Mary O'Riley, native of Boston, goes to Paris to study art on the eve of WWII. Caught in the occupation, she works in a bakery but finds herself frequently carrying messages for her boss. When the SS raids the bakery and arrests the owner, Mary must flee Paris to avoid her own arrest, and the Resistance group she has helped assigns her to escort a downed RAF flyer south to Lyon. Freddy Winston volunteered to fly secret missions to occupied France....

Their rendezvous soon turns into a courtship when Fay asks Dutch to stay and he gladly agrees. San Diego, where he'd entered the Marine Corps a few years before, is suddenly much more attractive-it's Fay's town. This is where he wants to stay. Fay isn't the hippie chick he had thought she was when they first met, but she does make everything seem easy…and with so much happiness and love. She questions his job choices and gives her parents crazy...

À la recherche du passé... Fils d'un général français, Achille voit progressivement sa vie lui échapper quand il prend part à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'après-guerre lui apportera ses plus dures épreuves: contraint à une vie d'agent secret par le poids d'un crime, victime de son propre mariage, et atteint d'un mal qui détruit sa conscience, il doit reconstruire son passé pour se retrouver. Ce polar historique emmène le lecteur dans...

Au mois de décembre 1282, des soldats anglais tendirent à Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, prince de Galles un piège qui lui fut fatal. Sa mort marqua la fin du Pays de Galles en tant que nation indépendante et le début de ce qui allait devenir plus de sept cents ans sous la botte anglaise.Premiers Pas dans le Temps raconte l'histoire de ce qui aurait pu être, si Llywelyn avait survécu.Et le destin des deux adolescents qui lui sauvent la vie.

A shivering young woman leans against a lamppost on the most notorious street of ill repute in all London. Chastity Armitage is on the run from her lecherous stepfather. Desperate for food and lodging for her siblings, she takes to the streets. She never expected a tall, handsome man to appear from the mist and change her life forever. A choice lays before her: continue down the path of never-ending poverty or become the baron's mistress. Asher...

David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in the mid-1970s, he left. Three decades of second thoughts then made him this movement's principal intellectual antagonist. "For better or worse," as Horowitz writes in the preface,...

On the mountain, the only monsters are the ones you take with you. Summer 1954. Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, having made a career out of studying the remains of tiny lifeforms, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature, a veritable dragon, lies deep in an Alpine glacier. And he is determined to find it. Leaving his life in Paris behind, Stan sets out in pursuit of a legend. But he is no mountaineer,...

La princesse française oubliée dont le courage lança la dynastie des Tudors. La guerre la fit reine d'Angleterre. Son amour pour un Gallois la rendit immortelle. Mieux connue comme la fiancée d'Azincourt d'Henri V, de la pièce « Henri V » de Shakespeare, Catherine de Valois était une femme de foi, courage et conviction extraordinaire dans un âge de femmes puissantes politiquement. La plus jeune fille du roi Charles VI de France terrorisé...

A story full of elemental magic It tells a tale about how an emissary from the Spirit of Nature arrives in the early days of industrialization, in the form of a young troll, to judge humanity's fitness for survival, or to doom us to extinction. The evil intrigues of men bent on eradicating the last of the trolls are offset by profound epiphanies as Ogden grows and matures from a callow babe in the woods into a burly troll who communes with the spirits...

From the author of THE MIDWIFE'S TALE comes "The Maidservant and the Murderer," the startling story behind midwife Bridget Hodgson's arch nemesis, the murderous and malignant Rebecca Hooke On an autumn day in 1620, young Rebecca Hey rode into York in the back of a farmer's wagon and started on the path that would eventually make her one of the most powerful women in the city. Rebecca was an ordinary country girl when she became John and Grace Hooke's...