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In 1492 Spain is held in firm grip by the inquisition. Per decree an announcement is made that all Jews have to leave the country. A large exodus starts. 15-year-old Yonah is left on his own after his brother and father are killed. Instead of converting to Christianity or fleeing he decides to stand firm by his faith and to fight for himself. Three years later Yonah is keen to settle somewhere. In Granada he finally meets people of his own faith again - the family of the silk merchant Saadi, who still practice Judaism in secrecy. Yonah's love for Ines, the young daughter of the family, however remains unfulfilled. Yonah moves on to Gibraltar where he starts an apprenticeship with Fierro, an armourer. Fierro has to flee from the inquisition himself and asks his young apprentice to accompany him on his journey to the North and when he finally arrives in Saragossa meeting Nuno seals his fate. Yonah immediately senses that medicine is his true calling...

Alive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . . . Though she risked her plantation running the Yankee cotton blockade during the Civil War, Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods still had to defend her family from a corrupt Yankee officer . . . . Bettie Moss King survived wolves, storms, and the Ku Klux Klan to steer her family through the turbulent birth of modern times. Inspired by the author's own Texas roots, here is an unforgettable saga of the grit, determination, and courage of TRUE WOMEN. ""Heartfelt . . . The hardships and adventures faced by [this] family are so movingly described that I was in tears." -- The New York Times Book Review

Román z prostředí a historie Dálného východu nás zavádí do Japonska druhé poloviny 19. století, do období historického zlomu: přestože Japonsko stále lpí na tradicích a brání se sílícímu vlivu bílých přivandrovalců – gaidžinů, ti moudřejší si uvědomují, že bez přijetí základů evropské a americké civilizace se Země vycházejícího slunce v budoucnu neobejde. Spletité osudy několika hlavních postav plasticky vykreslují střet dvou civilizací a kultur a v neposlední řadě nabízí příběhy plné napětí, intrik a vášní. ISBN 80-7202-008-0 (soubor Ikar) ISBN 80-7176-297-0 (soubor Knižní klub)

Gai-Jin è il terzo romanzo della saga asiatica di James Clavell. La storia ha come sfondo il Giappone della seconda metà dell'800: è il 1862 e il potere dello Shogun si indebolisce sempre di più. Tra le fazioni rivali si accende una lotta senza scrupoli per impadronirsi dell'Impero. A Yokohama, anche i Gai-Jin, gli odiati stranieri, cercano di trarre profitto dallo scompiglio per imporre il proprio Tai-Pan - Padrone assoluto - sulla dinastia degli Shogunate.

Ruth is beautiful, intelligent and privileged, but she can never be satisfied - there is a moral vacuum where her heart should be. She envies her cousin Elisabeth and this obsession leads her inexorably to tragedy. By the author of "Damage".