NEW! The
King's Gold
Author Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The fourth novel in the immensely satisfying Captain
Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte opens with a Spanish
galleon sailing into a home port that is festooned with English
corpses - the slain enemies, fruit of a failed Anglo-Dutch
attack on Cádiz. The tone is not triumphant but exhausted.
Alatriste, his young protégé Íńigo and his
battered comrades are tired of adventures. But they need another
one that pays well. An air of cynical resignation pervades The
King's Gold. Pérez-Reverte, even as he stages exhilarating
scenes, darkens the mood, making this novel one of his finest.
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Juanna la Loca, the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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Did Christopher Columbus hide his true identity? Modern
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Author: Samuel Shellabarger
A young Spaniard's family is destroyed by the Inquisition.
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Author: Stephen Marlowe
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of the Sea
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The building of a cathedral in 14th century
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Teresa
Author: Barbara Mujica; Buy New: $16.46
Spoiled with beauty, riches, and adoration, a young girl from Avila is
sent to a convent because of her budding relationship with a local
bachelor, but discovers instead an unparalleled spiritual fervor, one so
powerful as to be condemned as sinful by some.
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Discovery of Chocolate
Author: James Runcie; Buy New: $13.95
The year is 1518 and the discovery of chocolate in the New
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grave consequences for one young conquistador.
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of the Pomegranate Tree
Author: Tariq Ali; Buy New: $10.20
Family saga beginning in Medieval Spain
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Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain
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