Ergebnis für "Nina West" in Historische Romane

Juli Zeh und Pferde, das ist eine intensive Liebesgeschichte. Womit verzaubern uns diese zugleich starken und sanften Tiere? Wie kommt es, dass so unterschiedliche Wesen wie Pferd und Mensch immer wieder die Nähe des anderen suchen? Juli Zeh schreibt darüber, welche Rolle Fluchtinstinkt und Rangordnung spielen und wie man die Sprache der Pferde erlernen kann. Was ein typisches Pferdemädchen antreibt. Warum Reiten glücklich macht und weshalb Pferde oft als Zen-Meister bezeichnet werden. Sie erzählt von Frauen, die sich mehr für die neuesten Pferdedecken als für Modetrends interessieren.

A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. "I have been waiting for Nina McConigley's debut novel for years and it's even better than I...

As Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy prepare for the Netherfield Ball, a gentlemen’s challenge develops between them to secure their future happiness...with the two eldest Bennet sisters! But when things do not go as expected for Mr. Darcy, Hertfordshire society is in an uproar over the pursuit of one of their favorite daughters by such a wealthy gentleman. Despite being claimed by Mr. Darcy as his future bride, Elizabeth Bennet has no plans to wed the proud and disdainful Mr. Darcy, no matter what her father says!

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to...

WINNER OF THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD AND THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD ● For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maile Meloy, a collection of stories about Indian immigrants in the rural American West full of “such grace and understated power that you know you are in the presence of an incredible new...