge Otci to his very core. Otci and his brother initiates are trained by a master legend-giver for the ceremony that marks their transition. He is assisted by Pakahle, a beautiful and insightful...

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Robert Day

Glorious Boy

Aimee Liu

Glorious Boy

It’s 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. They cannot, however, take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear. With time running out, Shep...

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Aimee Liu

Legenden des Krieges, Teil 4: Der g...

Ксюша Ангел

Legenden des Krieges, Teil 4: Der große Sturm (Gekürzt)

Frankreich 1359: Im Dienste der englischen Krone kämpfen sich Thomas Blackstone und seine Männer bis nach Paris vor. Doch die Hauptstadt ist uneinnehmbar. Allerdings besteht der Prinz von Wales darauf, die ungeschützten Vorstädte dem Erdboden gleichzumachen. Thomas sieht dem Gemetzel angewidert zu bis ein gewaltiger, vernichtender Sturm aufzieht. Da bietet sich Thomas eine einmalige Chance: Er erhält den Auftrag, nach Mailand zu reisen, und sieht die Zeit seiner Rache gekommen. Schließlich gaben...

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Ксюша Ангел

Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stori...

Blume Lempel

Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018) Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: «When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn’t know we’d meet a young woman lying on the table at an abortion clinic. We...

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Blume Lempel

Isra-Isle

Nava Semel

Isra-Isle

This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as a place of refuge for the Jewish people and called it Ararat.” But no Jews came. What if they had followed Noah’s call? In Nava Semel’s alternate history Jews from throughout the world...

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Nava Semel

Antonia Mercé, "LaArgenti...

Ninotchka Bennahum

Antonia Mercé, "LaArgentina"

Antonia Merc&#233;, stage-named La Argentina, was the most celebrated Spanish dancer of the early 20th century. Her intensive musical and theatrical collaborations with members of the Spanish vanguard – Manuel de Falla, Frederico Garc&#237;a Lorca, Enrique Granados, N&#233;stor de la Torre, Joaqu&#237;n N&#237;n, and with renowned Andalusian Gypsy dancers – reflect her importance as an artistic symbol for contemporary Spain and its...

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Ninotchka Bennahum

The City of Musical Memory

Lise A. Waxer

The City of Musical Memory

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Popular Music Books (2002) Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM) Alan P. Merriam Prize (2003)Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an...

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Lise A. Waxer

The Putin Interviews - Oliver Stone...

Оливер Стоун

The Putin Interviews - Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin (Unabridged)

WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARY Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span-never before has the Russian leader spoken in such depth or at such length with a Western interviewer. No topics are off limits in the...

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Оливер Стоун

The Rosas Affair

Donald L. Lucero

The Rosas Affair

In the winter of 1637, Luis de Rosas, a tough, two-fisted soldier, stood outside the convent door beating on its staves with a gloved hand. Appointed to the governorship of New Mexico, he had petitioned the viceregal authorities for permission to set out from the city of Mexico for Santa Fe in advance of the regular supply caravan. While he was initially obliged to curb his restlessness, he could wait no longer. He wanted the supply wagons loaded and for Fray Tomas Manso and the men of his...

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Donald L. Lucero

Die Welt von Morgen - Fotografinnen...

Ксюша Ангел

Die Welt von Morgen - Fotografinnen-Saga, Band 3 (Ungekürzt)

Nach dem Tod ihres Onkels Josef hat Mimi Reventlow Laichingen verlassen und ihre Arbeit als Wanderfotografin wiederaufgenommen. Doch sie ist nicht mehr allein unterwegs, denn der Gastwirtsohn Anton hat sich Mimi angeschlossen. Gemeinsam bereisen die beiden das Land und wollen nach der dörflichen Enge Laichingens endlich großstädtischen Trubel erleben. Während ihres Aufenthalts in Berlin gelingt es Anton, einen florierenden Postkartenhandel aufzubauen, während Mimi dagegen immer öfter...

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Ксюша Ангел

Teil 2 von 2 - Der lange Krieg: Soh...

Christian Cameron

Teil 2 von 2 - Der lange Krieg: Sohn des Achill (Ungekürzt)

Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den >>Menschenschlächter

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Christian Cameron

Ägypten & die Pharaonen

Ксюша Ангел

Ägypten & die Pharaonen

Das alte Ägypten ist ein Phänomen für die Wissenschaft und ein beständiger Quell neuer Hypothesen und abenteuerlicher Theorien. Die vorliegende Hördokumentation beschäftigt sich mit dem Alltag des Pharaonenvolkes, von der Einigung unter- und Oberägyptens über den Pyramidenbau bis zum Einfluss der Römer. Wir betrachten eingehend die Ägyptomanie Bonapartes und die Wiederkehr dieses Kultes durch Carters Weltsensation, der Entdeckung des unberührten Königsgrabes Tutenchamuns.

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Ксюша Ангел

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