Résultats pour "Angels" dans Fiction historique

When her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Angel has no one to turn to but Dalt, a gruff-spoken mountain man with an unsettling leer and a dark past. Angel follows Dalt to the boomtowns of the Colorado territory, where she is thrust into the hardscrabble world of dancehalls, mining camps, and saloons. From gold mines to gambling palaces, Angel tells the story of a girl navigating her way through life, as an orphan, a pioneer, and ultimately a miner's wife and respected madam . . . a story bound up with the tale of the one man in all the West who dared to love her.

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall...

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its...

Wiesbaden, 1945. La joven Hilde apenas puede creer su suerte: la guerra ha terminado y el Café del Ángel se ha salvado milagrosamente. Hilde sueña con volver a convertir el negocio familiar en el glamouroso lugar que reunía a artistas y personalidades de la ciudad.

Et si se désirer était un crime ? Hannah et Laurent s'aiment d'un amour fusionnel, d'un amour destructeur, mais refusent d'assouvir leur désir l'un pour l'autre. Au siècle des lumières et des libertinages, ils libèrent leurs désirs et leur frustration en plongeant toujours plus profondément dans les dérives. Mais leur amour les obsède. Ne pas l'apaiser devient une lente torture que Laurent transforme peu à peu en jeu. "Gémis, Hannah", puisque c'est tout ce qu'elle peut lui donner, pour ne pas sombrer dans le vice et la volupté.

Lista de la Mere is a young woman of beauty, sense, and education. Unfortunately, her mother and her aunt don’t have the same sensibilities. Lista is an heiress, and a very wealthy one, and if her conniving, alcoholic mother and her sly, drug-addicted aunt have anything to say about it, she’s going to marry the man who can provide them with unlimited coinage to feed their habits–and put them back on top of the social hierarchy.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

When Erik Danton fled the Paris Opera House, taking ballerina Meg Giry and her mother with him, they all hoped that they could leave the Phantom of the Opera behind. But both are haunted by their pasts, and drawn together by their lifelong, indefinable relationship.

Tyen is teaching mechanical magic at a school respected throughout the worlds. News arrives that the formidable ruler of all worlds is back and enforcing his old laws - including the one forbidding schools of magic. As teachers and students flee, Tyen is left with no home and no purpose...except the promise he made to Vella. Tyen must decide what he is willing to do to free her. After five years among the tapestry weavers of Schpeta, Rielle's peaceful new life has been shattered by a local war.

Wiesbaden, 1951. Al Café del Ángel le ha salido competencia. Junto al tradicional establecimiento de la familia Koch ha abierto otro más moderno: el Café del Rey. Mientras Hilde Koch intenta en vano convencer a sus padres para que modernicen el local, su gran amor, por el que tanto ha luchado, parece a punto de resquebrajarse. A su hermano August tampoco le van mejor las cosas. Cuando regresa a Alemania, tras haber sido prisionero de guerra de los rusos, comienza a sentirse atraído precisamente por una misteriosa joven rusa, cuya llegada amenaza con dividir a la familia...

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el oyente se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a través de su autor, Frank McCourt. Es una extraordinaria obra donde Frank McCourt nos muestra el amor, la dignidad, y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte, y el dolor.

The final adventure in the atmospheric Hecate Cavendish series from New York Times bestselling Paula Brackston - a magical series about an eccentric young Victorian woman who can see ghosts. In her role as Assistant Librarian at Hereford Cathedral, Hecate continues to be guardian of the magical...

Múnich, 1931. Falta poco para que unas históricas elecciones otorguen el poder a los nazis. Los comisarios Siegfried Sauer y Mutti Forster se enfrentan al aburrido turno del sábado cuando el director de la policía criminal les avisa de un suceso en el número 16 de Prinzregentenplatz, la vivienda de Adolf Hitler.

“Know now that I no longer rely on you to keep my secrets. It is rather the other way around. You are under my protection.” Meg Giry knew that danger awaited her when her life became inseparably linked with that of Erik, the man known as the Phantom of the Opera. But she never suspected that her home and future would be destroyed at his hands.

En el anterior libro hemos asistido al final más sorprendente de toda la serie. ¿Alguien se lo imaginaba? ¿Cómo terminarán todos estos sorprendentes misterios? Una cosa está clara, nada es lo que parece. Continuación de El final es el principio, la nueva serie Ángeles de Vicente Raga, el autor de Las doce puertas, una de las sagas de misterio histórico más vendida en los últimos años en España, México y Estados Unidos. Todas las novelas de esta serie han sido número 1 en España y México.

AD 1139 - When her husband perishes in a skirmish, the Lady Cantia du Bexley Penden is distraught. Her husband was assisting the mighty Viscount Winterton in the battle for the throne between Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois, caught, like most men, in a vicious struggle for the rightful ruler of England.

Germany, 1945: The Third Reich has collapsed and MI6 are retiring beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka the Countess von Widerstand. But Anna is still wanted by the Russians for an attempt on the life of Stalin, and when they trace her to her Scottish refuge where she's under the care of her MI6 handler and lover Clive Bartley, Anna escapes the only way she knows how: She shoots her way out....

When in March 1938 Germany invades Austria, all anti-Nazis are immediately rounded up and imprisoned. Prominent amongst these is liberal editor Johann Fehrbach, his Anglo-Irish wife, and his two daughters. But the elder of the girls, seventeen-year-old Annaliese, is separated from her parents and taken into Gestapo custody.

King Henry's blue-eyed champion has been sent to quell a nation's rebellion. He vows to seal their peace by wedding Gilbert de Lontaine's beautiful daughter, but although the girl with smoky eyes holds his heart in peril, the real danger lurks in unexpected quarters. Can true love bind two hearts and bring the Wolf's bride home?