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In 1911 verandert de wereld voorgoed. Arbeiders laten zich niet langer onderdrukken, vrouwen eisen hun rechten op, de rijke aristocratie kan haar macht niet langer handhaven. En overal fluisteren diplomaten elkaar woorden in die het lot van miljoenen mensen over de hele wereld zullen veranderen. Aan de vooravond van de Eerste Wereldoorlog proberen acht mensen hun weg in hun roerige wereld te vinden. Ieder op hun eigen manier dragen zij bij aan...

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Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English p...

Op de dag van Halloween in het jaar 1327 knijpen vier kinderen er na de mis in de kathedraal van Kingsbridge tussenuit: een dievegge, een pestkop, een jong genie en een meisje dat dokter wil worden. In het bos zijn ze getuige van de moord op twee mannen. Voor altijd zullen ze met elkaar verbonden blijven door die raadselachtige gebeurtenis, die ene dag in het bos.

In het Engeland van de twaalfde eeuw trekt meesterbouwer Tom met zijn gezin van stad naar stad op zoek naar werk. Ten einde raad vraagt hij onderdak in de priorij van Kingsbridge. Overste Philip ziet een hemels teken in zijn komst: Tom zou wel eens de man kunnen zijn die de magistrale kathedraal kan bouwen waar Philip altijd van heeft gedroomd. Maar zijn ambities zijn groot, en lang niet iedereen steunt zijn plannen...

Winter of the World. Dejstvie romana otnositsja k pervoj polovine XX veka i ohvatyvaet sobytija, proishodivshie v kanun Vtoroj mirovoj vojny, a takzhe voennoe i poslevoennoe vremja. Glavnye ego geroi - intellektualy i rabochie, aristokraty, voennye i politiki Rossii, Germanii, Anglii i SShA, ch'i sud'by pereplelis' v zatejlivyj i nepredskazyemyj uzor. Na ih glazah rushitsja mir, k vlasti v Evrope prihodit Gitler, vvergshij kontinenty v vojnu, ...

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Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves.Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club.Simply enter the coupon code FOLLETPILLARS at checkout.This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase.View our Ken Follett feature page.Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz.A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolut...

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Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a ...

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This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." -The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great ...

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Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a ...

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Paper Money is a tautly woven, intriguing story of a single day in the life of the London Evening Post. As various stories break--the awarding of an oil-drilling contract, a mammoth cash robbery, the blackmailing of a politician--awkward questions begin to tie the events together, but will the full story ever make the headlines? By the grand master of suspense, Ken Follett (The Modigliani Scandal). First time published in the United States.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUsing a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost-until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To extricate herself, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, far-reaching cons...

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed-"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. Look out for the next book in this series, A Column of Fire, ...