Ficción histórica

Ficción y temas afines / Ficción histórica (14428)

Ficción y temas afines / Ficción histórica
Libros Eliminar filtro Ficción y temas afines Eliminar filtro Ficción histórica Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Hannah
    E. Ruth Harder
    More than 2000 years ago, the world was a very different place. Into that world was born a very unique girl-Hannah. An orphan, she is, never the less, intelligent, ambitious and fiercely independent. Hannah’s bond with her first true friend, Mary, leads her into a life where she becomes a singular woman who is true to her soul, and strong in her faith in God. Against all rules ...
    Disponible

    12,27 €

  • Redeye Fulda Cold
    Bill Fortin
    Redeye Fulda Cold by Bill Fortin is a different type of war novel.  The silence of the combat was deafening for all who would participate. In 1969 the fighting of the Cold War was fought on a 1000 maps in 30 command posts strategically located throughout West Germany.  Fontain, the main character in this saga, is just out of high school. Within the year he is drafted and is ind...
    Disponible

    15,63 €

  • NOW AND IN THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH
    PATRICK TAYLOR
    ...
    Disponible

    24,29 €

  • Balo's War
    Alfredo E Cardenas
    This book uses a variety of characters, real and imagined, to tell the story of a people who went from being Spaniard to Mexican to American in a short span of 30 years. They struggled to hold on to their land, their language, their culture, and their history-against insurmountable odds. At times this struggle resorted to violence. This is a historical novel depicting the 'Plan...
    Disponible

    14,18 €

  • CONFESSIONS OF AL CAPONE
    Loren D. Estleman / LOREN DESTLEMAN
    ...
    Disponible

    24,16 €

  • Forbidden in Jade
    Lang Kevin
    A samurai is bound by the code of bushido.A woman-hater prowls the streets in search of victims to torment.A young girl is sold to a brothel for a pittance.By a strange twist of fate, their lives are intertwined. Shuntaro was born a sociopath. His only pleasure is other people’s suffering. When he manages to slide his way into power, it is only a matter of time before he clashe...
    Disponible

    14,45 €

  • Sultana
    Lisa J. Yarde / Lisa JYarde
    Book #4 of the Sultana series. In fourteenth-century Moorish Spain, a marriage of convenience for the sake of peace leads to disaster in the medieval kingdom of Granada. The young queen Jazirah, caught up in a dynastic struggle between warring brothers, fights for her survival. Wed to a husband who looks at her with more suspicion than lust in his eyes, she must escape reminder...
    Disponible

    15,38 €

  • Obi
    Martha R. Bireda / Martha RBireda
    Obi: Seminole Maroon is a fictionalized account of the daring escape of a 15 year old enslaved young man and his friends from a cotton plantation in South Carolina who find refuge among the Seminoles of Florida. The story follows Obi’s meeting with the mysterious Quashee, his transformation from slave to freedom seeker and his escape to Florida. Through the 'learnings' provided...
    Disponible

    13,04 €

  • SONG OF IRELAND
    JUILENE OSBORNE-MCKNIGHT
    ...
    Disponible

    20,80 €

  • The Cost of Sugar
    Cynthia McLeod / Gerald Mettam
    The Cost of Sugar is the historical story of Jewish family planters and their slaves in Suriname. Now a major motion picture, The Cost of Sugar gives an engrossing account of eighteenth century Suriname at the time when the country was ruled by the Dutch. The hypocrisies behind the veneer of a respectable colonial life are revealed through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, ...
    Disponible

    19,59 €

  • A Burnished Rose
    Christine Keleny
    Rose had wanted to do her bit for the war effort, help the boys who were risking their lives fighting the Germans and the Japanese, and maybe see a little of the world along the way. But there was no way she could have predicted the horrors she would encounter and the difficult choices she would have to make.Rose Krantz has made it through nursing school and much to everyone’s ...
    Disponible

    12,20 €

  • Band of Angels
    Robert Penn Warren
    Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast panorama of one of the most turbulent periods of American history as seen throu...
    Disponible

    21,23 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Although Polish, Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best.  As a reader we are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’ ...
    Disponible

    6,42 €

  • Nadya’s War
    C. S. Taylor / CSTaylor
    The Wehrmacht marches on Stalingrad.The deadly Luftwaffe dominates the skies.Nadya "Little Boar" Buzina, a young pilot with the Red Army's 586th all-female fighter regiment, has just been thrust into the meat grinder. If she’s to protect her homeland and survive the chaos, she’s going to have to learn to trust her wingman explicitly.German aces, however, aren’t the only one...
    Disponible

    18,36 €

  • The Wind in the Embers
    Malcolm David Logan
    Discovering the truth about your mother’s sordid past can be troubling.  If you’re the new Emperor of Rome, it can be downright terrifying. Rome’s ruling Augusta is rumored to be weak.  It is said that she is under the thumb of her powerful master of soldiers, Aetius.   But few know the real Galla Placidia, a cunning and ruthless adversary capable of holding together a crumblin...
    Disponible

    15,58 €

  • Mine to Remember
    Robert Kidd
    MINE TO REMEMBER is a story of deep love and great tragedy set in the short life of Rhodesia, from 1890 to 1980.  The changing history of the country unfolds through the lives of the different families who worked to develop and build the coal mining industry.  The story of Personnel Manager Patrick O’Connor and his African assistant Kumbula Zulu begins when they arrive in the c...
    Disponible

