Resultados para "Angels" en Novela histórica

La Provenza, 1943. Chantal Frossard salta de un camión y, tras disfrutar de la hipnótica fragancia de una plantación de lavanda, extrae de su bandolera un antiguo libro y siguiendo sus instrucciones elabora una misteriosa esencia. Se dirige a Grasse, la capital de los perfumes, para reunirse con su familia. Es la primera vez que se encuentra con ellos, pues su madre, que ahora ha desaparecido, huyó de casa siendo muy joven. ¿De dónde ha salido Chantal Frossard? Ana Fernández lo sabe bien, la conoció en 1935 en el Pallars, en la frontera con Andorra y Francia.

Una magnífica novel·la que reivindica "l'altra guerra" en què van lluitar les dones en les ciutats i pobles de Catalunya durant la Guerra Civil quan els seus homes eren al front. La família Molina, formada pel pare, la mare i cinc filles, abandona la seva València natal per anar a Barcelona, al barri de Sants, on un germà del pare, el tío Miguel, ja hi està instaŀlat des de fa temps. El pare treballa a l'Espanya Industrial i la mare fa de cosidora per a un sastre del barri.

At remote Rockhaven University, the shocking death of student Brantley Simms beneath the bell tower shatters the campus, a place that once felt safeguarded by local angels. A year later, Leah Gavin, who knew Brantley under strained circumstances, becomes study partners with his former roommate from a rival fraternity and begins to unravel the mystery surrounding Brantley's death. Her questions lead her back to Brantley's fraternity and her own closest friends, and from there into secret societies and the darker side of her beloved college.

Una novela inolvidable sobre una mujer de un talento excepcional. La historia real de la orquesta de Vivaldi y su verdadera estrella, Anna Maria della Pietà. En la esplendorosa Venecia del siglo XVIII, la desesperación y la miseria nunca están lejos. A través de un agujero en la pared , las niñas huérfanas son abandonadas en el Ospedale della Pietà cada día.

The Angels Weep is the third best-selling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa. At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they have carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar the opponents for ever - and etch for them the same tragic legacy for generations to come....

Per sobreviure, els diu que és fuster, una feina amb una utilitat pràctica que li permet resistir les condicions de vida infrahumanes, i ajornar així la seva probable "eliminació". Gran aficionat a la música clàssica, el comandant del camp descobreix la veritable professió d'en Daniel i aleshores el sotmet a una prova: li haurà de construir un violí que tingui un so perfecte. El luthier es posa a l'obra, però no es pot ni imaginar el càstig que l'espera si no compleix bé el sinistre encàrrec.

Puede la vida en la calle prepararte para el duro trabajo en las salas de un hospital? Nueva York, años 1880. Una creció en los barrios marginales de Nueva York, y para sobrevivir en ese entorno rudo se convirtió en una estafadora sin escrúpulos. Una hasta es capaz de robar una cartera en solo cinco segundos, pero cuando una supuesta amiga la acusa de un asesinato que no ha cometido, Una debe huir de la policía y se dirige a un refugio aparentemente seguro, un lugar donde nadie le buscará: la escuela de enfermería del Hospital Bellevue.

Boston, 1919. Laura McKerrigan-Montero conoce el destino de cualquier chica de su posición: casarse con un buen partido que convenga al negocio familiar. Pero Laura tiene un sueño: aprender alta repostería con el afamado maître pâtissier del hotel Taormina. Y, con la excusa de estudiar...

Daniel es un luthier judío de Cracovia que sobrevive en el infierno del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz trabajando de carpintero. Sus condiciones de vida son infrahumanas, y los abusos, los castigos y la muerte son compañeros habituales de los reclusos como él. Pero a raíz de un accidentado concierto, el comandante del campo, Sauckel, que es aficionado a la música clásica, descubre el verdadero oficio de Daniel y decide ponerlo a prueba: tendrá que construir un violín que tenga un sonido perfecto.

Vor der einzigartigen Kulisse Venedigs erzählt David Hewson eine mitreißende Geschichte von Widerstand, Liebe und Zivilcourage. Als der fünfzehnjährige Nico Uccello seinen Großvater Paolo im Krankenhaus besucht, vertraut ihm der todkranke Mann ein Manuskript an, das Nicos Leben und seinen Blick auf den geliebten „Nonno“ radikal verändern wird.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

The lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect whose members include priests, politicians, and regional VIPs. During the early morning hours, when the town’s churches are closed, the "Sect of the Angels" meets in the sacristy to carry out their holy office: initiating devout virgins into the rites of married life. Preying on their victims’ naivete, the hooded "elect" commit ignominious acts while promising the young women divine grace. In 1901, at a time of immense changes in Sicilian society, the scandal breaks nationwide.

It was a beautiful summer in Munich when Tretan slipped the ring upon Adelisa’s finger and made her his wife. Against all odds, against all prejudice, whether it came from those they loved: close friends, family, even strangers, they joined in a union built on care, sacrifice, and unrelenting love that would be put to the test.

The lovely Angelique Graham knows her strengths-and patience is not one of them. So instead of waiting nine months to wed her beloved Simon, as per her overprotective parents' edict, Angeliq - rake of all rakes - who has just returned from war, to throw her parents into a panic. Though Angelique has plotted and planned every move, it seems that love has a different plan. When the game playing gets serious, will Angelique be able to resist the charms of Lord Faring?

It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

It was 1895 and time for a change, or so Rebecca thought. For 13 years Rebecca Rice had suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood, soaking up the leftovers of other people's lives like a sponge. She can't remember a time in her life when she didn't do exactly what was expected of her, until now. Armed with a knowledge of nursing and faith healing that she learned from a visiting missionary group, she heads for the hill country of southeastern Oklahoma, Indian Territory, to share her new vocation.

1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning to feel the sweep of the Nazi dragnet. When Grace forms a friendship with her Jewish tutor, Lola Schnitzler, Dr. Ho requests that Grace keep her distance. His instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, and he and Grace are already under their vigilant eye.

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

London, April 1891. When the severed torso of a woman washes up on the bank of the river Thames, London believes a serial killer from the past has struck again. Crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is on the scene with her friends Mick O’Reilly and Lord Hugh Staunton. This is their chance to solve a cold case and deliver a monster to justice, with help from Sarah’s husband Detective Sergeant Thomas Barrett; her sister Sally Albert, an intrepid newspaper reporter; and Hugh’s psychologist, Dr. Joshua Lewes, a pioneer in the new science of criminal profiling.

Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend, Lizzie, suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do whatever they can to serve, they enlist in the Army and embark on a new adventure as flight nurses.