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When the first of the Magdalene Scrolls arrives, Professor Ben Messer is puzzled, intrigued, excited. What scholar of ancient languages wouldn't be, when he held in his hands something even more astonishing than the Dead Sea Scrolls--a scroll just discovered to contain the life story and last confession of a man who had lived in Jerusalem just after the death of Christ.

By the time the second scroll arrives, Ben's interest has begun to be more than professional. For it seems that...

Eine junge Ärztin in Afrika - der dramatische Weg einer Frau zwischen Medizin und traditionellem Heilen
Kenia 1963: Deborah flieht aus einem brennenden Land vor einer verbotenen Liebe. Einst war ihre Familie nach Kenia gekommen, um den Eingeborenen die Segnungen der modernen Medizin zu bringen. Doch die angesehene und gefürchtete Medizinfrau Wachera kämpfte entschlossen um die Erhaltung afrikanischer Traditionen. 15 Jahre später kehrt Deborah nach Kenia zurück und fragt nach dem Scheitern ihrer Familie, die Teil der Seele Afrikas war. Und sie stellt sich auch ihrer eigenen...

The Bestselling Author of The Blessing Stone and Daughter of the Sun

She came to them from the sea, and to the sea they returned her. . . . A story of sacrifice and survival in the New World.

Tonina lives an idyllic life on a small island in the Caribbean hundreds of years before Europeans discovered it. But she has always been an outsider among her people. Unlike them, Tonina is tall and lean and light skinned, and her origins remain a mystery. Her adoptive parents had found her floating in a basket in the sea--a sacrifice? A shipwreck? No one knows.

When...

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In...

"New York Times" bestselling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernizing world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous.

"Land of the Afternoon Sun" is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and...

When the first of the Magdalene Scrolls arrives, Professor Ben Messer is puzzled, intrigued, excited. What scholar of ancient languages wouldn't be, when he held in his hands something even more astonishing than the Dead Sea Scrolls-a scroll just discovered to contain the life story and last confession of a man who had lived in Jerusalem just after the death of Christ.

By the time the second scroll arrives, Ben's interest has begun to be more than professional. For it seems that...

Das große Australienepos von Barbara Wood

Aus der Enge des viktorianischen England flieht die Arzttochter Hannah in die Weiten Australiens. Schon auf der Überfahrt begegnet sie dem Naturforscher Neal, der eine Expedition in die unerforschten Regionen des fünften Kontinents führen will. Dort taucht er ein in die mystische Welt der Aborigines. Während Hannah noch um seine Rückkehr bangt, gerät sie selbst in die Hände von rauen Schatzsuchern. Mit ihnen zieht sie mitten hinein in das Herz der Wildnis...
Vor der beeindruckenden Kulisse der ungezähmten Landschaft Australiens...

I was born for adventure. I flout convention. I am a New Woman on a holy purpose. Newlywed Emily Stone and her husband, Isaac, areyoung missionaries who have traveled from New England to Honolulu to share the Gospel with the Hawaiian natives. Gentle, adventurous, well-bred, and beautiful, Emily soon finds herself struggling with intense homesickness but remains determined to share her faith . . . andignore her growing feelings for handsome Captain MacKenzie Farrow. Just as she begins to bond with the influential High Chiefess Pua and her daughter, Mahina, unexpected tragedy...

Seventeen-year-old Hoshi'tiwa had a simple life: The daughter of a humble corn grower, she planned to marry a storyteller's apprentice. But her world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of an infamous city with legends of untold wealth and unspeakable acts of violence to its name. Hoshi'tiwa is suddenly thrown into the court of the Dark Lord, and as she struggles for power, she begins an illicit affair with the one man who has the ability to destroy her.

Bestselling author Barbara Wood has crafted a sweeping saga of one woman's struggle to...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernizing world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous.

Land of the Afternoon Sun is also the story of a woman finding her own...