Ergebnis für "Cars" in Historische Romane

Ein fesselnder Roman über Mut, Opferbereitschaft und die Kraft der Familie in dunkelsten Zeiten, von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta Bernried am Starnberger See, 1942: Die Familien von Falkenbach und Lehmann haben sich daran gewöhnt, dass ihre Telefonate abgehört werden. Doch nun erreicht dieses Gefühl, bespitzelt zu werden, eine neue Dimension. Gibt es jemanden in der Familie, der Informationen an die Nazis weitergibt? Wilhelmine von Falkenbach ist im Zentrum des Widerstands und riskiert alles, um die Wahrheit zu verbreiten.

Miss Mildred Percy is a spinster. She does not dance, she has long stopped dreaming, and she certainly does not have adventures. That is, until her great uncle has the audacity to leave her an inheritance, one that includes a dragon’s egg. The egg—as eggs are wont to do—decides to hatch, and Miss Mildred Percy is suddenly thrust out of the role of “spinster and general wallflower” and into the unprecedented position of “spinster and keeper of dragons.” But England has not seen a dragon since…well, ever.

Maria Borchardt steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens – und trotzdem findet sie die Kraft für einen Neuanfang, der ihr letztlich mehr beschert, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte... Maria Borchardt ist nicht mehr dieselbe Frau seit diesem schrecklichen Weihnachten 1976. Seit die Polizei an der Tür der Villa Borchardt geklingelt und der Staatsanwalt ihr den Durchsuchungsbeschluss präsentiert hatte. Seit sie erfahren hatte, dass ihr Mann Hanns Borchardt in betrügerische Machenschaften verwickelt war. Aber jetzt ist keine Zeit, sich selbst zu bemitleiden.

The English-language debut of the acclaimed international bestseller - Anywhere but Home crosses continents, cultures, and generations to tell a sweeping story of self-discovery, finding your own place in a new world, and the revelatory mysteries of being a family.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

Pensaron que sería una historia de amor imposible. Y se convirtió en un amor eterno. Cuando su madre muere, la narradora de este libro descubre una caja con cartas que llevan décadas esperándola. Contienen una historia de amor inesperada —la de sus padres, Antonio y Claudina— y también el retrato de una época, de dos familias —la de él, andaluza; la de ella, barcelonesa— y de un país en plena transformación. Care Santos se embarca en la indagación y la reconstrucción íntima y literaria de un universo que es el suyo, pero a la vez le es muy ajeno.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! New York Times Bestseller “Fans of Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito, characters created by the author’s father, Tony Hillerman, will savor this multilayered story of suspense, with its...

PREMIO NADAL 2017. Un relato elocuente y vital sobre cómo nos afecta el paso del tiempo, el peso de la culpa y la importancia del perdón. Una noche como otras de verano de 1950, cinco amigas adolescentes juegan a 'acción o verdad' en un internado de monjas. Esta vez la prueba a que será...

When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it’s the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of...

The Blight ravages both Tamar and Sarkum, and their people, and armies, are starving. Violence and protests in Narfour have the city on the brink of rebellion. When Ihsan sees a chance to gain an ally with the only productive land left in Tamar for his cousin, the Sultana, he takes it. But nothing is as it seems when Behram Kadir is involved. Ihsan knows he should not trust the woman who has upended his life, even if she is the first warmth he has felt since fire stole everything from him.

Unos relatos imprescindibles en los que el genio creativo de Diana Gabaldon llena algunos huecos de los extraordinarios avatares de unos personajes que los oyentes han seguido a lo largo de miles de páginas. En las novelas de la saga «Outlander», la autora más vendidade bestsellers Diana Gabaldon ha creado un mundo fascinante. Ahora, en Siete piedras para resistir o caer, reúne una fantástica colección de relatos y novelas breves inéditas en español que, a partir de la historia de Forastera, apuntan en direcciones nuevas.

En las novelas de la saga Outlander, la autora más vendida Diana Gabaldon ha creado un mundo fascinante. Ahora, en Siete piedras para resistir o caer, reúne una fantástica colección de relatos y novelas breves inéditas en español que, a partir de la historia de Forastera, apuntan en direcciones nuevas.

Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last...

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since...

As the threat of the livahti grows and her enemies regroup, Jael Furyck knows she cannot stop. Escaping Hallow Wood at the head of the Brekkan army, she must find her way to Oss. Her chilling encounter with the Mistress leaves her in no doubt that Eadmund is in grave danger. But facing days on the road and a journey across the Nebbar Straights, will she arrive in time to save him?

Reunited with her husband after an epic battle in Alekka, Jael wants nothing more than to return to her island kingdom and start again. She first heads to Andala to pick up her children, only to have her plans upended by a dream revealing a horrifying future: her brothers dead, her daughter, even herself—all of the Furycks gone. She seeks urgent advice from her grandmother—a better dreamer than she will ever be—soon discovering that she has mysteriously disappeared in Tuura.

An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit. At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation.

Hannah, Lady Beeston, can't say she's sorry that her husband is dead. The past 10 years have been anything but blissful, and seeing as they culminated in her being shot (albeit accidentally), she just can't find it in her heart to be sad. But it leaves her with a bad leg and an uncertain future - two things she isn't sure she can get past. Dr. Graham Alcott is more than happy with his quiet bachelor lifestyle. He spends his days tending to the sick and his nights studying by candlelight.

Mother and father, Pat and J.P. (Joe Paul, Sr.) leave home early on April 19th, 1995, relying on their capable teenage sons, Joe Paul, Jr., and Dale, to take care of the ranch outside Perkins, and their siblings, nine-year-old Thomas and 11-year-old Henry. After some rocky times, both personally and financially, Pat and J.P. are taking a much needed day together without the kids to do some shopping in Oklahoma City, with plans to return home by eight pm.

Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los pájaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad más desfasada que científica que sueña con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de pájaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que aún no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea.