Category: Historical Fiction

By Stephanie Laurens

ISBN-10: 0061957836

ISBN-13: 9780061957833

While a gentleman is stressed and tired of the careless pleasures of London society, he must find a new diversion, and if that diversion is a gorgeous lady, rather a lot the better.

Temptation

Jonas Tallent, who has masterfully taken the reins of his family's property, by no means anticipated a tasty morsel like leave out Emily Beauregard to step into his library, yet he definitely isn't approximately to rent her as supervisor for the village resort. a woman as tempting as Emily belongs in a ballroom, or a bedroom--preferably his.

Surrender

Emily herself hadn't anticipated her present situations, yet she has her purposes and doesn't plan to proportion them, regardless of anyone as seductive as Jonas. but he will be so devilishly persuasive. yet a villain understands her mystery, and shortly possibility threatens Em, her relations, and the strong love she and Jonas have present in each one other's hands.

By Ludmilla Ulitskaya

ISBN-10: 1468300814

ISBN-13: 9781468300819

Publish 12 months note: First released in 2006
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Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew, miraculously survives the Holocaust by means of operating within the Gestapo as a translator. After the conflict, he converts to Catholicism, turns into a clergyman, enters the Order of Barefoot Carmelites and emigrates to Israel. regardless of this seeming impossibility, the existence and future of Daniel Stein aren't an invention, the nature relies at the lifetime of Oswald Rufeisen, the genuine Brother Daniel, a Carmelite monk.

In Daniel Stein, Translator, Daniel's skill and willingness to speak with all cultures, to translate throughout linguistic and cultural divides, assures his freedom and stands as an emblem of affection, humanity and tolerance.

Literary Awards
Magnesia Litera Nominee for Translation (Litera za překladovou knihu) (2013)
The massive booklet Prize for Winner (2007)

By Dewey Lambdin

ISBN-10: 1250030080

ISBN-13: 9781250030085

“You may perhaps get hooked on this sequence. Easily.”---The big apple occasions ebook Review

The yr 1809 begins out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal army, and his send, HMS Sapphire. They’ve extracted the in poor health, chilly survivors of Sir John Moore’s military from catastrophe at Corunna, obtained hit by way of lightning whereas escorting the military to England, and suffered a shattered mainmast that may finish Lewrie’s energetic fee if a alternative can’t be came across or shaped quickly. Admiralty wishes troopships, now not gradual, previous Fourth cost two-deckers, so Lewrie needs to beg, borrow, thieve, and gild the evidence so much glibly if he needs to maintain her and her expert group together.

Just whilst he imagines he’s succeeded, new orders come appointing him a Commodore over a wee squadron assigned to prey upon French seaborne provide convoys off the treacherous north coast of Spain, greater often called the Costa da Morte, the Coast of dying, the place the ocean should be extra risky to him and his ships than the French military! Basing out of newly gained Lisbon, the place Lewrie hopes his mistress from Gibraltar, Maddalena Covilhá, may perhaps circulation, he’s convinced of 1 factor: It's going to be a rocky 12 months that, optimistically, doesn’t contain wrecking at the rugged shorelines of Spain!

By Maurice Druon

ISBN-10: 0007492278

ISBN-13: 9780007492275

This ultimate quantity of the saga of the accursed kings brings the reign of John II to lifestyles. even though background recollects him fondly, in the course of John II's reign within the 14th century, France stumbled on itself dealing with a sequence of threatening difficulties: struggles among clans, England's purpose to take over French territories, hovering inflation, crushing taxes, a trouble within the Church, the bubonic plague, and a king who was once committing mistake after incompetent mistake.

"This is the unique video game of Thrones." George R.R. Martin.

