LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert walker

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  • The Inventory of Souls
    Robert Walker
    HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS. BUT THE RECEIPTS WERE KEPT BY A PROOFREADER.Seville, 1492. Lorenzo is a man of ink and silence, a proofreader in the Inquisition’s scriptorium. His job is to correct the Latin of the Church’s holy decrees. But when he finds a jagged margin note in a condemned book-Sanguine negotiantur (They trade in blood)-he uncovers a typo in the moral fabri...
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    19,90 €

  • The Quicksilver Key
    Robert Walker
    For surveyor Leo Bishop, a line on a map is a sacred truth. But in the feverish, grasping world of the California Gold Rush, the only truth that matters is the one you can buy-or bury.Hired to settle a routine boundary dispute on a sun-scorched rancho, Leo uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from the blood-red hills of the New Almaden quicksilver mine to the nation’s highest cou...
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    22,97 €

  • The Queen’s Cipher
    Robert Walker
    IN THE SHADOW OF THE THRONE, EVERY WORD IS A WEAPON.In 1571, England was a powder keg. Queen Elizabeth’s reign is threatened by plotters at home and the great Catholic powers abroad. To defend the realm, her spymasters have built a new kind of arsenal: a network of spies armed not with daggers, but with ink and cipher.Elias Thorne, a quiet Oxford scholar, is torn from his books...
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    22,93 €

  • No Parade
    Robert Walker
    On December 1, 1969, a lottery drawing sealed the fate of a generation. For millions of young men, a single blue capsule determined whether they would live, die, or return from the jungles of Vietnam forever changed. No Parade is the sweeping saga of four lives irrevocably altered by that night: Michael, a brilliant student who believes he can outsmart the...
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    29,93 €

  • The Eagle and the Star
    Robert Walker
    He built a Temple to honor God. He murdered his family to secure his throne.In an age of titans, Herod the Great stands as a colossus of ambition and paranoia. A half-Jew granted the throne of Judea by his Roman masters, he is haunted by the one thing he can never build, buy, or conquer: legitimacy. It is a prize that belongs to his wife, Mariamne, the last princess of the Hasm...
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    20,20 €

  • Songs of the South African AIDS Crisis
    Gavin Robert Walker
    Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in Africa.Drawn from a rich and powerful cultural history, music has been used to inspire HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy, facilitate l...
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    154,24 €

  • The Carpenter’s Revolution
    Robert Walker
    THE CARPENTER’S REVOLUTION Before he was a savior, he was a revolutionary. Before the cross, there was the carpenter’s bench.In the shadow of Roman crucifixes and Herod’s paranoia, a young carpenter named Yeshua ben Yosef comes of age in occupied Galilee. While history remembers him for the final three years of his life, this novel imagines the eighteen lost years that forged a...
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    29,06 €

  • The Law of Ink and Iron
    Robert Walker
    Before the Trail of Tears, there was a war of words.The Cherokee Phoenix was the first Native American newspaper-a radical act of resistance printed in two languages for a nation that refused to disappear. For young printer David Aganstata, every letter he set was a declaration: We are here. We have a voice. We will not be silent.Then they came for the press.Spanning two decade...
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    20,88 €

  • The Ledger of Souls
    Robert Walker
    The greatest atrocities in history were not committed with swords, but with ink.Spanning 250 years, from the first slave ships to the fall of the Confederacy, The Ledger of Souls is the story of America’s original sin told not from the battlefield or the plantation, but from the chillingly quiet counting house. It follows the Quill family, a dynasty of accountants, clerks, and ...
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    23,45 €

  • The Naming Game
    Robert Walker
    IN 1950s AMERICA, YOUR PRINCIPLES ARE A LIABILITY. YOUR FRIENDS ARE A WEAPON. AND LOYALTY IS A CURRENCY PAID IN BETRAYAL.For Clara Goldstein, a sharp-witted Hollywood screenwriter at the top of her game, the price of a thriving career is a single, forgotten act of compassion: a five-dollar donation to help refugee children made thirteen years ago. Now, the architects of the bla...
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    25,83 €

