Resultados para "Rara" en Novela histórica

- La reportera Martha Gellhorn colabora con The Ghost Army, un ejército fantasma creado en Hollywood para engañar a los nazis. Ella y su marido, el famoso Ernest Hemingway, inventan las vidas de soldados que no existen. Pero Martha aspira a más; quiere cruzar el Atlántico y relatar de...

Marzo de 1943. Agazapados dentro de una habitación secreta, varias personas contienen la respiración mientras aguardan a que el sonido de las botas reforzadas con metal de los soldados alemanes se aleje. En la estación internacional de Canfranc, en el Pirineo, la esvástica ondea sobre la...

Sur de África, 1901. Una mujer rompe sus cadenas y desafía a un imperio. Una historia sobre segundas oportunidades que te robará el corazón. Shayna Orliens llega al sur de África en 1901 huyendo de un escándalo que ha sacudido a la alta sociedad londinense. Mientras lucha por reconstruirse...

Canfranc, 1944. La joven Valentina Báguena, colaboradora de la Resistencia contra las fuerzas de ocupación nazis en el sur de Francia, descubre que la guerra cambia por completo la forma de vivir, de pensar y, sobre todo, de amar cuando conoce al paracaidista alemán Franz Geist el mismo día...

En 1875, Mauricio Sargal, un millonario antillano retornado a España, libertino y bon vivant, se ve obligado a regresar a Cuba cuando le comunican que su hermana Dulce ha desaparecido de su hacienda en Siboney. Para saber de ella tendrá que enfrentarse a su cuñado, Bartolomé Gormaz, quien...

Gracias a su pasión por los libros y gusto exquisito, Belle da Costa Green se ha vuelto, con tan solo veinte años, la bibliotecaria más joven de la prestigiosa universidad de Princeton. Sin embargo, un golpe de suerte mayor está por impulsar su carrera: el famoso millonario J. P. Morgan la...

It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man. But when the girl's body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on.

Eleanor Braddock, a spinster at 30, has long since dismissed any hope of marriage. But when a dying soldier whispers his final words, she believes her life can still have meaning and determines to find his widow. But this compassionate deed takes a harsh turn, and Eleanor finds herself dependent upon the richest woman in America and the most despised woman in Nashville--her aunt, Adelicia Acklen, mistress of Belmont Mansion.

Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations - grandfather, father, and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop - and, in a sense restart his life - in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Abigail Argent stands out. Some people notice that she always wears gloves and shudder when they know why. The ones who know her best notice her ability with metal. Abigail's particular talent lies in the coloring of alloys, for seeing the beauty in a plain piece of metal and being able to draw it out. Her study leads her to discover a connection between her own craft and that of her favorite childhood myth: changing lead into gold.

In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born...

Step into Rare Confectionery on New Bond Street, where three talented sisters create treats as delectable to the tongue as they are appealing to the eye. One taste is all it takes to be captivated. Greer Carson needs a wife, and not merely any wife, either. She must be a titled British lady so he can claim his inheritance, a country estate all but abandoned for a generation.

Step into Rare Confectionery on New Bond Street, where three talented sisters create treats as delectable to the tongue as they are appealing to the eye. One taste is all it takes to be captivated. The Duke of Pelham desires an original confection to win the Seasons loveliest lady. Naturally, he turns to London's premiere chocolatier for assistance. Amity has never had a customer quite like the duke. In status, he is far above ordinary men, yet he is one of the friendliest, funniest, and most engaging males she has ever met.

Step into Rare Confectionery on New Bond Street, where three talented sisters create treats as delectable to the tongue as they are appealing to the eye. One taste is all it takes to be captivated. Charlotte hasn't had anything go wrong in her blissful existence as a confectioner. Always smiling, she loves working with her sisters, and she adores her customers. Moreover, she holds a secret in her heart.

Escape is Anna Rone's only option. Never again will she be trapped in a loveless marriage. A new life in America means safety - and discovering the truth behind her beloved brother's death. But when she is nearly captured and forced to return to England, her vow to never marry for anything but love is forgotten when she must marry for protection. Perhaps the handsome man she accepts is truly as caring as he seems. If he is not, her future in America is darker than ever before.

On the last night of the 19th century, the dead rise in frontier Denver. With their synagogue surrounded and assaulted, Schmul and his beloved old rabbi must take desperate supernatural action to end the menace.

The story of A Christmas Carol, re-told from the unsettling perspective of Tiny Tim. Forget what you know of the original tale. Here, Marley's ghost visits Tiny Tim first.

Experience a tense 18th-century smallsword duel from the point-of-view of a sly combatant, who has a surprising plan to vanquish his smug opponent.

When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves who have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous and legendary trek to Quebec.

The Oath tracks the intertwined lives of Dr. Katz and SS Doktor Bloch, who both survive Auschwitz and the war to practice medicine in the United States, never losing the stains upon their souls. Katz, a respected Jewish French surgeon captured by the Nazis, volunteers to serve at Auschwitz, believing he can protect his wife and children from the gas chambers by helping Joseph Mengele and other SS physicians with their human studies.