Category: Historical Fiction

By Timothy Lewis

ISBN-10: 0307732223

ISBN-13: 9780307732224

Excellent for readers of Nicholas Sparks, perpetually Friday is the heartwarming and eye-catching story of an not likely couple, a weekly present of devotion, and a heartbroken guy longing to find the key to lasting marriage.

After a devastating divorce leaves Adam Colby heartbroken, he's not definite how he can placed the items of his lifestyles again jointly. He wonders if even God could make experience of the mess that remains-until a package deal of mysterious postcards that direct Adam to the tale of Gabe and Huck Alexander. Drawn via her wish to discover a actual soulmate, Pearl "Huck" Huckabee breaks a turbulent engagement together with her fiancé to marry Gabe Alexander, a guy she's recognized quite a few brief weeks. desirous to rejoice and safeguard their love, Gabe mails her a significant postcard each week-beginning in 1926-for the following sixty years. Designed to reach on Fridays, each one postcard not just includes an unique poem, yet holds helpful truths, the sum of which solution the common query: what makes a wedding final? As Adam starts off to discover the Alexanders' mystery, he files Gabe and Huck's notable romance. It's a strategy that may switch his lifestyles perpetually.

By Susan King

ISBN-10: 0451407687

ISBN-13: 9780451407689

In medieval Scotland, the warrior often called Border Hawk seizes the fortress belonging to the daddy of the attractive Isabel Scott, recognized through the Lowlands for her present of prophecy. throughout the conflict, Isabel is injured whereas scuffling with along her males, and positioned below Border Hawk's defense. because the border wars rage on, the warrior and prophetess interact in a extra intimate clash, gaining knowledge of that their love for the Scottish borderlands is exceeded purely by way of their love for every different.

By Alexandra Benedict

ISBN-10: 0061893021

ISBN-13: 9780061893025

They paid no brain to society's prying eyes . . .
The daughter of a prosperous bandit, Sophia Dawson as soon as misplaced herself within the hands of Black Hawk, the main notorious pirate ever to command the excessive seas. yet now, made up our minds to place her sinful previous at the back of her, she prepares to go into society because the bride of a well-born nobleman who understands not anything of her scandalous early life. All is going in keeping with plan until eventually her ex-lover—now a decent sea captain yet simply as good-looking and unsafe as ever—appears and once more tempts her with desire.

From the instant he sees Sophia back, James Hawkins desires just one factor: Revenge. He'll see to it that the reckless attractiveness can pay for forsaking their heated affair. And so starts off a conflict of wills which may finish purely in utter smash . . . or depraved quit . . .

By Anna Godbersen

The yr is 1929. ny is governed by way of the intense younger issues: flappers and socialites looking thrills and chasing goals within the anything-goes period of the Roaring Twenties.

Letty Larkspur and Cordelia gray escaped their small Midwestern city for brand spanking new York's glittering city. All Letty desires is to work out her identify in lighting, yet she speedy discovers big apple is stuffed with beautiful women who will do anything to be a celebrity. . . .

Cordelia is trying to find the daddy she's by no means recognized, a guy as notorious for his wild events as he's for his shadowy schemes. in a single day, she enters an international extra exciting and glamorous than she ever may have imagined—and extra harmful. It's a existence someone may kill for . . . and somebody will.

The merely individual Cordelia can belief is ­Astrid Donal, a flapper who turns out to have all of it: cash, appears to be like, and the affection of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. yet Astrid's excellent veneer hides a ranking of kinfolk secrets.

Across the mammoth lawns of ny, within the ­illicit speakeasies of ny, and at the blindingly lit levels of Broadway, the 3 girls' fortunes will upward push and fall—together and aside. From the New York Times bestselling writer of The Luxe comes an epic new sequence set within the dizzying final summer season of the Jazz Age.

By Gary Jennings

ISBN-10: 0312871317

ISBN-13: 9780312871314

The marvelous Aztec empire has fallen underneath the brutal heal of the Spaniards. yet one proud Aztec, Tenamaxtli, refuses to bow to his despised conquerors. He desires of restoring the misplaced glory of the Aztec empire, and recruits a military of rebels to mount an rebellion opposed to the probably invincible energy of effective Spain.
Tenamaxtli's brave quest takes us via excessive event, passionate girls, not going allies, brilliant desire, sour tragedy, and the essence of sixteenth century Mexico. This remarkable uprising has been little remembered, maybe since it shed no glory at the males who may write the historical past ebook, yet on its end result depended the way forward for all North the USA. Aztec Autumn recreates this forgotten bankruptcy of background in all its elegance and unforgettable ardour.

