Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

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  • Silver Moon
    Sara Litchfield / Jenny Knipfer
    By the Light of the Moon series: 'Readers who love being trapped in a character’s mind should relish this finely written, gripping series. A must read for fans of historical fiction.'--The Prairies Book ReviewA tale of courage and hope in the darkest of times...Silver Moon, the third book in the series: By the Light of the Moon, paints a stunning and poignant picture of life on...
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    11,90 €

  • Endless Mission
    Mehrdad Shahmoradi Mofrad
    This is a fictional plot, set in scenes, of a vivid World War I espionage drama. ...
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    4,60 €

  • War and Peace
    Daniel HShubin / Leo Tolstoy / Daniel H. Shubin
    This volume is a new translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, for the American reader, by Daniel H. Shubin. For War and Peace to have the recognition of the greatest historical-fiction novel ever composed is an understatement, as it does not include its aspect of the philosophy of history provided by Tolstoy in regard to the conflicts and wars between France and Russia, and ...
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    75,00 €

  • Disarming the Wildest Warrior
    Helen Louise Cox
    1725, Williamsburg.No more English tea parties with her father’s medical colleagues for Gilda Griffiths. She left those behind for the open Virginia plains and plans to leave the East Coast too before a violent figure from her past catches up with her. When Williamsburg bully, Emmett Lawson assaults an elderly Shawnee chief however Gilda feels compelled to use her medical backg...
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    18,62 €

  • Tom Shipley’s War
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Tom Shipley’s War: Memoirs of a Weekend Warrior.Tom Shipley was first introduced in The Innocence of Tom Shipley Teacher, Tom is an innocent, idealist reaching his maturity in the mid-1960s. He is dedicated, hardworking and loyal. His humorous escapades and wry observations give a very clear picture on what life was really like in Australia if you were part of the majority who ...
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    23,28 €

  • Separate Realities
    W.W. Worley / W.WWorley
    Ezekial Robertson went to war before he was old enough to shave. He fought and killed those he learned too late were not his enemies. Returning from the insane and confusing was, there was no family left for him at home in Carolina so he left for Texas in search of a cure for his chronic loneliness and unrelenting yearning. Along the way he met other pilgrims searching for thei...
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    19,98 €

  • Found in Pieces
    George Rollie Adams
    A Heart-rending Story of Two Mothers-one White, One Black-struggling for Truth and Justice in the Civil Rights-era SouthIn 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family’s financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a s...
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    21,29 €

  • Found in Pieces
    George Rollie Adams
    A heart-rending story of two mothers-one white, one black-struggling for truth and justice in the Civil Rights-era South In 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family’s financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a ...
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    15,81 €

  • Beyond the Mulga Line
    S. E. Jenkins / SEJenkins
    In the late 1960s Jindalee cattle station in Western Australia is once again affected by drought. Jon Cadwallader’s relationship with his troublesome neighbour, Kit Kennilworth, a fellow cattleman, disrupts his contentment as does his concern for protégé, Harry Hammond, who has returned from Vietnam a double amputee. Jon’s brief return to England and his re-acquaintance with Pe...
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    16,73 €

  • A Place Like Jarrahlong
    S. E. Jenkins / SEJenkins
    In late 1949 Jon Cadwallader inherits a rich gold mine in Western Australia, but he wants to preserve the land and the Dreaming from a gold rush. Chips Carpenter’s quest for a lost gold reef threatens the plan. Jon’s life is further complicated by his friendship with Val, a fellow Pom, and Alice Macarthur’s resentful nephew, Greg. A spell in the goldfields provides the cover Jo...
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    16,83 €

  • Joanie
    Barbara Gale
    After the tragic loss of both of her parents, Joanie is separated from her siblings and eventually moves to her grandparents’ farm in rural Ontario. There she meets an Ojibwe boy who is scarred from experiences at a residential school. The two become friends and together embark on a healing journey towards love, acceptance and self-discovery. ...
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    12,62 €

