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1) Freya
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What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? Sparks fly and love blooms.Freya Ivarsdóttir is not only the daughter of a jarl and sister to a future jarl but a well-renowned shield maiden. Committed to fighting the evil forces threatening her tribe and her neighbors, Freya does not welcome the attention of Erik Rangvaldson, the son of their neighboring jarl. Forced to work together to defeat their common enemy, Freya must put...
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The Balkans, 1371
After conquering the Serbian army in battle, bands of Ottoman warriors terrorize the land, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. As one of the few survivors of a deadly attack on her village, Magdalena is determined to protect her newly orphaned niece. When a group of battle-weary Serb warriors offers to lead Magdalena and her charge to safety, a flame of hope flickers to life for the desperate woman, burning...
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Basada en una investigación real sobre la quema de brujas en la Noruega del 1600.
Noruega, 1662. Una época peligrosa para ser mujer, cuando incluso bailar puede dar lugar a acusaciones de brujería. Zigri, una viuda del pueblo, tiene una aventura con un comerciante, es descubierta y enviada a la fortaleza de Vardø para ser juzgada como bruja.
La hija de Zigri, Ingeborg, se adentra en territorios helados y yermos para intentar rescatar a su madre....
4) The Anarchy
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1121. The trail of a mass murderer and a hunt for a runaway nun. King Henry I has lost his heir in the sinking of The White Ship and his reign is fraught with the succession crisis. The king is obsessed with relics and prophecies. He summons his daughter, the Empress Maud, to return to England, and considers putting a woman on the English throne. King Henry's former mistress, Nest ferch Rhys, is unhappily married to the Norman constable of Cardigan...
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Elayne Duncan is determined to see her sister, home and reclaim their clan's honor. When rumors of her being within the McFarlane clan, Elayne hatches a plan.The McFarlane clan has said many times they would pay handsomely for the head of the Keith Cheiftain. If she can capture the man, perhaps they will free her sister.Ian Kieth is a man with dark secrets. With little to no ties to anyone, he has survived in the wilds of the highlands for years....
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Is it possible to let go of a dark past, even when you found true happiness on the present?
When Edwin got married, all he wanted was to start a family with his wife. However, when ghosts from his long gone past start to haunt him again, he decides to come back to where it all began and bury them once and for all.
Diana fought real hard to be with the man she loved and when he tells her he has to return to his old clan, she refuses to stay behind....
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A mission for the princes of Europe precipitates Venetian nobleman Giovanni di Montercervino into romance and danger at the court of Arghun, Mongol ruler of Persia.Arghun, the great-great-grandson of Temuchin, is dying. But there are those who would hasten his death for political reasons, while others would sacrifice his wife Nadia for personal ones. Beautiful and talented, but victim of a barbaric Mongol marriage law which passes her from ruler to...
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Five years have passed since Elizabeth, Isaac, and Kaylein's lives were torn apart. The kingdom rests at peace, but the scars left by the war still mark each of them deeply. Restored to the feudal hierarchy against their will, Isaac and Kaylein exercise what power they have to temper the reach of Duke Francis and the newly ennobled Lord Edward. Meanwhile, Elizabeth strives to put the past behind her, praying that her family will not have its heart...
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Westminster, 1184-- in the court of King Henry, playful competition is about to turn into something far more serious. Young courtier Fulke FitzWarin would not be an obvious companion for Prince John, but the boy from the Welsh Marches is there as a reward for his family's loyalty to the crown. The FitzWarins are as proud as they are true, and when Fulke is accused by John of cheating during a game of chess, he cannot help but respond. Thus begins...
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Great sieges changed the course of medieval history, yet siege warfare, the dominant military activity of the period, is rarely given the attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hindley's highly readable new account of this vital but neglected aspect of medieval warfare looks at the subject from every angle. He traces the development of fortifications and siege equipment, explores the psychological dimension and considers the parts played by women and camp...
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Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be ignored. But, as David Nicolle's thought-provoking survey shows, the religions clashed across the medieval world - in the Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula, in the Near East, in Central Asia, India, the Balkans, Anatolia, Russia, the Baltic and Africa. Over 500 years, the struggle...
12) Saxons & Vikings
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This beautifully-presented book chronicles the coming and going of these peoples, their kings, heroes and saints, and way of life. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel.
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"Thou wert born, not a demon, but a light so bright that the darkness cannot touch thee." So the physician monk Jehan d'Auterives tells his adopted daughter Zénaïde, a foundling once discarded out of superstition and fear. Taught medicine by him despite her sex as much as her disabilities, Zénaïde's unconventional destiny will take her from her childhood in a Norman monastery to medieval Paris and the royal court of Louis VII. But in this new...
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A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written"
It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague, political unrest and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and illuminated with exquisite paintings. Finn is a master illuminator who works not only for the Church...
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For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in this highly readable and perceptive study of the Barons' War, describes events...
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L'épilogue tant attendu de L'Épouse du MacKinnon. Ceci n'est pas un roman, mais un épilogue romancé écrit pour compléter le premier volume de la série des Demoiselles des Highlands.Onze ans plus tard, Hugh FitzSimon est un homme brisé. Solitaire et abandonné de tous, il n'est plus qu'une ombre misérable qui se complait dans le chagrin. Aussi radin qu'Ebenezer Scrooge, il reçoit la visite du fantme de sa défunte épouse qui est venu lui...
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Une romance écossaise des Highlands qui vous fera voyager dans le temps.Nous sommes en 2014 et Annie Ross a vécu son existence entière un peu perdue. Mais voilà qu'elle s'apprête également à se perdre à travers le temps, remontant jusqu'à l'an 878 après J.-C., o elle doit prendre sa place de gardienne de la pierre du destin et trouver le moyen de restaurer la foi d'un puissant chef des Highlands. Parviendra-t-elle également à conquérir...
18) Lena & Ivar
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What happens when love and war don't mix?Ivar Sorenson is not only his father's heir to their jarldom, he's his parents' last remaining son. There isn't much choice for the future jarl when his father demands an alliance with their feuding neighbor. That alliance can only come in the form of a marriage...to a woman Ivar doesn't want and doesn't like. Not when he already has the one great love of his life already by his side. Can Ivar convince his...
19) Cœur de lion
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Elizabet, la fille illégitime d'un baron anglais désargenté, est bien déterminée à conquérir sa liberté à n'importe quel prix… jusqu'à ce qu'une trahison la jette dans les bras d'un farouche Écossais.Ayant juré de la protéger, même si cela devait signer la mort d'une paix fragile entre les clans, Broc des MacKinnon comprend rapidement que l'ardente furie qu'il retient captive représente une menace bien plus grande pour son cœur.
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When the only man she can trust is known for his dishonorable past, what could go wrong?A Dishonorable ManThomas Brisbois of Kelso has only one goal when he arrives at the tournament-to defeat the only knight who ever bested him in battle. If he succeeds, the Scottish king will return to him his lands, his honor, and his life. He has little interest in other prizes, and even less when he learns that the lord for whom his rival fights has included...
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