Resultados para "Heidi" en Novela histórica

Un matrimonio de conveniencia no era lo que Callum, futuro duque de Edinbane, esperaba para sí. No obstante, acuerda con su padre que se casará con quien le diga, pues está en juego el bienestar de la familia de su tío. Así, se compromete y se casa con Katherine, que resulta ser encantadora. Sin embargo, al descubrir que su padre le ha engañado, deja que su matrimonio salte por los aires. Cuatro años después, sin embargo, está decidido a reconstruir el matrimonio que de manera tan descuidada destruyó.

¿Será posible que los opuestos se atraigan y que lo que parecía imposible se haga realidad? ¿Podrán una noble escocesa y un doctor rebelde tener un futuro juntos? Lady Charlotte Darrington lo tiene todo en la vida: un día, elegirá a un marido adecuado, se casará y heredará el ducado escocés de su padre. Todo está organizado y lo que no hay en ese futuro es una cosa: emoción. Así, cuando le surge la oportunidad de viajar a Pittsburg, en Pensilvania, no se lo piensa dos veces y se embarca en esa aventura antes de que ese futuro planificado la atrape.

Senora Mary Carmen Valenzuela Pearson has settled into the Outback Station she inherited from her father’s brother Jude. Her partners are Fabiola and Harold Polaski, the offspring of Jude’s partner. Twin Station, run by these three partners, begins to return from the terrible fires that wiped out their southern paddocks. The thousands of sheep Carmen brought with her from Sydney helped to make up for their losses. Her incredible and much sought-after black horses thrive in this arid environment.

Nothing in Mel Lawrence’s life could have prepared her for living in the Australian Outback. She finds creating her new life and establishing a sheep station far from the elite society she was expected to live in extremely satisfying. She has a wife, a child, and a dream she never imagined she wanted, and they are all she needs. Will she be able to hold on to the happiness she’s found after seeking it for so long?

Alinta Lawrence, helping her wife to establish a station in her native outback, learning white ways, is finding it a challenge for the primitive woman. Having a child to raise with her wife, there is so much to learn, about the white woman’s world. She’s amazed and sometimes overwhelmed by the things these white people seem to need in their lives, will she be able to cope with it all?

On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident sets off a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack's help, the twins are able to reclaim their lives and leave their nightmarish past behind them.

Can memories of old restore a forgotten love? Camden, Maine ~ Present Day Spunky octogenarian Priscilla Martin is a woman with many Christmas secrets. When a beloved niece tempts her to bare her wounded soul, Priscilla must decide whether to share the secret of her sister’s demise—and the...

The summer before her senior year of high school, Laney Jacobs and her best friend jump from a six-story beachside cliff in an attempt to impress their boyfriends. Laney rose from the water. Her friend did not. Six years later, when Laney’s troubled mother’s memoir hits the bestseller list airing the family’s destructive secrets, Laney is forced to relive the trauma, this time in the public eye. To escape the scrutiny, she seeks shelter at her estranged grandmother’s seaside inn.

Die Farben der Liebe. Maria studiert Malerei, allen Widerständen zum Trotz. Nicht nur in der männlich dominierten Kunstwelt gilt es für sie als junge Frau, Vorurteile zu überwinden, sondern auch bei ihren Eltern. Dann aber lernt sie Franz Marc kennen, und zum ersten Mal fühlt sich Maria als Künstlerin ernstgenommen und als Frau begehrt. Gemeinsam suchen sie nach neuen Ausdrucksformen, inspirieren und ermutigen sich, ihre Malerei weiterzuentwickeln.

Massachusetts, 1993. After making a grievous mistake that will change her life forever, Emily Robertson is sent away to live with her grandmother on Cape Cod. When Emily finds a timeworn photograph buried in a drawer, she realizes her grandmother has concealed a secret even bigger than her own. Massachusetts, 1916. Atta Schaeffer plans to marry the man of her dreams and whisk her little sister away from their abusive father. But when she is diagnosed with a dreaded malady, Atta is forced into a life of exile, leaving her sister in harm’s way.

Die Unschuld der Täter. München, 1946. In einer Siedlung am Nordrand der Stadt wird die Leiche einer Frau gefunden. Am Tatort begegnet Mordermittler Emil Graf ausgerechnet der jungen Reporterin Billa Löwenfeld, die mit ihrer neuen Reportage Licht ins Dunkel der Verbrechen der Nationalsozialisten bringen will. Im Zuge ihrer Recherchen macht sie den ehemaligen Blockwart der Siedlung ausfindig. Nur widerwillig räumt er ein, dass seine Frau spurlos verschwunden ist.

New York, 1936: Erika hofft darauf, mit ihrem politischen Kabarett die Amerikaner für den Kampf gegen Hitler zu gewinnen. Dann lernt sie im Kreis der europäischen Exil-Künstler einen Mann kennen, der ihr mehr bedeutet, als sie jemals für möglich gehalten hätte - den Arzt und Lyriker Martin Gumpert, der fasziniert ist von ihrer Stärke und Unabhängigkeit.

München, August 1945. Der Krieg ist zu Ende, die Stadt versinkt im Chaos. Die Reporterin Billa Löwenfeld, eine aus dem Exil zurückgekehrte Jüdin, soll den Kriegsheimkehrer Viktor von Dietlitz interviewen - und findet ihn erschossen auf. Der junge und noch unerfahrene Ermittler Emil Graf soll den vermeintlichen Routinefall aufklären. Schon bald geschehen zwei weitere Morde nach demselben Muster. Und Emil findet heraus, dass ausgerechnet Billa die gesuchte Verbindung zwischen den drei Opfern sein könnte.

1977: Das Attentat einer jungen Frau erschüttert Karlsruhe. 2022: Die engagierte Studentin Hanna ist Klimaaktivistin mit hohen Zielen und viel Wut im Bauch. Eine unerwartete Nachricht führt sie zum Familienurlaub auf die Insel Kreta, wo eine schicksalhafte Begegnung die Geister der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Hanna ist gezwungen, die Weichen für ihr Leben neu zu stellen.

She is capable of managing everything—except for her heart. Tasked with making a brilliant match for her cousin, Lavinia Harcourt whisks her entire household, including their two exotic pets, off to London for the season. With limited funds and few connections, however, the undertaking is not easy. But Lavinia is nothing if not resourceful, and she comes up with a brilliant solution—one that involves her late father’s reminiscences, a forged letter, and an earl.

WINNER!!! Carol Award 2022 (print)!!! Award-winning author Heidi Chiavaroli transports readers across time and place in this time-slip novel that will appeal to fans of Little Women. Two women, one living in present day Massachusetts and another in Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House soon after...

It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, and - finally, fatally - a family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home. But in 2008 she's headed to Dieter's mother's funeral.

Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists Torn between an intoxicating love...

Deres verden var en verden af magt og privilegier. Det var en verden af krig, hemmeligheder og hellig pligt. Det var det antikke Roms verden – og hvis du ikke kender historien om vestalinderne, kender du ikke historien om Rom. De var Vestas præstinder, vogtere af den evige flamme, der...

Emma Malcolm’s father is staunchly loyal to the crown, but Emma’s heart belongs to Noah Winslow, a lowly printer’s assistant and patriot. But her father has promised her hand to Samuel Clarke, a rapacious and sadistic man. As his fiancée, she would have to give up Noah and the friends who have become like family to her - as well as the beliefs she has come to embrace. After Emma is drawn into the treasonous Boston Tea Party, Samuel blackmails her with evidence that condemns each participant, including Noah. Emma realizes she must do whatever it takes to protect those she loves.