  • The Compass Rose Conspiracy
    Robert Walker
    Beneath a sky ruled by superstition and the iron fist of empire, one woman inherits a secret that could shatter the world.Lisbon, 1497. Isabella de Santos, daughter of a murdered royal cartographer, discovers a map fragment that whispers of impossible voyages and forgotten histories - evidence that Chinese fleets charted the globe decades before European 'discoverers' dared to ...
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    25,01 €

  • The Baron’s Gambit
    Robert Walker
    His glittering European career shattered by insidious whispers and anonymous accusations, Friedrich von Steuben, a once-celebrated Prussian officer, faces ruin. Driven by a desperate hope for redemption, he flees the treacherous courts of Europe for the nascent American republic -a land as hungry for his military genius as he is for a new beginning. At the desolate winter encam...
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    18,11 €

  • The Last Scroll
    Robert Walker
    For centuries, the Library of Alexandria stood as a beacon of human knowledge, a monumental dream to collect every thought ever recorded. But its legacy is one of constant struggle-a breathtaking, perilous dance between creation and destruction, preservation and loss. Journey through a millennium of history, from the ambitious Ptolemies who filled its shelves through ruthless a...
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    25,98 €

  • The Word And The Sword
    Robert Walker
    The Roman Empire teeters on the brink, not from barbarian hordes, but from a war of words that threatens to rip Christianity apart.Emperor Constantine, master of a newly united empire, now faces his greatest challenge: a theological firestorm ignited by the teachings of Arius, a charismatic Alexandrian presbyter. The very nature of Christ is in question, and the schism endanger...
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    31,12 €

  • The Calculation of Kings
    Robert Walker
    The Republic is dying. Ambition is the only constant.In the heart of ancient Rome, where the Senate’s power wanes and the Triumvirate’s shadow lengthens, a clerk meticulously documents the Republic’s final days. Quintus Velius confronts a chilling reality: the precise calculations of power eclipse moral courage. As the Republic crumbles, ambitious leaders like Antony, Lepidus, ...
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    21,81 €

  • The Fall of Constantinople - Twilight of Empires
    Robert Walker
    May 29, 1453. The last day of the Roman Empire.For fifty-three days, the ancient walls of Constantinople have held against the largest army the world has ever seen. Now, as dawn breaks over the Golden Horn, a young sultan’s dream of conquest collides with an emperor’s determination to die as the last Roman.Constantine XI knows the mathematics of his situation: five thousand def...
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    21,90 €

  • Empire of Whispers
    Robert Walker
    Empire of Whispers: A Marco Polo Secret HistoryHistory records Marco Polo’s journey. His secret journal reveals the terrifying truth.Venice, 1271. Young Marco Polo, more adept at cataloging cats than counting coin, reluctantly joins his merchant father and uncle on an epic voyage to the fabled court of Kublai Khan. But the Silk Road holds dangers far stranger than bandits or bl...
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    22,94 €

  • The Dragon’s Bride
    Robert Walker
    From the teeming flower boats of Canton harbor to the treacherous waters of the South China Sea, one woman dares to defy fate and forge her own destiny. Shi Yang, sold into a floating brothel, uses her sharp mind not just to survive, but to gather secrets - observing naval formations, trade routes, and the whispers of powerful men. Knowledge is her weapon, her currency, her pat...
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    21,89 €

  • The Eagle Throne - Moctezuma II
    Robert Walker
    Destiny is a blade, and Motecuhzoma, heir to the Aztec Empire, must learn to wield it. From a boy’s first taste of blood sacrifice to a warrior’s brutal test, his path is paved with trials. But beyond the battlefield and the temple lies a treacherous court, where ancient secrets and conflicting loyalties threaten to tear the empire apart. And from the eastern sea, a storm is br...
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    26,15 €

  • Voices of the Aztec Empire
    Robert Walker
    What if you could step back five centuries and sit face-to-face with the architects, warriors, poets, healers, and everyday people of the Aztec Empire? In Voices of the Aztec Empire: Imagined Interviews, journey into the heart of a complex civilization on the brink of cataclysmic change. Through meticulously researched yet vividly imagined conversations, encounter figures like ...
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    23,21 €

