Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

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  • Ferris Station
    Larry Boucher
    Jim Coker leads an undermanned troop of Union cavalry in the fight against marauding guerilla raiders in Kansas. John Jacobs, a vicious half-breed, with a personal vendetta against the owners of Ferris Station, leads a band of guerillas, against the homesteaders of Southeastern Kansas, both for personal gain and the lust for murder. After several raids are thwarted by the caval...
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  • Ferris Station
    Larry Boucher
    Jim Coker leads an undermanned troop of Union cavalry in the fight against marauding guerilla raiders in Kansas. John Jacobs, a vicious half-breed, with a personal vendetta against the owners of Ferris Station, leads a band of guerillas, against the homesteaders of Southeastern Kansas, both for personal gain and the lust for murder. After several raids are thwarted by the caval...
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    14,35 €

  • The Kangaroo Islanders
    W. A. Cawthorne / WACawthorne
    Written in the mid-1850s before any official or more orthodox history of the South Australian colony had appeared, The Kangaroo Islanders is one of the few colonial novels that represents in fleeting glimpses some of the improvisational and interactive encounters between the colonisers and the colonised on the edges of the island continent.A remarkable and colourful book, this ...
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    58,77 €

  • The Seafaring Women of the Vera B.
    James S. Davis / James SDavis / Susan Page Davis
    With the ship’s captain dead in Melbourne, Australia, Alice Packard thinks the worst has happened, until she learns the crew has deserted her husband’s ship in favor of the goldfields. Only one old man, Gypsy Deak, sticks by her, but Gypsy alone can’t raise a crew from the depleted population. In desperation, Alice turns to the only source of plentiful workers: the women of Mel...
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    14,37 €

  • Breaking Barriers
    Jule Selbo
    They said, “No!” She asked, “Why?” The answer was always the same: “Because you’re a woman.”  She vowed to shatter each barrier they placed in her way.Inquisitive and precocious, Laura Bassi grew up on the Italian Peninsula in the 1700s, dreaming of studying science at the famed University of Bologna. It was the Age of Enlightenment and although forward-thinking philosophical i...
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    13,11 €

  • The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal
    Claire Duende
    When Birdie and her family are thrown out of Uganda by the tyrant Idi Amin they lose everything. London seems cold and inhospitable. The future looks bleak.But then an unexpected invitation to a weekend in the country arrives from Jack’s old Cambridge University friends and life starts to look up. Birdie resolves to succeed in her new life - until a disturbing incident brings b...
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    15,01 €

  • In the Wake of the Willows (2nd Edition)
    Frederick Gorham Thurber
    A New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920’s.   This is a story about the denizens of a very special river.  For like their relatives on the other side of the ocean, this river had its own Rat, Mole, Badger, Otter, and Weasel clans.   When a spooky nocturnal creature starts terrorizing the riverfront, Mr. Rat’s clever daughter sets to wor...
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    24,49 €

  • Becoming JoJo MacBean
    Andrew J Pignatare
    As MacBean would put it:  “I was born and raised, I conquered Wall Street, Wall Street conquered me, I lived a hobo life, I stole from dead people, and I made a comeback.”  Becoming JoJo MacBean is the story of a young Scottish lad growing up in New York City, nicknamed MacBean by the parish priest, and wanting just one thing – to be a successful Wall Street broker. When MacBea...
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    22,61 €

  • New York Blastoff
    London Fell
    This second novel of the trilogy centers around a set of turns in Mid-Western Iowa, along the Mississippi River. There, in multiple picturesque settings, enters Claudette Monet in search of inspiration for her paintings. She is already well known to readers from our first novel in the trilogy, Claudette Monet in America. In New York Blastoff she encounters some troubling circum...
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    17,13 €

  • New York Blastoff
    London Fell
    This second novel of the trilogy centers around a set of turns in Mid-Western Iowa, along the Mississippi River. There, in multiple picturesque settings, enters Claudette Monet in search of inspiration for her paintings. She is already well known to readers from our first novel in the trilogy, Claudette Monet in America. In New York Blastoff she encounters some troubling circum...
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    7,83 €

  • Sanjog A Novel
    Dr Reeta M K Singh
    1946, Dehra Dun, India. The Radcliffe line is drawn and the largest mass migration in history is taking place. 1960, Nairobi, Kenya. A young man is starting a new life as an immigrant Indian with his young family. 2017, Halifax, Canada. A society wedding is bringing family, friends and foreigners together who have not seen each other for years. Three countries, two rivals, two ...
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    10,00 €

  • Sanjog A Novel
    Dr Reeta M K Singh
    1946, Dehra Dun, India. The Radcliffe line is drawn and the largest mass migration in history is taking place. 1960, Nairobi, Kenya. A young man is starting a new life as an immigrant Indian with his young family. 2017, Halifax, Canada. A society wedding is bringing family, friends and foreigners together who have not seen each other for years. Three countries, two rivals, two ...
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    20,14 €

  • The Despair of Life
    Amadou Sidibe
    Abdul was born into a privileged family with the opportunity to live a prosperous and successful life. After the untimely death of his mother, he is forced to live with his uncle in the capital city to pursue his studies. He joins politics to fight a dictatorial military regime, motivated by his father’s assassination. He is wrongly arrested, tortured and jailed. With the help ...
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    9,98 €

  • Moneydie
    Da Via
    When a young teenager is forced into an arranged marriage by the Vatican, her best friend, a Chinese mandarin, and Leonardo da Vinci, with help from the four corners, ultimately square to save her.Truth is a woman, bear the history in mind; pierce the veil. 3 ...
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    12,18 €

  • Voices from the Past
    Elizabeth Uywin
    The Girl is the second instalment of Elizabeth Uywin’s Voices from the Past trilogy. It wasn’t just the destruction caused by World War Two which left the city of London in chaos. Poverty and family disharmony were commonplace even before the Second World War, and children in particular became victims of circumstances beyond their control. This is the tale of one such child, a ...
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    8,61 €

  • Art for War
    Da Via
    During the ancient Chinese Zhou Dynasty, tremendous progress was made in methods of mass social control. The Silk-Cotton Road was a two-way street and the ’furnace of imperial liquid gold’. Yet barbarian bandits and kings constantly disrupted the smooth flow of revenue, and so a tax was set atop the unknowing heads of the barbarians by ancient books sent out to the west by impe...
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    9,29 €

  • Art for War
    Da Via
    During the ancient Chinese Zhou Dynasty, tremendous progress was made in methods of mass social control. The Silk-Cotton Road was a two-way street and the ’furnace of imperial liquid gold’. Yet barbarian bandits and kings constantly disrupted the smooth flow of revenue, and so a tax was set atop the unknowing heads of the barbarians by ancient books sent out to the west by impe...
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    19,43 €

  • Now and Forever
    Marian L. Jasper
    What happened to Kate? That had been the burning question in Ellie Fuller’s mind throughout her research into the life of Liza Marchant. As she read Liza’s correspondence and journals, she wondered whether she was ever going to find the answer. She hoped that there would be a happy ending to Kate’s story and that she had not died in some primitive Indian encampment. Ellie was s...
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    32,19 €

  • Now and Forever
    Marian L. Jasper
    What happened to Kate? That had been the burning question in Ellie Fuller’s mind throughout her research into the life of Liza Marchant. As she read Liza’s correspondence and journals, she wondered whether she was ever going to find the answer. She hoped that there would be a happy ending to Kate’s story and that she had not died in some primitive Indian encampment. Ellie was s...
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    21,72 €

  • Last Stop Freedom
    Ann Nolder Heinz
    A desperate flight from brutal oppression--and everything to lose if it fails....Two women, one white, the other black, find themselves trapped in bondage on a South Carolina plantation in 1850s America. Their unique friendship gives each the strength to endure until circumstances threaten not only to rip them apart but to place their very lives in jeopardy. They undertake a ha...
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    27,37 €

