American Saga

Seit Jahrhunderten leben die Anishinabe friedlich im Norden Amerikas. Zusammen mit dem großen Ottawa-Häuptling Pontiac eint Otterfrau, die Tochter des Schamanen, mit ihren magischen Kräften die verstreuten Indianer-Stämme an den Großen Seen. Otterfrau hat die Gabe, das Schicksal ihres Volkes in ihren Träumen vorauszusehen. Dann begegnet Otterfrau dem englischen Soldaten David. Kann von ihm wirklich Gefahr ausgehen? Im Kampf ihres Volkes gegen die englischen Eroberer gerät Otterfrau zwischen Pontiac und David und muss sich für ihren Weg entscheiden.

¿Una muchacha descalza haciendo equilibrio sobre la barandilla del Pont Notre-Dame puede cambiar el mundo? Cerca de ella, el violinista más genial de todos los tiempos (y el menos conocido) toca un Stradivarius sin cuerdas, mientras en ambas orillas del Sena se forma una multitud, armada de sonrisas y pancartas en blanco. Y los gobernantes del mundo, reunidos en París, desesperan, pues no puedes mentirle a un pueblo si no sabes lo que reclama.

Packendes Epos vom Kampf einer legendären Kriegerin und Schamanin. Büffelfrau ist auf der ganzen Prärie bekannt. Die Chayenne verehren die Frau mit den magischen Kräften als Seherin, die Pawnee fürchten Büffelfrau als unerschrockene Kämpferin. In dem tapferen Weißer Biber findet die junge Indianerin einen Mann, der ihr ebenbürstig ist und die gleichen Träume und Ziele hat. Als er im Kampf umkommt und die heiligen Pfeile zudem in die Hände des Feindes fallen, fasst Büffelfrau einen Entschluss.

El Inca, una de las novelas más celebradas y traducidas de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, nos presenta una trama heredera de las más frenéticas novelas de aventuras, esta vez desarrollada en un marco histórico latinoamericano. El emperador Inca necesita perpetuarse en el poder, y para ello tiene que engendrar un hijo y una hija que habrán de contraer matrimonio. Los únicos que pueden oponerse a sus deseos son nuestros intrépidos protagonsitas: Rusti Cayambé, comandante de un ejército de diez mil hombres, y la princesa Sangay Chimé.

For Dana, what should be the happiest day of her life becomes the day her world falls apart. Her daughter is born beautiful and healthy, but no one can help noticing the African-American traits in her appearance. Dana's husband, to her great shock and dismay, begins to worry that people will think she has had an affair. Now Dana has to track down the father she never knew and explore the possibility of African-American lineage in his family history.

Rule number one for Bailey Westmoreland: Never fall for a man who would take her away from her tight-knit family's Colorado home. So why is she following rancher Walker Rafferty all the way to Alaska? Bailey tells herself she owes the sexy loner an apology, and once she gets there, it's only right to stay and help him when he's injured - isn't it? Before long, Bailey realizes home might be where you make it - if Walker is ready to take all she has to offer.

In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America. They eventually settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, where they re-created every detail of their former lives, including the centerpiece of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition: the annual pageant for Our Lady of Mount Caramel—or “the Big Time,” as it’s called by the young women competing to be its Queen.

Everything from life, love, infidelity, murder and death are explored as seen through the eyes of Eliza Ma'Koi MacDougal. A young feisty teen who was forced to grow up fast due to the death of the first man who ever loved her. Yes, her dad. She then watches as her mother spirals out of control as she chases her crack demons. Forced to grow up fast and take reins of the household and younger siblings to try and keep them out the foster care system, she meets and falls in love with a 19-year- old male named Griffin.

In this powerful debut novel set in New York City in the 1970s, Bonnie J. Glover explores the meaning of loss and family. Pamela is the middle of three sisters who are trying to keep their lives together after their mother kicks their father out of the house. Pamela only has an imaginary guide, a character from the television show Kung Fu, to help her and advise her when times turn tough.

Critics have compared her work to that of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but J. California Cooper has a warm, witty style that’s definitely her own. Each of her short stories is a gem of downhome wisdom, polished with a bit of gossip, some heartbreak, and lots of humor.

Set in New York in the '80s and '90s, Upstate tells the story of two young lovers, Antonio and Natasha, torn apart by tragedy and struggling to survive against all odds. When a horrific tragedy sends Antonio to jail, their worlds turn upside down.

Fourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas. Until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is unable to bear children. If Henry doesn't produce an heir, the American branch of his family name will die out. So Henry, desperate to preserve his aristocratic family lineage, does the unthinkable.

Growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the 16-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money every month will ensure her husband's fortune is hers alone....

This is the final book of "The Forsyte Saga". The interlude "Awakening" introduces us to young Jon's discoveries and his love for his mother Irene. To Let tells of Soames' daughter Fleur's and Jon's love for each other - a love which is subjected to the stigma of their parents' divorce.

In this first book of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy paints a vivid portrait of a wealthy and ambitious London family at the turn of the century. Interwoven with this is the ill-fated romance of Irene and Bossiny.

The Osage, Kansa, and Otoe were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the West. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders who take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the Omaha and Ponca tribes that have the market cornered on all trade from the Missouri and North Platte Rivers.

John Ryder is a seasoned Navy SEAL commander haunted by the ghosts of a mission gone wrong. Four and a half years ago, Ryder led his elite team into the treacherous mountains of Afghanistan to capture a notorious warlord, only to walk into a deadly ambush that left him as the sole survivor. Now, as the head security officer and personal bodyguard for industrial tycoon Marcus Dimitriou, Ryder tries to put the past behind him—until a chilling encounter reveals that the mission in Karmana was no accident.

The gripping story of 200 freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony - where the colonists' repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence. When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa.

Octavio Rincón arrastra una insípida existencia como funcionario municipal hasta esa tarde en que, durante unas vacaciones en Marrakech, es testigo de la súbita muerte de Dorita, su castrante y autoritaria esposa. Perplejo ante el cumplimiento de un deseo tan largamente anhelado, y confundido entre el temor a una eventual acusación de asesinato y una embriagadora sensación de libertad, su primer impulso es vaciar el minibar.

This is part of The Spanish Bit Saga.

When they mastered the ways of the "Elk Dog," the horse, the band prospered. Yet they knew the old traditional ways must not die. Owl's father had changed the lives of The People bringing the horse from his native Spain. Now the younger son of the legendary chief must make his own reputation by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.