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New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloe, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend.

In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audien...

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Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John—the popular name for the...

Un héroe accidental que se gana la vida criando cerdos. Una maga poderosa que se mantiene en constante equilibrio para no ceder en ante el lado más perverso del poder. Dragones cansados que buscan finalizar una existencia agotadora. Un mundo medieval en el que John Aversin y su cautivadora companera sentimental, Jenny, corren una inesperada aventura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWhen the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the ...

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As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois...

The stunning, much-beloved mystery series featuring Benjamin January, a free black man living in 19th-century New Orleans, continues with this suspenseful installment in which Benjamin takes a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable passage to death and murder.

Benjamin January returns in his 12th mystery from acclaimed author Barbara Hambly.

Benjamin January returns in his 12th mystery from acclaimed author Barbara Hambly.

A force of imagination and action, this engrossing novel about the kidnapping of Princess Leia will hold readers to the page. While his sister is held hostage, Luke Skywalker searches for his lost love Callista, and the planet begins to reveal an unspeakable secret: a long dormant life form is awakening, one that threatens the New Republic, the Empire, and the entire galaxy.

In Children of the Jedi, Barbara Hambly introduces a new character: Callista, a brave Jedi warrior of long ago who gave her life to foil one of the Empire's darkest plans, a plot to destroy a stronghold that was sanctuary for the wives and children of the Jedi knights. Suddenly, the dreadnought is rearming itself, intent on destruction. Only Luke Skywalker can feel its evil presence as well as the mysterious influence of that powerful woman wh...

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The novels of New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly have broken new ground in the realm of fantasy. With a sweeping cast of characters whose powers are both awesome and heartachingly limited, the Dragon series is built around the touching relationship between a husband and wife separated by a flood of violence and chaos. Condemned to die for consorting with demons, dragonslayer Lord John Aversin sits in a dank prison cell and calcul...