Résultats pour "Ghosts" dans Fiction historique

Reviewed in The Observer, Telegraph, Financial Times and Irish Times; 'compelling', 'lyrical', 'superbly chilling', 'elegantly plotted', 'a tale of injustice, magic and redemption.' What calls across the centuries to three girls drawn together to lay to rest an ancient evil in the woods? 60 AD A...

In 1874, a storm stole everything from Kit and Cale Weston — their parents, their home, their childhood. Orphans on the prairie, they are taken in by Jesse and Sabrina Mercer, who run a ranch for wayward children and teens. But behind the Mercers’ respectable front lies a darker plan.

Something made me look from the amahs to the frangipani tree in the corner. And there she was—Ying. She was looking up at me. I shivered. Was my fever making me imagine things? I needed to tell Ma and Papa right away, but at this very moment, they were at Bidadari, tending to Ying’s funeral...

Bloomsbury presents Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai, read by Susan Momoko-Hingley and Kenichiro Thomson. From Catfish Rolling's Clara Kumagai, a second novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Turn the page, strike a chord. There are restless ghosts...

In 1777, 17-year-old Roland McCaffrey joins the American Revolution. He is part of the army trying to stop the invasion force of British general John Burgoyne. Fighting alongside his sergeant and mentor, Roland becomes a skilled rifleman. He feels guilty for killing, but plays an important role in the American strategy. At the Battles of Saratoga, Roland engages in combat under Benedict Arnold. 

Shrouded in a world of intrepid agents and fatal assassins, a fearless operative dares to escape his allegiance to the cause. When his renown rises after successfully orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a covert league loyal to a lethal cause - the Knights of the Golden Circle. With war raging, Broussard’s assignments become successively bolder and involve him in the ultimate mission: A presidential assassination.

The spring before 7th Grade, tragedy strikes C. C. Cross. Dad won't be coming home from Afghanistan. When her mother packs her up and moves her across the country to Manassas, Virginia, C.C. finds herself in a new neighborhood, a new school, and a new life, one without her mighty, fearless, and beloved father. As C.C. struggles to build a new life, she meets a boy on the Civil War Battlefield near her home. Then he disappears right before her eyes. C.C. knows that, somehow, she must uncover the truth about the disappearing boy and why he haunts the Battlefield.

Set in the world of New York Times bestseller Seraphina, a boy on the run from a dragon—among other dangers—seeks refuge in a haunted abbey in this wholly original ghost story about what haunts us, and what connects us. A few things to know about the town of St. Muckle’s: It’s too...

While great battles for independence were being fought in the East, the Western frontier was in the middle of its own dangerous conflicts. One of these encounters began innocently as three friends searched the forest for medicinal herbs. On their way home, they discovered a party of ghostlike figures doing a strange dance among the trees. When word got back to Larkinboro, scouts were sent out to identify what threats these white warriors might pose to the safety of the settlers. But the more that is discovered, the more ominous the danger becomes.