Résultats pour "David" dans Sagas

Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard - despite his objections to the Nazi regime - is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies. But as his unit is thrown into the hellish attrition of the Battle of Stalingrad, he knows his chances of survival are dwindling by the day....

Dans le Montréal des années 1940, tous les espoirs sont permis. Mariée à Maurice, Jeanne doit mener une lutte incessante pour assurer la survie de ses enfants et l'harmonie de sa famille. Le récit d'une époque où le dévouement et la générosité se dressaient devant les petits et les grands malheurs du monde.

Rue Notre-Dame, le temps passe. À la radio, on écoute Un homme et son péché, et la mystérieuse télévision fait son apparition dans les vitrines des magasins. Fidèle à lui-même, Maurice s'emporte à tout moment. Jeanne, elle, se réfugie au presbytère.

Été 1960. On asphalte le boulevard Lacordaire. Un vent de changement souffle sur le Québec, mais, chez Maurice Dionne, les traditions demeurent. Lise, Paul, Francine et Claude sortent de l’enfance et cherchent à faire leur place.

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

Witches, warlocks, Norse Gods and historical Viking battles, a teenage necromancer and a cursed ceremonial sword with a strange influence over its possessors. A Family Saga.

Le domaine de Montauban cultive la tradition entre ancestrales et oliviers centenaires. Mais cette douceur est contrariée par l'arrivée de Maud Dormeuil, femme ambitieuse et prête à tout pour refaire fortune. Les Montauban sont au bord du gouffre financier quand Gabrielle s'associe avec eux pour éviter la faillite qui conduirait à tout vendre. Elle leur présente une amie d'enfance, Maud, qui semble ne reculer devant aucun calcul pour renouer avec la fortune. Mais comment sauver la tradition, face au pouvoir de l'argent ?

In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac’s Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel’s founding - bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Best-selling author David L. Robbins, called “the Homer of World War II”, turns his mastery of the historical novel to another defining moment of the 20th century: the birth of the state of Israel.

C'est l'histoire d'un humoriste en pleine gloire, adulé de tous, mais qui pense ne pas le mériter. Un homme que tout le monde envie et admire, mais que personne ne connaît vraiment. Un homme blessé qui s'est accroché au rire comme on se cramponne à une bouée de sauvetage. C'est aussi l'histoire d'un garçon qui aurait voulu un père plus présent. Un garçon qui a grandi dans l'attente et l'incompréhension. Un garçon qui a laissé la colère et le ressentiment le dévorer.

Helena and Jason, two damaged souls and children of the Republic, are reunited when a tiny boat from the Blessed Lands crashes onto the rocks near Helena’s home after an impossible journey across the forbidden ocean. On board is a single passenger, a nine-year-old girl named Kailani, who calls herself The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky.

Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gifted linguist, talented musician, and fearless idealist. When he’s recruited in 1900 to become a spy—his cover working for a company that would become the notorious chemical conglomerate IG Farben—his life becomes an extraordinary adventure spanning two continents, two world wars, and impossible choices that will haunt him forever.

" Lis dans mon cœur, il te dira tout ce que je ne sais pas te dire ". Meurtrie par la disparition soudaine de l'homme qu’elle a aimé, Lucie reprend doucement goût à la vie. Poussée par ses amis, elle tente d’affronter ses souffrances, oublier ce vide qui s'est formé dans sa poitrine. Elle pensait avoir réussi. Elle se pensait plus forte. Jusqu'au soir de son anniversaire, où tout bascule en une seconde. Il a suffi de quelques paroles, d'un seul regard. Elle en a rêvé, elle en a pleuré.

While Europe braces for the inevitable advancement of the Nazi war machine, Hitler turns his hate-filled agenda on his own people, specifically the portion of the German population least able to defend itself - the mentally and physically disabled. Aktion T4 is enacted to disinfect mainstream Germany of this undesirable portion of its population by creating killing centres both in Germany and the surrounding annexed countries, most notably, at Hartheim Castle in Alkoven, Austria.

Follow the Omega team as they fight against the world of child sex trafficking and slavery. Join Jack Davidson and Shay Lynn, along with the others of The Omega Group as they come together and bring justice to those who have beaten the system. Some may call it vigilante justice, street justice, or simply wrong, but it is the only justice many victims will receive.

A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship. The result? A world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th century. In April 2012 Joseph Kennedy, nephew of John F. Kennedy, lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order - even though it would mean his death and the deaths of everyone he loves.

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: To make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.

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Helen Fairfax is a ferry pilot and the mother of Peter, aged six. From Monday to Friday, she flies from factories to airfields, then returns to the family farmhouse where her parents look after the boy. She feels torn being away from her son so much, but after her husband died in the Battle of Britain she vowed to live up to his example of courage and strike back at the enemy. Now the Germans are about to launch the V-2 against London, and MI6 is desperate to get its hands on an undamaged prototype of the rocket to discover how it might be defeated.

Una apasionante historia familiar. Un siglo convulso. Un amor extraordinario sometido a los golpes del destino. Nada hacía prever que un judío vienés, cuya familia pereció en el Holocausto, y una joven viuda de Bremen se encontrarían alguna vez, y mucho menos que se enamorarían y se atreverían a vivir juntos contra viento y marea. Cuando se conocen, Waltraut es ya viuda y Joschi tiene veinte años más que ella: a priori la situación no puede resultar más complicada, de modo que ella inicialmente lo rechaza.

The powerful sense of evil – darkness, creepy hairy presences, cloaks, hoods, talons and tentacles – pervades these classic ghost stories by M.R. James. A Cambridge scholar himself, James explored what happens when academics dabble in things they don’t understand and unleash forces of which they know nothing.