Ergebnis für "Ruth" in Historische Romane

Niederlande, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Um der Enge ihrer unglücklichen Ehe zu entfliehen, versucht Maria Sibylla Merian in Amsterdam den Neuanfang. Ihr großer Traum ist es, eine Überfahrt ins ferne Surinam zu ergattern, um dort die faszinierende Vielfalt der Schmetterlinge zu studieren. Der Start in der großen Stadt allerdings ist holprig. Die erwarteten Malschülerinnen bleiben aus, und Financiers finden sich auch keine. Aber Maria gibt nicht auf.

In Paris steht ein Haus, das allen Frauen dieser Welt Zuflucht bietet. Auch der erfolgreichen Anwältin Solène, die nach einem Zusammenbruch ihr Leben infrage stellt. Im Haus der Frauen schreibt sie nun im Auftrag der Bewohnerinnen Briefe - an die Ausländerbehörde, den zurückgelassenen Sohn in Guinea, den Geliebten - und erfährt das Glück des Zusammenhalts und die Magie dieses Hauses. Doch wer war die Frau, die vor 100 Jahren allen Widerständen zum Trotz diesen Schutzort schuf?

Drei Heldentaten habe sie in ihrem Leben vollbracht, erklärt Helga Schuberts Mutter ihrer Tochter: Sie habe sie nicht abgetrieben, sie im Zweiten Weltkrieg auf die Flucht mitgenommen und sie vor dem Einmarsch der Russen nicht erschossen. Helga Schubert erzählt in kurzen Episoden und klarer, berührender Sprache ein Jahrhundert deutscher Geschichte - ihre Geschichte, sie ist Fiktion und Wahrheit zugleich. Mehr als zehn Jahre steht sie unter Beobachtung der Stasi, bei ihrer ersten freien Wahl ist sie fast fünfzig Jahre alt.

Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. After a 36-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. And before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.

At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home - to Gaul. Having received a note consisting only of the words "COME HOME!" Ruso has (reluctantly, of course) pulled up stakes and brought Tilla to meet his family. But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he'll leave.

The edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place; the tribes of the North dwell near its borders. These hinterlands are the homeland of Gaius Petreius Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople, under the leadership of the mysterious Stag Man, are fomenting a rebellion, and her former lover is implicated in the murder of a soldier. Ruso, once again pulled into a murder investigation, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the prime suspect.

At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste....

Master storyteller and best-selling author H. B. Moore brings to life the biblical account of Ruth as never before in this vivid retelling of her courageous and faithful life. Following the death of Ruth's husband, she finds herself at a crossroads. Rather than return to her family and hometown, the young widow makes a remarkable decision: she will remain with her mother-in-law, Naomi, as her caretaker and companion.

In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about.

"Silence" (dt. Schweigen) ist der wichtigste Roman des gefeierten japanischen Autors Shusaku Endo. Er verursachte nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1966 eine große Kontroverse in Japan. Shusaku Endo, ein japanischer Katholik, erzählt die Geschichte zweier portugiesischer Missionare, die im siebzehnten Jahrhundert in Japan versuchen, die dortige unterdrückte christliche Bewegung zu unterstützen.

Berlin, 1930er-Jahre: Die Freundinnen Jola und Luise sind unzertrennlich, auch wenn sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Sie genießen das Leben so gut sie können, immer auf der Suche nach einer Handvoll Glück - und werden schließlich doch von den Schrecken des Krieges eingeholt ... Die mitreißende Geschichte einer Jugend, die Barbara Noacks eigene sein könnte.

Alexander ist ein junger Mann, dessen Leben brutal entzweigerissen wurde. Tatjana Alexejewna ist über neunzig und immer vergesslicher. Die alte Dame erzählt ihrem neuen Nachbarn ihre Lebensgeschichte, die das ganze russische 20. Jahrhundert mit all seinen Schrecken umspannt. Nach und nach erkennen die beiden ineinander das eigene gebrochene Herz wieder und schließen eine unerwartete Freundschaft, einen Pakt gegen das Vergessen.

As mysterious injuries, and even deaths, begin to appear in the medical ledgers, it's clear that all is not well amongst the native recruits to Britannia's imperial army. Is the much-decorated centurion Geminus preying on his weaker soldiers? And could this be related to the appearance of Emperor Hadrian? Bound by his sense of duty and ill-advised curiosity, Ruso begins to ask questions nobody wants to hear. Meanwhile his barbarian wife Tilla is finding out some of the answers....

The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. When soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment.

First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys". Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle.

Stoccolma, 1901. Il Grand Hôtel, che ospiterà la cerimonia del primo Premio Nobel della storia, è in verità sull’orlo del fallimento. Riuscirà una donna a risollevarne le sorti? In una fredda sera di dicembre del 1901, mentre nella sontuosa sala dei banchetti del Grand Hôtel fervono i preparativi per la prima cerimonia d’assegnazione del Premio Nobel, negli uffici ai piani superiori l’atmosfera è decisamente meno gioiosa. L’albergo, un vanto per la corona svedese e per l’intera nazione, in realtà è sull’orlo del fallimento.

There's only one thing notorious thief Lyta loves more than a big score: her little brother, Kit. But when Kit is arrested for producing seditious pamphlets, he stands to lose not only his printing press, but possibly his life. In exchange for her brother's freedom, Lyta strikes a daring bargain with the king -she will steal the infamous Book of Gold: a mysterious manuscript reputed to be hiding vast magical power within.

Ruso and Tilla, now newlyweds, have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso's old friend and colleague Valens has promised to help him find work. But it isn't the kind of work he'd had in mind - Ruso is tasked with hunting down a missing tax man named Julius Asper. Of course, there's also something else missing: money. And the council of the town of Verulamium is bickering over what's become of it. Compelled to delve deeper by a threat from his old sparring partner, Metellus, Ruso discovers that the good townsfolk may not be as loyal to Rome as they like to appear.

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Im Jahr 1899 entflieht Josef Naumann, 20 Jahre alt, seinem vorbestimmten Leben in Hamburg und nimmt Arbeit in einem Handelshaus in Wladiwostok an. Dort erlebt er Konflikte und Kriege zwischen Russland, China, Japan und den Kolonialmächten. Im 1. Weltkrieg gerät er in zaristische Verbannung, lebt sieben Jahre in der Taiga und gründet dort eine Familie. Von Rotarmisten mit dem Tode bedroht gelingt ihm mit seiner Familie die Flucht in einem Pferdetreck durch kriegerische Fronten.