Résultats pour "Julia Roberts" dans Fiction historique

En cette première moitié du XIXe siècle, Julia Angellier est loin de disposer de toutes les qualités rêvées chez une jeune femme: docilité, patience, abnégation, respect des traditions. Mme Angellier le constate une fois de plus en écoutant sa fille aînée proclamer qu'elle refuse de se laisser marier avec quelqu'un qui ne lui plaît pas. Songe-t-elle à une autre alliance que n'approuverait pas son père, Alfred Angellier ? L'idée est presque inconcevable. Julia y pense pourtant, elle aime Rodolphe Vernet, fils d'un colonel d'Empire installé au domaine de Mogador depuis près de dix ans.

A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in...

When a child's body is discovered in tumultuous eighteenth-century London, a struggling writer dares to defy her time and become an unlikely force for social justice in a new historical mystery by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Julia Keller. Brilliant—but broke. Ahead of her time—but behind...

Out of nowhere Comanches attack, and sixteen year-old Jane narrowly survives the slaughter of her family and the kidnapping of her baby sister. Driven by grief and fury, she rides headlong into Indian territory, seeking vengeance. But the odds are stacked against a young girl on the trail, and Jane soon realizes she must disguise herself as a boy to join forces with a tough company of cowhands on a cattle drive to Dodge City.

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager “A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady. Julia Fine is an extraordinary writer.” —Kelly...

Venice, 1717. Before Maddalena arrived at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice's most illustrious music school, fifteen-year-old orphan Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. Sent to the Pietà until her noble family can find her a husband, Maddalena is cunning, passionate, and unlike anyone Luisa has ever met. Maddalena can promise the world to Luisa, and when she does, their fates intertwine.

Anna Grayson has been a dutiful daughter her whole life, but her world is transformed when she meets the lively Mitchell sisters, employees in her father's factory, who awaken her interest in the women's suffrage movement. This new world of excitement and freedom comes with risks. No longer protected by her father, Anna is forced to grow up quickly when tragedy strikes at a rally and Lily Mitchell is knocked down by a motorcar and killed.