  • Refiner’s Fire
    Ann Nolder Heinz
    Lizzie Hamilton’s life as a pampered belle in the antebellum South is over.  Alone and destitute due to the disintegration of her family’s fortunes, she makes the mistake of trusting a handsome but unprincipled professional gambler whose silver-tongued promises lead only to disgrace and virtual servitude. Danger and misfortune stalk her as she travels from Charleston, South Car...
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    21,43 €

  • A Light Within
    Ann Nolder Heinz
    Cora Fielding dares to dream of becoming a physician, a profession all but closed to women in 1859 America. Her twin brother Carl has already been admitted to California’s new medical college even though his true passion lies with his woodcarving skills. Cora, unwilling to bow to the new school’s decision not to admit females, disguises herself as a man and gains admittance onl...
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    19,41 €

  • Under the Flowers - Large Print
    Donald Hofstetter
    The day Seth Jackson disappeared was a normal sunny day. Then he was gone - it was like he had never been there in the first place.*The quiet little town of Cougar Rock, Idaho had been a safe place whose greatest worries were the dust and the mosquitoes. Then it hit - and everything happened at once. One man missing without a trace, another one dead, and no one with any answers...
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    18,71 €

  • The Potential for Love
    Catherine Kullmann
    1816 For over six years, Thomas Ferraunt’s thoughts have been of war. Newly returned to England from occupied Paris, he must ask himself what his place is in this new world and what he wants from it. More and more, his thoughts turn to Arabella Malvin, but would Lord Malvin agree to such a mismatch for his daughter, especially when she is being courted by Lord Henry Danlow?Abou...
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    23,43 €

  • Let the Ghosts Speak
    Bryan Davis
    Let the ghosts speak—but will the sane heed their counsel? In 19th century Paris, Justin Trotter, an immigrant from England, is making his way as a book translator while paying for his blind twin sister’s care. One evening, Marc Noël, Justin’s well-to-do friend and fellow thespian, invites him to a masquerade party at an abandoned schoolhouse. Justin hopes this will be an oppor...
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    11,93 €

  • Moneydie
    Da Via
    When a young teenager is forced into an arranged marriage by the Vatican, her best friend, a Chinese mandarin, and Leonardo da Vinci, with help from the four corners, ultimately square to save her.Truth is a woman, bear the history in mind; pierce the veil. 3 ...
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    22,32 €

  • Snowbound Stagecoach
    Lenora Whiteman
    At least two men dead, two more lost in a blizzard, and a half-dozen more men with frostbite, perhaps facing amputations ... How did a simple stagecoach ride from Walla Walla, Washington Territory to Dalles City, Oregon become a nightmare? How could men who each carried a fortune in gold end up walking through a blizzard? And how did a brave pioneer wife bring her son and her n...
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    11,76 €

  • Fleur
    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
    London, 1851: all the world flocks to the Great Exhibition, where beautiful, independent Fleur Hamilton encounters the enigmatic Count Sergei Kirov.When they meet again in St Petersburg, she knows that her fate is entangled with this vibrant man, whom she cannot understand, and yet who stirs her like no other.But England and Russia are on the brink of war; Kirov is on the brink...
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    24,29 €

  • Dare to be Scandalous
    Tamara Gill
    After inheriting a small fortune, Willow Perry has everything she’s ever wanted. Except a husband, that is. But not just any husband will do. She’s looking for a grand love—someone who will challenge and excite her. It’s just her folly that the one man who interests her is a notorious rake. He’s as wild and passionate as Willow is sheltered and staid. Love between such polar op...
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    12,14 €

  • The Healer’s Legacy
    M MacKinnon
    Colleen Fitzgerald has finally found the perfect man. But when fate steals her happiness yet again, she finds herself searching for redemption in the Scottish Highlands. A haunted castle will pit her nursing skills against a vengeful ghost and a modern killer, but also offer a chance at true love – if she is strong enough to trust her heart one more time. 3 ...
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    12,49 €


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