By Francine Rivers
This vintage sequence has encouraged approximately million readers. either dependable fanatics and new readers will wish the newest variation of this cherished sequence. Books during this most recent version comprise a foreword from the writer, a preface from Francine Rivers, and dialogue questions compatible for private and crew use.
#1 A Voice within the Wind: Torn through her love for a good-looking aristocrat, a tender slave woman clings to her religion within the dwelling God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.
#2 An Echo within the Darkness: Turning clear of the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by means of a whispering voice from the earlier right into a trip which can set him unfastened from the darkness of his soul.
#3 As convinced because the sunrise: Atretes. German warrior. respected gladiator. He gained his freedom via his fierceness . . . yet his existence is set to alter ceaselessly.
Konstantin by Tom Bullough
By Tom Bullough
It truly is 1867 and wintry weather in Ryazan, a urban at the banks of the Oka River in imperative Russia. Konstantin is ten years previous. His days are choked with goals of flight - to Moscow, even to the silent stars. yet then, in the future, he catches chilly within the freezing woods close to his domestic and his personal international turns into silent. Left deaf by way of scarlet fever, his outlook is determined. in basic terms his fascination with a newly mechanised age and his amazing visions of humanity's destiny appear to supply him any type of hope.
Konstantin, Tom Bullough's awesome, inspirational novel, tells the intense tale, in accordance with a real-life personality, of the 1st guy to bare how commute into area could be attainable. it's a tale of guy, nature, and the unlimited strength of the mind's eye.
El sueño de las Antillas by Carmen Santos
By Carmen Santos
En l. a. Habana del siglo XIX, una mujer come to a decision tomar las riendas de su vida y forjar su propio destino.
En 1858, cuando Valentina partió desde España hacia los angeles colonia de Cuba en pasaje de tercera clase, tenía un joven marido a su lado y el corazón repleto de ilusiones. A su llegada a l. a. isla, sin embargo, sus sueños se resquebrajan: su esposo ha muerto durante los angeles agotadora travesía y el lugar, de pronto, se revela como un entorno hostil.
Sólo Tomás Mendoza, un atractivo médico que viajaba en el mismo barco que ella, intenta ayudarla proponiéndole matrimonio. Pero Valentina le rechaza por orgullo, pues no está dispuesta a inspirar lástima, aunque eso signifique tener que vender su cuerpo en un refinado prostíbulo caribeño. Lo que no sospecha es que hay hombres que no se conforman con unas horas de lujuria comprada y que algunos, como el rico y apuesto Leopoldo Bazán, bajo sus caballerosas formas esconden l. a. más abyecta crueldad.
Con el pulso firme y sagaz de los grandes novelistas, Carmen Santos ha tejido una historia inolvidable que tiene mucho de las grandes sagas. De las calles habaneras al prostíbulo y de allí a los fastuosos salones de l. a. alta sociedad isleña, enriquecida hasta lo inimaginable con el cultivo de los angeles caña de azúcar, El sueño de las Antillas nos cuenta l. a. historia de una mujer fuerte, valiente y carismática que, en una época de intrigas políticas por l. a. independencia de Cuba y por l. a. abolición de los angeles esclavitud, se debate entre los angeles ambición, los angeles venganza y el amor verdadero.
Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses, Book by Conn Iggulden
By Conn Iggulden
This novel from bestselling writer Conn Iggulden is the fourth publication within the seriously acclaimed Wars of the Roses sequence. Following Stormbird, Trinity and Bloodline this novel will proceed throughout the brutal Civil struggle that we now comprehend because the Wars of the Roses.
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead
By Stephen R. Lawhead
Even though born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a distant Irish monastery at the a long way, wild fringe of Christendom. safe in paintings, contemplation, and goals of the broader global, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet lifestyles. he's selected to accompany a small band of clergymen on a quest to the farthest jap reaches of the identified global, to the fabled urban of Byzantium, the place they're to give a stunning and expensive hand-illuminated manuscript, the publication of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom.
Thus starts an day trip by way of sea and over land, as Aidan turns into, by means of turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a secret agent, a Viking and a Saracen, and eventually, a guy. He sees extra of the realm than so much males of his time, changing into an envoy to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden court docket. and at last this valiant Irish monk faces the best trial which could confront any guy in any age: commanding his personal future.
William Henry is a Fine Name by Cathy Gohlke
By Cathy Gohlke
They informed him his ally wasn't human. Robert's father assisted the Underground Railroad. His mom adamantly antagonistic abolition. His ally used to be a black boy named William Henry. As a kingdom neared its boiling element, Robert came across himself in his personal painful clash. the single factor he couldn't do was once not anything in any respect. William Henry is a coming-of-age tale a couple of 12-year-old boy--and a whole country--that comes nose to nose with the evils of society, even in the partitions of the church. within the security of an uplifting friendship, he discovers the desire of a brighter day.
Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, Book 9) by Ellis Peters
By Ellis Peters
Within the conflict of Lincoln, 1141, the Sheriff of Shropshire is captured via the Welsh forces of the Empress Maud. The county proposes to interchange him for a tender Welsh nobleman. but if the Sheriff is murdered basically Brother Cadfael can store the captive from retaliation.
The Eagle in the Sand (Eagle, Book 7) by Simon Scarrow
By Simon Scarrow
The 7th novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman sequence. hassle is brewing in Syria, at the jap frontier of the Roman Empire. With the troops in a deplorable country, centurions Macro and Cato are sent to revive the competence of the cohort. yet one other problem faces them as Bannus, a neighborhood tribesman, is brewing up hassle and preaching violent competition to Rome. because the neighborhood rebellion grows in scale, Macro and Cato needs to stamp out corruption within the cohort and repair it to battling health to quash Bannus - ahead of the japanese provinces are misplaced to the Empire forever...
Royally Ever After by Loretta Chase
By Loretta Chase
Now released jointly for the 1st time: Loretta Chase's cherished novellas Lord Lovedon's Duel from the Royal Bridesmaids anthology and The Jilting of Lord Rothwick from the Royal Weddings anthology
In Lord Lovedon's Duel, Chloe Sharp is ready to guard her family's identify, even to the dying. whilst she hears the good-looking Earl of Lovedon say her sister's royal marriage is a fit made in cash, she demanding situations him to a duel—for love and honor.
When the Marquess of Rothwick learns his fiancée, Barbara Findley, has damaged off their engagement within the Jilting of Lord Rothwick, he rides out of London instantly to hunt her out ... and to win her again.
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
By Natalie Baszile
A mother-daughter tale of reinvention—about an African American girl who all at once inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana
Why precisely Charley Bordelon’s past due father left her 8 hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious because it used to be beneficiant. spotting this as an opportunity to begin over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say goodbye to Los Angeles.
They arrive simply in time for growing to be season yet no quantity of making plans can arrange Charley for a Louisiana that’s mired some time past: as her judgmental yet big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is often going to be a white man’s company. because the sweltering summer season unfolds, Charley needs to stability the overpowering demanding situations of her farm with the calls for of a homesick daughter, a sour and afflicted brother, and the startling wants of her personal heart.
Penguin has a wealthy culture of publishing powerful Southern debut fiction—from Sue Monk Kidd to Kathryn Stockett to Beth Hoffman. In Queen Sugar, we have now a debut from the African American viewpoint. Stirring in its storytelling of 1 lady opposed to the percentages and initimate in its exploration of the complexities of up to date southern lifestyles, Queen Sugar is an unforgettable story of persistence and desire.