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Crémone, Italie, 1682. Une comète traverse le ciel. Un prêtre, peut-être un saint, cherche la pierre philosophale dans l’espoir de guérir l’humanité. Au même moment, une femme espère un enfant, un homme tue son frère et un luthier conçoit un violon magique. Crémone, Italie, 1758. Une comète revient. Un jésuite cherche à connaître la vérité sur un aspirant saint on ne peut plus humain. Un bâtard attend de naître. Un meurtrier porte le squelette de son frère. Un bossu fabrique un violon maléfique.

At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar-a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.

Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.

Gaston has had his fill of war when he learns that he has inherited his father's estate in France. He accepts one last quest for the Templars, the order he has served for fifteen years, to deliver a package to Paris on his way home. Gaston knows he now has need of a wife and an heir. So when he sees a noblewoman on pilgrimage, he resolves to handle matters to their mutual convenience.

A story of second chances and a sport at the cusp of major change. In 1921, former lightweight wrestling champion Pepper Van Dean accepts an offer to train Garfield Taft, a heavyweight contender in rural Montana, in the hope of carving out a viable future.

From the butchery of the Crater to the election of 1864, this novel resurrects the Civil War's hard reality. Fabled leaders turned for help to rising heroes, while common soldiers paid the price for the blunders of commanders who would never know their names.

When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded in the teeming, thieving London of 1810.

In 1885 young Rose Edwards, widowed and penniless but fiercely independent, begins an odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood. But the old ways are disappearing, and Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population as she pushes back against the invading aristocracy.

In 1883, young Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have become successful physicians but have never recovered from the losses they suffered as children. So when Anna encounters a child in need, she must decide whether or not she's willing to let go of the past and let love into her life.

Inara Erickson discovers a relic of the past in her family's estate, and with it, a shameful secret that could destroy her family. She faces a terrible choice: bring dishonor to her family, or dishonor the memory of Mei Lien, lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese from Seattle.