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Eine unvergleichliche Amour fou: Alma Mahler und Walter GropiusÖstereich, 1910: Alma ist mit Gustav Mahler verheiratet, der ihr untersagt, selbst zu komponieren. Als sie den jungen Architekten Walter Gropius kennenlernt, ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Mit Mahlers Tod scheint der Weg frei für sie, doch Eifersucht und überschäumende Leidenschaft verhindern, dass sie zueinander finden - bis Gropius schwer verletzt aus dem Krieg zurückkehrt. S...

Born on the Isle of Man two hundred fifty years ago, Captain John Quilliam has, until now, evaded detailed study of his extraordinary life. While celebrated as a Manx hero, in the wider world beyond the Island one of the most important men on the quarter deck of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar remains largely unrecognized. Trafalgar, however, was not even the high point of Quilliam's professional journey. From the lowest rung of the lad...

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Janet Harper works at Ten Thousand Secrets National Park Casino & Entertainment District in Kentucky, following a mysterious explosion at her previous workplace, Nevada's Historic Red Light District & Jazz Casino National Park. In hiding from her two children for over a year, Janet is tracked down by her daughter Lena, and they are drawn into a struggle between the Federal Park Service and the Department of Defense over control of time travel,...

Napoleon Xylophone is set to become a hero with a walking disability. When adventure comes knocking, Zam doesn't let his disability get in the way of fighting the changelings, wytes and gargoyles that come to life in the underworld beneath Newcastle.

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James Habersham was an early American success story. After arriving in Savannah in 1738, he failed in his efforts to wrest a living from the Georgia wilderness and lived his first year at public expense. Then, by dint of his own efforts and through the connections he forged, Habersham emerged as one of the colony's most influential and prosperous citizens, making his name as a planter, merchant, evangelist, and political leader. The third weal...

James Habersham was an early American success story. After arriving in Savannah in 1738, he failed in his efforts to wrest a living from the Georgia wilderness and lived his first year at public expense. Then, by dint of his own efforts and through the connections he forged, Habersham emerged as one of the colony's most influential and prosperous citizens, making his name as a planter, merchant, evangelist, and political leader. The third weal...

This story has a different kind of hero, a hero with a walking disability. Xyz is the standalone second book in Frank¿Lambert's Napoleon Xylophone trilogy, named after his first novel. Isaac Bonnyman doesn't realise that the rogue changeling he is hunting for the Cult of the Clan will lead him to the secret to immortality. It is not until he is dead that he realises that's why the Clan employed him. Once he is dead, he doesn't care about the C...

Frank Lambert tackles the central claims of the religious right "historians” who insist that America was conceived as a "Christian State”, that modern-day "liberals” and "secularists” have distorted the place of religion in American history, and that the phrase "the separation of church and state” is a myth created by the Left. He discusses what separates "bad” history from "good” history, and concludes that the "historians” of the religious r...

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