Available for the 1st time in English, The King with out a state is the 7th and ultimate quantity of The Accursed Kings sequence. The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, 'The Good', moment of the Valois dynasty, has taken the throne.Under his management the Hundred Years struggle, one of many longest and bloodiest conflicts in heritage, escalates and England and France start to tear one another aside. Cardinal Périgord, narrating the drama, exhibits us a monarch as useless and vicious as he's incompetent. below his turbulent reign, warring factions plunder the land, famine threatens the folks and the Black demise spreads all over the place. France is bleeding to demise round the new king.

By Jan Guillou

ISBN-10: 0061688649

ISBN-13: 9780061688645

one of many fiercest and such a lot feared warriors of the Knights Templar, Arn de Gotha can eventually go back domestic to his liked Sweden, now that Jerusalem has been misplaced to Saladin. yet in the course of his two decades of exile, Arn's place of birth has been torn aside through warring clans—and the courageous nobleman soldier is decided to reunite it and determine lasting peace.

expecting him is his liked Cecilia, rising from a convent to affix him after their unfathomably lengthy separation, opposed to the strict calls for of her extended family. Their reunion may perhaps incite a battle except they could persuade the extended family that love ranks greater than politics, and that it may possibly maintain a brand new quest: to create a brand new humans, a brand new society, with Arn at its helm.

By Roberta Kells Dorr

ISBN-10: 0802484948

ISBN-13: 9780802484949

Publish yr note: First released in 1980
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David and Bathsheba is a spellbinding tale of a proficient king and the lady he enjoyed yet couldn't have.  advised from Bathsheba's viewpoint, writer Roberta Kells Dorr carry to lifestyles the fervour that nearly price David his state and established a people's braveness and religion in God.

David and Bathsheba is coloured richly with information of Bible-era Israel - from the main points of the everyday lifestyle to info of the Jewish religion.  Dorr brilliantly merges truth with folklore as she tells the tale of 2 nice characters of the biblical period. The ebook starts off out with Bathsheba as a tender lady and David as a robust willed rebellious army leader.  It info the way in which they meet and follows all of them the best way via their difficulties. 

By Sally Cabot

ISBN-10: 006224194X

ISBN-13: 9780062241948

An soaking up and compelling paintings of literary historic fiction, set in colonial Philadelphia, that brings to existence a little-known bankruptcy of the yank Revolution--the tale of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the ladies who enjoyed them

Sixteen-year-old Anne is an uneducated serving woman on the Penny Pot tavern whilst she first meets the commanding Benjamin Franklin. The time she spends with the intense younger printer teases her curious brain, and the money he offers retains her relatives from ravenous. however the bold Franklin is devoted to another person, a formal yet infatuated lady named Deborah learn who turns into his common-law spouse. at the very least Anne has William, her adored child son, to remind her of his father and to melt a few of life's bleakness.

But becoming up a bastard amid the squalor of Eades Alley isn't the existence Anne desires for her basically son. aware of the demanding situations dealing with them, she makes a heartbreaking sacrifice. she's going to hand over William eternally, permitting Benjamin and Deborah Franklin to elevate him as their own.

Though she can't be with him, Anne secretly watches out for her cherished baby, bold to be with regards to him with out revealing the reality approximately herself or his delivery, and status shield as Deborah Franklin struggles to just accept her husband's bastard son as her own.

As the years move, the bustling colonies develop and prosper, providing possibilities for wealth and tool for a skilled guy like William's father. Benjamin's transforming into repute and connections as a scientist, author, thinker, businessman, and political genius open doorways for the astute William to boot, and at last King George III appoints Benjamin's bastard son to the recent place of Royal Governor of recent Jersey. Anne's fortunes additionally upward thrust. A smart girl of many abilities, she builds a snug lifetime of her own--yet not anything fills her with extra pleasure or delight than her son's good fortune and happiness.

But all that her comprehensive son has completed is threatened whilst the colonies--led through influential males, together with his personal father--begin the struggle for independence. A steadfast, unswerving topic of the British Crown, William can't settle for his father's passionate security of the patriots' reason, and the iconic bond they percentage fractures, a heart-wrenching holiday that might endlessly hang-out them and people they love.

