Resultados para "River" en Novela histórica

The story is set in Nebraska in the late 1890's. It is a time when women and children have few rights and society looks upon domestic abuse as a private, family matter. Seventeen-year-old Effie and eleven-year-old Bridget must struggle to endure abuse and neglect at the hands of a man whose past has left deep scars and a cruel, warped few of family and religion.

Former U.S. Marshal Isaac McGraw wants nothing more than to forget his past and live in isolation on the family ranch. But his meddling family has cooked up other plans—plans that include matching Isaac with a mail-order bride who has two young boys in tow. There's something about Clare Ferguson that bothers Isaac…more than the haunted look in her eyes and the way she's constantly glancing over her shoulder. Against his will—and better judgment—he finds himself drawn to Clare and her cheery disposition.

Rancher Nick McGraw had his dreams of teaching shattered and lost his chance for true love in one fell swoop. Years later, he's finally moved on. After he broke her heart, schoolmarm Elsie Atchinson hoped she would never see Nick again. But moments after they come face to face, Nick is attacked and left for dead in the midst of a white-out blizzard. Elsie can't abandon him in his time of need. The Nick who wakes up with his head wrapped in bandages doesn't remember leaving Elsie.

Nochevieja de 1879. El personal de Menlo Park, el centro de investigación y desarrollo creado por Thomas Edison, se prepara para el acontecimiento del siglo: la inauguración de la primera calle del mundo iluminada por bombillas eléctricas. Sadie, la hermana de Francis Robbins Upton, hombre de...

24 de febrero de 1525. Tras defender durante cuatro meses la plaza de Pavía frente al ejército francés, los soldados de Carlos V presentan batalla el día de su cumpleaños. El genio táctico del marqués de Pescara y la disciplina y el arrojo de la infantería española convertir en lo que parecía una derrota inevitable en una de las mayores hazañas militares de la Historia. La flor y nata de la nobleza francesa es aniquilada y su rey, Francisco I, capturado en la batalla que cambió para siempre la forma de hacer la guerra.

New York, Herbst 1907: Die ehemalige Privatdetektivin Molly Murphy Sullivan ist zufrieden mit dem gemeinsamen Leben mit ihrem Polizisten Ehemann Daniel umgeben von Familie und Freunden. Und sie dachte, er wäre genauso glücklich damit – doch als er ihr erzählt, dass sie in ein schickes Haus an der Fifth Avenue ziehen werden und dass er für das Amt des Sheriffs von New York kandidiert, ist Molly völlig fassungslos. Daniel bittet Molly, ihm zu vertrauen, aber warum sollte er ausgerechnet für die Tammany-Partei als Sheriff kandidieren?

Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her and swiftly finds himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom of Egypt is divided and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all....

Edison y Jehl avanzan en su estudio sobre los discos y especulan sobre su procedencia. ¿Qué están viendo a través de esa especie de portal? ¿Se trata de una imagen del pasado, del presente, del futuro? Sofía sigue trabajando en la cura de la plaga, intentando salvar a John. En el granero...

Theodora knows she can't keep her five beautiful daughters at home forever - they're too curious, too free spirited, too like their late father. And so, before each girl leaves the small house on the riverside at the foot of Mount Olympus, Theodora makes sure they know they are always welcome to return. A devoted and resilient mother, Theodora has lived through World War II, through the Nazi occupation of Greece, and through her husband's death, and now she endures the twenty-year-long silence of her daughters' absence.

París, 1939. Los nazis creen que Éliane no entiende alemán y que no sabe que están robando los tesoros del Louvre: están equivocados. No se imaginan que está decodificando sus notas e informando a la Resistencia, pero es un juego peligroso. ¿Se atreverá a confiar sus secretos al hombre que una vez amó? ¿La traicionará una vez más? No tiene forma de saberlo con certeza hasta que un viaje a una impresionante casa en la Riviera francesa trae consigo un nivel de peligro completamente nuevo.

It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d'Azur in this summer of 1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old, hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike pleasures and very grownup sins...

By 1815, Lady Eleanor Brooke's greatest regret is not marrying Arran MacLean when he proposed to her four years ago. Now, with her father in Newgate Prison, and a scandal hanging over her head, she escapes England and travels across the world to try to find the one man she's ever loved.

In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.

¿No será que Dios se ha ido a un largo viaje y no planea regresar? Esta es una novela épica, amorosa, íntima, seductora... los lectores agradecerán tenerla en sus manos y jamás podrán olvidarla. Entre Cirey en 1735 y París en 1934, ocurre...

The last thing middle brother Ed McGraw wants is to be tangled up in a scheme to find a mail-order bride for his black-sheep brother. But that's right where Ed finds himself… writing love letters and not signing his own name. Intrigued by the woman who writes back. Rebekah Edwards keeps her dreams to herself and finds contentment working for the local newspaper, running matrimonial advertisements. Until the day a new ad appears—one written by the very rancher Rebekah has pined for her entire life.

A preacher’s daughter secretly dreaming of adventure. A lawman undercover with a notorious outlaw gang. A fake marriage which could save both of their lives. Out of a sense of duty, Esther Billings will marry the man her father selects for her. She prays he is a good man and loves God as much as she does. But when she’s kidnapped, the one man who can help her is the opposite of everything her father wants for her. Can she step into the darkness to bring this man into the light?

Eine geerbte Detektei, eine namenlose Leiche und ein betrügerischer Liebhaber - Molly Murphys dritter Fall. Der neue historische Cosy Krimi für mörderisch gute Stunden! Nachdem Molly Murphy die Fälle ihres verstorbenen Mentors Paddy Reilly geerbt hat, sieht ihr Alltag plötzlich ganz anders aus. Als Privatdetektivin folgt sie betrügerischen Ehemännern, spürt entlaufene Debütantinnen auf und arbeitet sogar verdeckt in einem Geschäft, um herauszufinden, wer die Kleider entwendet. Keiner dieser Jobs scheint gefährlich zu sein.

Il 19 giugno 2022 Massimo Bochicchio - definito dalla stampa "il broker del vip" - si schianta con la sua BMW K75 contro un muro perimetrale dell'aeroporto dell'Urbe. Il corpo è carbonizzato al punto che per accertarne l'identità bisogna ricorrere all'esame genetico. Il giorno dopo, Bochicchio sarebbe dovuto comparire in tribunale per la terza udienza nel processo a suo carico. Le accuse: riciclaggio, abusiva attività finanziaria, truffa. A denunciarlo erano stati trentasette clienti, tra cui l'ex CT della Nazionale di calcio Antonio Conte e altri personaggi di spicco dello sport italiano.

The Romans have landed in Britain. The invasion is over, but the war has just begun. The legions march inland, but progress is slow, hampered by vast, ancient forests, swamps and treacherous rivers that must be crossed. But, guided by traitorous Celts blinded by self-interest, progress they do.

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