Resultados para "The Stone Age" en Novela histórica

Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.

It's 1925 in the wild mountains of Birchwood, West Virginia. Everett Thornhill is the heir to his family's estate, but his troubled past is never far behind. He is sent to Thornhill Manor in the hopes that he will learn the value of continuing the family legacy. Julia is a servant at Thornhill Manor. While she tends to her daily chores, her mind is always off on an adventure in the mountains. She finds it hard to conform to the ways of the Thornhill family and might not be long for her position at the manor.

Pergi has prepared all her life to become the ruler that her father wants. Without sons, he knows she could only retain the throne if she marries the neighboring prince, combining their kingdoms. Yet the same prophecy that calls for the reunification also warns that they must join by love. Supplanted by her younger sister in this technicality, Pergi waits with ill grace for Sadira to marry Teyrnon and steal her birthright. No one expects that Sadira would do a runner on her wedding day. What starts as an impromptu rescue of the wayward bride leads to a desperate struggle against a deadly foe.

Tap-tap-tap. Small pieces of ice tick against the window. I open my eyes, and look looks out through the chill gray to the line of trees far away. The wind whines a bit between the cracks, and the window glass has rattles and shivers. There—across the grounds, before the fields and the trees—a straight whiteness, standing. The wind moves the white dress in small ripples across the bones beneath. A slow dark closes around The Woman Who Wears White. She faces away looking looks out toward the far trees, and I have thinks that she must be very cold since she has no coat and no shoes.

The Stone Circle is a coming-of-age novel of a young man in World War I Sweden. Sent to work and manage a dairy farm at a young age, Otto is confronted with challenges most teenagers would shrink from. Otto manages to persevere and find his way to manhood despite the obstacles. With Norse legends inscribed in the rune stones that overlook the farm, Otto finds love and loss within their embrace.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

A wonderful period piece, set in the time of the Great Depression. This audiobook follows two youths, as they struggle to cross the now-broken country to find their estranged family in rural California. In the process, they discover their own strengths and inevitable weaknesses. In the end, there are many lessons of life, survival, and respect for their fellow brethren.

Instant New York Times Bestseller People’s Book of the Week From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity—the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change...