Resultados para "Novellen" en Novela histórica

Penric takes a chance … Two intractable problems are brought to the door of sorcerer Learned Penric of Vilnoc and his Temple demon Desdemona. Cinar Camurat, a mutilated Cedonian cavalry captain, has traveled two thousand sea miles to Penric for aid. Iva of Bita, a secret hedge sorceress, lies...

Una novel·la històrica d'alè èpic que ens transporta a un passat vibrant i desconegut Durant mil anys, un llibre sagrat ha passat de mà en mà. Des de la Tàrraco romana fins a la Barcelona de Jaume I, passant pel setge del Toledo visigòtic i la Còrdova dels Omeies, la Hagadà, un tresor...

PREMI PRUDENCI BERTRANA Un relat apassionant sobre la resistència i la perseverança dels nostres avantpassats. Al segle XIII, en una època de conquestes i fervor religiós, Cornèlius Papapoulus, nascut a la noble ciutat de Famagusta, veu la seva vida marcada per una sèrie de renaixements...

Torna Gerard Quintana després de l'èxit assolit amb L'home que va viure dues vegades, Premi Ramon Llull 2021. La vida és allò que amaguem mentre fem veure que vivim. El director de cinema gironí Claudi Careta explica el seu viatge a Cuba, immersa en el Período Especial arran de la desfeta...

With a promise to her youngest sister, Sarah Summers declares that this year's Christmas at Sea View will exceed all expectations. But an upcoming trip to Scotland—and the prospect of becoming reacquainted with dashing widower Callum Henshall—blows a flurry of doubts into her mind. Sarah had discouraged his attentions before yet soon finds herself once again torn between attraction and duty as alluring thoughts of a second chance at love weave their way into her practical heart.

Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run-of-the-mill London merchant. He's grim and silent. A man of little emotion - or perhaps no emotion at all. After two months of courtship, she's ready to put an end to things. But severing ties with her taciturn suitor isn't as straightforward as Sophie envisioned.

Premi Proa de Novel·la 2024 La polèmica història d'amor de Mercè Rodoreda i Armand Obiols Una novel·lista de trenta anys, vital i amb ganes de menjar-se el món. Un articulista extremament culte i mordaç. I un escenari que s'obre com un parèntesi entre dues guerres: els jardins del...

In this tale of adventure, murder, snakes, revenge, and zombies, the Royal Governor of Jamaica sends an S.O.S. to London, asking urgently for help in putting down a burgeoning slave rebellion. London replies by sending Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John Grey, with half a battalion of infantry, a company of artillery, and his trusty valet, Tom Byrd.

At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.

 The granddaughter of a duke and darling of the ton, Lady Georgiana's life was one glittering soiree after another...until her husband did her the grave disservice of dying. Recently returned to London after a year spent rusticating in the country, she's eager to resume her social life. One thing she doesn't plan on doing? Crossing paths with Sebastian Northcliff, the arrogant cad who stole her first kiss and broke her heart. There are whispers about the duke of Warwick. Whispers that he killed his first wife. Whispers that he is incapable of love.  

La insurrecció de dos mil homes a la Bisbal el 1869 contra la Corona espanyola. Amb dos protagonistes històrics: el revolucionari Pere Caimó i la primera sindicalista catalana, Isabel Vilà. El 6 d'octubre de 1869, a la població empordanesa de la Bisbal, va esclatar un combat entre prop de...

Return to the epic fantasy realm of Rokugan's samurai and magic in the collected Legend of the Five Rings novellas, featuring an all-new story of the Lion Clan. A shamed Lion Clan warrior finds a chance for redemption when she discovers a foundling with magical ancestry, whose secrets could change everything. A young monk with a mysterious tattoo must learn to embrace her destiny and become a superhuman hero of the Dragon Clan. The quest for a lost relic leads a team of bold Crab Clan samurai into a dangerous expedition through the monster-haunted depths of Shinomen forest.

Crushed beyond measure at the rejection of his proposal, Darcy struggles to explain both the facts and his feelings by letter to the only woman he will ever love. Can such a reticent man find the words to enable Elizabeth Bennet to know the man behind the mask? Will she read his carefully crafted epistle once he delivers it into her hand? Will he catch even a small glimmer of hope?

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE A COMPANION STORY TO THE ORIGINAL MISTBORN TRILOGY **** There's always another secret. Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The...

Una raccolta di tre libri di novelle: Novelle selvagge, Novelle agrodolci e Novelle toscane che vi riporteranno alla vita della Toscana di un tempo. Riporta con affetto e sorriso all’atmosfera della vecchia Toscana. Le descrizioni della natura hanno la stessa vivezza dei quadri dei macchiaioli. Musica di Ivan Genesio arrangiata su musiche dell'epoca.

After Hurricane Iniki slammed the Hawaiian island chain in the late summer of 1992, a historical artifact of great military importance, dating back to World War II, was exposed on a dry riverbed, west of the remote and sparsely populated Kaupo district in Maui. The newly discovered rusting vessel of war prompted the federal government to assemble a band of explorers to investigate the anomaly.

En dag, när Sveriges kung var ute och åkte i sin vagn, stötte han på en liten by. Han bestämde sig för att stanna ett tag, och besökte byns kyrka. Han bad om att få träffa prästen, men kunde aldrig ana att den enkelt klädda man som tog emot honom var något annat än en simpel bonde. Prästen, som valde att inte avslöja sin identitet för kungen, berättade i stället en historia om en gång då folket i byn hittade ett berg av det renaste silver...

The legendary speculative dialogue novellas return! Five-star reviews only for these two amazing pieces of fact-based fiction. In The Trial of Davy Crockett, the Alamo defender must go up against the Mexican generalissimo, Santa Anna, in a battle of wits to judge the events of the Texan Revolution. In Last Tango with Marlon, Hollywood legend Marlon Brando envisions a visit from his late friend, Underdog's Wally Cox, in a wild and intense dialogue which captures the events of both men's lives...and our own!

I am sure that what I remember is not necessarily what actually happened, but I can only write what I remember. Wildly inventive and magnificently surreal, The Smiths: A Novella recounts the impact of an unconventional pop group from Manchester on one man's life. Taking the form of a flâneuring...

Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of faith than fear, for Joan is plagued by mysterious voices that speak of the future, and by visions that mark those about to die. The sanctuary of the nunnery promises respite from these unwanted visitations...or so she prays. Her chaperone is Michael Murray, a young widower who, though he still mourns the death of his wife, finds himself powerfully drawn to his charge.