Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

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  • The Last White Seal Hunter
    Dale Hanson
    Gus Helmer is the last white seal hunter.Helmer is an old man now and leans against the bow of his small boat with both hands grasping the rail and waits for the disturbance in the water to subside and end the rocking of the boat. He peers into the water below.  The black shape of a huge killer whale passes just under the skiff, its outline distinct against the white clam shell...
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    22,99 €

  • The Windcatcher's Cave - Large Print
    Donald Hofstetter
    The long shadow that filled the doorway was all she needed to know that the bear was still behind her. Bruised and dazed, she ran for her life into the total darkness of the cave. The dull thud of the bear hitting the ground in the entry let her know he was not giving up.Aggie Stonewell was not supposed to be there. She was a good girl from a good family, and it was such a harm...
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    19,08 €

  • Through the Glass Darkly
    James B. Styles / James BStyles
    This story begins in the year 2030 as our lead character is an eighty-five-year-old man who lives alone in a modern world. He has outlived his wife and most of his friends and family. One evening as he sits down in front of his TV, he falls asleep and awakens to find himself in the year 1961. He thinks he is having a dream, but it is one that is so vivid and realistic that he w...
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    15,06 €

  • Over Westwards
    Christina Jaffe
    This story is about two characters living about three hundred years apart. They try to survive in a world that presents them with challenges. There are several factors that connect them. Both have family issues and both hold on to a basic sense of decency about human values. And both have memories in common — the joy of playing on the beach at Rosehearty as children. Sadie, a y...
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    6,24 €

  • Between These Walls
    Michael Newman
    May 1945In the dying days of WW II on the American occupied side of Germany’s Elbe River, US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer comes upon the shot-up wreck of a smouldering SS Staff car, with a badly injured driver, nearby a dead German Army officer carrying the ID of a Nazi war criminal, and a young blonde woman, also dead in the back seat. July 1988Art curator Daniel ...
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    43,99 €

  • Between These Walls
    Michael Newman
    May 1945In the dying days of WW II on the American occupied side of Germany’s Elbe River, US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer comes upon the shot-up wreck of a smouldering SS Staff car, with a badly injured driver, nearby a dead German Army officer carrying the ID of a Nazi war criminal, and a young blonde woman, also dead in the back seat. July 1988Art curator Daniel ...
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    32,74 €

  • The Russian Lieutenant
    Peter Marshall
    When a Russian warship arrives in Portsmouth Dockyard, a handsome uniformed officer strides down the gangway to meet Marina Peters, an English girl of Russian ancestry, who had discovered him on a dating website. She works for the Royal Navy, so they have much in common.What they do not know is that their romantic quayside tryst is being observed by agents from MI5, leading to ...
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    10,39 €

  • Rid of A Pest
    Alison M Manthorpe
    When Silas Beadnall arranges a dinner party at the Kularook Hotel for his sixtieth birthday, he gathers together an ill-assorted group of people who could be called his nearest and dearest — but some of them have other ideas about that. Old jealousies are reignited, old grievances remembered. His grown-up farmer sons and their wives, his daughter, his sisters, and his estranged...
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    24,30 €

  • Inheriting the Missing - Large Print
    Donald Hofstetter
    They thought he was a runaway Indian or a criminal, but it was the only chance he had. If he succeeded, the world was his; if not, no one would ever look for his body.Talon had one round of ammunition, two good horses, and little else. He was nineteen years old and life as he knew it had come to a close. A thousand miles away lay the only thing that looked like a future to him....
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    16,10 €

  • Dangerous Destiny
    Chris Longmuir
    Dundee, Scotland, 1908.Suffragettes are dying. The police aren’t interested, taking the attitude ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’.Three suffragettes band together to find the truth.Kirsty, a naïve, young girl unable to escape her controlling family and the secret of her past, lives a sheltered life with her parents in their Broughty Ferry mansion. When she becomes interested in t...
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    17,23 €

  • A Blossom in The Ashes
    Ron Singerton
    1941: Two Brothers, One Woman, One WarTad, elder son of Russian-born political refugee Alexei and Japanese-born Kimi, flies planes for the U.S. Navy; his brother, Koizumi, is a fighter pilot in the Imperial Navy of Japan. When Koizumi visits his family in Hawaii, he is accompanied by the beautiful Sayuri. To Koizumi’s dismay, she and Tad begin a passionate romance, only to be t...
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    17,73 €

  • Dreaming on Paper
    E. G. Muesch Sr / EGMuesch Sr
    DREAMING on PAPER chronicles the life of a Cuban a author mentored by Ernest Hemingway. Mendo is jailed as a dissident, and thereafter struggles for decades to find the manuscript he wrote after witnessing the Bay of Pigs invasion. Mendo’s family faces a criminal underworld intent on acquiring the valuable pages, now reported to be stashed in one of a Hemingway’s homes. As the ...
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    24,78 €

  • The Arbor Girls
    JD Murphy
    The Arbor girls are a force to be reckoned with…Maeve Fossard, a nurse during the bombings of Bristol in WW1 wants to escape the pain and suffering around her. A trip to a pub and a chance meeting with a stranger named Colin, changes her life. The shadow world of spies and politics, become a reality.Through two World Wars, the Cold War and into the Sixties; from England to Aust...
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    15,85 €