A poignant story of ardour, relations, love, and conflict, Benjamin Franklin's Bastard skillfully brings into concentration a forged of outstanding characters drawn from actual existence, and vividly re-creates some of the most awesome and exciting classes of history--the delivery of the yank nation.

By Paul Watkins

ISBN-10: 0571217982

ISBN-13: 9780571217984

During this time of violent switch a tender guy, struck by way of lightning, is thought to be marked by means of the gods as a keeper of the Norse religion's maximum mystery. to avoid wasting the Norse religion and himself, he embarks upon a trip, the place he needs to confront not just his personal gods however the gods of a humans but extra savage.

"'The motion sweeps throughout oceans and continents... as with every Watkins' paintings, the writing is terse and actual, the subjects significant and resonant.'
— Tatler
'A Viking Odyssey... Thunder God vividly charts the voyages of Hakon, a fisherman's son who's struck through lightning, abducted through raiders, taken to Miklagard (Constantinople), the place he turns into a part of the Emperor's own safeguard, stuck up in a raid at the Welsh coast, storm-driven around the Atlantic...'
— The Times;
'The wealthy actual descriptions are matched by means of an both certain knowing of the methods of non secular belief... This strange, fluent novel means that Watkins is still a strength to be reckoned with.'
—Sunday Telegraph;
'A thundering strong read... Watkins is a grasp of suspense, and his motion sequences have a visceral power'
— Sunday occasions

By Julie Klassen

ISBN-10: 1441264825

ISBN-13: 9781441264824

Abigail Foster is the sensible daughter. She fears she's going to turn out a spinster, particularly as she has little dowry, and the single guy she idea may possibly marry her turns out to have fallen for her more youthful, prettier sister.
Facing bankruptcy, Abigail and her father look for cheaper accommodations, until eventually a wierd solicitor arrives with an striking supply: using manor condo deserted for eighteen years. The Fosters trip to implementing Pembrooke Park and are startled to discover it entombed because it used to be without notice left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, moth-eaten outfits in wardrobes, a doll's condo left mid-play...

The good-looking neighborhood curate welcomes them, yet notwithstanding he and his relatives appear conversant in the manor's previous, the single details they give is a stern caution: pay attention trespassers drawn via rumors that Pembrooke Park incorporates a mystery room choked with treasure.

This catches Abigail's awareness. Hoping to revive her family's finances—and her dowry—Abigail seems to be for this intended treasure. yet eerie sounds at evening and footprints within the dirt demonstrate she isn't the one one secretly looking out the house.

Then Abigail starts receiving nameless letters, containing clues in regards to the hidden room and startling discoveries in regards to the past.

As outdated pals and new foes come calling at Pembrooke Park, secrets and techniques come to mild. Will Abigail locate the treasure and love she seeks...or very genuine possibility?

By Belinda Alexandra

ISBN-10: 1743099118

ISBN-13: 9781743099117

A love greater than a conflict. a gorgeous girl misplaced. A secret unsolved … until eventually now.
2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter aircraft is chanced on within the forests close to Russia’s Ukrainian border. The plane belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and pin-up woman for Soviet propaganda, however the query of her destiny continues to be unanswered. was once she a German secret agent who faked her personal dying, because the Kremlin claims? Her lover, Valentin Orlov, now a highly-decorated normal, refuses to think it.

Lily, a tender Australian girl, has moved to Moscow to flee from tragedy. She turns into interested by the tale of Natalya, and whilst she meets an aged girl who claims to understand the reality at the back of the rumours, Lily is drawn deeper into the mystery.

From the pomp and purges of Stalin’s Russia throughout the horrors of warfare and past - secrets and techniques and lies, enduring love and bad betrayal, sacrifice and redemption all mix during this sweeping saga from Belinda Alexandra.