Resultados para "Lisa" en Histórica

London in the time of Queen Elizabeth I is a bustling place, its streets crowded with vendors selling goods from all over the world. In the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral, Alice Wood competes with other booksellers, hawking pamphlets, plays, and the latest poetry from the continent. It is a lonely life for a hardworking young widow, and she will soon put it aside. When a black-clad stranger visits, speaking in riddles and asking questions about her long-vanished son, Alice will be drawn into an adventure straight out of one of her faerie stories.

In the schoolroom of a simple European village, Kicsi spends her days dreaming of the lands beyond the mountains: Paris and New York, Arabia, and Shanghai. When the local rabbi curses Kicsi's school for teaching lessons in Hebrew, the holy tongue, the possibility of adventure seems further away than ever. But when a mysterious stranger appears telling stories of far-off lands, Kicsi feels the world within her grasp.

Luciana Betarrini is living a nightmare. Blinded in battle, she is unsure what her future holds. When Lady Tiliani Forelli volunteers to serve as the young Lady Romano’s governess—in order to protect the child—Luciana quickly follows suit, volunteering as a tutor. But as they navigate life in the treacherous neighboring castello, they find Lord Ercole a chameleon of adversaries, intent on mastering the She-Wolves of Siena any way he can.

Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by - until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers has ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time.

Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse - before the devil gets his due. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann’s services to replenish the papacy’s drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else.

Miss Lane is puzzled by Jasper Jesperson's interest in what seems a very minor theft - possibly even a prank - from the storerooms at the British Museum. But London in the 1890s is rife with secret organisations, cults and individuals eager to acquire some of the legendary magic of ancient Egypt. The deeper the two detectives dig, the more hidden crimes they uncover, and the higher the death toll mounts. And at the centre of it all is the 'Mystery Mummy' recently acquired by the museum. Are the deaths and madness truly caused by a mummy's curse? Or is there a living villain to be apprehended?

Isabeau Steelhaugh is unlike any other young lady of 1871 London—by day she is an aristocrat, by night a lab experiment. After escaping her insane mother at CinderElla's ball, Isabeau’s wolflike traits remain a secret until her sister is kidnapped. Now, Isabeau will stop at nothing to get her back. Even trust a secretive enemy. Commissioner Basil Traverson meticulously follows the Dangerous Mutant Directive: remove any mutant dangerous to society. When Isabeau is arrested, Basil offers a deal: He will help find Aurelia…if she will act as bait to lure her mother out of hiding.

Flammen tanzten auf dem Federkleid. Majestätisch kreiste der Feuervogel über den Ruinen der Stadt. Ein Singen... voller Sehnsucht. Noch einmal rief er, dann zerfiel er zu Staub. Deutschland, 1947. Anna hat alles verloren, was ihr wichtig war: Eltern, Heim und Seelenfrieden. Geblieben ist ihr lediglich Peter, ihr väterlicher Freund, der ihr seit der Nacht, in der die Bomben fielen, nicht von der Seite gewichen ist. Doch der alte Mann hütet ein Geheimnis, das ihn enger an Anna bindet als sie ahnt.

Alfred Borden et Rupert Angier, deux prestidigitateurs hors du commun, s'affrontent dans un duel sans merci. Trois générations plus tard, au cours d'une enquête sur une secte, le journaliste Andrew Wesley fait la connaissance de Kate Angier. Elle lui révèle qu'il s'appelle en fait Andrew Borden et qu'une guerre oppose leurs deux familles depuis la fin du XXe siècle. Quand Andrew découvre le rôle exact joué par le scientifique Tesla dans toute cette affaire, sa vie en est bouleversée à jamais... Ce roman a reçu le World Fantasy Award, catégorie "Meilleur roman".

A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People) A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont...

When gods still walked the Earth, a king could pray for a sign and have a white bull rise from the sea to confirm his claim to the throne. But a god's price was high, and when Minos did not keep his promise to the god Poseidon, the god meddled with Minos' wife...and the Minotaur, a child with the head of a bull, was born. The question is, did Poseidon intend his son to be worshiped as a new god, or is he the god's curse on Knossos, a monster that will destroy it?

Bien des siècles avant la naissance du Roi Arthur et la venue des "Dames du Lac" dans l'Île d'Avalon, au temps de la conquête par Rome des terres voilées de brume de la Grande-Bretagne, vivait une jeune adolescente, Elane, fille d'un druide qui haïssait l'occupant. Aimant d'un amour interdit un jeune Romain qui, grâce à elle, a échappé à la mort, Elane est soudain appelée à succéder à la Haute Prêtresse, gardienne et protectrice des rites et des croyances de son peuple.

England 1862, das Jahr der Weltausstellung in London. Die 49-jährige Kitty Carter hat in ihrem Leben auf Liebe und Familie verzichtet, um als Frau einem Beruf nachgehen zu können. Sie arbeitet als unscheinbare Bürokraft bei der City of London Police. Ihr Talent für treffgenaue Vorahnungen ist das Einzige, was ihr den öden Alltag versüßt - bis sie das erste Mal stirbt und überraschend von Gott persönlich einen Auftrag erhält.