Resultados para "Alice" en Novela histórica

La gran novela de Alice Kellen. Un amor tan intenso y cálido como una tarde de verano El sol baña los acantilados y las aguas turquesas del mar de Cornualles cuando Jane Bellamy y Cedric Stone se conocen en el verano de 1939. No están destinados a ser una ecuación perfecta, pero son jóvenes...

Un adiós forzado. Un amor inquebrantable. Un destino marcado por la guerra. Barcelona, 1937. En medio del caos de la Guerra Civil Española, Pere Roda toma una decisión que lo perseguirá toda la vida: envía a sus tres hijas a México convencido de que así las salvará del hambre y la guerra...

En Malasia, en los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras un matrimonio concertado, Parvathi vive sin grandes alicientes en la opulenta mansión de su marido, un hombre mucho mayor que ella que prácticamente la desprecia. Solo gracias a la ayuda de una cocinera llena de sabiduría y a un criado quien la ama en secreto, Parvathi logra seguir adelante. Pero la invasión japonesa del país cambia su vida ya que, tras el saqueo y la ocupación de su propio hogar, Parvathi se ve obligada a convertirse en la geisha y amante del oficial japonés al mando.

Lucas es familiar, impulsivo y transparente. Juliette es fuerte, introspectiva y liberal. Él vive en Vallecas, trabaja en un taller de coches junto a su mejor amigo y por las tardes tocan en un grupo de música que marcará el curso de sus vidas para siempre. Ella ha crecido con su abuela en un...

Tras la muerte de su padre, Briand decide viajar desde Inglaterra a Santander para instalarse en la casa familiar. Allí conoce a Marcus, un joven inglés como ella que también ha decidido trasladarse a aquellas tierras. Ambos se enamoran y su relación les hace muy...

Torino, 1935. I fari della Balilla Spider Sport fendono il buio della notte. Il fatto che al volante ci sia una donna potrebbe sembrare strano, ma non se si tratta di Anita. Sono mesi, infatti, che fa cose poco consone, per non dire disdicevoli, sicuramente proibite. Come rimandare il matrimonio con Corrado solo per il desiderio di lavorare. Oppure scrivere, sotto lo pseudonimo di J.D. Smith, racconti gialli ispirati a fatti di cronaca per portare un po’ di giustizia dove ormai non ne esiste più. Un segreto che condivide con Sebastiano Satta Ascona, direttore della rivista "Saturnalia".

Thrice wedded, but never bedded, Mathilde Martindale has long lived in the shadow of her indomitable mother, and meekly done as she was told. Until one day she decides to become mistress of her own destiny and leave the royal court to find her own path. 

1947. La joven americana Charlie St. Clair está embarazada, soltera y a punto de ser expulsada de su muy decente familia. Mientras su mundo se viene abajo, su única ilusión es la débil esperanza de que su amada prima Rose, que desapareció en la Francia ocupada por los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, siga viva. 1915. Un año después del estallido de la Gran Guerra, Eve Gardiner está deseando unirse a la lucha contra los alemanes, así que no duda un instante cuando es reclutada como espía de la organización clandestina conocida como «la red de Alice».

Only weeks since her release from Borstal, Alice is a candidate for the position of junior nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments. With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice brings support to the thousands of patients littering the hospital’s corridors and concrete courtyard. In the process, she attracts the attention of a lovesick patient, Teddy Bunt, apprentice to the nefarious ‘Gentleman Squad’ of the Karachi police.

Polesine, 1951. Quando, dopo giorni di pioggia incessante, Nora vede il fango filtrare sotto la porta di casa, capisce che l'acqua si prenderà tutto ciò che la sua famiglia possiede. Dopo la grande alluvione, che ha distrutto le case, decimato le bestie e costretto molti a sfollare, la terra stessa sembra aver perso la sua fertilità, e chi è rimasto ha sempre meno lavoro. Così i Visentin decidono di lasciare tutto per cercare fortuna nel Vercellese, dove la produzione del riso attira manodopera da tutto il paese.

There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them, too. But I am about to tell you a very different story—a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason...as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety is nothing but an illusion. As his candles burn out, a window shatters outside. The room shudders as the synagogue down the street is engulfed in flames.

What if reality is only a fragile surface… and with one curious step, everything you trust begins to slip away? Enter a world where clocks argue, riddles whisper secrets, and logic unravels into beautiful, bewildering wonder. In this spellbinding 2-in-1 audiobook, wander through the strange, dreamlike landscapes of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", then pass beyond the mirror into the eerie, enchanting chessboard realm of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There".

Torino, 1935. Mancano poche settimane all'uscita del nuovo numero della rivista di gialli Saturnalia. Anita è intenta a dattilografare con grande attenzione: ormai ama il suo lavoro, e non solo perché Sebastiano Satta Ascona, che le detta la traduzione di racconti americani pieni di sparatorie e frasi a effetto, è vicino a lei. Molto vicino a lei.

En junio de 1943 una prostituta de Bilbao deja al cuidado de unos jesuitas a su hijo recién nacido. Poco tiempo después, en Galicia, una mujer da a luz a una niña y la abandona en un convento. Con este punto de partida, Larrea recorre hacia atrás una complicada historia familiar que la lleva a Bilbao, la ciudad donde se encuentran las claves de sus orígenes. Una historia sobre adopciones ilegales con el trasfondo de los últimos coletazos del franquismo.

GMA BUZZ PICK INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The...

In 1856, Lieutenant Henry Aaron Bird makes a startling discovery: a speechless, shipwrecked young girl, living a feral existence on a remote Pacific island. When he exhibits her as a "wild girl" in the chaotic sprawl of early San Francisco, this golden-haired child without a past will be seen by the populace as a scientific curiosity, a titillating image of female savagery, or, for many, a symbol of the unspoiled body of that young country. For Bird, she is a fragile ward in need of protection, whom he keeps drugged and confined when not using her to further his reputation.

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

Constance Hughes has always felt on the outside, never quite good enough, always doubting herself. So when she is asked to participate in a dangerous undercover mission to help the war effort, Connie is fearful – what if she fails and lets her friends – and country - down? A fluent linguist, Connie is perfect for the task ahead, but it means being dropped into France – currently under German occupation. Getting there is dangerous, the mission fraught, and if Connie is captured, it will mean certain death. But determined to do her duty, she agrees.

Fenella Thane is a desperate woman. Her absentee husband of eight years has served her with divorce papers, and she looks likely to lose her beloved home and be forced into a convent. There is just one slim chance to avoid this fate, one person of prominence at court who she knows has the ear of the King. Oswald Vawdrey, the man who cruelly jilted her when she was a starry-eyed 15-year-old with a head full of romantic dreams. 

Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein's salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein's Picassos and vie for status. Young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later. When Teddy falls in with the Stein set, he brings Ida to the salon, where she is shunted into a corner with the wives of famous men.