Ergebnis für "Lockwood" in Historische Romane

Immersed in imaginative journeys, the Baron Trump stories showcase the eponymous character—a wealthy young boy residing in Trump Castle. While his official name is Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, he opts to be addressed by his title, Baron Trump, for simplicity. Venturing into time travel escapades across human history, the young Baron encounters ancient societies, engaging with their languages and social customs. Accompanied by his loyal and protective companion, Bulger the hound, Baron Trump navigates diverse adventures, overcoming numerous challenges.

Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) was the ambassador to the German Empire appointed by Abraham Lincoln. As a writer, he is known today for his Baron Trump novels, described by some as prophetic because the narratives contain strange coincidences with the current US president.

The only novel written by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights was originally published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and at first was thought to be the work of Emily's sister, Charlotte, the author of the classic, Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights tells the tale of Heathcliff, a young orphaned gypsy boy, who is brought to the windswept moors of Yorkshire by Mr. Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights.

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

In 1943, the United States government seized the estate of Irene Voss—a naturalized citizen, a widow, and the daughter of German immigrants. Six weeks later, she was dead. Her only heir was told the case had been resolved. It hadn’t. More than eighty years later, federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran uncovers a pattern buried in wartime records: estates quietly transferred to a facility known only as Site 7-J… heirs never notified… property sold decades later through shell companies.

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939...

A numbered account. Opened in Vienna in 1937. Never claimed. Never closed. When Federal Asset Recovery Specialist Miles Harran is assigned to a dormant Swiss account case, it appears routine. A standard claim. A standard process. A standard resolution. It isn’t. The account was never meant to be resolved. It was meant to be kept. As Miles traces the record across Vienna, Bern, and Washington, the facts begin to shift: A pre-war arrangement between two men. An exit that required something in return. A system designed to hold assets—and silence.

Headless in Hancock, 1882 is a historical fiction novel set in the New England village of Hancock at the close of the nineteenth century. At the center of town stands the Hancock Inn where stagecoaches bring travelers from Boston, Concord, and beyond. Each arrival brings new stories—adventure, conflict, romance, and danger—that ripple through the quiet village.

Van Diemen's Land, 1826. Bridget Crack, a desperate convict flees the cruelty of her master into the impenetrable Tasmanian wilderness. Saved from certain death by Matt Sheedy and his fellow bushrangers, her precarious existence among the volatile and murderous men is a different kind of hell...

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story by Top 10 bestselling author, Kayte Nunn 1951. In the shadow of the Second World War, Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband...

1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother’s precious legacy – the weaving of gossamer lace shawls stitched with intricate patterns that tell the stories passed down through generations. Meanwhile Lydia is...

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

For the first time in one place, the reader will see all the likely conspirators revealed. The Warren Commission and the FBI agreed that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Fifteen years later, the House Committee on Assassinations re-examined the evidence. They announced that he was not killed by a single gunman, but probably murdered as the result of a conspiracy.

Tall Tales from Fox Tavern is a book of connected short stories that use historical fiction to tell the tale of a series of visitors to Hancock Inn, circa 1860. The Inn owners, The Savages, must prosper in dangerous times as the Civil War ends and a new boom time begins in the hamlet of Hancock New Hampshire.

While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in...

Mr. Midshipman Easy is the 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction. It was adapted twice into films in 1916 and in 1935 as Midshipman Easy. Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 - August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story.

After enduring the horror and chaos of postwar Germany, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia full of hope for a new life. It’s a land of opportunity, where Lotte and husband Erich hope to give their children the future they have always dreamed of. After years of struggling to find their feet as ‘New Australians’, Erich turns his skill as a wood carver into a successful business, and Lotte makes a career out of her lifelong passion, photography.

Germany, 1943. The choices she makes will change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, Charlotte von Klein has big dreams for the future. Her mind is full of plans for a sumptuous wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Heinrich, while working for the Luftwaffe, proudly giving her all for the Fatherland. But in 1943, the tide of the war is turning against Germany, and Lotte's life of privilege and comfort begins to collapse around her.

Victory is fleeting, and peace is an illusion. As war drums echo across the land, a king who once triumphed over his enemies faces a treacherous new threat. A sea invasion, born of betrayal, erupts into a brutal clash upon frigid tides. Viking forces press in as the ruler rallies what remains of his fractured realm. Amid the chaos, one woman’s desperate quest for peace spirals beyond her grasp, dragging countless souls toward ruin. When vengeance fuels the enemy and the gods demand blood, only the brave will stand when the tide recedes.

Previously published as Echoes of War 'Blanchard at her breathtaking best. Rich in every sight, taste and smell.' Australian Women’s Weekly _________________ Set in Mussolini’s Italy amid great upheaval, this is the story of one woman’s determination to find her place in a world that men...