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  • Napoleon’s Shadow Wife
    James Conroyd Martin
    How is it that an emperor like Napoleon Bonaparte could be so entranced by twenty-year-old Polish Countess Marie Walewska-of minor nobility-that their affair would outlast his relationships with wives Josephine and Marie Louise?Countess Marie Walewska is a fascinating Polish beauty and patriot who catches the eye of Napoleon Bonaparte. When Marie’s first taste of possible love ...
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  • Napoleon’s Shadow Wife
    James Conroyd Martin
    How is it that an emperor like Napoleon Bonaparte could be so entranced by twenty-year-old Polish Countess Marie Walewska-of minor nobility-that their affair would outlast his relationships with wives Josephine and Marie Louise?Countess Marie Walewska is a fascinating Polish beauty and patriot who catches the eye of Napoleon Bonaparte. When Marie’s first taste of possible love ...
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    18,89 €

  • Too Soon the Night
    James Conroyd Martin
    Palace eunuch and secretary Stephen records Empress Theodora’s life as she navigates wars, political and religious crises, a citywide rebellion, and the first world plague pandemic, all in a male-dominated world. As the most powerful woman of the Byzantine Empire, one-time prostitute Theodora installs her own candidate for pope, legislates women’s rights, and shuts down a massi...
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    42,30 €

  • Too Soon the Night
    James Conroyd Martin
    Palace eunuch and secretary Stephen records Empress Theodora’s life as she navigates wars, political and religious crises, a citywide rebellion, and the first world plague pandemic, all in a male-dominated world.In sixth century Constantinople, Theodora has become Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. She has climbed from actress to prostitute to mistress to wife and equal partn...
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    21,59 €

  • Fortune’s Child
    James Conroyd Martin
    Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress. And Byzantine Empress of the civilized world.Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress.How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography?  From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinop...
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    20,05 €

  • Fortune’s Child
    James Conroyd Martin
    From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinople, sets her sights well above her station in life. Her exquisite beauty sets her apart on stages and in the eyes of men.Stephen, a Syrian lad of striking good looks, is sold by his parents to a Persian wizard, who teaches him a skill in languages that will serve him well.By the time Destiny brings ...
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    13,63 €

  • Hologram
    James Conroyd Martin
    Hologram opens when Chicagoan Margaret Rockwell falls in love with a wonderful old Greek Revival home in Hammond, Indiana, and convinces hesitant husband Kurt that fate meant it for them. However, other forces may be at work. So begins a journey that will take them down a circuitous path fraught with the unknown—and danger.Why do the Rockwells, expecting their first child, seem...
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    14,10 €

  • The Warsaw Conspiracy (The Poland Trilogy Book 3)
    James Conroyd Martin
    Brilliantly illustrating the psyche of a people determined to reclaim independence from Russia in the face of monumental odds, The Warsaw Conspiracy features two brothers and their fates in love and war. Michał is a seasoned veteran soldier, cautious of the evolving conspiracy; Józef, his much younger brother and impassioned cadet, finds himself caught up in the vortex of a dar...
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    21,39 €

  • The Warsaw Conspiracy (The Poland Trilogy Book 3)
    James Conroyd Martin
    Brilliantly illustrating the psyche of a people determined to reclaim independence from Russia in the face of monumental odds, The Warsaw Conspiracy features two brothers and their fates in love and war. Michał is a seasoned veteran soldier, cautious of the evolving conspiracy; Józef, his much younger brother and impassioned cadet, finds himself caught up in the vortex of a dar...
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    14,61 €

  • Against a Crimson Sky (The Poland Trilogy Book 2)
    James Conroyd Martin
    A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spirit, set against the extraordinary backdrop of war-torn Poland at the cusp of the nineteenth century. The year is 1794, and the beautiful and resilient Countess Anna Maria Berezowska has narrowly escaped death amidst the chaos caused...
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    14,30 €

  • Push Not the River (The Poland Trilogy Book 1)
    James Conroyd Martin
    A panoramic and epic novel, Push Not the River recounts the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s—a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are being torn apart by neighboring countries and divided loyalties within. It is then, at the young and vulnerable age of seventeen, that young Anna Maria loses both of her parents and must leave the only h...
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    14,05 €

  • Against a Crimson Sky (The Poland Trilogy Book 2)
    James Conroyd Martin
    A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spirit, set against the extraordinary backdrop of war-torn Poland at the cusp of the nineteenth century. The year is 1794, and the beautiful and resilient Countess Anna Maria Berezowska has narrowly escaped death amidst the chaos caused...
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    21,08 €

  • Push Not the River (The Poland Trilogy Book 1)
    James Conroyd Martin
    A panoramic and epic novel, Push Not the River recounts the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s—a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are being torn apart by neighboring countries and divided loyalties within. It is then, at the young and vulnerable age of seventeen, that young Anna Maria loses both of her parents and must leave the only h...
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    20,83 €

  • The Boy Who Wanted Wings
    James Conroyd Martin
    Aleksy, a Tatar raised by a Polish peasant family, holds in his heart the wish is to become a Polish hussar, a lancer who carries into battle a device attached to his back that holds dozens of eagle feathers. As a Tatar and as a peasant, this is an unlikely quest. When he meets Krystyna, the daughter of the noble who owns the land that his parents work, he falls hopelessly in l...
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    21,13 €

  • The Boy Who Wanted Wings
    James Conroyd Martin
    “A poor archer in medieval Poland takes aim at the love of his life in this epic novel from Martin. The anxious Aleksy Gazdecki, a young farmhand, embodies the ethnic and political tensions of Europe during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. The believability of this novel, which is sprinkled with period-specific details, is never in question. Martin sets the stage so tidily that...
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    14,35 €