Ergebnis für "Lovers" in Historische Romane

London, 1664. Seventeen-year-old Elise de Lesseps wakes on the morning of her wedding, knowing her life is over. Sold into marriage to settle her father’s gaming debts, she’s bound to Lord Edward Asher—a man old enough to be her father and who harbors a twisted secret that will shatter her innocence forever. But when Elise meets James, Edward’s illegitimate son, her life is transformed by something neither of them expected: a love so powerful, it will cost them everything…

The international bestseller from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World * One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person...

Ich trage das Erbe einer verbotenen Liebe in mir. Sobald der magische Rat bemerkt, welche Magie durch meine Adern fließt, wird er mich töten. Um mich zu verstecken, darf ich nicht zaubern. Dumm nur, dass meine Kräfte sich ständig verselbstständigen, um Leute zu verkuppeln. Warum bekomme ich meine Magie nicht in den Griff? Um mein Erbe zu verstehen, muss ich mehr über meinen Vater erfahren. Was für ein Wesen war er? Wer bin ich? Im neunten Buch erfahre ich von einer verbotenen Liebe: Nur wenn Mondlicht auf den See am alten Kloster fällt, kann Sinead ihre Schwanengestalt ablegen und menschlich werden.

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the mastermind behind The Dangerous Damsels series, India Holton delivers another fantastical and whimsical story that's perfect to read with a cup of tea . . . Rival ornithologists hunt through Europe for dangerous magical birds in this historical fantasy romance...

Hosea has been charged by God with a difficult task-marry a prostitute in order to show God's people the nature and depth of his love for Israel. When Hosea goes to Israel to proclaim God's message, the prostitute God tells him to marry turns out to be his childhood friend Gomer. He finds her broken and abused, unwilling to trust Hosea or his God. But when marrying Hosea becomes her only choice, Gomer does what she's good at - she survives. Can Hosea's love for God and God's love for Israel heal Gomer's broken spirit?

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral....

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything.

People often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family? Through painstaking research and a writer's creative mind, Mesu Andrews weaves an emotional and stirring account of this well-known story told through the eyes of the women who loved him. 

Einst war das alte China von Magie durchdrungen. Doch vor 300 Jahren versiegte das spirituelle Qi der Himmel und der Erde. Seitdem konnten Missgunst und Feindseligkeit unter den Menschen ungehindert wachsen. Nun steht die Welt kurz davor, endgültig in Chaos und Zerstörung zu versinken. Von den einst mächtigen Exorzisten ist nur noch einer übrig: der junge Chen Xing. Es ist seine Aufgabe, die Apokalypse zu verhindern. Chen Xings einzige magische Fähigkeit, die Herzlampe, führt ihn zu dem Mann, den das Schicksal zu seinem Beschützer bestimmt hat: dem geheimnisvollen Xiang Shu.

A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program - and to begin a new life - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston's...

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Im Schatten des Magierrates. Meine schlimmste Angst ist wahrgeworden: Ich habe den Rat nach Baile Beag an Ghrá gelockt und ein Freund schwebt in Lebensgefahr. Im dreizehnten Buch geht es auf Rettungsmission. Dr. Otis Drake ist der einzige in der Stadt, der über das Wissen verfügt, das Faerwyn retten kann. Aber er ist ein Vampir und der magische Rat wird ihn nicht anhören. Dennoch brechen er, IT-Hexe Dawn und die Fledermaus Bruce mitten am Tag zu einer waghalsigen Rettungsmission auf. In Dublin wird Otis nicht nur mit seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert, sondern erfährt auch etwas, das ihre Zukunft für immer verändern wird.

Mein Zauber hat den Magierrat nach Baile Beag an Ghrá gelockt und meine Freunde sind in Gefahr. Doch der Rat ist nicht nur auf der Suche nach einem alten magischen Wesen, er hat noch viel Schlimmeres vor. Gemeinsam muss es uns gelingen, die Pläne des Rates zu durchkreuzen. Denn sonst ist meine neue Heimat für immer verloren. Im dreizehnten Buch geht es auf Rettungsmission Dr. Otis Drake ist der einzige in der Stadt, der über das Wissen verfügt, das Faerwyn retten kann. Aber er ist ein Vampir und der magische Rat wird ihn nicht anhören.

Standing in the massive shadow of his famous father, young king Solomon wavers between fear and bravado, wisdom and folly. In the uncertain world of alliances and treachery, Solomon longs for peace and a love that is true and pure - a love that can be his cornerstone. A shepherdess in the northern city of Shunem, Arielah remembers the first time she laid eyes on Solomon in Jerusalem when she was just seven years old. Since then she has known that it was her destiny to become his bride.

The first book in Ashe's captivating historical romance series, When a Scot Loves a Lady finds its dashing hero Lord Blackwood, an agent of the ultra-secretive Falcon Club, ready to return to his home in Scotland - but not without the scandalous lady who has captured his heart while bringing unanticipated danger into his life.

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