Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

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  • Raiders of the Rockies
    B.N. Rundell / B.NRundell
    AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING BUCKSKIN CHRONICLES SERIES TAKES US ON AN EPIC JOURNEY IN BOOK FIVE OF THE STONECROFT SAGA.By any measure, they would be considered old-timers in the mountains of the uncharted territory. Land that had been known as French Louisiana and Spanish Colonial Louisiana, was largely unexplored. The two old-timers were young men that had spent the last two ye...
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    16,14 €

  • Steppes to the Cross
    Donna M. Young
    Life in the ’Pale’ wasn’t easy, however, the life of a Jew is seldom easy. In this, the story of one family’s generations, young Batya will experience heart wrenching loss and a love for the ages. Enduring a hatred of her people so overwhelming it spawns pogroms, and Nazi death camps, she stands on the arena of history to witness revolutions, world wars and the birth of a natio...
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    23,42 €

  • The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek
    W. A. Trenckmann / WATrenckmann
    The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press. This remarkable work of vintage historical fiction focuses on the life of one young man, Kuno Sartorius, who grows up and comes of age in a community of educated German immigrants during the waning months of the Civil War. Author William Trenckmann serialized the novel in his newsp...
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    28,18 €

  • The Vevellis Chronicles
    Varkaris Zack / Zack Varkaris
    This is the story of two brothers Antonis and Nicola Vevellis set in the twilight years of the Byzantine Empire. Antonis is the son and heir while Nicola, was adopted by Andreas Vevellis as an orphan. From friendship as boys they grow into bitter rivals in love and ideology as young adults. They are taken under the guidance of Alexis Sartis, once a protégé of their Father, now ...
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    18,50 €

  • Photographs of October
    M.K. Deppner
    Olivia Norwich isn’t bothered by the disappearances in the sleepy university town of Warren, Kansas. As a photography instructor, she’s preoccupied with an impossible deadline for the town’s Harvest Festival at the end of October. Her research for the project takes her back in time to Warren’s tumultuous past, and when ghosts from that era begin to stir, Olivia discovers that t...
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    21,62 €

  • Grizzly Killer
    Lane R Warenski
    NAMED BEST MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY TRUE WEST MAGAZINE, AUTHOR LANE R WARENSKI DELIVERS THE TENTH BOOK OF THE BEST-SELLING SERIES.Journey through the land of the ancient ones, where spirits still protect the mysterious canyons where they once dwelled, and strange drawings on the rock walls have stood for a thousand years.Zach Connors, known as Grizzly Killer, travels with his fam...
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    16,14 €

  • The War Inside His Mind
    Y.M. Masson
    Drafted into the French-Algerian war of the late 1950s, Alain takes over command of an infantry platoon in the mountains of the North Africa where he learns the reality of combat and gains the experience he needs to survive and to lead his men. The shock of the casualties his platoon suffers turns him into the ruthless warrior he never thought he would become. His blood boils w...
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    11,81 €

  • Hard Road South
    Scott Gates
    The Civil War is over. Soldiers have returned home, and families have begun to piece their lives back together. But for Union Army veteran Solomon Dykes, there is no kin waiting; his Connecticut home holds no promise. He hopes to make a fresh start in Virginia, where he can farm a piece of land and start a family. But the contentious times don’t favor such ambition. Dykes settl...
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    21,14 €

  • Lady Osbaldestone And The Missing Christmas Carols
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a heartwarming tale of a long-ago country-village Christmas, a grandmother, three eager grandchildren, one moody teenage granddaughter, an earnest young lady, a gentleman in hiding, and an elusive book of Christmas carols. Therese, Lady Osbaldestone, and her household are quietly delighted when her younger daughter’s three ...
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    12,66 €

  • Lady Osbaldestone’s Plum Puddings
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you the delights of a long-ago country-village Christmas, featuring a grandmother, her grandchildren, an artifact hunter, the lady who catches his eye, and three ancient coins that draw them all together in a Christmas treasure hunt. Therese, Lady Osbaldestone, and her household again welcome her younger daughter’s c...
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    13,41 €

  • The Returning
    Jean Sorrell
    It is the summer of 1951 in Kansas City, six years following the end of World War II. The worst flood of the century is about to happen, but eleven-year-old Sara Johnson and the rest of her neighbors along Southwest Boulevard have no idea of the impending disaster. Sara clings to the belief that haer father, missing in action since the battle of Iwo Jima, will return to her. Sh...
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    14,21 €

  • Hoopoe’s Song
    Marianne Loeble
    Oran, a Belgian painter, spends a weekend in London and meets Shani, a woman from the Negev Desert, near Beersheba. Almost a year later, Oran sets off to her agricultural community in Israel. The huge farm is similar to the ancient settlements. There he meets Hagar, Shani’s sister, who has both Jewish and Egyptian roots and yearns for peace. The community is a stone’s throw fro...
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    7,77 €

  • Hoopoe’s Song
    Marianne Loeble
    Oran, a Belgian painter, spends a weekend in London and meets Shani, a woman from the Negev Desert, near Beersheba. Almost a year later, Oran sets off to her agricultural community in Israel. The huge farm is similar to the ancient settlements. There he meets Hagar, Shani’s sister, who has both Jewish and Egyptian roots and yearns for peace. The community is a stone’s throw fro...
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    17,91 €

  • Drums of Mer
    Ion Idriess
    As an authentic picture of life among the head-hunting warriors of the Torres Strait Islands it is probably unsurpassed.There are some who may think that Mr Idriess is giving us simply an imaginative picture, but the author has travelled the Strait with the discerning eye and contemplative soul of the artist who is satisfied only with first-hand colour, and who, while blending ...
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    25,47 €

  • A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    First published in 1859, “A Tale of Two Cities” is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, it tells the story of the 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris of French Doctor Manette, as well as his release and subsequent life in London with his daughter Lucie—whom he had previously not met. “A Tale of Tw...
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    25,93 €

  • Sex and Math in Harvard Yard
    Hubert Kennedy
    James Mills Peirce (1834-1906) was a respected—and secretly gay—mathematics professor at Harvard University. This imaginative biography recreates college life at Harvard in the late nineteenth century and gives a realistic portrait of the life of an intellectual coming to terms with his homosexuality. The intimate glimpses into his romantic affairs add a charming touch to the h...
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    11,14 €

  • Miraculous Medal
    Adrian Koesters
    ‘Hey,’ Father John heard one of the voices call again. He looked up. It was the brown-haired girl. ‘Ain’t you gonna come up? We could do somethin.’In this sequel to Union Square, it is 1964 Baltimore, where Fr. John Martin has been haunted by those two questions every day for a dozen years. His god-brother, Jezriel Heath, walks all over the city in service of his faith, trying ...
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    21,18 €

  • Miraculous Medal
    Adrian Koesters
    ‘Hey,’ Father John heard one of the voices call again. He looked up. It was the brown-haired girl. ‘Ain’t you gonna come up? We could do somethin.’In this sequel to Union Square, it is 1964 Baltimore, where Fr. John Martin has been haunted by those two questions every day for a dozen years. His god-brother, Jezriel Heath, walks all over the city in service of his faith, trying ...
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    12,90 €

  • A Quiet Service
    E Gale Buck
    In a land where Christmas was essentially a social holiday, a man who had turned his back on his neighbors was awakened to the importance of “sharing your life without expectation.” Jonathon Syzmoor began a partnership with the man known as Saint Nicholas, who frequently made requests on behalf of those in need. Because these services were provided anonymously, Jonathon became ...
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    12,49 €

  • Birds Are Singing
    Wilton Sankawulo
    Can a country man make it in Liberia? This is the question Sumowor Gbamokorli wrestles with during his long and eventful journey from village life in Fuama Chiefdom to the capital city, Monrovia, where kwii men seem to have all the power.Set in the mid-1960s, Birds Are Singing is the story of an ambitious native Liberian caught in the webs of conservative tribal and “civilized”...
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    18,39 €

