Renaissance Fiction

Novela de intriga y aventuras centrada en las peripecias de dos jóvenes idealistas que pretenden salvar a los indios americanos de la esclavitud. Costa de Galicia, 1702. La flota del Oro, lo mejor de la marina española del momento, debía llegar a España cargada con los tesoros de las colonias españolas en las Indias, pero se hunde en la bahía de Vigo a causa del acoso de las tropas luteranas y los arrecifes naturales.

Lucy is the last Chantress, the only remaining girl who can sing magic into the world. Since she defeated the evil Lord Scargrave, England has changed—and not for the better. With crops failing and the people rebelling, Lucy is called urgently back to King Henry’s court. His Inner Council is convinced that making gold through alchemy will save England. But a critical element to the alchemical process has been stolen. Lucy is tasked with finding it with her magic…or else. And until she succeeds, the castle is on lockdown.

Karwoche 1814. In Europa toben die Befreiungskriege gegen Napoleon, die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Auch das Leben des westfälischen Bauernsohns Jeremias Vogelsang, der sich mit anderen geduldeten Deserteuren in seiner Heimat aufhält, gerät aus den Fugen. Vorgeblich, weil Jeremias desertiert ist, in Wahrheit jedoch, um sich des unerwünschten Liebhabers seiner Tochter zu entledigen, ruft Amtmann Boomkamp zur Hatz auf den "Verräter" auf.

La storia si snoda tra la corte di Luigi XIV, il Re Sole, a Versailles, e le avventure di una famiglia di Ugonotti costretta a fuggire dalla Francia, a causa della persecuzione ordinata dal Re, fino in Canada, in piena sommossa Irochese. Certo siamo lontani dal fascino londinese delle storie di Sherlock Holmes, ma la ricostruzione storica e le avventure a ripetizione fanno di questo un lavoro interessante e facilmente fruibile.

Young and beautiful Violetta may be of royal blood, but her kingdom is in shambles when she arrives in London on a mysterious mission. Her journey has been long and her adventures many, but it is not until she meets the playwright William Shakespeare that she gets to tell the entire story from beginning to end. Violetta and her comic companion, Feste, have come in search of an ancient holy relic that the evil Malvolio has stolen from their kingdom. But where will their remarkable quest - and their most unusual story - lead?

Das Münsterland nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Im Sommer des Jahres 1668 kehrt der Schausteller und Taschendieb Daniel Wagenknecht anlässlich einer Kirchweih in das Moordorf Ahlbeck zurück, in dem er als Säugling von drei Bauern lebendig begraben wurde. Daniel will die Geheimnisse von damals lüften - und sich an den Schuldigen rächen. Begleitet wird er von seinem Ziehvater Roloff.

When 17-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns she’s to be packed off to a life behind convent walls, she begs an astrologer-sorcerer for a talisman that will secure what she’s certain is her heart’s desire: true love and a place where she belongs. But does she really know the compass of her heart? The convent of Santa Marta is full of surprises, including a workshop of nuns who are creating paintings of astonishing beauty using a luminous blue mixed from a secret formula: Passion Blue.

Florence, 1497 - Bûcher des vanités. Ce matin, des bandes d'enfants ont terrorisé la rue pour confisquer tous les objets incarnant la richesse ou le plaisir. Savonarole peut compter sur son "armée des anges". Le feu qui consumera tout à l'heure le paganisme et l'impiété sera son triomphe. Songeur, Sandro Botticelli observe l'une de ses plus belles œuvres se faire dévorer par les flammes, quand une main se pose sur son épaule. Léonard de Vinci, son vieil ami, son plus grand ami est revenu en terre florentine !Mais l'artiste apporte une triste nouvelle : sa mère, Caterina, est morte, lui laissant pour tout héritage une étrange lettre indéchiffrable.

Karibik 1635: In den spanischen Kolonien hat der Schwarzhandel überhand genommen. Der neue Gouverneur von Hispaniola schwört, jeden Schmuggler, den er erwischt, eigenhändig aufzuhängen. Die schöne Doña Maria zittert um ihren Gemahl, einen reichen Pflanzer und heimlichen Drahtzieher des verbotenen Handels. Im fernen Bremen hat der junge Handelsherr Jan van Hagen nur die Wahl zwischen Schuldturm und Flucht in die Neue Welt, um als Schmuggler das verlorene Familienvermögen wieder herzustellen. Noch in der Nacht entkommt er den Schergen und nimmt Kurs auf Westindien. Seine Suche nach dem Gold des Südens hat begonnen.

Nous sommes à Paris en 1609, Henri IV règne sur la France pacifiée. Le chevalier de Pardaillan, qui n'a pas retrouvé son fils, rencontre un jeune truand, Jehan-le-Brave, en qui il ne tarde pas à reconnaître l'enfant de Fausta. Or, Jehan-le-Brave, qui ignore tout de ses origines, est amoureux de Bertille de Saugis, fille naturelle d'Henri IV.

Évidemment, Pardaillan père et fils se sont retrouvés et reconnus. Une fois encore, les chevaliers de Pardaillan se montrent dépourvus d'avidité, eux pour qui la réussite n'est jamais matérielle. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Michel Zévaco nous brosse un tableau attachant du fils de Pardaillan qui fait honneur à son père. En France, la menace pèse toujours sur Henri IV et un certain Ravaillac entre en scène et le trésor de la Fausta reste introuvable.

Au cours de son ambassade à la Cour d'Espagne, Pardaillan devra protéger une jeune bohémienne, La Giralda, fiancée d'El Torero, Don César, qui n'est autre que le petit-fils secret et persécuté de Philippe II. Or, Fausta a jeté son dévolu sur El Torero pour mener à bien ses intrigues, et elle bénéficie de l'appui du Grand Inquisiteur Don Espinoza dans ses criminelles manœuvres.

The first African American poet to achieve international fame, Paul Laurence Dunbar used his prodigious literary gifts to chronicle and celebrate Black life as he saw it. He utilized both traditional poetic forms and contemporary dialect in a range of styles—lyrical, conversational, and playful—as diverse as his themes. This collection, containing the entirety of Dunbar’s poetry, captures his still vital expressions of love, work, and family. It also serves as a revelatory expression of Dunbar’s frustrations with racial injustice and oppression.

This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the emergence of the New Negro Movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro is considered to be the definitive text on the movement.

June 1589: Lord Sinclair, proud of his castle in Aberdeenshire, hosts the banquet to celebrate peace with England and the king's impending marriage. Celebrations have to be discreet, as the country is facing political and financial turmoil, but this won't be a quiet night's celebration for the king. It can't be, not for Lord Sinclair's sake.

Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother’s death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors. When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate.

La lettera scarlatta' è uno dei più celebri romanzi dello scrittore statunitense Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Salem, nella Nuova Inghilterra del Seicento...

Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead. Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And the last man sent to expose them was silenced before his report could reach London. Daniel Pursglove is summoned to infiltrate Battle and find proof of treachery. He soon discovers that nearly everyone at the abbey has something to hide.

Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear.

In the tradition of Philippa Gregorys smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal, featuring two star-crossed sisters, one lost and the other searching.Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety in their small English town, Hannah harbors her own secret: their father has given her an education forbidden to women.