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From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes a sweeping epic that chronicles the history of the world through the destiny of a mysterious blue stone . . ."Sweeping epic about the history of humanity . . . Wood crafts vivid sketches of ordinary women who triumph over a prescribed destiny . . . packs them with historical details that should keep readers interested." --Publishers Weekly "Ambitious . . . both thoughtful and playful . . . intelligent and entertaining." --San Jose Mercury News "In each era, Wood creates genuine, engaging characters whose stories are fascinating." --Library Journal Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters'' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.

Internationally bestselling author Barbara Wood delivers a new novel, Sacred Ground, that spans an epic 2,000 years, tracing one family from the Native Americans'' western slopes to present-day California. Marimi, a healer in her tribe, the Topaa, is unprepared for what fate holds in store for her. The Topaa live in a beautiful coastal settlement, a place that will one day be called California. But because of jealousy, Marimi is placed under a curse, and from that moment her family''s legacy unfolds. From pre-historic California to the days of Spanish explorers to the mission-building era of Mexican expansion to the swashbuckling cowboy years of early Los Angeles and right up to present day, Sacred Ground tells the story of the female descendents of Marimi. It recounts their loves, their betrayals, their losses, their families, and the ruthless ambition that would forge a new country.

Tres brillantes y ambiciosas mujeres se conocen en la facultad de medicina y conservarán su relación durante toda su vida. Un canto a la amistad y una entrañable historia de tesón y entrega para triunfar en un mundo dominado por los hombres.

A principios del siglo XX, una joven mujer sueña con convertirse en médico. Pero su periplo por Londres, Nueva York y San Francisco está plagado de obstáculos. Samanta se enfrenta a prejuicios masculinos y, además de aliarnos con su causa, el lector aprende historia de la medicina.

Han pasado muchos años; Jasmine regresa a su casa natal en la calle de las Vírgenes del Paríso, en El Cairo. Ahora es médica, y ha sabido romper con la dependencia a que está condenada la mujer en su pais. Entonces, por su memoria desfilan su infancia privilegiada, su despertar a la vida y su fracasado matrimonio, asi como el destino de las mujeres de su familia.Las Virgenes del Paraiso es una panoramica de la historia reciente de Egipto y una cronica de la condicion de la mujer en el mundo musulman. Y sobre todo, una novela que emociona.

En 1918 lord Valentine Treverton, como otros muchos colonos ricos, comienza a edificar un imperio cafetero en Kenia; para lograrlo, deberá pasar por encima de los derechos y de las tradiciones de los nativos. y por ello, Treverton, arrogante y despectivo, sufrira la maldicion de Wachera, guardiana de una ancestral sabiduria.

Dos tiempos muy lejanos confluirán gracias a los secretos poderes de una extinta civilización de indios que habitaron las cuevas de Nuevo México. Faraday, después de haber perdido las ganas de vivir tras la muerte de su esposa, recibe una revelacion que lo conduce hasta los acantilados del desierto en cuyas grutas practicaron su magia los indios anasazi. Alli encontrara la muerte pero, a traves de la busqueda que su hija continua por el, se conocera la verdad de sus vidas.

Fa dos mil anys, hi havia una gran badia i una terra pacífica plena de sàlvia, cítrics i pins. En aquesta terra hi vivia una tribu anomenada topaa. Per una qüestió de gelosia, sobre la família de la

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.