Résultats pour "A" dans Fiction historique

Pour venger la mort de son frère, le tourmenté Preston Seaton, duc de Grandhampton, est prêt à tout. Quand il apprend que Lord Beckett, l'homme qu'il tient pour responsable, a mis la main de sa fille aux enchères, il y voit l'occasion parfaite. Rêvant d'une carrière d'artiste, Lady Penelope Beckett est horrifiée de se voir soudainement liée à un homme qui la méprise ouvertement. Mais pour sauver son père, elle est contrainte d'accepter ce mariage et se retrouve prisonnière dans la demeure sombre et froide du duc.

Dans ce deuxième volume, Shogo Imamura poursuit son exploration haletante d'un pays au bord de la guerre civile, un Japon enraciné dans une époque de mutations profondes. Tandis que les alliances se forment et se déforment, les trahisons s'enveniment, et les ambitions se muent en combats toujours plus féroces. Futaba est enlevé, et Shujiro doit quant à lui affronter un adversaire inattendu : son frère, qu'il n'avait pas vu depuis 13 ans.

C'est un jour comme un autre dans la vie de Saroo. Le garçon, âgé de cinq ans, est dans une gare du fin fond de l'Inde en train de ramasser quelques pièces lorsqu'il monte dans un train à quai. Le lendemain, Saroo se réveille à Calcutta. Dans l'immense ville, il est complètement seul, sans aucun papier. Il est recueilli par un orphelinat où, quelques mois plus tard, un couple d'Australiens va l'adopter. Saroo grandit, mais, depuis l'Australie, il pense toujours à sa famille biologique. Pendant 25 ans, il scrute les villages indiens sur Internet, à la recherche d'images familières.

Lady Olympia Wherlocke has the gift of foresight. When Lady Agatha Mallam asks Olympia to locate her brother so he can rescue her from an arranged marriage, she knows exactly where to find Lord Brant Mallam, Earl of Fieldgate. What happens next is something she never envisioned....

Un canaille, c'est ainsi que Devon Ravenel se définissait à l'époque où il menait une vie futile et égoïste. La mort inattendue de son cousin Theo fait de lui le nouveau comte de Trenear. Du jour au lendemain, le voici criblé de dettes, à la tête d'un gigantesque domaine comptant plus de deux cents familles de métayers. Accablé par tant de responsabilités et conscient de son incompétence, Devon décide aussitôt de tout vendre pour reprendre son existence bohème.

The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer. But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel and the messenger of El Shaddai. When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing. At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and...

Lieutenant-Colonel Percival Perry maybe be reserved, but he is an outstanding army officer. When Percy receives news of his brother's accidental drowning, he is forced to sell his commission and take up his title as Marquess of Kingston. Nightmares of the war plague Percy even as he longs for a wife and family. When he meets an attractive, spirited woman, he can barely speak and knows he made a poor impression upon her.

Charlotte tries to make headway in her town's social life but reveals herself to be unaware of all the intricacies of polite society. Though Edward pitches in, tutoring her in society's expectations, she just seems to make things worse. And the more she comes to know of her father's assistant, the more trouble she has imagining life without him. Caught in a trap of her own making and seeing the hopelessness of her prospects, will Charlotte get to keep her work, or will she have to cede her heart?

Yorkshire, 1367. Lady Azalais disguises herself as a minstrel to travel through war-torn France and ransom her father. Her brother plans to marry her to his brutish friend but Azalais, disillusioned with coarse and lustful men, hopes her father will let her become a nun instead. As an impoverished knight, Sir William must fight for his living—unless he can forge a life through his love of song. When offered a mission to protect a talented musician through France, Will seizes the chance to test his dream of becoming a minstrel—a dream that will prevent him from ever marrying.

Blood Pudding renders vividly, at times violently, the raw struggles of the colorful Malinowski family, immigrants from Poland. Gritty, patient, always loving, their son Tad runs a gauntlet of painful and humiliating boyhood cruelties. Above Tad's clear voice, we hear the cold constant heartbeat of a growing industrial city, whose restless yet noble soul surely resides in the lives of these very immigrants.

There are rules in the West no matter what era you were born in, and it's up to lawman Ty Dawson to make sure they're followed in the valley he calls home. The people living on this unforgiving land keep to themselves and are wary of the modern world's encroachment into their quiet lives. So it's not without some suspicion that Dawson confronts a newcomer to the region: a record producer who has built a music studio in an isolated compound.

Hauntingly read by Justin Avoth. 'Robert Dinsdale mixes history and mythology with great panache . . . Richly textured and with an appropriately labyrinthine plot, this is a book that explores the monster inside man — and vice versa. Book of the Month' Sunday Times Man or monster? Hero or...

Based on the real-life experiences of the author, A Leaf in the Stream tells the story of a young history teacher and coach from Indiana who, on a student’s dare, quits his job to walk across the country during the economic turmoil of the Carter years. While set in the late 1970s, the book also delves into the more distant past, as protagonist Jonathan Allen follows the footsteps of westward moving emigrants, including the Donner Party and those who traveled the Santa Fe Trail.

Ukraine, März 1944: Es ist tiefer Winter, als Adeline und Emil Martel mit ihren beiden kleinen Söhnen vor der Roten Armee fliehen müssen. Als Deutsche sind sie in ihrer Heimat nicht mehr sicher und es bleibt ihnen nichts Anderes übrig, als sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg gen Westen zu begeben. Der aber wird von den Nazis kontrolliert. Emil, der als Soldat Gräueltaten der SS miterlebte, muss weiter um die Sicherheit seiner Familie fürchten. Besonders, als Adeline einer Jüdin bei der Flucht hilft und sie alle in Gefahr bringt.

Cuatro mujeres de diferentes clases sociales y una amistad rotunda para descubrir el paso de la tradición a la modernidad en el Beirut de nuestros días. Mouna Al-Husseini es la propietaria del Cleopatra, un salón de belleza algo decadente en un barrio de Beirut. Mouna es una mujer atrevida y liberal, que lucha por desmarcarse de la tradición rígida, a pesar de que a sus 37 años su madre todavía le recuerda día a día lo mal que ha encaminado su vida.

Südfrankreich in der Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts: Der mächtige Graf von Toulouse will die Erbin Ermengarda zur Ehe zwingen...

Sie sprachen vom himmlischen Frieden - und riefen zum Kreuzzug auf. Sie mahnten zu Mäßigung und Keuschheit - und führten ein Leben in Verworfenheit...

Inglaterra, siglo XII. Desterrado por querer casarse contra los deseos de su padre, el joven y valiente Wilfred de Ivanhoe se pone al servicio de Ricardo Corazón de León y parte como cruzado junto a sus tropas para reconquistar Tierra Santa. A su regreso, decidido a recuperar su honor y a reunirse con su amada pero prohibida Lady Rowena, rápidamente se verá en medio de una lucha por el poderentre el noble rey Ricardo y su hermano, Juan Sin Tierra, un traidor despreciable y sin escrúpulos.

Nero’s ascent to the throne was only the beginning....Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome’s most infamous emperor cements his place in history. With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero...

When Peter Hathorn proposes to his childhood sweetheart, Jenny Monroe, the outcome is far from the happy ending he envisioned. Before she can give him an answer, Jenny falls desperately ill. He does all in his power to ensure her recovery, but something between them has changed. Determined to win Jenny’s hand, he proposes each time he sees her, never realizing that the woman he loves harbors a secret that makes it impossible for her to accept.