Résultats pour "Vera" dans Fiction historique

Vera Wong, tea house owner and occasional sleuth should feel content. Her son Tilly has moved in with his girlfriend, and the shop has been inundated with customers. But Vera can’t help feeling a little… bored. Sometimes, all an old lady wants is a murder to solve. Is that too much to ask for? Then Vera comes across a distressed young woman called Millie, whose friend Xander has gone missing. Is this Vera's chance to get out her trusty notebook and solve another mystery?

'Vera Wong is my new favourite sleuth' Elle Cosimano Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on...

Lichterfelde, 1943. Vera erlebt den Zweiten Weltkrieg in Berlin in der Villa am Karlsplatz. Ihr Mann Wilhelm, ein überzeugter Nationalsozialist, ist bei der Luftwaffe. Immer öfter kommen Vera Zweifel, auf welcher Seite sie steht. Da findet sie in der Gartenlaube einen fremden Mann auf der Flucht. Es ist der jüdische Künstler David, der in die Illegalität abtauchen musste und sich seitdem versteckt hält. Vera trifft eine weitreichende Entscheidung, von der sie weiß, dass sie ihre Familie zerreißen und alles in Frage stellen wird, was sie bisher für richtig gehalten hat.

Una emocionante novela sobre la fuerza del amor y sus espejismos. Durante su juventud, Gabriel Aristu y Adriana Zuber protagonizaron una apasionada historia de amor que parecía destinada a durar para siempre. El futuro, sin embargo, tenía otros planes para ellos. Separados durante cincuenta años por un océano de incomunicación, ella atrapada en la España de la dictadura, él viviendo el éxito profesional en Estados Unidos, vuelven a encontrarse en el ocaso de sus días.

A late morning mining accident casts gloom over the town of Blessings Valley. Over 20 souls were lost in an excavating explosion. Recently widowed laundress Vera Baldwin is pregnant and terrified of how she will provide for her unborn child. She has no family to turn to, neither her’s nor her late husband’s. Assigned to investigate the mining accident that killed several men in Blessings Valley, undercover agent Jack Daniels is torn between duty and family when he learns Vera Baldwin is carrying his estranged brother’s child.

New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention. Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate...

Vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Mauerfall verbinden die Fäden des Schicksals Lene, Nora und Lieselotte: Obwohl sie sich in einer Zeit der Angst und des Terrors als Fremde begegnen, werden sie zu Freundinnen, die einander Halt geben und große Risiken auf sich nehmen. Krankenschwester Nora tut alles, um Lene zu helfen, das Leben ihres kleinen Sohnes Leo zu retten. Denn wegen eines leichten Handicaps gilt Leo als »Reichsausschusskind«. 1942 lernt Nora Lieselotte in Danzig kennen.

L'audiolibro racconta la vita di Davide: una vita avventurosa che molti sognano, ma che solo lui sceglie di vivere fino in fondo. Un viaggio che attraversa Milano, Nizza, Algeri e Casablanca, tra incontri decisivi e situazioni pericolose. Lungo la strada accadono eventi che mettono alla prova il coraggio, le scelte e i legami. Tra sfide, amicizie e svolte inattese, il viaggio diventa insieme reale e simbolico: un attraversamento di luoghi e di esperienze che intreccia storie e provenienze diverse in un racconto intenso e profondamente umano.

Paris, 1942. The war is everywhere. But inside the quiet corridors of the Bibliothèque nationale, another battle is being fought—one measured in documents, archives, and secrets hidden in plain sight.

Ricco, vecchio e solitario nel suo esilio in Madagascar, Long John Silver rimugina sul passato. C'è una taglia sulla sua testa ma il pensiero della forca lo preoccupa meno di un'oscura posterità. Nel poco tempo che gli resta, il tremendo pirata dell'isola del tesoro racconta la sua versione della storia, tracciando un poderoso affresco della pirateria con tanto di arrembaggi, estenuanti bonacce, giri di chiglia e feroci capitani.

Erika Wendt är en ung tyska som mitt under ett rasande världskrig anländer till Sverige. Till det yttre verkar inget vara fel, men under ytan döljer sig en farlig hemlighet: Erika är en tysk spion. Men saker tar en oväntad vändning när den svenske underrättelseofficeren Teddy Ternberg får upp ögonen för den unga kvinnan. De inleder en farlig romans. Och det visar sig att deras passion kommer att förändra Sveriges roll i det brinnande kriget.

Una novela conmovedora, enmarca uno de los momentos mas importantes de la historia de Mexico. En los albores del siglo XX en México, mientras los vientos revolucionarios soplan cada vez con más fuerza, la pequeña Mercedes ve interrumpida si infancia al ser vendida por su madre a un burdel. Transformada en una joven prostituta, al quedar embarazada y dar a luz, decide entregar su pequeño hijo en adopción. El elegido para hacerse cargo del niño es un hombre culto y adinerado que lo educará y se lo llevará a vivir a la capital.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Marie-Laure vive con su padre en París, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde él trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy niña, Marie-Laure se queda ciega, su padre le construye una perfecta miniatura de su barrio para que pueda memorizarla gracias al tacto y encontrar el camino a casa. A sus doce años, los nazis ocupan París y padre e hija tienen que huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo. Con ellos se llevan la que podría ser la más preciada y peligrosa joya del museo.

El horror de la guerra irrumpe en las vidas de las primas Isabela y Madeline Eiserman. Cuando el ejército nazi comienza a perseguir a su familia, los juegos, la música, las costumbres y los sueños se vuelven imposibles. Mientras tanto, en Buenos Aires los hermanos Francisco, Santiago, Rosario y Pedro Navarro Soler intentan, como pueden, superar una tragedia y salir adelante.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

Londoners whisper that Mary Bennet is a great wyfe able to command fire-breathing draca. Mary knows better; she’s just a bookworm with lank hair. But she hopes to save a great wyfe—her sister Elizabeth, the great wyfe of war, who vanished into the depths of Pemberley lake with her blinded scarlet dragon. But when Mary encounters la Demoiselle des Parfums, Napoleon’s lethal lieutenant, her quest becomes a race. The lost artifact of music is the key. It might save Elizabeth. It might even heal the broken dragon song spreading blight across England.

Mister Sax affida a Giorgio un nuovo, difficilissimo incarico: rimanere a Milano per traghettare la Saxol Inc nel futuro. Giorgio affronta nuove sfide, mentre Giordana lo trascina in un vortice di trasgressioni sempre più audaci. Con la sua energia e la sua professionalità, riesce a superare ogni ostacolo e a portare a termine un grande progetto che lo riempie di soddisfazione e lo rende unico.

Stimolato dal professor Horowitz, Giorgio intraprende un profondo viaggio interiore che lo costringe a guardare in faccia la verità e ad analizzare chi è davvero, insieme alla natura dei sentimenti che prova per Valentina e per Miriam, sottoposta nel frattempo a un'operazione pericolosissima. Dopo molteplici peripezie che lo conducono a New York, Bangkok e Marbella, il manager si confida con Viscardi, che gli propone una visione della vita completamente diversa. Ma l'incontro con una bellissima duchessa sconvolge ancora una volta l'equilibrio sentimentale di Giorgio...

Justin Tolliver is on the brink of an enormous change. The younger son of an English peer - that is, the son with no money and no prospects - he had joined the police force in British East Africa, full of dreams of bringing his majesty's justice to a dark and savage world. But it's 1913, and with his faith in the British government in tatters, Justin is opting instead for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. It is his wife, Vera, who has helped him put aside images of darkness and come to see Africa, instead, as all but lit from within.