Résultats pour "The Paris Chapter" dans Fiction historique

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, a charming and cinematic novel following a young woman from Montana who takes a job in the American Library in Paris, where she discovers the power of storytelling and her own dreams. Paris, 1995...

1199, Richard Cœur de Lion, roi d'Angleterre et duc d'Aquitaine, est atteint par un carreau d'arbalète au cours d'un siège. Il trépasse peu après, entouré de sa mère Aliénor et de son ami Robert de Locksley, connu dans sa jeunesse sous le fameux nom de Robin Hood. Accusé d'avoir dérobé un trésor, Locksley, à nouveau hors-la-loi, disparaît. Sa jeune épouse Anna Maria demande alors l'aide de l'ancien mercenaire Guilhem d'Ussel. Pourchassé par les Templiers, traqué par le prévôt de Paris, Guilhem d'Ussel retrouvera-t-il Locksley vivant ?

Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals. Celie’s new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn’t the man who holds her heart. In Egypt, Jessie’s world is forever changed by a devastating loss.

Paris 1930s. Childhood companions Fleur and Colette make a vow, under the trailing ivy of their secret garden, that they will be secret sisters forever. But as they grow up, the promises of childhood are put to the ultimate test. For Colette is the daughter of the house, and her life is all jazz clubs, silk dresses and chilled champagne, while Fleur is the orphan niece of the housekeeper and doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere. Years later, in 1939, life as they know it will never be the same.

Scarred by his experiences in World War 1, German doctor Sebastian Braun lives a quiet life tending to his patients and his beloved garden. Until Sophie Hathaway bursts into his life and challenges his dearly held beliefs. And just at the moment Sebastian discovers love for the first time, war is on the horizon once again, threatening not just his peace of mind. As the Germans approach the Channel Islands, Sebastian has to make choices: be the peace-loving man he has become or stand up and fight for his principles?