Resultados para "Nevada" 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...

On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain. When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man’s plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield.

Ottuagenaria e tormentata dai rimorsi, Giglio Bianco ripensa al proprio passato e a Fiore di Neve, l'amica scomparsa da molti anni che ha avuto un ruolo cruciale nella sua esistenza. Poiché le rimane solo il dono del tempo, vuole onorarlo raccontando la storia della sua laotong - la compagna di parole segrete - e del tragico equivoco che ha amaramente segnato un legame lungo una vita. Ha inizio così una vicenda di intensa drammaticità ambientata nella Cina del XIX secolo, quando mogli e figlie ancora avevano i piedi bendati e vivevano in uno stato di isolamento pressoché totale.

1900, da qualche parte sulle colline dell'Emilia, al confine con la Lombardia. Una giovane coppia, due figlie, un paesino, degli amici, tante difficoltà e la voglia di farcela. Questa è la loro storia, da inizio secolo alla primavera del 1945, la prima guerra mondiale, la fatica del lavoro in campagna, le figlie che crescono e si fidanzano. Poi l'arrivo della seconda guerra mondiale, la Resistenza, chi parte soldato, chi diventa partigiano.

Once upon a time, there was a king who passed. He left behind two sons, one beloved and one outcast. The older of the two was set to take the throne, but before he could, he had to find a queen to call his own. The younger one was known to be unruly and unhinged. The chosen queen was warned to keep far away from him. Beautiful and cunning, in the light is where she stayed. But late at night, it was the shadowed lands in which she played. Mistakes were made and secrets forged; forgetting duty and her sense. And while the new king had her hand, her heart belonged to the scarred prince.

He is the last duke standing...the sole remaining bachelor of the three self-proclaimed Decadent Dukes. Yet, Davina MacCallum's reasons for searching out the handsome Duke of Brentworth have nothing to do with marriage. Scottish lands were unfairly confiscated from her family by the Crown and given to his. A reasonable man with vast holdings can surely part with one trivial estate, especially when Davina intends to put it to good use. Brentworth, however, is as difficult to persuade as he is to resist.

Amir, studente di psicologia a Tel Aviv, e Noa, studentessa di fotografia a Gerusalemme, hanno preso casa al Castel, un quartiere di vie linde e vicoli fatiscenti a mezza strada tra le due città. L’appartamento è un piccolo bilocale, con un vano doccia provvisto di spatola per tirare via...

Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivale, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

Dalla Simmetria dei desideri fino a Tre piani, Eshkol Nevo ha narrato delle infinite forme del desiderio. Forme che, di volta in volta gioiose o perturbanti, torbide o pure, alimentano o infrangono le magnifiche storie d’amore, familiari e d’amicizia da lui raccontate. Il desiderio, nella sua inaccessibile oscurità, è insomma ciò che fa sì che la narrativa di Nevo assolva il compito proprio della scrittura capace di avvincere il lettore: “parlare”, come indica Sebald, “in maniera chiara di cose oscure”.

“Those were just the times.” That’s how Morris “Little” Nickerson has always chosen to describe the incongruities of his childhood in the segregated south. But when a call from his older sister prompts Little, who is now in his seventies, to return to his hometown of LaSalle, Georgia, he finds himself having to reexamine the childhood he's kept encased in glass all these years.

She’s crept back into the home she lost. He’s crept into her heart. Sophie Russell was once society’s darling. But after the disgrace and death of her father, she now finds all doors firmly shut to her - including those of her family home. To discover the secrets now hidden within its beloved walls, she’ll pose as a cook and spy on the estate’s new owner, a broodingly handsome viscount, who may have schemed against the Russells. Instead of dishing up the truth, the viscount tempts Sophie with delicacies of his own…

Bryony Russell and her two sisters are left destitute by the disgrace and unexpected death of their father, a wealthy shipping magnate. He left a cryptic note, and Bryony is determined to find the real villain and clear her father’s name. In disguise as a servant, Bryony infiltrates the home her of father’s business partner to find proof of his guilt...or innocence. It’s not just clues that Bryony finds, but temptation too.... Adrian Bruton, Earl of Kilmartyn, immediately suspects there is something not quite right about his new housekeeper.

Madeleine Russell counted on making a splendid match. Instead, a devastating family scandal left her orphaned and penniless...and determined to uncover the villain who disgraced and killed her father. The beautiful, quick-witted Maddy disguises herself as a household servant, vowing to work in her prime suspect’s house and learn the truth. But the closer she gets to the man who may have ruined her family, the more she feels drawn in by his wicked reputation.

When the war ended, Dr. Samuel Knight went home to Texas—but the life he expected was in ruins, his wife married to a carpetbagger. Trying to defend what’s left of his previous existence, the good doctor is branded an outlaw and driven from Texas. Now he’s lying low in New Mexico, with his image on wanted posters everywhere. But when the town explodes in violence, Knight will risk his neck to save innocent lives.

From the bestselling Johnstones comes the latest adventure in the wild life of Cullen Murphy, a West Texas legend-in-the-making, with big dreams, fast guns, and whose word is the law. BREAK MURPHY'S LAW, FACE MURPHY'S WRATH. Life is hard in the Old West—but so is Cullen Murphy. Orphaned as a...

Ailsa Connery has waited three long years to finally escape her enslavement at Stirling Castle and reunite with her clan. But her carefully laid plans are completely destroyed by the arrival of the infamous Highland warrior known as Dubh Mahoun, the Black Devil . . . who has plans of his own. Kallum MacNeill's fearsome reputation has long allowed him to keep hidden his secret double life of freeing enslaved captives across the land. It's only when he kidnaps a servant lass—quite by accident—that he finds himself facing a wee predicament. 

He swore it would never happen again. Not to his mother. Not to him. Seventeen-year-old Thaddeus Malloy has one dream: to become a doctor and escape the fists of his brutal stepfather. But when one violent night changes everything, he flees into the wild unknown—armed with a stolen pistol, a...

Redcliffe Park, Northumberland, 1819. Dominic Thorne, Earl of Redcliffe, arrives in Redcliffe village in the far north of England to view his inheritance. The estate, Redcliffe Park, is miles from a decent town and in need of extensive renovation. The former earl, Dominic's uncle, was disliked for his failure to pay his debts, and it’s suspected he distrusted banks and stashed his wealth in a secret place on the estate. It’s assumed Dominic is cut from the same cloth as his uncle—or even worse.

After her father dies, Caroline Leeming’s younger brother and sister are made the wards of Nicholas, Marquess of Pennington. About to embark on her first season, Carrie must first spend a month at the marquess’s home, Elm Park. Determined to dislike him, Carrie finds the handsome marquess is not what she expects. When he proves to be a kind and capable guardian for Arabella and Jeremy, Carrie fears she is falling in love with him. As the days pass into weeks, she finds it unbearable to leave Elm Park for London and a life away from her family.

Both Lady Nellie Dountry and Charles, His Grace, Duke of Shewsbury, have had their hearts broken in the past. Neither is prepared to chance love again. When they are compelled to marry because of an agreement made long ago by their fathers, they are both determined to resist falling in love. Convinced that it’s mere desire which draws them together, both are surprised by their jealousy. Nellie finds Charles irresistibly attractive, but other women do too. They circle like sharks.