Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, offers her services to both sides in the conflict, regardless of belief. Her recurring companion at...
Civil War
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Auteur:Walters, MinetteSommaire: - Auteur:Niven, LarrySommaire:
In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system...
- Auteur:Street, Emily JuneSommaire:
After being kidnapped from her stark existence on the cold island of Gante, Leila must learn to survive in a southern culture her native people disparage. She has no choice but to follow the creed of her clan, flow like water, and adapt...
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Auteur:Bennett, JonathanSommaire:A lyrical, heartbreaking story of ardour and devastation
In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break out, they are...
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Auteur:Waller, Jae, McArthur, Sera-LysSommaire:A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy. Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is...
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Auteur:Johansen, IrisSommaire:Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to an African jungle to help families torn apart by a violent attack, but a deeper, more sinister plot is unfolding, and Eve could get caught in the middle of it.
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Auteur:Charbonneau, EileenSommaire:In April 1860, Dr. Ryder Cole returns home from his studies, sure of his abilities and on fire to serve his country and preserve the Union. A panther attack threatens to cut his life short until a young woman with a rife and a sure-shot...
- Auteur:Bear, ElizabethSommaire:
In a world where wizards are unable to procreate, Temur, heir to his empire's throne, flees to avoid assassination. Once-Princess Samarkar, formerly heir to her own empire's throne, gives up everything to seek the wizards' magical power...
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Auteur:Jones, LloydSommaire:Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...
- Auteur:Diamond, LynnSommaire:
Portrait en mosaïque d’un groupe de militants qui s’engagent en Amérique centrale au début des années 80. Ces hommes et ces femmes se recroisent à Montréal, Paris ou New York. La narratrice, Leslie vivra avec Josua, un ancien du Vietnam...
- Auteur:Brown, PierceSommaire:
Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling...
- Auteur:Walter, Barbara F.Sommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States "Like those who...
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Auteur:Mitchell, MargaretSommaire:Gone with the Wind, published on June 30, 1936, is a romantic novel and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the...
- Auteur:Parker, GeoffreySommaire:
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of...
- Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire:
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the...
- Auteur:Brown, PierceSommaire:
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and...
- Auteur:Ross, OrnaSommaire:
A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995, and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for...
- Auteur:Solomon, RiversSommaire:
A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler. —One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time. "Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion...
- Auteur:Ahmed, SamiraSommaire:
From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories. On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old...
- Auteur:El Akkad, OmarSommaire:
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is...
