Resultados para "Adam" en Novela histórica

Experience the stories of these ordinary men who were called by God to be used in extraordinary ways through this series of first-person biblical fiction novellas. This curated bundle includes three books in this series - hand picked for their themes of purpose, both during their time and for...

THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that...

Adam Patrick Gordon is a ghost of Culloden’s battlefield. Tormented by unfinished business which he believes led to his wife’s death while he was away at war, he can find no peace. Will a chance at redemption and the right to speak his mind to Prince Charlie be the balm he needs? Or will he exchange his boon for one more day with his sweet Mairi?

Madeline Oxley has been ruined by a scandal through no fault of her own, and her future looks bleak. When a gentleman from her past requests that she set sail for the New World to become his wife, she jumps at the chance to become a mail order bride and marry the man she has loved since she was...

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by compelling him to fish for pearls, and a deaf...

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter's Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn. High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-year-old narrator of Elegy...

A Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick A darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America—perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Percival Everett’s James. Axel Emerson isn’t chasing a dream—he’s running from...

There is no adama without dam. In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in...

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war...

Takiej powieści o Mickiewiczu jeszcze nie było! To nie jest nudna biografia wieszcza, nic z tych rzeczy. To zeznanie pewnej tajemniczej postaci. W tej niesamowitej historii narratorem jest... No właśnie – kto? Bies, licho, a może sam... diabeł, opiekujący się Adamem od kołyski w Zaosiu po istambulskie łoże śmierci? Czy bez interwencji tego czarciego ducha nie mielibyśmy wieszcza oraz Polski – Chrystusa narodów? Mickiewicz nie jawi się tu wyłącznie jako geniusz, cudowne dziecko romantyzmu. Jest mężczyzną z krwi i kości – delikatnym i uduchowionym, ale też kochliwym, burkliwym, zadufanym w sobie, równie skłonnym do uniesień, jak i konfliktów.

Snowbound Truths is an astonishing book daring to delve into the greatest mystery mankind desires to solve. Get ready for many wonderful and new twists to what eternity holds, utilizing quantum physics and true religion found in our everyday lives. Science answers eternal questions to reveal the...

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

At St Bartholomew’s House, old books are not only preserved. They are arranged, displayed, inherited, and made to tell the stories powerful people need them to tell. Leila Rahman, a careful and exacting provenance librarian, has spent her career correcting the record quietly. When she is asked to prepare a valuable volume from the Wrythe Collection for a public celebration, she notices something almost invisible in the margin: a celebrated handwritten annotation does not sit properly on the page.

Like father, like son . . . April 1777 Alexei McKesson is a man caught between two worlds: the son of the disgraced former Duke of McKesson, and an adopted warrior of the Standing Stone. For the past two years, Alexei has been pirating ships on the St. Lawrence, and he’s never been caught...

The undead are unquiet! Beset on all sides, Julian and Daemon must face off against an army of zombies. Christian, Balthazar, Caemorn and Fiona have their hands full with ghosts. The Immortal Kaly is not giving up their fight against the Vampire King anytime soon, but neither is Daemon going to back down from regaining what is his.

It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime, even if you can't remember why you started. The Unforgettable Mailman is a heartwarming story about intergenerational friendship and the power of human connection, perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans' The Correspondent. 1966...

THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the First World War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond...

Una historia terrible y terrorífica sobre el desmoronamiento de la dignidad y la supresión absoluta de las expectativas. Durante la inquisición, un Rabino que fue torturado durante un año y que al día siguiente será llevado a la hoguera, por un giro del destino su calabozo queda mal cerrado dándole una oportunidad para escapar, una esperanza.

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is...

Do you ever lie to yourself? I do. Making friends has been the cruelest choice I ever inflicted upon myself. I like to say I don’t regret it, and for the most part that’s true. I resent it. I despise him because he left me behind, following another battle in this war we’ve been waging. I thought we were partners, best friends, allies, and that he would always have my back as I’ve fought to have his. I hate her because she’s perfection and everything he’s ever wanted, untouchable, brilliant, and capable. Yet, I want her too. Need her. Still, she gave herself to someone else.