Ergebnis für "Zero" in Historische Romane

Now Streaming Exclusively on BritBox! When a gathering at a clifftop estate leads to murder troubled detective James Leach and Superintendent Battle must unravel a web of secrets and jealousy—before another victim falls. What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful...

A thousand years ago, an empire died. No one knew why. Not until now. Seven years ago, Caitlyn “Cat” Aguirre–the first of the magicless Zeros–was kidnapped and taken to the ruins of the Eternal City. There, she discovered the dread secret behind the collapse of the Thousand-Year Empire, a secret she knew she didn’t dare share with the world. But now, with strange sightings and energies emitting from the ruined city, and a darkening political situation back home, Cat has no choice but to return to the dead city. And what she finds there will change everything....

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! TOWARDS ZERO One of Agatha Christie’s own ten favorite novels, Towards Zero puts Superintendent Battle and Inspector Leach on the case as they investigate the murder of an elderly widow. What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt...

For centuries, the Great Houses of Shallot have ruled the city through a complex network of power and influence, dividing and destroying factions that threatened their rule. But the latest crisis may be beyond their power to subvert and defeat. The commoners have finally found a leader, while the aristocrats are deeply divided amongst themselves; their magic is no longer trustworthy, and their right to rule is threatened as never before.

Kirkhaven Hall has been home to Isabella Rubén ever since she was sent into exile for treason. It has always been a strange place; isolated, wrapped in dark clouds and ancient magics. No one really knows what’s hidden there, from eerie ghosts and warlocks to secrets House Rubén not only has kept from the rest of the world, but has itself forgotten. They thought those secrets would remain buried for eternity. But now, as Isabella and her fiancé return from their holiday in Shallot, those secrets are starting to slip into the light.

House Rubén and House Aguirre had been rivals for centuries even before the discovery of the Zero Talent and a plot to take control of Shallot plunged them—and the entire city—into war. In a desperate attempt to end the fighting, Akin of House Rubén was betrothed to the only known Zero, Caitlyn of House Aguirre. Since then, the two houses have been locked in an uneasy alliance, painfully aware that they will hang separately if they do not hang together. But, as the marriage starts to loom over the city, Akin Rubén discovers a deadly secret.

The once-great mansion is decaying, the vast network of clients have broken ties long ago, and the remaining family scrabbles over crumbs as the last remnants of their fortune are spent repaying their debts. The family seems doomed, beyond all hope of salvation. Lucy Lamplighter, returning to her home after her father’s death, intends to save her family by any means necessary. Gambling everything she has left, she stakes it all on a desperate bid to rebuild House Lamplighter before the vultures begin to swoop.

In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that...[Follett is] a hell of storyteller."—Entertainment...

Jack Sommers is a young, battle hardened pilot flying low level attacks into occupied France. After an operation fails he argues with his commanding officer and is posted away from combat. He fears being side-lined into a dull job but discovers he has been selected to carry out special operations over Norway. It’s a dangerous job requiring expert airmanship. There is no margin for error, engine failure, bad weather, navigational mistakes and enemy fighters are all constant dangers.

Berlin. May 1945. A city without institutions in a continent that has become a wasteland. Thousands of former Nazis have been killed in Allied purges, and many more incarcerated in the very concentration camps they themselves established. But the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has a problem. One of those former Nazis is actually a British spy, Edward Kayne, who has intercepted a top-secret document that Churchill insists is vital to settling the peace.

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Haunting and evocative, brutal and...

その秘奥義を使った者は、必ず死ぬ。天保十一年陰暦六月。牛久藩の勘定方下役の岡部隼人は、藩の特産品の取引をめぐる不正が行われていることに気付く。

A Nazi war criminal believed to have been executed years ago is seen very much alive in Hamburg. When Lieutenant Hank Jefferson, US Navy, goes missing, the Admiralty, already troubled by disturbing rumors of Nazi resurgence, know just the man to find him.

Als Claire Winter den Autor Küp Seker auf der Buchmesse kontaktiert und ihn bittet, ihr Skript zu veröffentlichen, glaubt Küp beileibe nicht daran, ihrem Wunsch je zu entsprechen. Nachdem er jedoch ungläubig ihr Manuskript gelesen und den Wahrheitsgehalt recherchiert hat, weiß er, dass es seine Pflicht ist, dieses Dokument einer großen und breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Küp Seker hat das Werk von Claire überarbeitet und berichtet nun von ihrer unglaublichen Reise zusammen mit ihrem Freund Steven von Peking mit der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn in Richtung Moskau.

Era como si hubiéramos alcanzado el punto crítico mínimo de una curva matemática. ¿Tiene presente una parábola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ahí llegamos. Corre el año 1993. Cuba está en lo más álgido del Período Especial, un profunda crisis económica tras el colapso del bloque soviético. Para Julia, una profesora de matemática que detesta enseñar, La Habana está en su año cero: el punto más bajo, camino a ninguna parte.

Rumi vive nas ruas, preso ao seu passado doloroso, até que conhece Malu. Nessa troca de amizade e afeto, sua vida se ilumina para novas possibilidades. Uma história sobre como, no encontro com o outro, acabamos encontrando nós mesmos. "Uma leitura doce, que sacode a alma da gente e faz possível sentir a pulsação da vida que insiste em viver, mas que figura uma das faces mais severas do desequilíbrio social." Lorrane Benedicto "Adorei Rumi. Me fez pensar em algumas leituras sensíveis, importantes para sairmos de nosso confortável e privilegiado lugar.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS distract the Nazis to allow airborne landings to go ahead? September 1944: in the wake of the successful ‘Anvil’ landings, the Allies plan airborne landings in the Orléans Gap. To ‘soften’ the enemy beforehand, they decide to drop a...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to rid Yemen of its unstoppable guerrillas? Aden, 1964, and the British are waging two different kinds of war. Inhabitants of northern Yemen’s forbidding mountainous region of Radfan are conducting guerrilla attacks against the...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS patrol escape the deadly Malayan jungle alive? Malaya in the 1950s, and Communist terrorists wage a bloody war against the country’s estates and rubber plantation owners. Chased into the interior by British Army units, the guerrillas soon...