By Gore Vidal

ISBN-10: 0375708774

ISBN-13: 9780375708770

With a brand new Introduction

Washington, D.C., is the ultimate installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume sequence of ancient novels in regards to the American earlier. It deals an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the recent Deal to the McCar-thy era.

Widely considered as Vidal's final touch upon how the yank political procedure degrades those that perform it, Washington, D.C. is a beautiful story of corruption and diseased pursuits. It lines the fortunes of James Burden Day, a strong conservative senator who's eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a realistic younger congressional aide with political aspirations of his personal; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper wealthy person who knows the significance of cash and photograph in smooth politics. With attribute wit and perception, Vidal chronicles lifestyles within the nation's capital at a time whilst those males and others reworked the United States into "possibly the final empire on earth."

"Washington, D.C. might be the best of latest novels concerning the capital," stated The New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously expert and smart performance."

By Gordon Ferris

ISBN-10: 0857895559

ISBN-13: 9780857895554

Gang-busters through day, fans by means of night.

Danny McRae is a personal detective scraping a residing in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, is seeking new angles to avoid wasting her career.

The excellent partnership… until eventually Eve disappears, a touch dies violently and an previous adversary offers Danny with a few unpalatable truths.

McRae's determined look for his lover attracts him right into a internet of black agents, double brokers and assassins, and hurls him into the shattered is still of Berlin, the place espionage and assassination foreshadow the increase of political terrorism. And Danny McRae starts to lose sight of the skinny line among sturdy and evil…

By Metin Arditi

ISBN-10: 224680440X

ISBN-13: 9782246804406

1937. Le régime soviétique pille, vend et détruit les trésors de l’Eglise russe. Il ferme plus de mille monastères. Des centaines de milliers de prêtres et de moines sont exécutés. Les plus chanceux s’échappent, vivant cachés dans les forêts.

Voici l’histoire de Nikodime, qui, avec l’aide d’une poignée de moines-vagabonds, tente de sauver les plus beaux trésors de l’art sacré orthodoxe. Où l’on rencontrera un ancien trapéziste, un beginner de vingt ans et quelques autres fous de Dieu. De l'avant-guerre à nos jours, de l. a. Russie bolchévique à l. a. Moscou des milliardaires et des galeries d’art, l’étourdissante histoire de quelques hommes de courage.

Et puis, bien sûr, il y a Irina. Elle fuit l'Enfer, traverse l'Europe, arrive à Paris, switch d'identité... Elle est au cœur de cette lumineuse histoire de résistance et de rédemption.

By Diane Setterfield

Al grajo le encanta que le cuenten una buena historia. Lleva cosechándolas desde que existen, desde que hay dioses, hombres y grajos. Y tiene buena memoria...
 
William acababa de cumplir diez años cuando consiguió los angeles admiración de todos los amigos: su ojo experto apuntó a un grajo que descansaba en un árbol lejano y, tras un instante de concentración, el tirachinas dio en el blanco. Nada grave, en apariencia; solo una chiquillada, pero a partir de entonces su vida cambió y William se propuso olvidar el pasado, trabajando duro para adelantarse al tiempo y a sus leyes. Los años fueron pasando y un hombre vestido de negro empezó a rondar a William en las circunstancias más trágicas. Nació así una extraña unión entre los dos caballeros y se inauguró en Londres una tienda espléndida, donde se exponían las telas y los complementos adecuados para el duelo de los difuntos. El negocio fue un éxito y durante un tiempo William pensó que su apuesta por el olvido period acertada, pero llegó un día en que un grajo muy negro surcó el techo acristalado del almacén: de golpe el pasado volvió, cargado de secretos y dispuesto a tomarse su venganza.

By Alexander Jovy

ISBN-10: 1859642810

ISBN-13: 9781859642818

This beautiful novel brings historic Persia to lifestyles, and divulges the pleasing tale of Cyrus himself, a brave chief whose ardour gained the hearts of his topics and enthusiasts alike. 

Cyrus's imaginative and prescient of a society the place spiritual tolerance may well and will succeed encouraged the root of his brilliant empire, but he was once ruthless in his conquests, and old Lydia and the fabled urban of Babylon fell to him. 

The e-book good points an emotional love tale and riveting conflict scenes, and is written with an power and fervour that infuse each page. I Am Cyrus brings historical past alive as few different novels do. it truly is filled with motion, ardour, comedy, tragedy and proposal. Its subject matter that precise co-operation among humans is just received via tolerance, is profoundly suitable to our personal times. 

I Am Cyrus is a narrative that has been as regards to Alexander Jovy's middle for a few years and he recollects his father telling him approximately historic Persia and the mysteries it holds: 'I was once involved even then how such an early civilization can have completed loads and be so unknown to our smooth world.'