Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

13454 Catálogo de libros: Ficción histórica

Libros Eliminar filtro Inglés Eliminar filtro Ficción y temas afines Eliminar filtro Ficción histórica Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • The Black Sea
    Andrew Turpin
    A Russian conspiracy in Washington, DC . . . A passenger jet is shot down, killing hundreds. A mole wreaks havoc in the White House. And an oligarch bent on the most malicious kind of revenge targets Joe Johnson.War crimes investigator Johnson is sent undercover by his former employer, the CIA, to untangle a web of deceit and online blame games in Russia’s Black Sea region afte...
    Disponible

    21,72 €

  • What Only We Know
    Catherine Hokin
    A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughter’s hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officer’s hand was at Liese’s throat before she saw him move. ‘I can kill you easily, then I can kill your daughter.’ He relaxed his grip a little. ‘Or perhaps I could kill her first?’England, forty years late...
    Disponible

    11,28 €

  • The Broad in the Kimono
    Paddy Kelly
    1947 - The Mob establishes the Flamingo casino creating the famous Vegas strip. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, controlled by a dodgy Harry Anslinger, is given massive funding to initiate the failed War on Drugs. Senators Thomas and Rankin start their communist witch hunt against a Hollywood where Jack Warner is at war with his writers as the long established Studio System beg...
    Disponible

    21,04 €

  • Butternut Tears
    Arlene Angwin / Arlene Showalter
    Clara Maxwell fights the Civil War at home, knitting socks for the army and feeding Yankee prisoners alongside her compassionate aunt. Her mother, Mrs. Maxwell, conquers her own bitterness of war by tending to wounded soldiers and sewing uniforms. Jimmy, Clara's brother, transfers the wounded to local hospitals and becomes a prison guard. These three tell the story of many ...
    Disponible

    19,88 €

  • It Happened On Fifth Street
    Robyn R Pearce
    If you enjoy thrilling historical novels with a time-travel twist, and you’re fascinated by the drama of the Underground Railroad, you’ll love IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH STREET: a tale of forgotten heroes 1837. America. Alf. A hidden letter. Family secrets he’s determined to uncover. 2015. Abi. A girl from his future. A forgotten tin trunk, a mystery, and a magical old coin.Alf and A...
    Disponible

    15,88 €

  • Melodies of the Isles
    Matthew Kraus
    The dominant outdoors of the island, one of the Hawaiian isles, Oahu fictionalized, is the background for a group of people who are slowly moved out of the main picture, that is of their enjoying the floral and rural areas as fictionalized, by songwriter(s) Sam and Frank, who are yet somewhat a part of that group of people. The group, Wallace, the Landley’s, Fred and Madelaine ...
    Disponible

    6,04 €

  • Melodies of the Isles
    Matthew Kraus
    The dominant outdoors of the island, one of the Hawaiian isles, Oahu fictionalized, is the background for a group of people who are slowly moved out of the main picture, that is of their enjoying the floral and rural areas as fictionalized, by songwriter(s) Sam and Frank, who are yet somewhat a part of that group of people. The group, Wallace, the Landley’s, Fred and Madelaine ...
    Disponible

    13,71 €

  • Rum Runner
    A. M. Dunnewin
    The novella is centered on Charlie Rant, a law student who’s forced into being a rum runner to save his brother’s life.When Charlie visits his brother in the hospital, he’s confronted with an ugly truth: his brother has been rum running for the Caprice family, and someone has been stealing the shipments, leaving the crew for dead. With one delivery left to make, it’s now up to ...
    Disponible

    6,30 €

  • Three Star Island
    Kat Caulberg
    Stepping through a time portal into 1716, historian Penny Saunders didn't expect to get stranded in the past. Five years later, now a pariah to the townsfolk of Three Star Island, she endures solitude and ridicule until a hurricane tosses a dangerous castaway onto her shores.William Payne's history precedes him. Pirate, outlaw, and ruthless captain, he's a monster a...
    Disponible

    18,34 €

  • Almost Tomorrow
    Sean Mcquade
    When McQuade met an old woman named Parveen, he experienced spiritual enlightenment. After listening to her life story, McQuade made a promise to write and publish it in book form. In an effort to help bond laborers escape their never-ending cycle of poverty and live a normal life with their families, he also guaranteed the book’s proceeds would go to charity. The result of thi...
    Disponible

    12,28 €

  • Deviations From Paradise
    Roy Humphreys
    Pioneer settlers of wilderness areas generally have a common goal - to find and claim their own piece of paradise.Tom Rourke was no different in this regard. In 1827 his paradise was on a secluded waterway only thirty miles from the growing port of Sydney Town in the British penal colony of New South Wales. The pristine bushland on which his one hundred acres had been allotted ...
    Disponible

    23,20 €

  • The Labyrinth at Flegg
    HL Welsh
    Jean-Luc and Morven meet in the abbey ruins, connected across four and a half centuries by a time-capsule buried under a stone in the labyrinth at Flegg. Jean-Luc is a servant in the sacked Abbey, with a thirst for adventure and a disdain for bullies. Built like a bear, his uncontrolled temper gets him into frequent fights, and he finds himself exiled from all the people he lov...
    Disponible

    7,90 €

  • The Labyrinth at Flegg
    HL Welsh
    Jean-Luc and Morven meet in the abbey ruins, connected across four and a half centuries by a time-capsule buried under a stone in the labyrinth at Flegg. Jean-Luc is a servant in the sacked Abbey, with a thirst for adventure and a disdain for bullies. Built like a bear, his uncontrolled temper gets him into frequent fights, and he finds himself exiled from all the people he lov...
    Disponible

    9,22 €

  • Her Darkest Hour
    Sharon Maas
    ‘You and me – we’re sisters, not enemies. We’ve got a real enemy at our door and we need to focus on that – together, united. I don’t want to be fighting you as well.’In the small French town of Colmar, swastikas hang from lampposts, tanks are lined up outside the town hall, and twenty-one-year-old Marie-Claire is in love. She will do anything for her childhood friend Jacques, ...
    Disponible

    11,16 €

  • W.T. STEAD AND THE CONSPIRACY OF 1910 TO SAVE THE WORLD
    Robert Livingston
    America, December 1910... Five people secretively meet for seven days in Chicago’s most famous residence, Hull House. Each has given lifetime to eradicating injustice. One is a dissenting Association Supreme Court Justice. Another is a diminutive black woman, who documented the history of 'lynch law' in America and sought to end this horrific practice. The third person is the l...
    Disponible

    13,17 €

  • Sins in Blue
    Brian Kaufman
    'An engaging tale about two music lovers trying to set the historical record straight.' -Kirkus Reviews (Great Indie Books Worth Discovering)A young man on a mission. An aging musician with a dream. Society perched over a racial divide.It’s the 1960s, and nothing reflects the cultural revolution more than music. When Kennedy Barnes, a runaway teen, stumbles upon a rock and roll...
    Disponible

    17,31 €

  • Sins in Blue
    Brian Kaufman
    'An engaging tale about two music lovers trying to set the historical record straight.' -Kirkus Reviews (Great Indie Books Worth Discovering)A young man on a mission. An aging musician with a dream. Society perched over a racial divide.It’s the 1960s, and nothing reflects the cultural revolution more than music. When Kennedy Barnes, a runaway teen, stumbles upon a rock and roll...
    Disponible

    14,28 €

  • Red Fury Revolt
    JF Ridgley
    Book One of the Agricola SeriesSomething keeps drawing G. Julius Agricola to Britannia again and again...This is where his search begins... book oneRed Fury...RevoltA. D. 60... Camulodunum! Londinium! Verulaneum! Three Roman cities smolder from the Iceni queen’s wrath, as she leads her warriors intent on destroying all things Roman - be it Roman temples, Roman villas, or entire...
    Disponible

    12,70 €

  • The Eagle and the Sparrow
    Claire Youmans
    Japan, 1875-6. Toki-Girl Azuki has found another dual-natured bird-human: Eagle-Boy Akira from far-away Hokkaido. He wants to join her family and friends but can he find a way to live as a human in a changing society where individual lives and wishes count for little?Sparrow-Boy Shota knows what he wants but increasing responsibilities mean he must leave behind what he loves, t...
    Disponible

    17,48 €

  • A Duke Will Never Do
    Darcy Burke
    From the USA Today bestselling author of The Untouchables series comes your next Regency obsession: The Spitfire Society... Meet the smart, independent women who’ve decided they don’t need Society’s rules, their families’ expectations, or, most importantly, a husband. But just because they don’t need a man doesn’t mean they might not want one.After failing on the Marriage Mart,...
    Disponible

    7,24 €

  • The Falcon’s Flight
    Natalia Richards
    Anne Boleyn's life is threatened, intrigue, gossip and treachery abound, and her destiny is finally revealed.A young Anne Boleyn and her sister are sent to Paris to attend Mary Tudor, the new Queen of France. Unclear where her loyalties should lie, Anne soon makes an enemy of the queen. When the widowed Mary returns to England, Anne stays on in France to serve the new queen...
    Disponible

    19,67 €

  • Good Morning, Sir George
    DONALD YULE
     One day during the 2019 County Cricket Season, Donald Yule remarked to a friend, that the chap who had walked past them in the Lord’s pavilion looked like he should be called 'Sir George'. When circumstances necessitated that Donald  invent  stories to publish in a wee book  which would raise money for charity,  the time seemed ripe for  a number of 'Sir George' characters to ...
    Disponible

    6,05 €

  • Costly Freedom
    Terry Webb
    'I’se me...I’se a person... caint nobody own me... '12-year-old Albert, a recently emancipated slave, tells his friend, Sam, in Terry Webb’s novel, Costly Freedom. In this book, Albert, Sam Benedict and Sam’s school friend, Will Cobb, are caught in the chaos, desperation and bitterness of white southern Georgia after the Civil War has ended. The three boys face challenging expe...
    Disponible

    13,83 €

  • An Irresistible Alliance
    Stephanie Laurens
    A duke’s second son with no responsibilities and a lady starved of the excitement her soul craves join forces to unravel a deadly, potentially catastrophic threat to the realm - that only continues to grow. With his older brother’s betrothal announced, Lord Michael Cynster is freed from the pressure of familial expectations. However, the allure of his previous hedonistic pursui...
    Disponible

    16,39 €

  • The Lady By His Side
    Stephanie Laurens
    A marquess in need of the right bride. An earl’s daughter in search of a purpose. A betrayal that ends in murder and balloons into a threat to the realm. Sebastian Cynster knows time is running out. If he doesn’t choose a wife soon, his female relatives will line up to assist him. Yet the current debutantes do not appeal. Where is he to find the right lady to be his marchioness...
    Disponible

    16,36 €

  • The Greatest Challenge Of Them All
    Stephanie Laurens
    A nobleman devoted to defending queen and country and a noblewoman wild enough to match his every step race to disrupt the plans of a malignant intelligence intent on shaking England to its very foundations. Lord Drake Varisey, Marquess of Winchelsea, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Wolverstone, must foil a plot that threatens to shake the foundations of the realm, but the v...
    Disponible

    19,99 €

  • Inconvenient Pipeline
    Geoff Strong
    The Nicholson family spot an oil slick on the Nicola River on the first day of their vacation in Merritt, BC. Julia resolves the oil slick source, and a series of mysteries that follow, involving the oil industry, federal government, and the Nicola-Coldwater First Nations bands opposed to a new pipeline construction. She and her friend Leah discover a serious pipeline break on ...
    Disponible

    12,50 €

  • Railway Ties 1888-1920
    Elizabeth Waterston
    This compelling work of historical  fiction focuses on two generations  of a 'railway family.' The experiences of the Baldwin and Smith clans tie in with the early rivalry between the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways, and also with technological and operational changes in the whole railroad industry during and immediately after World War I.Railway Ties conveys a clear ...
    Disponible

    22,31 €

  • A Conquest Impossible to Resist
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters’ next generation to bring you a thrilling tale of love, intrigue, and fabulous horses. A notorious rakehell with a stable of rare Thoroughbreds and a lady on a quest to locate such horses must negotiate personal minefields to forge a greatly desired alliance-one someone is prepared to murder to preve...
    Disponible

    18,65 €

  • The Tavistock Plot
    Tracy Grant
    London, 1820. Britain and Continental Europe teeter on the edge of upheaval, but Mélanie Rannoch tells herself she’s left behind the dangers of the spy game and the sometimes equally-perilous intrigues of London society as she prepares for the premiere of her first play.Until her children stumble upon the body of the Hon. Lewis Thornsby in the wings of the Tavistock Theatre. Su...
    Disponible

    20,80 €