Genesis: Un'avventura per l'archeologa Nina Wilde e per l'ex by Andy McDermott,Andrea Marti

By Andy McDermott,Andrea Marti

Dopo lo strepitoso successo della scoperta di Atlantide, nel corso di una nuova missione al largo dell'isola di Giava Nina Wilde, l'archeologa dai capelli rosso fuoco, e il suo fidanzato ed ex SAS Eddie Chase trovano delle misteriose tavolette che, in base a una prima ricostruzione, sembrano risalire a una civiltŕ antichissima, vissuta piů di centomila anni prima di qualsiasi popolazione conosciuta. Una scoperta incredibile, che scardinerebbe le certezze di secoli di storia. e che a qualcuno potrebbe non piacere. Infatti, poco dopo aver spedito le immagini dei manufatti a brand new York, l. a. loro nave da ricerca viene attaccata da un gruppo di spietati mercenari al soldo di una misteriosa e temibile organizzazione.
Che cosa rappresentano i segni sulle tavolette che Nina ha scoperto? E perché l'archeologa viene addirittura sospesa dal suo incarico alle Nazioni Unite?
Per lei e consistent with Eddie inizia una drammatica corsa contro il pace, nel disperato tentativo di trovare altre testimonianze di quel misterioso popolo, e soprattutto in step with scoprire lo scomodo segreto che fa tremare gli uomini piů potenti del pianeta, compreso il presidente degli Stati Uniti.
Un'odissea senza esclusione di colpi, dai ghiacci dell'Antartide al cuore del Vaticano, dal bush australiano al deserto sudanese, perché il mondo sappia quello che deve sapere.

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Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby (Altered Space by Gerald Brennan

By Gerald Brennan

April, 1972. 3 mythical astronauts embark on man's boldest area voyage yet--a yearlong challenge to fly earlier our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus.

Island of Clouds, the 1st full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping house epic in keeping with NASA venture proposals from the overdue Nineteen Sixties. concerning literary and cultural impacts starting from Borges and Bukowski to Solaris and Star Trek, this tale of exploration additionally deals a literary probing of the darkish reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire.
Each access in the Altered Space series is a unconditionally separate narrative, yet all take care of the mysteries of area and time, development and circularity. each identify is an enso of phrases within which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets and other people let us clean views at the cycles of our personal lives.

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Die Verschwörung der Maria Stuart: Die Stunde des Francis by Gunter Pirntke,Miriam Stephanie Reese

By Gunter Pirntke,Miriam Stephanie Reese

Im Jahr 1586 stehen sich die beiden direkt gegenüber: Maria Stuart, schottisch, katholisch – und Elisabeth I., englisch, protestantisch, neun Jahre älter als Maria. Sie können sich nicht mehr aus dem Weg gehen, keine anderen Figuren mehr vorschicken, und sie wissen beide, dass nur eine von ihnen die Partie lebend überstehen wird. Für beide ist kein Platz mehr auf dem politischen Spielbrett der Insel, die sie ihre Heimat nennen, und in dessen Landessprache das aktuelle Modewort »Politick« methods und Machtspiele bedeutet. Und auch sie selbst, die Königinnen, sind bei all ihrer Entscheidungsfreiheit nur Figuren in einem Spiel der internationalen Mächte. Und den Sieg wird am Ende ein König davontragen. Wer wird es sein? Gäbe es dan nicht noch einen Francis Walsingham…

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The Cathar Legacy by Nita Hughes,Douglas Hughes

By Nita Hughes,Douglas Hughes

This novel is ready the Cathars - an enlightened staff of Christians who have been massacred in the course of the Albigensian campaign within the thirteenth century. It tells in their treasure, transcribed within the files of the Inquisition as "... so strong as to rework the realm ..." and why the Vatican went to such lengths to attempt and own it ... then ... and now.

For additional information, please stopover at: www.CatharLegacy.com

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Merlin’s Son by Craig Dean

By Craig Dean

Merlin’s Son is a e-book fabricated utilizing the style of historic fiction. Meteor was once the single son of Merlin, the prestigious alchemist and consultant to King Arthur and mentor to William the Conqueror (French: Guillaume le Conquérant), the 1st Norman King of britain. Meteor used to be born 23, March advert 1066. His namesake was once derived from the incidence of a prodigious capturing superstar noticeable within the sky at the evening of his delivery. it's going to betide that the taking pictures big name that was once saw was once the 18th reappearance of Halley’s Comet in recognized human heritage.

Meteor used to be born with a wide crimson birthmark on his face. The lore on the time was once that the crimson spot on his face was once caused while his mom, during pregnancy, stuck a glimpse of the flagitious pink Dragon as pointed out in Beowulf mythology and Arthurian legends.

As a tender boy, Meteor incurred dreadful burns. Merlin handled those burns with a swiftly ready alchemistic therapy, which healed the burns, yet for purposes arcane to Merlin, became his son’s epidermis cobalt blue and stopped his cells from altering through the years. It used to be as though the ocean of his blood was once frozen within the 12 months advert 1075. From this time on, Meteor might continuously have the physique of a boy, and might by no means find a way bodily to mature right into a guy. He might stop to age!

