Ken Follett
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International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
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Pillars of the Earth volume 5
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided...
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Set in 12th-century England, the narrative concerns the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
5) Never
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
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Century trilogy volume 3
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
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Century trilogy volume 2
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This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed...
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Century trilogy volume 1
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The pillars of the earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The pillars of the earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year--World without end. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The pillars of the earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The FBI doesn’t believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out.
Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind....
The FBI doesn’t believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out.
Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind....
11) Night over water
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As England and Germany engage in battle, the world's most luxurious airline takes off for its final flight to neutral America, but two ruthless passengers are determined to prevent the plane from reaching its destination.
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2010
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost—until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career.
To extricate herself, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror,...
Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost—until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career.
To extricate herself, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror,...
13) Jackdaws
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2002
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In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett delivers a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II.
D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it’ll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive...
D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it’ll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive...
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Nach DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE und DIE TORE DER WELT der neue große historische KINGSBRIDGE-Roman des internationalen Bestsellerautors.
1558. Noch immer wacht die altehrwürdige Kathedrale von Kingsbridge über die Stadt. Doch diese ist im Widerstreit zwischen Katholiken und Protestanten zutiefst gespalten. Freundschaft, Loyalität, Familie - nichts scheint mehr von Bedeutung zu sein. Auch der Liebe zwischen Ned Willard und Margery Fitzgerald steht der...
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Ein Epos um Gut und Böse, Liebe und Hass - die Vorgeschichte zu Ken Folletts Weltbestseller "Die Säulen der Erde"
England im Jahr 997. Im Morgengrauen wartet der junge Bootsbauer Edgar auf seine Geliebte. Deshalb ist er der Erste, der die Gefahr am Horizont entdeckt: Drachenboote. Jeder weiß: Die Wikinger bringen Tod und Verderben über Land und Leute.
Edgar versucht alles, um die Bürger von Combe zu warnen. Doch er kommt zu spät. Die Stadt...
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Mehr als ein Thriller - Ken Folletts neuester, actiongeladener Roman führt tief in die Verstrickungen unserer globalisierten Welt und stellt die Frage "Was wäre, wenn ...?"
"Eine fesselnde Geschichte, und nur allzu realistisch" LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS, ehemaliger US-Finanzminister
In der Sahara folgen westliche Geheimdienstagenten der Spur mächtiger Drogenschmuggler. Die Amerikanerin Tamara und ihr französischer Kollege Tab gehören zu ihnen. Für...
17) Dreifach
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Er wünscht sich nichts so sehr wie Frieden, doch dafür muss er töten
1968. Der Kalte Krieg ist auf seinem Höhepunkt. Auch im Nahen Osten spitzt sich die Lage zu, als der Mossad erfährt, dass Ägypten die Atombombe entwickelt - eine tödliche Bedrohung für Israel. Um selbst nukleare Waffen zu produzieren und damit das Gleichgewicht wiederherzustellen, fehlt dem Land jedoch das Wichtigste: Uran.
Nat Dickstein hat den Auftrag, mehrere Hundert...
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2012
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Situado en la Inglaterra del siglo XII, el clásico medieval de Ken Follett nos transporta a la ciudad de Kingsbridge, donde contra un trasfondo de luchas religiosas, se alza una gloriosa catedral gótica y se entrecruzan las vidas y ambiciones de cinco hombres y mujeres, creando una hechizante historia de poder, amor y muerte.Los pilares de la Tierra es el hechizante bestseller de Ken Follett y constituye una excepcional
...19) Un mundo sin fin
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2012
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La esperadísima novela de Ken Follett, autor con más de 90 millones de lectores
Dos siglos después de la construcción de la magnífica catedral gótica en Los pilares de la Tierra, Follett nos devuelve a la ciudad de Kingsbridge. En una época rota por guerras y epidemias, Follett sigue las vidas de cuatro personajes: Gwenda, hija de un ladrón, luchará por el hombre
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Der Krieg ist zu Ende, doch die Welt ist noch immer in Aufruhr. In Berlin wird eine Mauer errichtet, die Ost und West trennt und Millionen Familien zerstört. Nicht alle finden sich damit ab - trotz der Gefahr für Leib und Leben. Zur gleichen Zeit kämpfen die Schwarzen in Amerika für ihre Bürgerrechte, und die USA und die Sowjetunion stürzen sich in eine Auseinandersetzung, die die Welt an den Rand der Katastrophe führt. Wem kann man noch trauen...