Résultats pour "Lisa" dans 20e siècle

1922, London. Evelyn Bloom lies dying in her Mayfair flat. A decade earlier, she had the world at her feet - a dazzling celebrity who socialised with royalty, ignited scandalous love affairs, and filled headlines with her daring exploits. Now, surrounded by the faded mementoes of a brilliant life cut short, Evelyn is left to wonder: How did it all go so wrong? And why, when she had everything, has she been left to die alone?

From acclaimed author Belle Ami, renowned for her poignant World War II epic, The Last Daughter, inspired by her mother's survival of the Holocaust, emerges a captivating saga that transcends the bounds of time. Mona Lisa’s Daughter entwines the fates of two remarkable women against the backdrop of history's glittering peaks and darkest depths.

Paris, 1924. The Olympics. Lucy Morton, an ambitious Blackpool swimmer waits to find out if she’s won against her American rival. If she has, she’ll be the first British woman to win Gold in an individual event. If she has, it’ll upset the apple cart. The Americans have been sweeping the boards and, at 26, she’s a veteran in the sport. If she has, it’ll be despite the car accident she was in just 48 hours before, which saw her lose five teeth, crack a rib and be out cold until the morning of the biggest race of her life.

Mariana, narradora de esta novela comparte su vida familiar a través de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y su lugar de residencia, México. Cuando su padre, el duque, es llamado a combatir al frente durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Mariana emprende un viaje junto con su madre y su hermana hacia un destino colorido. Atrás han dejado París y su encanto de cuento de hadas, y en México encuentran un país lleno de contrastes.

“Scandal, sabotage and spies. Who knew the beauty industry was so cutthroat! This was a thoroughly compulsive and addictive read."" — Kate Thompson, bestselling author of The Little Wartime Library Bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. What war destroys, only love can heal...

From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. France, 1939 At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed...

Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios.

Få måneder før Anden Verdenskrigs afslutning tvinges et barn alene på flugt. En menneskeflok, der især består af kvinder og børn, vandrer gennem et snedækket Østpreussen i håb om at finde sikkerhed. Sammen med Fruen, et par småbørn og Renate, der påstår hun er voksen, men ligner en pige, kommer barnet ombord på et skib. De tror, de skal til Kiel, men ender i København. Dér oplever de på første hånd, hvordan Danmark tager sig af tyske flygtninge, i en tid fuld af bødler og ofre, af vrede og sorg, af venner og fjender. Selv drømmer barnet kun om ét; at blive genforenet med sin familie.

Det var krig. Nazisterna hade tagit över Köpenhamn och lyktorna var släckta längs Öresunds danska kustlinje. Jane Horney var ung och vacker, äventyrlig på gränsen till dumdristig. I en manlig värld av SS-officerare och Gestapomän, dubbelspioner och agenter rörde hon sig mellan Stockholm, Köpenhamn och Berlin utan att förstå hur farligt det var. Det var kärleken som drev henne mot ett fruktansvärt öde. Hennes fiender svärtade ner hennes namn i decennier efter krigets slut.

“Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance.” —Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023 One of Lit Hub’s and Zibby Owens’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025...

1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through...

Eine Stadt in Deutschland. Irgendwo im Jahr 1944. Mitten im Luftangriff amerikanischer Bomber. 70 Minuten Zerstörung von Gebäuden und Menschen. Gert Ledig verdichtet die hereinbrechende brutale Gewalt in radikalen Worten. Gert Ledig war während des 2. Weltkrieges Zeitzeuge der Kämpfe in Russland. Der Autor meldete sich mit 18 Jahren freiwillig, wurde mehrfach schwer verletzt und kam mit seinen Vorgesetzten in Streit wegen unsinniger grausamer Befehle.