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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the story of two women. One of those women is Lady Sheringham, interviewed in her manor house, the other is Emma Piggott, who has just passed away in her London apartment, alone. To the former, life has been kind. She's gone from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpar, from governess to sultana. She lives in the lap of luxury, engaged in an endless cycle of drinks parties, outings on horseback and the delicious little scandals of the British...
2) Double 7
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Spanish Civil War attracted involvement from a wide variety of governments, individuals and political factions, with Italians, Germans, and North Africans helping Franco and his supporters, and the Soviet Union, Mexico, and international brigades aiding the Republicans. Dusting off a littleknown and often forgotten chapter of history, the authors take us back to this remarkable and terrible period of war as only they can, with a tale full of scheming...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
GRAPHIC CLASSICS: RAFAEL SABATINI features the origin of Sabatini's famed gentleman pirate "Captain Blood", adapted by Rod Lott and Carlo Vergara. Also, a great selection of mysteries and adventure tales illustrated by Stanley W. Shaw, Rich Tommaso, Roger Langridge, Jackie Smith, Milton Knight, Gerry Alanguilan and Hunt Emerson. With a comics bio of Sabatini by Mort Castle, and cover depiction of Captain Blood by Joel F. Naprstek. B&W.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
1880. Kansas. Elijah Stern, the local undertaker, leads a calm and solitary life, until one day he is asked to carry out an autopsy on a man found dead in a brothel. Taking on the role of forensic pathologist, he discovers that the man had not died of natural causes and finds himself involved, against his better wishes, in the middle of a bonafide investigation. But Stern has no idea that the key to this case lies in his own past"Having read Stern...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 1976 Nicaragua Tacit Somoza rules the small Central American country with the support of the ruthless Guardia. The son of a powerful family from the capital, Managua, Gabriel is a young priest with an incredible talent for sacred art. He is sent to enhance his painting skills with Ruben, a priest in San Juan--a little village located at the base of a mountain. Despite his difficulty integrating with the villagers due to his fathers reputation,...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Robert is dead, says the man born as Robert. My name is Tancred now. Whoever he is, he is still on the run with Eudoxia and Marie. But Guillaume and his men are hot on the heels of the former Norman lord. When they catch up, Tancred allows himself to be taken while his traveling companions escape. Now that Guillaume has his former friend back in his clutches, hes not about to let him go. But Guillaume isnt the only one in his own camp with designs...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Cantor have the diamonds, and the beginnings of a wary friendship. Forthys has the money and Alicia. And Armand Orsinis got one hell of a grudge, plus a lumbering ex-Nazi goon named Gunther. The UN Mission to Katanga has declared a state of siege pending a manhunt for missing independence leader Patrice Lumumba, believed a victim of shady government manipulations. It wont be easy for our three pairs of schemers to converge on Albertville,...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Normans have their Byzantine enemies on the run. After being forced to cede Sicily, the Basileus is resorts to reinstating his formerly disgraced Strategos, Maniakis, to stem the Norman conquest. Caught up in these political machinations are a pair of warlords: Robert, a former Norman duke, and Harald, leader of the fierce and feared Varangians. Their friendship, forged in the heat of battle, now falters in peacetime. Robert questions his own...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The political, artistic and sexual effervescence of Mexico in the early 20s is followed by instability and doubt. There seems to be a spreading sense of disillusionment that neither Tina nor her friends will escape. Edward has gone back to the US, and Tina finds herself alone at a pivotal moment in her life. She oscillates between her commitment to the Party, her artistic struggles, her various overlapping love affairs, and her own journey of self-discovery....
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This omnibus includes both volumes of the best-selling graphic novel and 20 extra pages of exclusive content. 1976, Nicaragua. Tacit Somoza rules the small Central American country with the support of the ruthless Guardia. The son of a powerful family from the capital, Managua, Gabriel is a young priest with an incredible talent for sacred art. He is sent to enhance his painting skills with Ruben, a priest in San Juan--a little village located at...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the year 533, Emperor Justinian wished to rebuild Constantinople, Theodora wished to rebuild her reputation, and Maxentius wished to rebuild his life. Three people, three destinies, one story. At the same moment, the legendary city of Carthage is moving against the empire. Six hundred years after it was first destroyed by the Romans, Justinian proclaims: We must destroy Carthage once more!
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1960: Katanga breaks away from the Republic of Congo-Lopoldville to become its own republic, backed by the UMHK, a Belgian mining company. When the UN sends in its peacekeeping forces, the UMHK responds by hiring its own mercenaries. Amidst this chaos, $30 million in diamonds goes missing, only to turn up with a man named Charlie at a refugee camp nicknamed Camp Cannibal. Soon enough, everyones after the diamonds: hard-bitten French mercenaries, hateful...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author Greg Pak (Firefly, Agents of Atlas) and artist Giannis Milonogiannis (Old City Blues) present the final chapter of the critically-acclaimed series, as new heroes are forged and legends are born.
Hana and Kenichi finally return to the island seeking refuge, but are denied entry by Elder Jin and the Islanders who fear the newly mutated bynin. Caught between the Island's defenses, the Shogun's oncoming forces,...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It's a time of grumbling rebellion and brooding revolution. Gabriel de la Serna, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, has gone into hiding. He fled, limping, into the forest. He had come to San Juan, a little village nestled in the mountains, to paint the Passion of the Christ. There he came to understand the passion of the villagers, the country folk, all victims of military repression. Nourished by a sense of divine justice, he begins to understand...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The year 535. Maxentius and Ofellus travel to the imperial provinces. From Italy, the Gothic sect of the Black Swans is plotting the empires downfall. Is the eternal war between the Romans and the barbarians about to be rekindled? Maxentius, Empress Theodoras spy, knows well that even thousands of leagues from Constantinople, her shadow looms, ready to shake up history
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Norman by the name of Tancred makes landfall in Sicily with a motley international mercenary crew. A figure of mystery and danger, he soon proves himself a fierce blade and a cunning strategist, but why has he come? Revenge on the embattled Lord Harald now besieging Taormina? The fabulous wealth of the Qaids hidden within the city? Why does Tancred travel with a papal legate who calls him Robert? What disgraceful past is he trying desperately to...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mexico, August 1923. Edward Weston has just abandoned his wife and children and joined his mistress Tina Modotti. Daughter of Italian emigrants, Tina started out on a career as a Hollywood actress before discovering a passion for photography, in Edward's wake. In Mexico, the lovers soon discover that revolution goes hand in hand with artistic expression. The walls of public institutions are colored with the vibrant paintings of Diego Rivera, Xavier...
18) Macaroni!
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The touching story of a child getting to know his grandfather, an Italian immigrant living in Belgium. 11-year-old Romeo thinks of his grandfather as nothing but an "old pain-in-the-butt." So when he finds out that he's going to have to spend a few days with him at his crumbling old house, without even a TV to keep him entertained... well, it's his idea of hell. But there are some surprises in store for Romeo during his visit. He changes his mind...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Robert, the disgraced Duke of Normandy, is losing favor with his mercenary army. Theyve been holed up above Catania too long, without battle or plunder. His right-hand man Guillaume is getting notions whispered into his head by a wily monk. His friend Harald, leader of the Varangians, is torn between his allegiance to Strategos Maniakis and his love for the Greek generals sister. But who is Robert, really? Why is he here, and what was he groomed for?...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The year 532. Justinian rules over the Eastern Roman Empire, his wife and most maleficent ally, Theodora, at his side. From his capital of Constantinople, he dreams of restoring the empire to the splendor of Ancient Rome in the time of the Caesars. But during the month of January, following an accident during a chariot race in the Hippodrome, Constantinople is set ablaze. Now everything hangs in the balance: the throne, the imperial couple, the empire...
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