  • The House with a Thousand Stairs
    Garrick Jones
    The House With a Thousand StairsWarrambool.In Gamilaraay, the language of the Kamilaroi peoples of north-western New South Wales, it's the word for The Milky Way. It's also the name of Peter Dixon's homestead and sheep station, situated in the lee of the Liverpool Ranges.In 1947, Peter returns from war, his parents and younger brother dead, the property de-stocked a...
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    15,46 €

  • Blackberry Winter
    Brenda Heinrich Higgins
    Immerse yourself and become a part of the Deremer family who left behind a very comfortable lifestyle in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to raise their children near the untamed frontier in Mansfield Woodhouse, New Jersey. Begin your journey in 1774 and share in the happy times, hardships, and often heartrending events that helped to make America what it is today. Can a land of mixed...
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    17,16 €

  • Shadows and Footprints
    Rick Ruja
    The history of the American West includes a sorry story of abuse and domination of Native Americans by the United States government and its enforcement arm, the U.S. Army. The destruction of the life style and autonomy of indigenous people has resulted in denying to Native Americans “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” even today. This book has a heroic White genius of ...
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    14,97 €

  • To End All War
    Nicholas Lambros
    To End, All War is a thoroughly researched war novel with inspiring characters. A letter he found tucked inside an old book he bought in an antique store motivated the author's interests in the Great War (WWI). Written in 1918 by Monroe, the chauffeur of an affluent family in Baltimore, the letter appears word for word within the novel. The novel brings three American sibli...
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    18,09 €

  • Westward The Wilderness
    B.N. Rundell / B.NRundell
    B.N. RUNDELL KEEPS YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE IN BOOK THREE OF THE FAST-MOVING STONECRAFT SAGA.Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave trade...
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    16,26 €

  • The Runaway Girl
    Jina Bacarr
    Two women hold the keys to his heart. Only one will survive that fateful night...When Ava O’Reilly is wrongly accused of stealing from her employer, she has no option but to flee Ireland. The law is after her, and she has only one chance at escape - the Titanic.Aboard the ship of dreams, she runs straight into the arms of Captain 'Buck' Blackthorn, a dashing gentleman g...
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    14,10 €

  • The Exile Breed
    Charles Egan
    The Exile Breed is a story of the Irish Famine in Ireland, Canada, England and the USA. The Famine intensified in 1847. Many left, but hunger and fever followed them. Thousands died in the Irish ghettoes of Liverpool, Manchester and London. Many more died in the ships on the Atlantic, in the emigrant hospitals of Quebec and Montreal, in the forests and along the back-roads of C...
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    41,33 €

  • Cold is the Dawn
    Charles Egan
    Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe, refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But, worse still, they refused to halt food exports from the starving country.Emigration quickened as many were evicted, and many more fled from a wasted land. They worked the wat...
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    41,33 €

  • The Temple Wall
    Alex Bloch
    The historical novel The Temple Wall: Against All Odds covers three generations of a Jewish family living in the Ruhr area of Germany during the first and second crusades. It was known at the time as a pilgrimage to conquer Jerusalem from the Muslim infidels during the 12th century and to recapture Edessa from the Muslims in the 13th century.A son of both the first and third ge...
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    18,01 €

  • A Journal of the Plague Year
    Daniel Defoe / TBD
    The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than one in five citizens.  Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighbourhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place.  He provides tables of casualty figures and discusses th...
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    9,79 €

  • A Journal of the Plague Year
    Daniel Defoe / TBD
    The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than one in five citizens.  Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighbourhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place.  He provides tables of casualty figures and discusses th...
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    21,50 €

  • Smugglers Urchins
    Pat Kelly / TBD
    It is the story of two young children, born into the poverty-stricken years of the Isle of Man, when drunkenness and smuggling were rife. Two children who were imprisoned for the heinous crime of stealing a scrap of food to keep themselves alive.Daniel, worldly-wise, who has had to fend for himself for most of his ten years of life. Unwanted from birth, abandoned and unloved, h...
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    17,52 €

  • The Walls We Build
    Jules Hayes
    Three Friends. Two Secrets. One Hidden LifeGrowing up around Churchill’s estate, Frank, Florence and Hilda are inseparable, but as WW2 casts its menacing shadow their friendships become more complex and strained.Following Frank's death in 2002, Florence writes to his grandson, Richard, hinting at a dark past. On investigation, disturbing secrets come to light that have not ...
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    14,80 €

  • Moriarty Lifts the Veil
    Anna Castle
    It began as a harmless wager. Who could solve their case first?Professor and Mrs. Moriarty have a few weeks to kill before their theater opens. Happily, two small cases drop in their respective laps. Moriarty has what looks like a scheme to swindle Army veterans out of their discharge pay. Angelina must find a missing servant by winkling her way into a circle of officers’ wives...
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    14,90 €

  • So Big
    Edna Ferber / TBD
    2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber’s greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago.  A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her fam...
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    15,70 €

  • Wistful
    Michael Edwin Q. / TBD
    Only one letter separates the two words. Wishful is having hope for something. Wistful is regret for what might have been.Wistful is a new book from award winning author Michael Edwin Q. It is a must read for fans of 'But Have Not Love', 'Born A Colored Girl' and 'Fancy'. 3 ...
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    15,48 €

  • Shadows
    Evie Yoder Miller
    Authentic voices shape this fresh look at a familiar story, the American Civil War, beginning with the rapid buildup of tension between North and South and continuing into early summer of 1862. But the narrative grip comes through the eyes of civilians, trapped in the conflicts of obedience to government and historic refusal to participate in warfare. Their options press with i...
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    34,61 €


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