IT was Christmas Eve. I remember it just as if it was yesterday. The Colonel had been pretending not to notice it, but when Drinkwater Torm knocked over both the great candlesticks, and in his attempt to pick them up lurched over himself and fell sprawling on the floor, he yelled at him. Torm pulled himself together, and began an explanation, in which the point was that he had not "teched a drap in Gord knows how long," but the Colonel cut him short.

"Get out of the room, you drunken vagabond...

PYRAMIDS OF TIME

An ancient secret buried beneath the sands. A discovery that defies history. A battle for the truth that will change the world forever.

Dr. Daniel Harrington has spent his life chasing the mysteries of the past—only to lose his reputation for daring to believe the pyramids were more than just tombs. When a cryptic clue leads him to a hidden chamber beneath the Sphinx, he and his team uncover something impossible: evidence of a lost civilization far older than Egypt itself. ...

Duel tussen Liefde & Haat

Dit boek is gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten uit het leven van de schrijfster . Het is haar debuutboek.

Lizzy Maria B. is een pseudoniem en ook alle andere namen zijn fictief maar de gebeurtenissen zijn waarheidsgetrouw weergegeven.

Op een rockoptreden ontmoet Victoria een kennis uit haar jeugd .

Totaal onverwacht vindt ze het geluk en de liefde bij Ryan.

Maar gebeurtenissen maken hier een einde aan en ze komt in een nachtmerrie terecht.

Een emotionele achtbaan ,...

In this story of Roland as I propose telling it, I shall intro-duce you to some of the most pleasing of those "tales of France" The poems and legends which embody them were written in various languages, and at widely different times; but in them two names, Charlemagne and Roland are of very frequent occurrence.

Charlemagne, as you know, was a real historical personage, the greatest monarch of medieval times. His empire included France, the greater part of Germany and Italy; and his power and ...

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period.

An intensely religious man—a self-styled Puritan Moses—he fervently be...