Résultats pour "MAiA" dans Fiction historique

Une envoûtante saga familiale sur les effets dévastateurs de la guerre. Novembre 1972, Hanoi. Face aux rumeurs d'offensive américaine, Huong et sa grand-mère, Dieu Lan, décident d'abandonner la capitale pour rejoindre les campagnes vietnamiennes. Un retour qui ravive le souvenir du départ de Dieu Lan, vingt ans plus tôt, chassée de la ferme familiale par la réforme agraire du gouvernement communiste nouvellement au pouvoir.

'ମାୟା' ଅଷ୍ଟମ ଶତାବ୍ଦୀର ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସମାଜ ଓ ଶାସନତନ୍ତ୍ରର କଥା କହେ! ଶାସକ, ଶାସନ ଓ ଅନୁଶାସନ ଭିତରେ ଏକ ପ୍ରେମକଥା ଏଠାରେ ବେଶ ସାବଲୀଳ...

Publicada en 1888, Los Maia es una saga familiar que refleja el ambiente y las costumbres de la burguesía lisboeta y la sociedad cambiante que la rodea. Retrato de tres generaciones que vienen a clausurar una gloriosa historia nobiliaria, la novela se centra en la pasión romántica del último de la familia, el joven médico Carlos da Maia, por la enigmática Maria Eduarda, pareja de un comerciante brasileño que se cruza azarosamente en su vida.

Une odyssée familiale puissante et passionnante. Après le succès de L'Île des oubliés, le grand retour de Victoria Hislop à la saga historique. Athènes, milieu des années 1940. Récemment libérée de l'occupation allemande, la Grèce fait face à de violentes tensions internes. Confrontée aux injustices qui touchent ses proches, la jeune Themis décide de s'engager auprès des communistes et se révèle prête à tout.

Orano, anni Venti del Novecento. Un dedalo di viuzze malfamate a ridosso del porto, odori forti, grida incomprensibili, un'umanità variegata: qui approda Cecilia Belmonte, una giovane donna spagnola che, in fuga dalla miseria o forse da qualcosa di più oscuro, ha attraversato d'impulso il Mediterraneo lasciandosi tutto alle spalle. Nell'Algeria francese Cecilia segue istintivamente l'ondata dei compatrioti che nell'infuocato Nordafrica cerca un lavoro, una vita migliore, o anche solo qualche soldo per tirare avanti.

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.

"Engrossing historical fiction…A touching, thrilling heartbreak for any reader.” --USA Today This stunning debut novel set in the fascinating world of Cold War Soviet ballet follows the fates of twin sisters whose bond is competitive, complicated, but never broken. Maya and Natasha are twin...

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.

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...

Ein Roman über weiblichen Widerstand in schrecklichsten Zeiten. Texas, 1852. Sechs versklavte Frauen schleichen aus ihren Schlafquartieren und versammeln sich im Schutz der Nacht im Wald. Die Plantagenbesitzer, die Lucys - benannt nach Luzifer selbst - haben beschlossen, die Frauen zu zwingen, Kinder zu gebären, um die nächste Generation Sklaven zu erhalten. Doch die Frauen sind entschlossen, sich zu wehren - so gut sie können. Nan, eine Ärztin, hat eine pflanzliche Lösung parat. Wenn sie sich alle an dieser gefährlichen Rebellion beteiligen, geben die Lucys vielleicht auf.

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.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sweeping, dazzling dual-timeline novel centering on two unforgettable women—and their inextricable link to each other decades apart. Ukraine, 1944 As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic...

One of Amazon’s Best Books of 2022 So Far! “Gloriously recommended.” —Historical Novel Society A gripping and compelling novel based on the true story of fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who will stop at nothing to prove that a woman’s place is on the front page. In 1887 New York City...

The second book in Maya Rodale’s exciting historical romance Writing Girls series. An incredible talent, Maya Rodale continues her deliciously exciting “Writing Girls” historical romance series with A Tale of Two Lovers. Fans of the bestselling romance of Laura Lee Guhrke and Suzanne Enoch...

As Lord Chamberlain, John spent his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square - or afterwards, to find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern.

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

They are sworn enemies… Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan’s Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swann. Of all the girls...

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.