Résultats pour "Stella" dans Fiction historique

À Londres, Stella porte à bout de bras sa famille depuis trop longtemps, alors qu'elle ne rêve que de chambres d'hôtes à la campagne. Aussi, lorsqu'elle reçoit un mystérieux message de sa grand-tante, elle monte sans hésiter dans le premier train. Direction, la maison familiale en Normandie, où un tableau ayant appartenu à sa grand-mère, Hortense, a disparu. Parmi les souvenirs qui s'amoncellent, Stella cherche des indices.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a new novel of love and betrayal, set in Berlin in 1942 In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is...

Takis Würger erzählt mit Tempo und Wucht die Geschichte einer Liebe im Jahr 1942. Berlin im Jahr 1942. Eine Geschichte über Angst und Hoffnung - und über die Entscheidung, sich selbst zu verraten oder seine Liebe. Eine Geschichte, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht. Friedrich kommt aus gut behütetem Haus vom Genfer See nach Berlin, ein stiller Mann auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit. In einer Kunstschule trifft er Kristin. Sie nimmt Friedrich mit in ihre Nächte in geheimen Jazzclubs. Sie trinkt Kognak mit ihm und gibt ihm seinen ersten Kuss. Bei ihr kann er sich einbilden, der Krieg sei weit weg.

Following a whirlwind engagement to Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst, Stella Kendrick is finding her footing within an elite social circle in picturesque rural England. Except tea time with refined friends can be more dangerous than etiquette faux pas - especially in the company of Lady Philippa, the woman Lyndy was once set to marry, and her husband, the ostentatious Lord Fairbrother....

For over 600 years, Darius of Agremon has fought wars on behalf of those who needed his skills in combat. As a lechagos on Strongili, he spends his days commanding the Minoan coastguardsmen against pirates and marauders. His nights are spent alone, for despite having had wives in the past, he has watched them all grow old and die, childless, as he continues to live.

What’s become of the Immortal Darius? His wife, Stella, worries about his fate as she rules over their city-state of Deminon, especially when she learns he’s been the victim of treachery. She’ll do anything to get him back. Enslaved as a traitor to Rome, Darius is forced to fight gladiators as part of the funeral rites of powerful Romans. His years of experience on the battlefield serve him well in the arena - until he’s forced to fight Marcus - a younger, stronger gladiator who is unaware of his own immortality.

Colorado, 1864. Jude Star, un giovane Cheyenne sopravvissuto al massacro di Sand Creek, viene mandato nella prigione di Fort Marion, dove è costretto a imparare l'inglese e a praticare il cristianesimo da Richard Henry Pratt, una guardia carceraria evangelica che fonderà la Carlisle Indian Industrial School, un'istituzione dedicata allo sradicamento della storia, della cultura e dell'identità dei nativi. Una generazione dopo, il figlio di Star, Charles, che frequenta quella scuola, viene brutalizzato dall'uomo che era stato il carceriere di suo padre.

Alba è giovane, bella e determinata, ma ha un "passato" e questo le ha fatto perdere la fiducia negli uomini e ha azzerato ogni possibilità di sposarsi. Quando una violenta pioggia devasta le vigne alla vigilia della vendemmia, nessuno le concede credito e i debiti a suo favore restano insoluti: è una donna, e senza un uomo che la tuteli non trova voce né giustizia. Alba e Mario si incontrano per un caso del destino e i loro percorsi si intrecciano tra pericoli che incombono, segreti e un'indomabile passione reciproca.

Faussone, detto Tino, il protagonista di questa «opera prima» di Primo Levi, ovvero del suo primo romanzo d'invenzione, è un operaio specializzato che si lascia alle spalle la dura esperienza della catena di montaggio alla Lancia e gira per il mondo a montare gru, ponti sospesi, strutture metalliche, impianti petroliferi.

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is...

Friedrich es un joven suizo que se muda a Berlín para seguir con su carrera artística. Allí conoce a Kristin, una chica muy hermosa y segura de sí misma que se hace cargo de él y le enseña a moverse entre los cenáculos de la efervescente vida nocturna de la ciudad, con sus cabarets y clubs de jazz. Pronto, la intensidad de su relación se convierte en una apasionada historia amorosa, hasta que un día Kristin se presenta en casa del muchacho con la cara y el cuerpo cubiertos de moretones.

