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Author
Series
Ava Saunders volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her adoptive mother, a woman discovers a photograph that leads her into a dangerous investigation of her past.
Author
Series
Hyperion series volume 4
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The concluding fourth volume of the Hyperion saga has the Catholic Church experiencing a resurgence due to a newfound ability to resurrect the dead, while Aenea, the new messiah, and her protector Raul Endymion, try to find a way to liberate humanity.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
febrero de 2020.
Language
Español
Description
En un momento en que la Iglesia católica está en la mira por escándalos de pederastia y por los debates sobre el aborto, Román Rodolfo Rovirosa, doctor en Religiones Comparadas, escribe una carta al papa Francisco para pedirle que interceda en otro asunto, no menos grave: la expropiación por parte de la Iglesia de las tierras de los cofrades mayas. Así empieza este thriller literario en el que una vez más Rey Rosa desvela los entresijos del...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
10) La orden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Gabriel Allon se ha deslizado silenciosamente a Venecia para pasar unas vacaciones muy necesarias con su esposa y sus dos hijos pequeños. Pero cuando el Papa Pablo VII muere repentinamente, Gabriel es llamado a Roma por el leal secretario privado del Santo Padre, el arzobispo Luigi Donati. A mil millones de fieles católicos se les ha dicho que el Papa murió de un ataque al corazón. Donati, sin embargo, tiene dos buenas razones para sospechar que...
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early-seventeenth-century Japan, involving the powerful and powerhungry Lord Toranaga, the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne, and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert in love with the barbarian Englishman.
12) Shōgun: Part I
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After John Blackthorne shipwrecks in Japan, he makes himself useful to a feudal lord in a power struggle with another and becomes a samurai.
"After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people,...
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