Résultats pour "MAiA" dans Fiction historique

Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience and as her family pressures...

Full-cast dramatised retellings of the two most important epic Sanskrit poems of ancient India The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are literary classics, the longest epic poems in world literature, as significant as the Bible, the Qu'ran and the works of Shakespeare. Estimated to have been composed...

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and get back to work until her kids had their own children, and it would be her turn to stop working to take care of them.

Hijas de una misma madre y de padres pertenecientes a dos etnias distintas, Effia y Esi son dos hermanas de sangre que nunca llegarán a conocerse. Sus caminos están irremediablemente destinados a separarse: así, mientras Effia es obligada a casarse con un gobernador inglés y a residir en una fortaleza junto a la costa, Esi es capturada y enviada como esclava al sur de Estados Unidos.

En 1535, un objeto perteneciente a Ah Puch, el temible dios maya del inframundo, llegó a la ciudad más importante del Imperio Español, pero, a pesar de ser relegado al olvido por la Iglesia durante quinientos años, la amenaza que supone para la humanidad no fue eliminada. En diciembre del año 2012, el Códice de Fray Bernardino llega a manos de la jefa del departamento de restauración del Archivo de Indias, Ireri Dávila. Aunque aún no lo sabe, el viejo manuscrito es la clave para que la peor de las profecías mayas se haga realidad.

Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959—though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, who finds the city unkind to outsiders and as dispirited as her own family. When Cordi rents a cheap loft in an old apartment building, she quickly warms to kindred souls Tessa, Audrey, and Silly. They also want better things and have pasts they’d rather forget. That they all share the same middle name makes their friendship seem like destiny.

Gordon and his son Chase, two miners, leave their home to stake a mine claim they can call their own. They make it as far a Prescott, Arizona when they get an offer they just can't refuse. Little did they know that they would discover much more than gold. This action packed book is Indiana Jones meets 1883. Let the details draw you into to dusty 1912 Arizona and the wild wild west.

Her mother would absolutely die. Her father would send her away to a convent. And Sebastian and Quinn...she shuddered to think of her brothers' reaction were they to suspect what she was doing. Yet here she stood, poised to knock on the door of London's most renowned lover. Lady Jenna's future may be promised to a man who leaves her cold, but she is determined to spend her present in the arms of Grayson Douglas, a rake whose prowess in bedroom activities is a legendary topic of London's most esteemed women

The year is 548, and Empress Theodora is dead of disease. Such is the belief of everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire - everyone except Emperor Justinian, who orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her murderer or suffer the consequences. There is no sign of foul play, but many of the aristocrats at the imperial court had good reason to want Theodora dead.

The last thing Mathilda thought she’d be doing was boarding the Titanic to escape the danger hot on her heels. With knowledge of important papers that could get her killed and a wad of money, she’s trying to get as far away as she can with her older sister.