As England slides into Civil War, master-goldsmith and money-lender, Luciano Falcieri del Santi embarks on his own hidden agenda. A chance meeting one dark night results in an unlikely friendship with Member of Parliament, Richard Maxwell. Richard’s daughter, Kate - a spirited girl who vows to hold their home against both Cavalier and Roundhead - soon finds herself fighting an involuntary attraction to the clever, magnetic, and diabolically beautiful Italian.

A Wilmersdorf, un tranquillo e benestante quartiere di una città tedesca, il periodo natalizio è annunciato dalle grida gioiose dei bambini che giocano a palle di neve. Fra le famiglie che abitano tre case, i rapporti superano quelli del buon vicinato: David, figlio del giornalista ebreo Jakob Korsakov, e Fritz, figlio del poliziotto Rauch, sono amici per la pelle e compagni di banco alla scuola elementare; la sorellastra di David è fidanzata con il figlio del noto architetto Winterloh; persino la gatta di Fritz e il gatto di David sono amici.

Das Königreich Arandor steht erneut im Mittelpunkt der Machtspiele und politischen Allianzen. Um seine Herrschaft zu festigen, beschließt König Luke, eine Gemahlin unter fünf edlen Prinzessinnen auszuwählen. Doch die ehrgeizige Nora aus Laawia, die gezwungen wird, an diesem Wettbewerb teilzunehmen, hat ihre eigenen Pläne. Ihr Vater verspricht ihr größere Freiheiten für ihr Studium im Ausland, doch Nora ahnt nicht, dass hinter dieser Vereinbarung ein viel dunkleres Geheimnis lauert.

Berlino, 9 luglio del 1944. Il tenente colonnello Martin Bora, ex agente dell'Abwehr, il servizio segreto della Wehrmacht, è in arrivo dal fronte italiano. Ha ottenuto una licenza - con sua sorpresa considerato lo sforzo bellico - per partecipare ai funerali dello zio, un illustre clinico in rotta con il regime nazista. Voci indiscrete sul suicidio dello zio, strenuo oppositore del progetto medico nazista "vite inutili", lo insospettiscono. E intorno, incontri che sembrano provocazioni gli fanno percepire qualcosa di strano nell'atmosfera.

Stella Hart has less than a month to finish her latest picture and sail home to England to marry her darling George. If she postpones the wedding again, her mother will disown her, and even the groom is getting restless. When her swashbuckling co-star smashes into a wall and breaks his nose, putting production on indefinite hold, she and George make plans to slip away and leave the movie unfinished. But studio head Nathan Stanley has other ideas. As a free agent and the future wife of a baronet, she can afford to let him do his worst. But when Stanley turns up stabbed to death...

Had it not been for the scent bottles, it is unlikely that Daniel Shelbourne, Viscount Reculver, and Anna Hawthorne of Hawthorne’s Porcelain would ever have met. Daniel’s late father left him an impoverished estate – which he had expected – and unexplained debts, which he hadn’t. Anna inherited a thriving business, along with the knowledge and passion required to run it.

The Duke of Rockliffe is 36 years old, head of his house, and responsible for his young sister, Nell. He is, therefore, under some pressure to choose a suitable bride. Whilst accompanying Nell to what he speedily comes to regard as the house-party from hell, he meets Adeline Kendrick - acid-tongued, no more than passably good-looking yet somehow alluring. Worse still, her relatives are quite deplorable - from a spoiled, ill-natured cousin to a sadistic, manipulative uncle.

The marriage of a well-bred Royalist lady and an illegitimate Roundhead Colonel is less a match made in heaven than a union doomed to hell. Unfortunately, Sir Robert Brandon's last will and testament leaves Venetia Clifford and Gabriel Brandon with little choice in the matter - deeply though they both resent it. Their tempestuous relationship is reflected in the stormy events buffeting the nation as England slides inexorably into a second Civil War.

Charles ll leads an army south to reclaim his throne, but the dream ends in a crushing defeat at Worcester. With little more than the clothes on their backs, Ashley Peverell and Francis Langley manage to reach Paris, where Ashley resumes his under-cover, unpaid work for the King. Beautiful, stubborn, and street-wise Athenais de Galzain has risen from the slums of Paris to become the Marais Theatre's leading actress. From first chance, Ashley and Athenais are drawn together with the unstoppable force of two stars colliding; a force which Ashley must conceal.