Meteor was once certainly without end trapped in the physique of a prepubescent early life, but he used to be nonetheless mortal and can event loss of life like each person else from an coincidence or a deadly illness. Meteor, over the years, could incur celebrated knowledge and try to follow his erudite wisdom to learn mankind and particularly young ones with targeted wishes. The saga starts previous to the start of the twenty first Century. Meteor is nearly millennial in age himself and befriends Ryann, a five-year-old woman who has simply misplaced her father to a sad and unforeseen demise. Ryann starts off scripting this memoir 4 years later on the age of 9 as an project for her language arts classification. she's going to later revise it in 8th grade after which back as a senior in highschool. Ryann will fabricate the ultimate edit, that is the amalgamation of 4 eras of her lifestyles, in the course of her thirties.

This novel is created with a kaleidoscope of scenes from antiquity and brings to the twenty-first century reader a wealthy tapestry of historic background in addition to the trendy period. The narrative will circulate to 3 Wonders of the traditional global together with the enchanting urban of Babylon and its mesmerizing striking gardens; the resplendent urban of Alexandria and its incredible forty-story lighthouse and eventually the pyramids in Egypt together with the good Pyramid of Giza, in addition to the older Step Pyramid of Djoser within the Saqqara necropolis close to Memphis, Egypt.

The saga should be introduced with the ‘lightness of being’ as may possibly merely be perceived from the 1st flush of an adventurous baby. The content material and type of those early chapters will parallel the simplicity of language, yet surreal mind's eye of this nascent section of existence. Later, the kid will mature into a teen, and the discussion will phosphoresce to this transitional excessive power country of being; the written dialogues will metamorphosize therefore. on the finish of youth, feelings can be exalted with a scintillating narrative that champions the main numinous love tales of Western Civilization. in any case, the kid has now advanced into an grownup and has the chance to understand the complete cornucopia of a lifestyles good lived, with its splendiferous moments of ecstasy, but additionally with the liniments of actual instants of the suffering of destiny. the writer was once so much touched as a early life via the Scottish author J.M. Barrie’s, Peter Pan and the French novelist Jules Verne’s, Vingt Mille Lieues sous Les Mers (20,000 Leagues below the Sea), and offers us Merlin’s Son in a similar style, yet with an further textile woven with gossamers of heritage, plant drugs, previous testomony Script

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Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz

By Susan Shwartz

In the 10th century, the heart of the realm isn't Rome, yet Byzantium--a wonderful empire, upon which the sunlight by no means units. Constantinople, the guts of this potent dynasty, is beginning to get to the bottom of. the nice kings and princes, the holy urban, the affluence of the empire may be scattered to the winds. Attacked via the Turks on each side, Byzantium seems to its emperor for deliverance. Leo Ducas, inheritor to the Byzantine crown, needs to struggle for his inheritance, yet he doesn’t really understand who his enemies are. kept away from via the electorate of Constantinople, Leo flees the town and nice works are published to him. He learns of a realm that falls outdoors his Christian education, a realm of magic and wisdom...

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El líder de los ojos con cielo después de un camino llamado by MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA.

By MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA.

EL LÍDER DE LOS OJOS CON CIELO DESPUÉS DE UN CAMINO LLAMADO AMÉRICA, es una novela histórico-biográfica publicada el 28 de junio del año 2014 en Madrid por MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA sobre l. a. vida y obra del Presidente Profesor Juan Bosch. Es, hasta ahora, los angeles única novela publicada en honor del gran humanista, moralista, literato. político e intelectual latinoamericano con dote de gicante y referente mundial. El autor, tomando como referencia el contexto en que vivió Bosch: los albores de los angeles Guerra Fría y el despertar del mundo de las dos Grandes Guerras Mundiales, parte de un hilo conector somero y tranquilo en el que va envolviendo al lector al conocimiento de unos acontecimientos stories como los angeles disputa de las dos grandes superpotencias: l. a. Unión Soviética y EEUU por el keep an eye on del Caribre, con Cuba y los angeles República Dominicana en juego, naciones por las cuales el planeta estuvo a punto de estremecerse en una Tercera Guerra Mundial.

Publicada en Madrid, España.

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Unser Dasein (Fischer Klassik Plus 1054) (German Edition) by Alfred Döblin,Thomas Keil

By Alfred Döblin,Thomas Keil

Ein philosophischer Streifzug

›Unser Dasein‹, 1933 erschienen, battle Döblins letztes in Deutschland publiziertes Buch vor dem Exil. Es wurde wie viele andere öffentlich verbrannt. Der leidenschaftliche Essay verbindet Anthropologie mit Naturphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie und stellt die umfassende Frage nach dem menschlichen Leben im Ganzen: »Wie ich lebe, wer ich bin, was once mit mir ist, was once mit dem Leben ist, mit unserm Einzelleben, mit unserm Zusammenleben, mit unserm Zusammenleben mit der Erde und den Gestirnen und dem Weltall«.

Mit einem Nachwort von Thomas Keil

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Mars im Widder: Roman (German Edition) by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

By Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Im Dämmer des unerforschten Zwischenreiches, das nur von Dichtern und Ekstatikern bereist wird, im Grenzgebiet zwischen Leben und Tod verläuft diese seltsame Geschichte eines österreichischen Reserveoffiziers, der – aus einem beginnenden Liebesabenteuer jäh herausgerissen – in das wilde Abenteuer des Krieges stürzt.
Mars im Widder – der rote Planet im Sternbild des Widders – wird astrologisch als Kriegsomen gedeutet. Hier ist die Konstellation das metaphysische image für das Eingreifen übersinnlicher Mächte in das Schicksal des Einzelnen.
(Dieser textual content bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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