Ergebnis für "Bernard" in Action & Abenteuer

A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists.The gilded family had been the envy and the pride of England for centuries. Never had the Lazenders seemed more powerful or more wealthy. And never had the unseen means of their destruction seemed so close…Yet the heir to the estate was absent. Toby Lazender worked for the British in Revolutionary France - where he hunted down the men who had murdered the innocent girl he loved.

Bernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series and “perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today” (Washington Post) joins co-author Susannah Kells for A Crowning Mercy—a breathtaking romantic adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of the English Civil War. The exciting story of a rebellious Puritan woman on a perilous quest for love and fortune, A Crowning Mercy is a must for Cornwell fans as well as for devoted readers/listeners of Sharon Kay Penman and Diana Gabaldon.

In mid 17th-century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl, illicitly bathing in a stream, first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion and that's what she longed to be, then and forever. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father - a pendant made of gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved with an axe and the words: St Matthew.

Twelve Urns and a Dozen Roses is a romantic mystery. However, it is much more than this. There is a powerful and timeless love at the heart of the story. There is love between a father and daughter, though long separated and tested to its core. But there is an overarching central mystery woven throughout the story about why the father, Bill Burkhead, disappeared when his cherished daughter, Adelaide, was only seventeen.

Eles são de mundos opostos, mas de almas semelhantes como o preto e o cinza. Duas forças da natureza travando uma guerra por uma garotinha quebrada e, talvez, nem ela seja o bastante para salvá-los do sentimento tempestuoso do amor.

Lorenzo Delmonte consacre tout son temps au grand parc animalier qu'il a fondé dans le Jura. Quand un ancien camarade d'études lui propose de venir passer un mois dans la réserve de Samburu, au Kenya, Lorenzo voit là une occasion inespérée d'observer la faune sauvage dans son habitat naturel. Pour la première fois, il accepte de s'absenter et de confier la responsabilité du parc à son équipe, sous la direction de Julia, sa meilleure vétérinaire.