Novedades

A Flower Traveled in My Blood is the rarest of nonfiction that reads like a novel and puts your heart in your throat. It is the product of years of extensive archival research and meticulous, original reporting. It marks the arrival of a blazing new talent in narrative journalism. In this audiobook, a regime tries to terrorize a country, but love prevails. The grandmothers’ stunning stories reveal new truths about memory, identity, and family.

In the fall of 1947, an eighty-four-year-old woman receives an extraordinary invitation. Within is the end of a long journey seeking vindication for a husband who gave his life to the service of the Royal Navy and received, in return, ingratitude. Thus begins the story of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Victoria, the eldest daughter of Princess Alice and Prince Ludwig of Hesse, was born in April 1863.

The Fall of the Reich: The Final 100 Days tells the harrowing and historically rich story of how the Third Reich unravelled during its final, desperate months between January and May 1945. What was once a seemingly invincible Nazi war machine had by 1945 become a hollow shell—crumbling under the weight of defeat, dissent, and destruction. From the failed final offensive in the Ardennes to the thunder of Soviet artillery at the gates of Berlin, this book tracks the intense and often chaotic events that sealed Hitler’s fate and reshaped the modern world.

At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again—but their refuge would all too soon become a trap. For the first time, Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors' testimonies as well as children's diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? recreates their journeys.

The Great Depression was a period of severe economic suffering in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941. It was the country's longest and most severe economic downturn in history. The book describes the events and conditions that led to the Great Depression and the long-term consequences it had on generations of Americans. This book is an excellent resource for anybody interested in learning more about this pivotal period in American history. The book takes an in-depth look at the individuals and places touched by this tragic event.

This inspiring work profiles sixteen heroic Catholic men and women who defied the odds to advance civil and human rights around the world. Spanning from the birth of the United States to World War II Germany to the current Latin American immigration crisis, this book features people whose faith drove them to courageously defend the dignity of the children of God, especially the most vulnerable, transforming many lives and paving the way for a more equitable society.

Plunge with Ernest Ellis into the abyss • nightmare of concentration camp horrors • ideologies of the Nazi regime • insanity of a nuclear arms race unleashed and its threat to our very existenceWhen will the enmity and hatred end so man can live in a world of peace? Catch glimpses that lift the heart in possibility and hope…through the passion of writers and political leaders of the era and the eyes of Ellis’s first novel, There Lies A Tale... “There Lies A Tale” by Ernest Ellis “A well-conceived and beautifully written tale of the Holocaust from a deeply subjective ...

During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

¿Qué tipo de sistema protege a un depredador durante décadas… mientras el mundo guarda silencio? Por Encima de la Ley: La Máquina del Encubrimiento de Epstein es una investigación explosiva sobre cómo uno de los criminales sexuales más infames del siglo XXI evitó la justicia durante años. Pero este no es solo un libro sobre Jeffrey Epstein. Es sobre lo que lo protegió: una red de abogados, banqueros, medios, agencias de inteligencia y políticos que sabían lo suficiente como para actuar—y decidieron no hacerlo. Con documentación precisa y narrativa contundente, este libro ...

Florida Lost and Gained: Spain’s Last Colony, America’s New Frontier (1800–1860) For centuries, Florida stood on the edge of empires—first a distant outpost of Spain, then a young American republic’s strategic prize. In Florida Lost and Gained, author Donald Elton uncovers the turbulent half-century that transformed Florida from a neglected Spanish possession into a key Southern state on the eve of the U.S. Civil War. This richly detailed narrative brings to life the final decades of Spanish rule, the diplomatic and military maneuvering behind the Adams–Onís Treaty, and the ...

Three days after Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky issues a desperate appeal for foreign military volunteers to help defend his country. Thousands answer the call from all over the world: some of them experienced soldiers, others novices who’ve never held a gun before. Among their ranks are high-minded idealists, adventure-seekers bored with civilian life, and ex-criminals seeking redemption – all risking their lives against the world's most vicious superpower.

Operation Rising Lion: Israel’s Masterstroke Against Iran – A Step-by-Step Account of Planning, Deception, and Execution is a gripping, in-depth chronicle of one of the most audacious military operations in modern history. Authored by a leading expert on Middle Eastern geopolitics, this book dissects the events leading up to and during Israel’s preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear program and military infrastructure in June 2025. Drawing on declassified intelligence, eyewitness accounts, and exclusive analyses, it reveals how years of covert preparation—including Mossad ...

Ein Junge stößt beim Schlittschuhlaufen auf einen Toten im Eis und den Beginn einer sonderbaren Geschichte. Kern, ein schwerreicher Erbe, kann nicht länger ignorieren, dass seine Augen schwächer werden. Da ist Kerns hundertjährige Mutter, die den größten Teil des Tages im Dachgeschoss der Villa im Bett liegt, und doch mit brutaler Konsequenz die Fäden in der Hand hält.

Dean Latimer has a reputation for being handy with both his fists and guns -- and staying cool under fire. So When Marshal Konrad Ellington needs him to help Constance Dewitt prove her brother Sheldon innocent of a murder charge, he is the perfect man for the job. But the town of Baxterville is run by crooked men, with gunslingers backing their play: and when Latimer tries to save the innocent Sheldon, he ends up accused of murder and running for his life...