  • The Heretic
    Michael Deeze
    The Heretic continues the saga of the Casey clan, intensely loyal and devoted, but only to each other. The third in the series, following Bless Me Father, and For I have sinned that are set in the backdrop of war, crime and violence it weaves the tale of a child’s transition from a lonely inner-city and decorated war veteran to the man who looks all too familiar to him, a man l...
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    14,49 €

  • Imagining
    Jack Haberek
    She loved God. But she also loved one of the greatest philosophers of that time, Johannes Eckhart, the only regent of the Paris University twice during his life. Did this incredible encounter really happen? The documents available from the time are silent, leaving room for imagining. But was it really like that or not? It wasn’t the love for man which got her to the pyre; it w...
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    14,90 €

  • A Cord of Three Strands
    Christy Distler
    Born to a French trader and a Lenape woman. Reared by Quakers. As the French & Indian War rages, one man strives for peace-between Pennsylvania and its Indian tribes, and between his own heart and mind.As 1756 dawns, Isaac Lukens leaves the Pennsylvania wilderness after two years with the Lenape people. He’s failed to find the families of his birth parents, a French trader and ...
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    14,25 €

  • Our Nipper
    Terry HWatson
    Archie Connor, a twelve-year-old victim of early 20th century poverty, is determined to carry out the wishes of his dying mother to keep the family together and look after the newly born, unnamed boy, Our Nipper.Archie evades the authorities as they remove his siblings to the workhouse. Thus begins his quest to find his lost family again, a painful journey marked with hope and ...
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    12,67 €

  • The Classic Grill - A Tale of Greek Gods and Immigrant Heroes
    Nancy Econome
    In Vallejo, California as World War II begins, hard-headed Greek-immigrant Achilles Pappayannis is the owner of the successful restaurant The Classic Grill and has big dreams of creating an elegant national restaurant chain. Achilles demands the help of his first-born son Demo who has no passion for restaurant work, vowing instead to become an actor of ancient Greek drama. As i...
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    12,01 €

  • The Strong Amongst Us
    J A Boulet
    On a fateful day in October 1875, Nathan Olason steps foot onto the soil of a foreign country called Canada, determined to claim this land as New Iceland. With natural sand beaches and breathtaking sunsets, it has been nicknamed paradise. Except it proves to be anything but.With frigid temperatures, emerging governments, racism and dwindling food supplies, Nathan and his family...
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    20,77 €

  • Koa Kai, The Story of Zachary Bower and the Conquest of the Hawaiian Islands
    Pollock
    While growing up on a farm in New England, Zachary Bower does not have much time to Play. But when he is not doing chores and learning to read and write, he happily reenacts the glory of his brother’s stories fighting the British during the War of Independence. After his mother tragically dies in 1789, Zachary’s uncle invites him on his next expedition at sea. As the thirteen-y...
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    15,90 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Vultures in the Wind
    Peter Rimmer
    Luke was close to death. He had been beaten mercilessly and was unrecognisable. Just for names, names of his ANC accomplices.Matt and Luke are born on the same day, spending an idyllic childhood in the heart of Southern Africa’s Transkei, blissfully unaware of the differences between them. But, when they are forced to leave their home, both young boys struggle to find their pla...
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    15,91 €

  • Cry of the Fish Eagle
    Peter - Rimmer
    'There’s a saying. Hear the cry of the fish eagle and you’ll always come back. Bush fever. Call it what you will. That sound is the most beautiful sound on earth. It’s worse than booze or drugs. Addictive. Totally addictive.'Flying Officer Rupert Pengelly briefly escapes war to the British colony of Rhodesia. His mission not just duty-driven but a promise to look for an orphane...
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    15,98 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Once in a Blood Moon
    Dorothea Hubble Bonneau
    Heaven Hill Plantation, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia walks a tightrope stretched between her parents’ ambitions. Her father, a prosperous planter, wants to preserve the heritage of his African ancestors. But her mother, who can pass for white, seeks to distance herself from her African roots and position herself in the elite...
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    22,61 €