Ergebnis für "Beggar, The" in Historische Romane

1662: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of a village in the Alps, receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. When the city constable discovers Kuisl alongside the corpse, he locks him in a dungeon, where Kuisl will experience firsthand the torture he’s administered himself for years.

Kidnapped in seventh-century England and sold as a slave to a powerful mayor in France, Bathilde needs to adapt to survive. When the mayor’s beloved wife passes away, he looks to Bathilde for comfort. Fleeing his attentions, she is forced to live on the streets until she catches the king’s eye and everything changes. Now a queen, Bathilde must provide the king with heirs and continue the charitable and social work that has become her life, all while fighting her detractors. By the end of her days, Bathilde had changed the face of medieval France forever.

Meet Kelly, a world-renowned classical pianist who gave it all up to be a Grammy Award-winning rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. The love of his life died, he withdrew, and for seven years he's been living in his camper and playing in dive bars to get by. In a chance encounter, he meets a woman who brings him back to life, but he loses contact with her. His only chance to get her back is to write and record a hit song that she'll know is for her. Can he climb to the top a third time? The odds are against him.

In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it's innocent civilians who will pay the price - unless Eddie can find the killer in time.

Against the background of the Protestant Reformation and conflicts between England and Spain, this novel relates the rise of the House of Orange and the beginnings of Dutch nationalism. The factual history of the conflict is long and complex, but Holland tells an insightful, if small, slice of a much bigger picture, through the stories of one Dutch family. Holland brings the listener into the action, fighting alongside Jan and Hanneke against Alva and the Spaniards who seek to crush their revolution.

1919年，从山东流落到北京的小乞丐栾学堂，因救了老板的女儿有幸在济丰楼里当堂倌，在不断沉浮和波折中开始了他的餐饮人生……1919年，從山東流落到北京的小乞丐欒學堂，因救了老闆的女兒有幸在濟豐樓里當堂倌，在不斷沉浮和波折中開始了他的餐飲人生……

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. “I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one...

Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn’t know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin “brothers” have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou...