Ergebnis für "EDEN" in Historische Romane

Gespaltenes Land, gespaltene Herzen - eine Familie, zerrissen zwischen Ost und West. Berlin 1964: Nach der Haft darf Gesine ausreisen, doch die Frage, was mit ihrem Kind passiert ist, lässt sie nicht los. Gesines Schwester Sonja steht wegen DDR-kritischer Aussagen unter besonderer Beobachtung. Dass für ihre Überwachung ein enges und geliebtes Familienmitglied angeworben wurde, weiß Sonja nicht. Und so vertraut sie sich ihren Liebsten an, nicht ahnend, dass sie in eine Falle laufen könnte. Mutter Lotte bleibt mit ihrer jüngsten Tochter Lydia in Ostberlin.

Ein Band, das niemand trennen kann - Eine Familie, mutige Frauen und ihr Traum von Freiheit. Berlin 1979: Die 19-jährige Lydia Richter besucht eine der renommierten Kinder- und Jugendsportschulen in Berlin, wo sie sich mit Christiane Lindig anfreundet. Die jungen Frauen haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: die Olympischen Spiele in Moskau. Das harte Training bringt sie diesem Ziel zwar näher, führt aber auch zu besorgniserregenden körperlichen Veränderungen, die sich die beiden nicht erklären können.

Für Liebe und Freiheit wagten sie alles - das Schicksal einer Familie im geteilten Deutschland. Berlin 1961: Die Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind Vergangenheit, und die Hauptstadt blüht wieder auf. Die 19-jährige Gesine aus Berlin-Mitte und der Westberliner Student Peter sind frisch verliebt, aber ihnen bleiben nur wenige Monate, bevor der Bau der Mauer der Beziehung ein jähes Ende bereitet. Gesine ist verzweifelt. Ihre alleinerziehende Mutter Lotte versteht den Schmerz ihrer Tochter und versucht, Gesine und ihrer Schwester Sonja trotz der schwierigen Situation in Ostberlin ein gutes Leben zu ermöglichen.

Winter 1257. Zwei Reisende kämpfen sich durch Eis und Schnee bis zu einem einsamen Kloster in der Eifel. Der Novize Aelvin erkennt in einem der Fremden den berühmten Albertus Magnus, begleitet von dem todkranken Mädchen Favola. Sie trägt ein begehrtes Gut bei sich: die sagenumwobene Lumina, die letzte Pflanze aus dem Garten Eden. Während Favola das geheimnisvolle Gewächs zurück an seinen rätselhaften Ursprungsort bringen will, hat ein machtgieriger Erzbischof andere Pläne.

When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses - and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed a greatly feared stranger. Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the Duke's castle is as cold and forbidding as the Duke himself, a man with terrible scars on his body and his soul.

Ein spannender historischer Roman um eine junge Kaufmannstochter im Preußen des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Preußen, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Das Leben von Maria, der 17-jährigen Tochter eines Kolonialwarenhändlers, scheint vorherbestimmt. Sie soll standesgemäß heiraten und anschließend ihren Ehemann dabei unterstützen, das Geschäft des Vaters fortzuführen. Da trifft Maria den Zigeuner Kaló, verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in ihn und wird nach einer leidenschaftlichen Nacht schwanger.

Harry Windover adores blonde, green-eyed Athena Lancaster, but alas, a penniless man like himself has no hope of winning a young noblewoman’s hand. To add insult to injury, Athena’s brother-in-law and guardian, the Duke of Kielder, has asked Harry to assist Athena in finding the gentleman of her dreams. But the lovesick Harry is cunning as well: as the weeks pass, he introduces Athena to suitors who are horrifically boring, alarmingly attached to their mothers, downright rude, astoundingly self-absorbed, and utterly ridiculous.

In Southeast Turkey, where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archeologists to be the centerpiece of Eden, a once illustrious civilization and the cradle of mankind. But what if Eden is not the paradise that the texts make it out to be? What if it held dark secrets and unholy terrors instead?

Jack London'ın kendini anlattığı Martin Eden'in yayınlandığı yıllarda, London zaten çok ünlü bir yazardı. London farklı sınıflar arasındaki zihniyet ve değer farklarını gözlerimizin önüne sererken, statü ve parasal gücün Amerikan toplumundaki önemine işaret eder. Yazdıklarını zaten yaşamıştır yazar. Martin eğitimsiz genç bir işçiden, başarılı ve rafine bir yazara dönüşür. Hedefine ulaştığında ise motivasyonunu ve heyecanını çoktan yitirmiş, trajik bir sona doğru sürüklenmektedir artık.

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland.

The King family is bound together by a hatred as vast as their oil-rich Texas ranch and the purse strings of a fortune held by the cold matriarch of their wealthy clan. When Helen King's eldest son Howard is shot to death in his Dallas home, there is no shortage of suspects. As the police close in on the killer, family peacekeeper Matthew faces an unwanted choice: loyalty to a family that's never understood love, or saving his own skin.

Pats Ehefrau Mary schenkt zur großen Freude Pats einem gesunden Jungen das Leben. Mary kann sich jedoch mit ihrer Mutterrolle nicht anfreunden. Als sie nicht imstande ist, das Baby zu stillen, treibt Pat eine außergewöhnliche Amme auf. Die Ehe von Pat und Mary bröckelt zusehends, von der einstigen Liebe ist nichts mehr vorhanden. Mary trauert ihrem Traum nach, ein eigenes Restaurant zu eröffnen, das Landleben empfindet sie als öde und leer. Pat hat nur eines im Kopf, ein Bier zu brauen, das seinen Erwartungen entspricht.

Jack Kelly and Paul Mann have survived one world war – will they survive another? When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific, the two men know that they must do everything in their power to protect their adopted country of Papua as well as their loved ones from an ambitious and merciless enemy. Lukas Kelly and Karl Mann are like brothers – just like their fathers – and both are determined to do their part for the Australian cause. While Karl works undercover in espionage, Lukas trains to be a pilot.

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When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence. But he couldn’t be more mistaken - the maid is not only a lady of birth, she’s the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentleman, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle.

After five years of tracking and capturing spies on English soil, Philip Jonquil, Earl of Lampton, is in pursuit of his last quarry. But at a traveler’s inn, he encounters an unexpected and far more maddening foe: Sorrel Kendrick, a young lady who is strikingly pretty, shockingly outspoken, and entirely unimpressed with him. Indeed, Sorrel cannot believe the nerve of this gentleman, who rudely accuses her of theft and insults her feminine dignity. Doubly annoyed when they both end up at a party hosted by mutual friends, Philip and Sorrel privately declare war on one another.

A horse breeder by trade, Corbin Jonquil is more at home in the stables than in the ballroom of his sprawling estate. Corbin is the quietest of the Jonquil brothers and has always faded into the background, contentedly unnoticed. When a mysterious young widow, Mrs. Clara Bentford, moves into the neighborhood, however, Corbin quickly comes to realize that being noticed has its advantages. But how to catch the eye of the lady? According to his brothers, Corbin need only make a few simple changes.

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Mercury Raine has spent his entire life surrounded by ghosts. Little about them can surprise him any longer. But when the Violet Giant, a ghost well over seven feet tall and built like a boulder, floats into his local pub, Mercury is as shocked as everyone else. And when the mysterious mountain of a specter knows Mercury at first glance, he is justifiably wary. Mercury’s identity is a closely guarded secret. His past is a mystery even to himself. And, for the first time in his life, the fortifications around his heart have begun to crack.