Barbara Wood

Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed, two aristocratic Egyptian sisters, leave their traditional family and take two different paths to independence

Virgins of Paradise

"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 strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly and shows its deadly side in poisonous snakes, flash floods and sand storms, with dramatic moments of forbidden romance, reversals, treachery, betrayal and, ultimately, triumphs.

Land of the Afternoon Sun

When a massive earthquake strikes California no one could have predicted the astonishing discoveries that were to follow: as a swimming pool sinks into the earth, it reveals the entrance to a previously unknown cave. Archaelogist Erica Tyler knows this could be one of the finds of the century, and when she arrives at the scene her instincts are proved right: she finds an age-old cave painting, whose vibrant colours and symbols mark the world of the shaman; a pair of spectacles that predate known European colonisation; and further strange and astonishing artefacts. But most astonishing of all are the human remains of someone known only as the 'First Mother', dating back almost 2000 years... However, angry local homeowners want the cave filled in and their lives back to normal as soon as possible and Jared Black, formidable campaigner for the Native American Heritage Commission, wants the site claimed for the relevant tribe. Erica refuses to back down as a childhood of foster homes meant she grew up never knowing her real identity and she won't let the First Mother be consigned to history in the same manner...

Sacred Ground

Green City in the Sun

Acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood combines her superb storytelling gifts with medical and historical fact to create the epic adventure of an unusual and gifted young woman seeking her destiny in the ancient healing arts. Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth. But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage: she has come from the gods and has a special destiny to fulfill. In the coming years, Selene studies the primitive healing arts with Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her. She learns how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree, how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection, and most important, how to calm a patient by summoning the inner power of the "soul flame." But on her sixteenth birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon. When fate cruelly separates them, Selene's search for Andreas takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world--Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. Desperate to find Andreas, Selene is torn between love and her dreams of healing when a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny--and the dawn of modern medicine.

Soul Flame

Magdalene Scrolls

Die Heilerin Selene zieht, im ersten Jahrhundert vor Christi Geburt, durch die Welt der Mittelmeerländer. Auf ihrem Weg durchlebt sie Abenteuer und eine wechselvolle Beziehung zu ihrer grossen Liebe Andreas. Selene muss den Spruch des Orakels folgen und die Prophezeihung der Götter erfüllen, bevor sie ihre Bestimmung findet.

Roman

Seelenfeuer

A tale set during a turbulent mid-15th-century period when Egypt was on the brink of becoming the dominant world power finds the daughter of a winemaker blackmailed by a cruel shipbuilder who would marry her in spite of his family's genetic illness, a situation that is complicated by Leah's forbidden love for a scribe from another culture.

The Serpent and the Staff

Dr. Deborah Treverton must return to Kenya and face the past she fled fifteen years before

Grön stad i solen

Gudarnas dotter

Gareth Wootton

Two young doctors devise a remarkable scheme to stage a typhus epidemic which will force the Nazis to evacuate a Polish town. Based on a little-known true episode of World War II.

Night Trains

Die Prophetin

Una noche Mary McFarland, una joven catolica de clase media, tuvo una pesadilla, un sueno morboso e inexplicable. Y poco despues descubrio con estupor que estaba embarazada. La noticia conmovio a la familia. En su entorno, nadie dio credito a su inocencia, pero la ciencia medica le brindo una inesperada ayuda... Paulatinamente, una remota posibilidad fue tomando forma.

Canción de cuna

Dieses goldene Land

In December 1999, Catherine Alexander discovers six ancient papyrus scrolls that reveal a hidden history of the world and its religions, but a seventh scroll, containing unimaginable power, is missing and Catherine must dodge government agents, Vatican operatives, and more to locate it.

A Novel

The Prophetess

Rote Sonne, schwarzes Land

It is December 1999. In the Sinai Desert, archaeologist Catherine Alexander has unearthed six ancient papyrus scrolls that reveal vital secrets--secrets that the world's governments would give anything to possess. But even more important, the seventh scroll is missing--and it contains a secret of unfathomable power. In a race against Armageddon, Catherine must outwit the FBI, Vatican operatives, and a sinister millionaire--to find that parchment.

Set in Kenya, in 1919, this book is of a British family, the Trevertons, who settle on an estate on the homeland of Kikuyu and the antagonism that develops between them and the tribe's own medicine woman, whose powers they disregard. Domina and Vital Signs are written by the same author.

Arriving in Australia in 1871 to claim an inheritance, and unravel a haunting aboriginal heritage, Joanna Drury falls for Hugh Westbrook and struggles to build a frontier empire despite mysterious reversals

A Novel of Australia

The Dreaming

Benjamin Messer finds himself drawn into the past as he deciphers the Magdalene scrolls, written by David Ben Jonah. As he digs deeper, the riddle of the scrolls becomes terrifyingly personal and he becomes tormented by the spirit of the author, a 1st-century murderer burdened with guilt.

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