  • The Flames of Time
    Peter Knyte
    Africa keeps its secrets well, and its ancient secrets best of all. Untouched by the stock market crash of 1929 Kenya is the glamorous and exotic retreat for many seeking to escape the privations of the western world.  After a group of friends are drawn into a strange shamanic ceremony that changes their perception of reality, they find themselves on a path they cannot help but...
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    13,66 €

  • The Beguilement of Lady Eustacia Cavanaugh
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues the bold tales of the Cavanaugh siblings as the sole Cavanaugh sister discovers that love truly does conquer all.A lady with a passion for music and the maestro she challenges in pursuit of a worthy cause find themselves battling villains both past and present as they fight to secure life’s greatest rewards—love, ...
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    17,85 €

  • Lady Osbaldestone’s Christmas Goose
    Stephanie Laurens
    A lighthearted tale of Christmas long ago with a grandmother and three of her grandchildren, one lost soul, a lady driven to distraction, a recalcitrant donkey, and a flock of determined geese. Three years after being widowed, Therese, Lady Osbaldestone finally settles into her dower property of Hartington Manor in the village of Little Moseley in Hampshire. She is in two minds...
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    12,66 €

  • The Inevitable Past
    Carrie Jane Knowles / TBD
    What if the life of your grandmother, even a grandmother you never knew, is somehow woven into the fabric of your dreams, your desires, and your destiny? Knowles’ riveting novel, The Inevitable Past, challenges the notion of who we are and what compels us to make life changing decisions as it carries us from the past to the present through two cities, two centuries, and some te...
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    17,32 €

  • Dark Against the Sky
    Stephen Hauge
    Dark Against the Sky is the story of a band of climbing boys (young chimney sweeps) in London in 1834. The arc of their adventures follows the main character, Tommy, as he struggles to fi nd and be re-united with his father, faces the daily challenges of life as a climbing boy ruled by callous master sweeps, and interacts enjoyably with friends and street folk. Though his story...
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    15,57 €

  • Dissenters
    Liz Hutchinson
    In the 1660s English society experiences religious, social and industrial upheavals. Throughout the land, thousands of Puritan clergy are expelled from their churches and homes if they refuse to conform, and their dissenting congregations suffer repression by the magistrates. Illegal gatherings are reported in the woods at night, raising suspicions of witchcraft and devil-worsh...
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    14,89 €

  • One Enchanted Christmas
    Heather Boyd
    Margaret Stockwick is still mourning the loss of her beloved parents when her brother whisks her away from the family estate. Unbeknownst to Meg, Hector has no plans to allow her to return. Instead, he’ll see her ensconced in London after the Christmas season to be married off as quickly as possible, thereby relieving himself of any further responsibility for her welfare. Meg i...
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    9,85 €

  • Folcespel
    Peter Ward
    AD 450: A young king and his followers step down from their longship onto a foreign shore to celebrate Yule at the court of his brother-in-law. But their hopes of warm fires and ale, feasting and good cheer, are dashed as they realise that they have walked in to the middle of the mother of all family feuds.From the wreckage of the disaster, a reluctant leader emerges, one who m...
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    11,01 €

  • The Watercress Girls
    Kay Seeley
    Annie knows the secrets men whisper in her ears to impress her. When she disappears who will care? Who will look for her?Two girls sell cress on the streets of Victorian London. When they grow up they each take a different path. Annie’s reckless ambition takes her to Paris to dance at the Folie Bergere. When she comes home she takes up a far more dangerous occupation.When she d...
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    18,04 €

  • A Girl Called Hope
    Kay Seeley
    In Victorian London’s East End, life for Hope Daniels in the public house run by her parents is not as it seems. Pa drinks and gambles, brother John longs for a place of his own, sister Violet dreams of a life on stage and little Alfie is being bullied at school.Silas Quirk, the charismatic owner of a local gentlemen’s club and disreputable gambling den her father frequents, ha...
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    14,96 €


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