Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

With the heir to the throne murdered, King Robert III a sick weakling, and his remaining son a child, Scotland and the Stewarts were in a bad way three generations on from the great Bruce. But two young men stood out: Alex Stewart, bastard son of the notorious Wolf of Badenoch, and his cousin, Brave...

Sommer 2011. Adolf Hitler erwacht auf einem leeren Grundstück in Berlin-Mitte. Ohne Krieg, ohne Partei, ohne Eva, dafür unter Tausenden von Ausländern und Angela Merkel. 66 Jahre nach seinem vermeintlichen Ende startet er gegen jegliche Wahrscheinlichkeit eine neue Karriere im Fernsehen....

"I ain't black and you ain't white", that's what he said to me. I wasn't about to argue with the man since at 6 foot 2, and 320 pounds, he was twice my weight and a foot taller than I. He said he'd prove it and I was a little uneasy about what might happen next!

El libro clásico de 1565, por primera vez en edición digital. Hemos modernizado la ortografía para facilitar la lectura. No pierdas la oportunidad de leer este libro encantador. Abindarráez anda tan enamorado de la hermosa Jarifa que cuando es preso por Rodrigo de Narváez, le pide que le libere...

“[Roy’s] mastery of detail ties an intimate domestic drama to national history, offering a portrait of one family’s troubles with desire and loss that speaks to the more universal struggles for personal and political freedom.” —Time From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping...

A “captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York” told with “panache and mischievous ebullience” (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac’s Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster,...

Comendador Mendoza, Dona Luz, Juanita la larga, Genio y figura, Morsamor: Son cinco novelas del genio genial Juan Valera por el precio (y el peso) de una sola: El comendador Mendoza, Doña Luz, Juanita la Larga, Genio y figura, y Morsamor. Estas novelas han sido disfrutadas desde su primera publicación...

The 1920s in the United States were known as the Roaring Twenties and the ultimate Jazz Age for the nation, a time that glorified hard and fast living. And nobody personified it or wrote so descriptively about it as F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning...

Includes the following novels: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, Fanshawe, and Doctor Grimshawes Secret: A Romance. As one of Americas most famous writers and novelists, Nathaniel Hawthorne needs no formal introduction. He worked at a Custom House...

Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T....

Yamamoto Kiyoki is a Japanese art student, dreaming of studying in Paris with the inspiring and vibrant Impressionist painters. Yamamoto Ryusei is Kiyoki’s father. Ryusei’s art, carving intricate masks for traditional Japanese theater, has been his refuge from loneliness since the death of his...

In this award-winning companion to India Fortunes, also published by Penguin India as "The Mangarh Chronicles," eight novellas set in earlier periods are linked by a treasure hunt in modern times through the immense fortress of Mangarh by government tax raiders. "A rich and informative...

Esta es una novela en la que se entreteje la cotidianidad objetiva de lo que fue México Tenochtitlan, una civilización perfectamente constituída, cuyos valores residían en el fervor religioso, el honor, la guerra, el inmutable destino y los sacrificios humanos. En una sociedad con esta, sólo...

Originally developed as a textbook for Japanese EFL university students, "The Many Roads to Japan" tells the story of the adventures of one foreigner who had to follow many twists and turns in his life journey before finding his niche in Japan. The exercises at the end of each chapter are...