Résultats pour "Frankie" dans Fiction historique

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

Bloomsbury presents Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble. Barbara Trapido's captivating novel of coming-of-age novel about sisters, friendship and political awakening in 1950s South Africa ______________________ ‘This is a gorgeous book about growing up … it also manages...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light” (The New York Times Book Review). “Masterful.”—People “A...

Schon mehr als hundert Jahre ist das amerikanische Kunstmärchen von dem Mädchen Dorothy, der Vogelscheuche, dem ängstlichen Löwen und dem Blechernen Holzfäller alt. L. Frank Baums "Zauberer von Oz" ist ein Klassiker der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, der in den USA zum Grundbestand fast jeder...

Ned Franks; Or, The Christian's Panoply by A. L. O. E. is a didactic tale of a one-armed sailor who, after losing an arm in the Queen's service, seeks steadiness and virtue in a humble cottage in Colme. He finds work, friendship, and a stern test of truth through his interactions with his sister...

This is the legend of Saint Frank, and the great deeds he what did to earn that Sainthood, not born a Saint, in the beginning he was just, Frank, but not long after some stuff that took long, he became Sir. Frank. Sir. Frank may or may not have slayed a Dragon, if he did then this is the Tale of how Sir. Frank became Saint Frank, and if he did not then this is the story of nearly a Saint Frank and a triumphant Dragon.

1934 erschien mit "Cervantes" im Querido Verlag in Amsterdam einer der großen Romane der deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur. Der heute in Vergessenheit geratene Schriftsteller Bruno Frank erzählt darin die Geschichte von Miguel de Cervantes, dem Verfasser von "Don Quijote". In Cervantes, der einem von Armut und Unglück gezeichneten Leben einen der unvergänglichen Romane der Menschheit abrang, fand Frank einen zeitlosen und kämpferischen Helden, der auch ihm als Vorbild dienen konnte. Ulrich Noethen liest die Biografie des Großmeisters Cervantes ungekürzt.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning...

Frank Schätzings neuer großer Mittelalter-Roman. In seinem neuen epochalen Roman Helden, der den Weltbestseller Tod und Teufel kongenial fortsetzt, zeichnet Frank Schätzing das Bild einer abendländischen Gesellschaft im Umbruch. Vor dem Hintergrund gewaltiger Umwälzungen, in denen bereits die Renaissance und die Neuzeit aufscheinen, im ewigen Spannungsfeld von Macht und Moral, schickt Schätzing seinen Helden Jacop auf einen Höllenritt durch die Geschichte.

Vienna, 1902: A beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside, and a cryptic note suggests a malevolent supernatural power is at work. Using the new science of psychoanalysis, Liebermann probes the minds of the suspects in an attempt to unravel this bewildering crime.

Bloomsbury presents Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble. Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy...

Für die junge Frau aus der irischen Provinz ist die fremde Großstadt beängstigend, aber auch wild und aufregend. Dann lernt sie Joe kennen, der als Chauffeur arbeitet, aber eigentlich als Künstler erfolgreich werden will. Joe und Frankie verlieben sich und tauchen gemeinsam ein in die Kunstszene der Stadt. Frankie hilft in einem französischen Restaurant aus und macht es bald zum angesagtesten Lokal des Viertels.

Gwen’s war is over, but her greatest battle is about to begin. ‘An engaging story of secrets, sacrifice and the persistence of love’ Sunday Times ‘An enticing slant on wartime life’ Mandy Robotham May, 1945. When bells ring out for Victory in Europe, young wife and mother Gwen wonders...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated - for these women are often simply inconvenient...

A thrilling World War One spy story from the author of the acclaimed Jack Haldean series .“There’s a spy in England. Frankie’s letter. Read Frankie’s letter... ” The last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke in Kiel in Germany during the height of World War One. But who is Frankie? With his cover blown and the German army at his heels, English secret agent Anthony Brooke’s search to discover the truth leads him to an innocent-seeming country house.

Join Sergeant Frank Hardy and Mette Hardy in three more gripping mysteries set in late-19th-century New Zealand: Dead Shot, Lying Under Water, and Come to Grief.

In late 19th-century New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy, ex-British soldier, battles for survival and for his own life as he carves out a new existence for himself and his family in the prehistoric but stunningly beautiful bush. An atmospheric and engaging series.This audiobook includes three captivating historical mysteries from New Zealand. The audiobook includes: Not the Faintest Trace, Recalled to Life, and A Dark and Painful Mystery.

'A savage masterpiece' - Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Fundamentally 'One Trick Pony is a rare gem: bold, wildly original, gritty, tender and captivating. I’ve never read anything like it; I could not have loved it more' – Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country...

It’s 1935 in Hollywood, and Fortune Pictures' brightest star, Frankie Franklin, is making another picture that will help her fans forget there’s a Depression going on. But when a real bullet in a prop gun seriously wounds her young costar, Frankie is driven to find out who caused the shooting and why, because the one thing everyone knows is: She did it. 

Four boys are born on the same day the sky goes dark over Jerusalem—an omen most dismiss as rumor… until the world starts to bend around them. In the violent years immediately following the Crucifixion, a blinded prophet named Malach is cursed with a terrifying vision: four riders who will one day end the world. He is compelled by a war-scarred angel to scour rival kingdoms and find four newborns, each destined to become a Horseman of the Apocalypse. In Rome’s shadow, Marcus (Conquest) learns that victory begins with control.