    10,56 €

  • The Empress Emerald
    J G Harlond
    Abandoned as a child in a Bombay orphanage, Leo Kazan’s life takes an unanticipated turn when he becomes the protégé of Sir Lionel Pinecoffin, the city’s District Political Officer in Bombay. Under Pinecoffin’s tutelage, the boy, adept at learning languages and theft, is trained as a spy and becomes immersed in international espionage, revolutionary politics, and diamond smuggl...
    Disponible

    16,78 €

  • Gretel's Cross
    Meredith Wayne Price
    From1914 to 1945, Gretel and her German family confront upheaval as WWI and WWII erupt in this historical fiction based on true facts and family relationships. The bullying, gossip, shame, and guilt of suicide, adultery, and forbidden romance accompany death and acts of heroism as Nazi Germany evolves.   ...
    Disponible

    18,15 €

  • The Trojan Icon
    William Dietrich
    Ethan Gage is back in The Trojan Icon, the richest novel yet in the New York Times bestselling series of historical thrillers. Hurtling from the snowy palaces of Russia’s St. Petersburg to the shadowy harem of Constantinople in 1806, the novel’s characters conspire and compete for a Trojan relic that can give invincibility to empires. The action begins when the American advent...
    Disponible

    15,36 €

  • The Wonderful Professor Wolgath
    Alexis Rhae
    In the Year of Our Lord 1764 “There are few sights in this world so pitiful, so effective at the thumping of one’s heartstrings, as that of a fine dog watching his affectionate master reach for his hat and coat by the door.” Little did Lucius Wolgath know as he left his loyal companion that evening that the dinner party he was on his way to attend would have an astounding aff...
    Disponible

    13,96 €

  • The Eyes of the Comet
    Dennis Lee Hague
    The Eyes of the Comet - An American Slave Odyssey is a “highly charged” historical novel whose time has finally arrived. The story captures the “vibrancy” of the South during the ante-bellum period. An exciting adventure, packed with all the intrigue and passion necessary to fill the reader’s imagination, the book represents a carefully researched compilation of material woven ...
    Disponible

    29,94 €

  • Along the Far Shores
    Kristin Gleeson
    A 12th century Irish woman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales.Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to become the seer her mother desired, so when her mother dies leaving her alone, she departs Ireland for Wales to be with her brother, Cormac, at the royal court at Gwynedd. There she finds he is joining Prince Madog’s voyage to the west...
    Disponible

    11,38 €

  • Eagle Rising
    Shelly Greenhalgh Davis
    In Eagle Shadow, the half-Cheyenne Nate Hunter found acceptance among his people. Now, in the gripping sequel, Eagle Rising, his standing among his people rises sharply, even as the cavalry hunts him for treason. Under the protection of a powerful Cheyenne chief, he searches for an unseen enemy among both the cavalry and his people, unaware of how very close by danger lurks. ...
    Disponible

    22,68 €

  • LONGING TO BE FREE
    JUDITH T. GUSKIN
     This novel is set in tumultuous times 1630-1677 in colonial New England and London. In the beginning there was peaceful co-existence between the English colonists and the Native American Nations. Comfort Bradford, the daughter of the Governor of Plymouth, is friends with her Wampanoag neighbors; she speaks their language and respects their culture. Decades later her friend Met...
    Disponible

    12,63 €

  • The Canyons
    Ben Kostival
    The Canyons combines the naturalism of Frank Norris' McTeague with the modernist techniques of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, yielding a work of historical noir that Howard Zinn called 'an ingenious blending of fact and fiction.' Based on the Colorado coalfield war of 1913-14, The Canyons borrows the zeitgeist of a century ago to allegorize contemporary conditions of ...
    Disponible

    9,94 €

  • The Bell Tolled Twice
    Tony Brennan
    1944. King’s Cross. The red light district of Sydney is alive with noise, bright lights, American soldiers on leave – and vice. Nearby, Annie Watson is hoping for a few days’ vacation with her cousin, Monica Jeffrey. But when Annie intervenes to save an orphan girl, she is enmeshed in a murder conspiracy involving gangsters, drug addicts, thugs and prostitutes. Discovering the ...
    Disponible

    21,25 €

  • The Chalky Sea
    Clare Flynn
    Two troubled people in a turbulent world.In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood drops her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again. Two days later her humdrum world is torn apart when the sleepy English seaside town where she lives is subjected to the first of many heavy bombing attacks.In Ontario, Canada, Jim Armstrong is debating whether to volunteer. His d...
    Disponible

    19,54 €

  • Next Year in Jerusalem
    John Kolchak
    A brutal re-imagining of the Gospel story, Next Year in Jerusalem follows the footsteps of Yeshua Bar-Yosif—an illiterate, epileptic, bastard son of a Roman soldier on his ill-fated life journey through a land racked by terror.     As first century Judea bleeds from the oppression of Roman rule and the violent uprisings against it, Yeshua, tormented by familial guilt for abando...
    Disponible

    10,60 €

  • In Praise of the Bees
    Kristin Gleeson
    Ireland 590 A.D.A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.Disturbing fragments of Áine’s memory begin to surface, and in despe...
    Disponible

    11,46 €

  • Wakanisha
    Michael Foster
    To the Lakota Sioux, the word Wakanisha roughly translates as children, but has a far deeper meaning. Wakanisha are their sacred vessels of culture, spirituality and most importantly, love. These first inhabitants of America strived for harmony in all things, with the land of rolling plains they freely roamed, and within their tribes, families, and hearts. Follow three generati...
    Disponible

    10,46 €


01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Última