Resultados para "August" en Novela histórica

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

La Biblioteca Elena Poniatowska reúne la obra narrativa, ensayística y periodística de una escritora inmersa en la escena cultural iberoamericana. En Ida y vuelta se encuentran algunas de las entrevistas más icónicas de quien convirtió la virtud de escuchar en un arte. Protagonistas de la...

A captivating, multigenerational debut novel of a young woman navigating the personal trauma that ties herself, her nomadic mother, and her alcoholic grandmother together, perfect for fans of Ask Again, Yes and What the Fireflies Knew. 1979. Fifteen-year-old Aurora Taylors single mother prefers...

Fifteen-year old Morganna runs away from an abusive home to search for her blood father, a man she’s never met. Fearful she’ll be recognized by locals, she disguises herself as a boy. Hitching a ride from a fisherman, Morganna crosses the Bristol Channel to Goldcliff, Wales, where she hopes to find her father. She is astounded when the fisherman divulges her father is a famous Welsh privateer, the fearsome Captain Henry Blackwell.

Die Gans Auguste soll nach dem Willen von Vater Löwenhaupt als Festtagsbraten auf den Teller. Doch längst ist Gustje ein Freund der Familie geworden, insbesondere des kleinen Peterle.

Amygdala is a story of animals, born to a world of swirling, fractal chaos, who learned the art of civilization. Their government was forged in fire, ruled only by the objective truth of all things, with no room for incompetence, mercy, or even morality. Their city, 'The Underbirth', holds within it the greatest collection of animal minds, born of mechanical systems designed to test everything: natural, cultural, industrial selection. Their art is beguiling, their science boundless, their bodies strong and lean and perfect.

Eine Chocolaterie als Zuflucht in dunklen Zeiten. Berlin, 5. August 1936: Die Schwermut ist Elfies steter Begleiter, Zuversicht findet sie in ihrer Arbeit in der Chocolaterie Sawade, einem Hort zarter Zaubereien aus Nougat und Schokolade, feinstem Marzipan und edlen Aromen. Hier gelingt es Elfie und ihren Nachbarn, sich ihre Menschlichkeit in unmenschlichen Zeiten zu erhalten. Dann kommt Elfie dem Geheimnis einer besonderen Praline und der Geschichte einer verbotenen Liebe auf die Spur. Doch wird sie es wagen, auch ihrer eigenen Sehnsucht zu folgen.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Until the day God deigns to reveal the future to mankind, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: Wait and Hope. Betrayed. Imprisoned. Reborn. Discover The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas' timeless masterpiece of revenge, justice, and...

Die ursprünglichen Lügenerzählungen des historischen Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen wurden zunächst von einem anonymen Autor niedergeschrieben und 1781 veröffentlicht. In Form einer englischen Übersetzung, die Rudolf Erich Raspe, der 1785 bereits Baron Münchhausens...

Davanti ai nostri occhi una galleria di personaggi esilaranti: Augusten, prima di tutto, con le sue giacche blu, il sogno glamour di diventare parrucchiere per dive o medico in una soap opera e la naturalezza con cui simula il suicidio per non andare a scuola; il dottor Finch, lo psichiatra che ne ottiene l’affidamento e che vive in una casa tutta rosa con la moglie che sgranocchia croccantini per cani; i loro sette figli e i pazienti che frequentano la «pink house» e che forse sono più sani dei suoi abitanti, o forse sono solo diversamente pazzi.

L’amante di Cesare di Augusto De Angelis è una biografia romanzata che offre un'immersione profonda nella vita di Cleopatra VII, l'ultima regina d'Egitto, nota per la sua intelligenza, fascino e capacità politica. Il romanzo esplora in dettaglio la complessa relazione tra Cleopatra e Giulio Cesare, ambientata nel turbolento contesto politico del I secolo a.C., un periodo segnato da guerre civili e lotte per il potere all'interno della Repubblica Romana. La narrazione inizia con l'ascesa al trono di Cleopatra all'età di diciotto anni, dopo la morte del padre Tolomeo XII.

The Spy unfolds during the merciless winter of 1778–1779, when the American Revolution hangs in the balance on the western frontier. At its heart is Thomas Wright, a 12-year-old orphan forced to grow up fast in a land ruled by cold, hunger, and danger.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are summoned to a most unsettling mystery when Mrs. Mary West implores them to locate her husband, William, who vanished after journeying to Chicago for the grand 1893 World's Fair. Their investigation carries them into the radiant marvel of the White City, a place of electric lights and bold ambition, where progress and promise reign supreme. Yet beneath its luminous splendor lies a shadowed underworld—one in which men and women disappear without explanation.

August, 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boardinghouse before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker’s woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. They attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, which changes all their lives, both for better and for worse.

'A genre-defying, history-smashing novel' - SHAHNAZ HABIB 'Brilliant, and superbly translated' - TANUJ SOLANKI From the JCB Prize-winning author-translator duo of Moustache Perfect for readers of political fiction: Arundhati Roy's A God of Small Things, Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, and Abraham...

We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his trademark Carolina drawl, droll wit, and sharp observations, Davis is in top form here as he pays homage to these two remarkable women and their devotion to their feline families.

Simple, potent, and direct to the heartstings, this mix of traditional and original tales draws the listener into a transformational journey of the soul. These six stories exemplify the meaning of true love, the selfless acts that accompany it, and the consequences that can follow.

In questo romanzo il commissario De Vincenzi - uomo colto, riflessivo e misteriosamente enigmatico - lascia Milano per indagare a Roma. È il 1939, Cinecittà, la fabbrica dei sogni del Duce. Un geniale regista cinematografico, popolarissimo tra le donne, e un attore del film a cui stavano lavorando vengono uccisi a poche ore uno dall'altro. Il questore preme su De Vincenzi per chiudere il prima possibile un caso che promette di diventare terribilmente spinoso.

Am berühmten Elite-Internat Eton kommt es zu einem mysteriösen Todesfall. Holmes, der dort gerade einen Lehrauftrag im Bereich Chemische Studien innehat, hegt sogleich einen Verdacht. Hat es die Schule mit einem genialen jungen Giftmörder zu tun…?

London, 22. Juni 1896 - während die ganze Stadt das 60-jährige Thronjubiläum von Queen Victoria feiert, wird aus einer Ausstellung am Stadtrand ein kleines Schmuckstück entwendet. Vieles an dem Fall ist rätselhaft: Warum gerade dieses Objekt? Und wie ist der Dieb überhaupt in das Gebäude gelangt? Miss Adler konfrontiert Holmes und Watson schließlich mit einer abenteuerlichen Erklärung - doch wäre ein solcher Tathergang überhaupt möglich.