  • West of Yesterday
    Robert Walker
    What happens when your family road trip takes a wrong turn... into another century?For the Hargroves, a tech-reliant family from suburban California, a journey east becomes a plunge into the impossible. Stranded in the desolate Nevada desert by inexplicable electronic failures, they stumble upon Salvation Gulch-a town thriving impossibly in the year 1888.Forced to adapt to a wo...
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    25,30 €

  • Echoes of Ancient Greece
    Robert Walker
    What if you could walk the sun-baked stones of the Acropolis alongside Pericles as the Parthenon rises? What if you could debate the nature of love with Diotima in a hidden temple sanctuary, or witness Queen Artemisia’s tactical brilliance firsthand?Echoes of Ancient Greece takes you on an unprecedented journey through time, bringing the luminaries and unsung voices of the anci...
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    25,69 €

  • Voices from the Dust
    Robert Walker
    Step into a time machine crafted from imagination and historical evidence. 'Voices from the Dust: Imagined Interviews from Ancient Rome' transcends dusty textbooks, resurrecting the Roman world through vivid conversations with its most compelling figures. Hear Julius Caesar debate crossing the Rubicon, witness Cleopatra’s strategic brilliance, and march alongside a legionary ...
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    31,03 €

  • Pure Evil - Imagined Interviews with History’s Tyrants
    Robert Walker
    What turns a human being into a monster capable of orchestrating the deaths of millions? Can we ever truly understand the minds behind history’s most horrific atrocities?In Pure Evil, Robert Walker dares to ask the questions history books can’t answer. Step into imagined interview rooms with nine of the most notorious tyrants who ever lived-from ancient conquerors to 20th-centu...
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    17,88 €

  • The Liminal Archives
    Robert Walker
    A grief therapist confronts a reality beyond the boundaries of life and death.Dr. Maya Reeves has built her career on understanding loss, but when her patients begin exhibiting supernatural phenomena, she’s forced to confront a terrifying possibility: the dead are not truly gone, and their suffering has opened a door.Detective Gabriel Torres, haunted by his uncle’s inexplicable...
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    27,94 €

  • The Emperor’s Cipher
    Robert Walker
    In the shadow of ancient Rome, a modern conspiracy unfolds...When classics professor Marcus Whitby is called to a murder scene at the Museum of Classical Antiquities, he discovers more than a dead body. The victim has been arranged in perfect imitation of Julius Caesar’s assassination, complete with twenty-three stab wounds and a cryptic Latin message: 'The Aurelii Remember.'As...
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    23,92 €

  • Embers of Yesterday
    Robert Walker
    Six months to live. A lifetime of secrets. When business magnate Alastair Winthrop is confronted with his own mortality, a mysterious letter from his dead father plunges him into a treacherous game of blackmail and corporate intrigue. The price of silence? To bury the truth about the Winthrop Empire’s dark past. But as Alastair races against time, he discovers a betrayal that c...
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    19,88 €

  • It’s All In The Eyes
    Robert Mark Walker
    Rob Wilkinson, a Christian man from Northern Ireland and an avid world traveler in his spare time, finds himself traveling alone on the second anniversary of his wife’s untimely death. But through a couple of seeming coincidences, he meets and befriends Gabby, a young woman from Germany dealing with heartaches of her own. As their relationship deepens, Rob must draw on his rece...
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    20,37 €

  • The Reluctant Oracle
    Robert Walker
    He can predict when your coffee will spill, but can he stop a skyscraper from collapsing?Kyle Mercer has the world’s most underwhelming superpower: he predicts mundane events with 100% accuracy. From burnt toast to bird droppings, his 'gift' is more cosmic joke than heroic asset. His life consists of stocking shelves at SuperMart and dodging his manager’s disapproval. But whe...
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    20,72 €

  • The Sapphire Slipper Heist - A Barnaby Crisp Mystery
    Robert Walker
    Barnaby Crisp is back, and the stakes have never been higher in the glittering heart of Las Vegas!Following their baffling investigation in The Case of the Caffeinated Capuchin, eccentric detective Barnaby Crisp and his pragmatic partner Maya Sharma are called to the exclusive Sapphire Slipper Casino, where impossible thefts are occurring with clockwork precision. Million-dolla...
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    20,74 €


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