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In the 15th century, Pedro, a young orphan, lives in Cordoba under the care of monks. When he learns that the Señor de Marchena is looking for men to colonize lands near the border of the Kingdom of Granada, he decides to venture into...

Two women, brought together by a child, and a secret that will change everything... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara in the London Orphans' Workhouse, Bess Bright returns to retrieve the child. Fearing the worst, that Clara may have died...

Peru, 1887. All over the country, people are talking about one man and his incredible discovery. Augusto Berns claims to have found the lost city of the Incas, and the news spreads from Lima to London and New York. But who is the supposed...

Drawing inspiration from the story the world forgot and the Russian government denies, Erin Littleken recounts the crisis of a man-made famine in Ukraine that claimed nearly four million lives. It is 1929 and Katya is sixteen years old, she is surrounded by her...

Stalin is no longer among the living. In 1954, after three decades imprisoned in prison camps, Ivan Grigorievich returns to Moscow to find that life there has continued without him. From the soulless reunion, loaded with contention and guilt, with his cousin Nikolai, a...

Separatists, Nazis, secret services, freemasonry, conspiracies, romance... All the necessary elements to make up the most desired conspiracy. Hitler has invaded Spain to get Gibraltar. Franco has gone into exile for not bowing to the Führer's intentions. Catalonia has managed to separate from Spain, becoming...

Born and raised in the United States, Mildred Harnack was studying for a PhD in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi Party. In 1932, together with her husband Arvid Harnack, she promoted the creation of a clandestine group that by...

Converted by millions of readers, generation after generation, into the great anti-war classic, All Quiet on the Front is a work of brutal denunciation where Remarque reflects part of his experiences as a combatant in the First World War. With pure realism and closeness,...

Hertz Minsker, a Jewish immigrant, self-proclaimed intellectual and outright charlatan, lives at the expense of real estate magnate Morris Kálisher, a childhood friend. Inveterate seducer, he is married for the fourth time to the charming Bronie and has an affair with Minne, Morris's wife,...

Through the story of three generations of a Jewish family, the Karnowskys, this novel, originally published in 1943, offers us an extraordinary fresh of the first half of the 20th century. David, the patriarch, who at the dawn of the century leaves the Polish...

Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor...

Young Dora lives among the antiques in what was her parents' famous store. She has learned to design jewelry, while her uncle continues the business, but everything changes when an old Greek vase comes into her hands. Dora asks for help from Edward Lawrence,...

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences,...

Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect...

The Galactic Empire was collapsing. His fall was inexorable, but as slow as the Empire was extensive. It would have gone unnoticed had it not been for a man, Hari Seldon, who knew how to anticipate the future: through the science of psychohistory, he...

In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic...

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal...

In times of communism, party members received updates from the great Soviet Encyclopedia every month. When in July 1953 the dreaded Beria was finally arrested, the encyclopedia still contained a long and laudatory entry dedicated to him. A few days after the arrest, the...

One day in 1624, a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, treasures in his desk a tooth from that whale, which later his daughter, Plautilla, will keep all...