Impulse is intuition on Crack. If Intuition is the prudent angel who carefully directs your spirit, then Impulse is its mischief-making twin. The imp in impulse. And thus begins Jane Christmas's second book chronicling a walk a...
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Author:McDowell, JimSummary:Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to...
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Author:GASKIN, CatherineSummary:Impoverished in Wicklow, Charlotte finds herself dispossessed and moved to Spain. There she becomes by marriage "Dona Carlota", a protege of the "Spanish woman" and an influential person in her own right. She does...
- Author:Penttila, NickySummary:
Some fly to war. Others flee it. No one is safe. When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair...
- Author:Neering, RosemarySummary:
They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing...
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Author:Hislop, VictoriaSummary:Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War. Seventy years...
- Author:Penny, DavidSummary:
A killer who can’t be stopped. A request that can’t be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom....
- Author:Gortner, C. W.Summary:
This historical novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power as she transforms from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed the...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a...
- Author:Lewis, Matthew GregorySummary:
Set in the sinister monastery of The Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the...
- Author:Acevedo, ChantelSummary:
A novel based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign, and her journey to see her scandalous, incendiary...
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Author:Fine, MarciaSummary:Edict of Expulsion: 31st of March 1492. Accused of ritual murder in Granada, and not under jurisdiction of the Inquisition, the church orders expulsion of all Jews and Marranos from Spain within four months. Acclaimed author Marcia Fine...
- Author:COWIE, VeraSummary:
Graduate Jane Elliot had landed herself a wonderful summer job tutoring English to the three children of a wealthy Spanish family.But when one of them turned out to be anything but a child, while their guardian and uncle, the attractive...
- Author:Haggard, H. RiderSummary:
It is the time of 'The Eight Years War,' a religious conflict raging in the Low Countries as Spain sought to dominate the region with influence and religion. Set principally between the years 1571-74 this colourful tale...
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Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:Steve Is off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept...
- Author:Portella Bricka, Patricia, Marc-Antoine, ZouékiSummary:
Les gens du Sud n’aiment pas la pluie présente une fresque de la survivance en temps de guerre. Carmen, le personnage central du roman est une femme simple, ballotée par l’Histoire. Une vie pleine de mystères, d’injustices et de misères...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
- Author:Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
Saint Louis University professor Thomas Madden delivers a series of lectures exploring all facets of the Inquisition, including the religious and political climate of its time and the Inquisition's relationship to heresy and...
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Author:Paris, ErnaSummary:One thousand years ago, a civilization existed in Spain that was famed throughout Europe. To the horror of the Christian rulers to the north, Jews, Christians, and Moors lived together in harmony -- and in doing so they created one of...
- Author:Ernest HemingwaySummary:
An American learns the true value of life while fighting with a guerrilla band during the Spanish Civil War.
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