Ergebnis für "Celeste" in Historische Romane

Für Kapitän Benjamin Spooner Briggs gestaltet sich die Suche nach einer geeigneten Mannschaft für sein neuerworbenes Schiff, die Mary Celeste, unerwartet schwer. Das Gerücht, der Zweimaster sei ein Unglücksschiff, auf dem es spuke, hat sich im Hafen von New York unter den abergläubischen Seelauten verbreitet. Kapitän Briggs will dennoch von all dem nichts wissen. Die Mary Celeste soll eine Ladung Industriealkohol nach Genua transportieren und es darf keine Zeit verloren werden. Und so sticht die Mary Celeste am 7. November 1872 hoffnungsvoll in See.

From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder comes a beautiful novel about loneliness and the power of words. Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his...

Anna DeMarco’s creative world shatters when a remorseless stranger tears it apart—no blood spilled, just her spirit broken. He thinks he’s won. He’s wrong. Dragged into a realm where karma wields a jagged edge and magic fuels vengeance, Milton Smith faces a brutal reckoning. How dare he make her cry. This modern-day critic obsessed with medieval lore crossed the wrong writer—and finds himself hurled into a brutal world of his own making.

In this lush and lyrical fantasy, Ryan Graudin transports readers to the hidden magical pockets of early 1900s Paris, a place of enchanted salons, fortune tellers who can change your stars, and doorways that can take you to the most unexpected places—and introduces readers to the delightful...

Banished from her uncaring family home for her growing friendship with older neighbor St. John, Alexandria Thaine is unprepared for the new life she encounters with her distant cousins in England's West Country. She blossoms under the warmth of the Falconers, and as she throws herself into the thrilling danger of the family's smuggling trade, Alex forms an unbreakable bond with the eldest son, Rane. But just as Alex begins to imagine a future in Devon with Rane at her side, the death of her older sister forces her back home to care for her sister's motherless twins.

Lexy Culhane follows in stunned silence as her father bundles her younger brothers onto the train in a midnight flight away from the only life they have ever known. It seems impossible to her that her gentle, loving mother could have shot a man.

Na manhã de um dia de primavera de 1977, Lydia Lee não aparece para tomar café. Mais tarde, seu corpo é encontrado em um lago de uma cidade de Ohio a que ela e sua família sino-americana nunca se adaptaram muito bem. Quem ou o que fez com que Lydia–uma estudante promissora de 16 anos, adorada pelos pais–fugisse de casa e se aventurasse em um bote tarde da noite, mesmo tendo pavor de água e sem saber nadar?

Grief-stricken widower Lord Matthias Waterford, master of Havensbeck Manor, sends messages in a bottle to his lost wife and child. He throws them into the river by night, never knowing they are being found and read by spirited vicar’s ward Bernadette Goodrich! A Christmas Ball brings the two together in a plot by a mischievous little brother and an interfering butler!

Newly transformed vampire, Miles Beaumont, London maker of famous harpsichords is a noteworthy concert artist. But as with all creatures, he craves a mate of his own kind. Miles lives and loves through three centuries. His quest for conjugal union continues into the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Era. In contemporary New York, he must decide if use his charm and talents to lure a talented young beauty as his mate, or does he maintain some shred of conscience concerning his blood lust?

Mozart's wife aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than 40 after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze paid her husband's debts, provided for their children, and relentlessly marketed and mythologized her brilliant husband.

Celeste is an airship like no other, completely automated, incredibly powerful, and hell-bent on the destruction of Washington, D.C., and the end of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Anastasia Hawke, an agent for the newly formed Secret Service, and her young daughter are caught up in the chase to stop it. Enlisting the aid of the captain of the British Air Navy's flagship, they race across the Atlantic in a desperate attempt to prevent it from completing its function and prolonging the American Civil War.

Boxcar Willie takes place just after the Civil War and out west in the badlands, in the old mining towns of the Gold rush and on top of Devils Tower. Golden Rule of the IlluminaRti is never to reveal secret missions of quarantined ERAS of History.

Clara stood on the shore with a letter in her hand on the Spanish Riviera. The letter was a callous goodbye from her betrothed fiancé who was leaving her. He was breaking off the engagement to marry a richer woman. Clara was devastated and wanted nothing more than to hide at her family's holiday villa in Spain. She wanted to keep away from the London gossip that waited for her on her return.

Margaret Trumown was excited to arrive in New York for the winter holiday after what she had been through in St. Louis. Now after a devastating engagement that ended and ruined her chances of a good marriage, she was with her prominent aunt in a well-to-do part of Manhattan. She expected a good winter get away and to marvel at the lights of the modern city in the year 1901; however, what really happened was more than she ever thought possible.

After Elizabeth falls for a charming and eccentric painter named Aidan, she allows him to take her maidenhood that results in a forced marriage. Now that they are married, the painter has taken her back to his home of Venice, Italy, where he plans to continue painting and incorporate Elizabeth into his life; as it seems he truly does love her, even though the marriage was forced to prevent scandal - or so it seems.

Elizabeth Sterling loved to view the paintings at the Royal Academy in London, but she was not expecting to catch the eye of one of its most famous painters Aidan Drivatti. He was a sexy and passionate genius, but also a known scoundrel. When he asks Elizabeth to model for him for his next painting, she has a risky decision to make.

Como escreveu Silviano Santiago, não é aos cadáveres que Annalu Braga dedica Olhos de vidro. Dedica-o aos fantasmas. Façam-se, pois, ouvintes, fantasmas, se já não o forem, ao decidir entrar no universo de perseguição e violência e na trama de culpa e remorso, de vingança adiada, das dez narrativas de Olhos de vidro.

A religious world order is rapidly emerging. The "Society of Truth" has reached almost nine million members, claiming to hold the keys to physical perfection and everlasting life. It is aptly named, for they believe they alone know “The Truth” about the beginning of human existence, the current state of affairs and how to secure an eternal future. Drawn to the promise of physical perfection and everlasting life, thousands are being brainwashed and converting everyday. Rising up is a resistance led by an organization that’s been operating underground for centuries....

Catherine, wife of one-handed Edgar, daughter of a Jewish merchant, and mother of two small children, is a Christian convert. Agnes, her estranged sister, has returned to Paris with the news that she is to marry a German lord. She wants no part of her Jewish family, except the sizable dowry her father can provide.

It was 1895 and time for a change, or so Rebecca thought. For 13 years Rebecca Rice had suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood, soaking up the leftovers of other people's lives like a sponge. She can't remember a time in her life when she didn't do exactly what was expected of her, until now. Armed with a knowledge of nursing and faith healing that she learned from a visiting missionary group, she heads for the hill country of southeastern Oklahoma, Indian Territory, to share her new vocation.