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City of Dreams
A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.
Bristol House
In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor England In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica. Geoff Harris, an investigative reporter, is soon drawn into her quest, both by romantic interest and suspicions about the head of the Shalom Foundation, the organization sponsoring her work. He’s also a dead ringer for the ghost of a monk Annie believes she has seen at the flat she is subletting in Bristol House. In 1535, Tudor London is a very different city, one in which monks are being e...
City of Promise
In the years following the Civil War, as Manhattan experiences a surge in prosperity, Joshua Turner aspires to become a real-estate titan while Mollie Brannigan, raised by her aunt in a bordello, sees her life change after a chance encounter with Joshua in Macy's.
Shadowbrook
From the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the passionate story of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War. 1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution. In a world on the brink of astonishing change are Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman-turned-scout, fighting to preserve his beloved family plantation, Shadowbrook; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman with a foot in both worlds; an...
Bristol House
In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor EnglandIn modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica. Geoff Harris, an investigative reporter, is soon drawn into her quest, both by romantic interest and suspicions about the head of the Shalom Foundation, the organization sponsoring her work. He's also a dead ringer for the ghost of a monk Annie believes she has seen at the flat she is subletting in Bristol House. In 1535, Tudor London is a very different city, one in which monks are being executed by Henry VIII and Jews are banished. In this treacherous environment of religious persecution, Dom Justin, a Carthusian monk, and a goldsmith known as the Jew of Holborn must navigate a shadowy world of intrigue involving Thomas Cromwell, Jewish treasure, and sexual ...
City of Dreams
In 1661 a brother and sister stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas Turner is a barber surgeon; Sally Turner an apothecary. Both gifted healers, they are bound to each other by blood and necessity, but as their new lives unfold betrayal and murder make them deadly enemies. Their descendants dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters will shape the future of medicine and the growing city of Manhattan, but none can escape a vengeful legacy.CITY OF DREAMS charts the destiny of the Turner and the Devreys families one English, one Dutch against the backdrop of a city where black slaves are burned alive on Wall Street, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams walk the Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and one of the greatest hospitals in the world will be born in a former shipwright's workshops by the East River.
Shadowbrook
Now in mass market paperback, in the epic storytelling tradition of Sara Donati comes a sweeping tale of love, ambition, and a war that ignited a revolution... 1754. In a peaceful glen in the Ohio Country, the firing of a musket ball signals the beginning of the infamous bloody seven-year war that paved the way for the American Revolution... In Shadowbrook, a cast of unforgettable characters brings to life the bloody conflict between the French and the English that ignited America’s quest for independence and the birth of a new nation: Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman- turned-scout the Indians call ‘Red Bear’; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman scarred in battle by h...
City Of Glory
The eagerly-anticipated sequel to City of Dreams, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'near perfect historical fiction.’ In the epic tradition of Edward Rutherfurd's London, a master storyteller charts the destiny of two Manhattan families against the backdrop of the War of 1812. As a fledgling nation defends itself against invaders, New York's merchants and entrepreneurs conspire in their counting houses by day and carouse in their brothels and gambling parlours by night. Their choices: betrayal or patriotism; a young and fragile America or a greed older than time. In what is destined to become the greatest city in the New World, a sweeping tale of pride and ambition, love and war, is played out by an unforgettable cast of characters: Joyful Turner, surgeon and hero; Bastard Devrey, desperate owner of a fleet of trading ships; Gornt Blakeman, a merchant prince who lusts to be a king; and the women who love them, Manon, Delight and Eugenue, each with dark secrets of their own; and the Wall Street money men, pirates and mercenaries, runaway slaves, shipwrights, butchers and barkeeps who fill New York's teeming streets.
Řeka času
Román téměř detektivní potěší fanoušky napínavé četby i historické prózy. A nechybí v něm ani romantika. Příběh Řeky času se souběžně odehrává ve dvou stoletích, šestnáctém a jedenadvacátém; mnich a historička, oba sužovaní láskou a obavami, se v něm setkávají „jako v zrcadle, jen v hádance“, zatímco se každý řítí vstříc vlastnímu osudu, a ačkoli je dělí pět set let, jejich životním drahám hrozí střet. „... čas je jako řeka, která se vine krajinou. Když po ní plujeme, obvykle vidíme jen svůj rovný úsek, ne to, co je za zatáčkou...“ Strhující mysteriózní román, v němž se dramaticky proplétají dvě dějové l...
City of Dreams
An enthralling tale of Colonial life begins in 1661 when Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister Sally, an apothecary, start their new life in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. Both are gifted healers, but betrayal and murder unfold in their lives, making them deadly enemies--and creating far-reaching effects on their descendants and the growing city.
