Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to...
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Author:Christmas, Jane, Torti, JulesSummary:A rollicking travel memoir that invites the curious, the initiated, and even the skeptics to tag along on the ever-changing landscape of 'The Way'. For many, walking the Camino is a decision predictably triggered by death, divorce, or a...
- Author:GASKIN, CatherineSummary:
Impoverished in Wicklow, Charlotte finds herself dispossessed and moved to Spain. There she becomes by marriage "Dona Carlota", a protege of the "Spanish woman" and an influential person in her own right. She does...
- Author:Penttila, NickySummary:
Some fly to war. Others flee it. No one is safe. When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair...
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Author:Neering, RosemarySummary:They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing...
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Author:Hislop, VictoriaSummary:Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War. Seventy years...
- Author:Penny, DavidSummary:
A killer who can’t be stopped. A request that can’t be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom....
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Author:Gortner, C. W.Summary:This historical novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power as she transforms from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed the...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a...
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Author:Acevedo, ChantelSummary:A novel based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign, and her journey to see her scandalous, incendiary...
- Author:Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
The Kingdom of Al-Rassan is home to three nations. Once mighty, the kingdom has been splintered by rival kings and fanatical religious leaders. Two generals from different peoples share a political exile and the love of a beautiful...
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Author:Roscoe, PatrickSummary:A collection of stories set in Spain, Africa, California or British Columbia, all featuring family or romantic relationships at the core.
- Author:Hunter, AislinnSummary:
A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees.
In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in... -
Author:Orgad, DoritSummary:Manuel NuNez's life changes forever on the day his parents trust him enough to reveal a secret; they are Jews. Brought up as a Christian during the Spanish Inquisition of the 17th century, Manuel is surprised, but proud when he learns...
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Author:Fine, MarciaSummary:Edict of Expulsion: 31st of March 1492. Accused of ritual murder in Granada, and not under jurisdiction of the Inquisition, the church orders expulsion of all Jews and Marranos from Spain within four months. Acclaimed author Marcia Fine...
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Author:Little, MelanieSummary:Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians coexist. But under the zealous Christian Queen Isabella, the country abruptly becomes one of the most murderously intolerant places on...
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Author:Shulman, AaronSummary:Journalist Aaron Shulman presents an absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative that takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain's most...
- Author:COWIE, VeraSummary:
Graduate Jane Elliot had landed herself a wonderful summer job tutoring English to the three children of a wealthy Spanish family.But when one of them turned out to be anything but a child, while their guardian and uncle, the attractive...
- Author:Stein, Joel EdwardSummary:
Raquela yearns to celebrate a Passover seder, but Inquisition-era Spain is a time when Jews must hide their religion. Under the rising moon, her clever papa, the best fisherman in town, creates a unique celebration for his family. In...
- Author:Rosenmuller, ChristophSummary:
Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmüller reveals that the Duke...
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