Holt: 945 books

Victoria Holt, eine Meisterin des historischen Romans, hat die wechselvolle Lebensgeschichte der unglücklichen Königin Marie Antoinette erzählt, die als fünfzehntes Kind der österreichischen Kaiserin Maria-Theresia in Wien geboren wurde und als französische Königin nach jahrelanger Kerkerhaft unter der Guillotine endete. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Als Synne zum ersten Mal ihre neue Chefin sieht, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Doch die 15 Jahre ältere Rebecca ist verheiratet und hat vier Kinder, die sie über alles in der Welt liebt. Die beiden Frauen beginnen eine leidenschaftliche Affäre. Als Rebeccas Mann schließlich ihr Verhältnis...

— Explanations of IFRS® and IFRIC interpretations — Practical insights into implementation issues — Worked-out illustrations and examples — Case studies with solutions — Multiple-choice questions with answers — Extracts from published financial statements A...

Harry Houdini, master magician and covert spy for the United States, has been kidnapped. The only man who can save him is his estranged son Josef, who, like his father, knows the power of magic—and how it can be more than just an illusion.  Josef Houdini takes after his father: A gifted...

Bassist-turned-junkie Jonny Wells is addicted to his past, and the only way to get there is through the music.   The bassist of a breakout '90s punk band, Jonny falls apart when his band mate and best friend Kirk commits suicide. Twenty years later he struggles with heroin addiction, lost...

In a future obsessed with virtual reality and fantasy, two star-crossed lovers will do whatever it takes to bring down the OccupEye system and free View City from its virtual prison.   iRIS is the perfect marriage of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, serving as the backbone...

This is a comedy set in the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Wagner got it wrong. The Twilight of the Gods isn't really that cataclysmic. After all, there's a comfy chair, a welcoming fire and three meals a day.

Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but starting at the bottom in the widget-making industry has, predictably, lost its appeal. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things around-a...

Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner's. And then there are the...

When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example....

From the international bestselling author of Dracul comes the authoritative sequel to Bram Stoker’s original horror classic. London, 1912. A quarter of a century after Count Dracula “crumbled into dust,” Quincey Harker—the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker—leaves law school to pursue...

The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work...

The year is 2017. Lucy Pavlov is the CEO of PavSoft Industries, home of a revolutionary operating system that every computer in the world runs on. Her personal wealth is immeasurable, her intelligence is unfathomable, and she's been voted World's Most Beautiful Woman for three years running. To put...

Fifteen hundred years have passed and the Holy Grail is still missing, presumed ineffable. The knights have dumped the quest and now deliver pizzas, while the sinister financial services of the lost kingdom of Atlantis threatens the universe with fiscal Armageddon.