Titoli in Storico

Altea, una de las más brillantes discípulas de Platón, no sabe que tiene al enemigo en su propia casa y que tanto ella como el bebé que espera se encuentran en peligro. Por su parte, su amigo y maestro Platón arriesga la vida para intentar hacer realidad su gran proyecto: unir la política y la filosofía con el fin de que gobiernen la justicia y la razón, en lugar de la corrupción y la retórica vacía de los demagogos.

An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of "The Avenger", they start to suspect something too horrific for words.

Das gleiche Ereignis, das einst Atlantis zerstört hat, bedroht jetzt unsere heutige Welt. Auslöser dafür glaubt die Archäologin Billie Swan zu sein, da sie versucht hat, das Rätsel der einstigen Katastrophe zu lösen. Als sie dann auch noch entführt wird, müssen Sam Reilly und seine Freunde alles daran setzen um Billie zurück zu holen und die Welt vor ihrem Untergang zu retten … Nur einige wenige Menschen wissen heute, was die Bewohner des historischen Atlantis einst getötet hat und wo sich dieser mysteriöse Ort befindet.

En los convulsos albores del nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tánger se convierte en un escenario vibrante de espionaje. Aquí, una joya heredada, un brillante con un pasado turbio, amenaza con destrozar la vida de una familia española mientras aliados y nazis luchan por el control de una ruta de tráfico de diamantes, cruciales para la maquinaria de guerra. Sumérgete en una trama donde el amor entre una joven católica y un hombre judío desafía las convenciones en una sociedad acelerada.

Une alerte nucléaire jette son ombre sur le Bas‑Saint‑Laurent et bien au‑delà. Au large du Bic, dans la Z.E.C du Bas‑Saint‑Laurent et jusque dans les couloirs de la Maison Blanche, les protagonistes se mettent en place. Ce qui n’était qu’un soupçon devient une poursuite haletante, ponctuée d’un voyage vers la Maison Blanche.

The Viking raiders' devastation has been halted once more by the shields of Mercia as opposed to Wessex. But their whereabouts are unknown. King Wiglaf of Mercia is keen to ensure the Viking raiders are swept from his shared border with Wessex but these Viking ships are quick and difficult to track and Icel is once more deployed with Ealdorman Ælfstan warriors to do his King's bidding. However, Icel's quest is beset with many more obstacles and it's not all about the seax and shield. Worrying news from home overshadows Icel's every deadly encounter.

Quirke's pathology department, set deep beneath 1950s Dublin, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until, late one evening, he stumbles across a body that should not be there. The investigation he opens uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the city's high Catholic network - a secret with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear.

Berlin, Mai 1940: Während der Krieg an den Grenzen tobt, herrscht in der Hauptstadt ein erbarmungsloser Machtkampf zwischen zwei rivalisierenden Banden. Als der Besitzer eines zwielichtigen Nachtclubs erschossen wird, eskaliert der Konflikt. Kriminalinspektor Horst Schenke übernimmt die Ermittlungen und gerät zwischen die Fronten der mächtigsten Berliner Syndikate. Je tiefer er in das Netz aus Korruption und den Kampf um die Vorherrschaft auf dem Schwarzmarkt vordringt, desto näher rückt die Gefahr.

Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist. In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast.

The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild - prestigious for dishonourable hangmen at least. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, suspicions arise that someone is murdering them.

In the final days of the Third Reich, with the historic city of Dresden on the brink of destruction, terrifying rumors spread about the Fright Man, a demonic killer who exploited the cover of a nighttime air raid siren to mutilate and kill a young nurse. Just as seasoned detective Max Heller begins investigating, the Fright Man kills again...

The historical saga that has enthralled millions of readers, Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series continues continue with World Without End. Read by the inimitable John Lee On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief...

It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the town's Passion play has been found dead, nailed to the set's cross. As there is no doctor in town, Simon is brought in to examine the body. The opportunities to spend more time with his son and to investigate the murder quickly convince him to stay.

London, 1812: Treacherous gangs roam the capital, and not even the Palace of Westminster is safe. When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both the cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist.

En 1944, alors que l'Europe est à feu et à sang, le médecin d'origine bordelaise Pierre Castel est chargé par les services secrets britanniques d'une mission cruciale auprès d'Hitler, à Berchtesgaden. Mais tout ne se passe pas comme prévu... et il retourne en Allemagne sous une fausse identité, en avril 1945. Il doit, dans le bunker du Führer, rejoindre un complice au moment où la ville est encerclée par l'Armée rouge.

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's historical thriller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman. Victory Hangs in the Balance 1944. In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their invasion...

La novela exige una participación activa de sus lectores, quienes deberán, como un detective más, reconstruir las pistas que la historia va dejando a su paso. En ello, el fino humor de Andújar será pieza clave, pues bajo la burla, bajo la risa, como predicaba el italiano Luigi Pirandello, subyace siempre la crítica. La imagen "ideal", "armónica" y "feliz" de República Dominicana, será desdibujada por la ironía de Andújar, y cederá paso a un retrato invadido por la corrupción.

Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother. But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.

An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt’s top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference.

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.