Ergebnis für "hell" in Historische Romane

Die 18-jährige Adelheid, Tochter eines Tagelöhners, soll auf Schloss Liebenberg als Stubenmädchen anfangen. Niemals hätte sie sich so ein Glück träumen lassen, denn nun kann sie für ihre hungernde Familie sorgen. Außerdem darf sie mit dem Diener Viktor zusammenarbeiten, zu dem sie sich vom ersten Moment an hingezogen fühlt. Doch ihr Glück dauert nicht lange an, denn es ruft Neider auf den Plan, die das unschuldige Mädchen in eine Falle locken. Adelheid wird zum Hausmädchen degradiert und muss nun mit der erfahrenen Hedda Pietsch zusammen in einer kleinen Stube wohnen.

Alles ist genauso passiert, soweit ich mich erinnere... Ihre Wege kreuzen sich schon, laufen nebeneinander, lange, bevor Alexander Osang beschließt, Uwes Geschichte aufzuschreiben. Und mit ihm aufbricht auf einem Schiff in die Vergangenheit. Die weißen Nächte über der Ostsee - sie sind fast hell, verheißungsvoll und trügerisch, so wie die Nachwendejahre, die beide geprägt haben.

Running for your life is never easy. Doing it at age 16, after losing your family, your friends, and your home, with three-quarters of a priceless emerald parure sewn into the sleeves of a battered old Army greatcoat and your beloved city in flames behind you, is harder still. Why did I do it? Because I had no choice. The Red Army was knocking at Dresden’s door, and the Jewish family hiding in our cellars had been marked for transportation to the camps.

At the heart of Joseph Heller's best-selling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at...

From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the dramatic conclusion to the North and South saga. The Civil War has ended, but the Hazards and Mains have yet to face their greatest struggles. Even as the embers of old hatreds continue to burn in the heart of a nation torn apart by war, a new future in the West awaits a new generation of Americans seeking a life of their own - and a place to call their own.

Miss Cecily Findlay practices proper etiquette, dances the waltz flawlessly, wears clothes of the latest fashion, and is a beauty in her own right. Even so, she'd never be received by the ton if not for her enormous dowry...which has attracted Flavion Nottingham, a spoiled and entitled earl. This so-called gentleman has beggared his estate and sees Cecily as the answer to all his problems. Most dastardly of all, he doesn't care if he shatters her dreams while executing his devious scheme.

Kaiserin Sisi vor ihrer größten Bewährungsprobe: Band zwei zum Serienereignis des Jahres. Ein Traum ist in Erfüllung gegangen: Sisi hat Kaiser Franz Joseph geheiratet. Doch das strenge Protokoll der Wiener Hofburg, Aufstände im ganzen Reich und drohende Kriege setzen ihr zu. Nur die Liebe zu ihrem Ehemann hilft ihr, nicht unter dem Druck zu zerbrechen. Alle fiebern einem Thronfolger entgegen, da ein Sohn der Krone die Stimmung im Land zum Positiven wenden könnte. Doch als Sisi endlich guter Hoffnung ist, droht sie vollends im goldenen Käfig zu ersticken.

Das Hörbuch zum Serienereignis des Jahres: So haben wir Sisi noch nie erlebt - wagemutig und kämpferisch, lebenshungrig und verführerisch. Als die junge, ungestüme Sisi in Bad Ischl Franz Joseph I. von Österreich begegnet, diesem strahlenden und geheimnisvoll-abgründigen Mann, ist es um sie geschehen. Obwohl er ihrer Schwester versprochen ist, kann sie sich der Anziehungskraft des jungen Kaisers nicht entziehen und erkämpft sich gegen die Widerstände ihrer Familie sein Herz. Mit dieser Liebe scheint ihre Zukunft glänzend hell.

Miss Emily Goodnight - who cannot see a thing without her blasted spectacles - is raising the art of meddling to new heights. Why leave her future in the hands of fate when she's perfectly capable of managing it herself? The Earl of Blakely, London's most unattainable bachelor, finds Miss Goodnight's schemes nearly as intriguing as the curves hidden beneath her frumpy gowns. Secure in his independence, he's focused on one thing only: evading his father's manipulating ways. Hell's Belle indeed!

**National Bestseller **New York Times Notable Book “Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson Made into a major...

Best-selling author of Too Long a Stranger and Julia's Last Hope, Janette Oke is loved for her inspirational novels. In Once Upon a Summer, Oke weaves the tender tale of 12-year-old, Joshua, who has been raised by his 18-year-old aunt and their grandparents. He has grown accustomed to their close-knit family, but that is all about to change when Joshua's aunt considers marriage. Johnny Heller touchingly narrates the trials of faith this family must face.

Commemorating the approaching 150th anniversary of this grim encounter between valiant Americans, Ralph Peters brings to bear the lessons of his own military career, his lifelong study of this war and the men who fought it, and his skills as a best-selling, prize-winning novelist to portray horrific battles and sublime heroism as no other author has done.

Rumor has it; they are being moved to Warsaw. Heide, who is always informed, claims that all hell is loose over there. There is talk of a German pullback from the eastern frontline. Thousands of British paratroops have landed and Polish soldiers converge on from the woods. But the Polish army is already doomed. Not only by the Reichsführer Himmler in Berlin, but also by Marshal Stalin. The Polish nationalists vainly beg the Red Army for help. But it has already been decided that the Polish communists are to take over Poland.

May 1381.The Great Revolt draws ever nearer. The Upright Men openly roam the streets of London, waiting for the violence to begin. Their mysterious envoy, the Herald of Hell, appears at night, terrifying those who oppose them. But who is he? When his chancery clerk is found hanged in a notorious Southwark brothel, Brother Athelstan is summoned to investigate. In the dead man's possession was a manuscript containing a great secret which he had been striving to decipher. Can he crack the code before the Great Revolt begins?

Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to the Dominican Priory at Blackfriars where Gaveston's corpse awaits burial. But, on arrival, Corbett discovers that a series of macabre murders has turned the priory into a mansion of death, and a killer is roaming free. Meanwhile, rumours spread that the pirate ships of the Black Banner Fleet are intent on entering the River Thames and, if the Sea Beggars succeed in their mission, they will weaken the king's power throughout the city.

It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, where he is certain no Chinese are waiting for him, while Major Ken McCoy, operating undercover, hears a different story entirely, and is just as intent on nailing down the truth before it is too late.

Hell - part mystery, part domestic meditation, part horror story - is a brilliantly eerie novel in which three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a 19th-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance. Edwina Moss concedes domestic control to the imagination and, finally, to the spirit of Antonin Careme.

Matt found a way to erase his past regrets. He was an average guy who was pissing and moaning his way toward retirement. Like many people before him, he often wished things had gone differently for him. Be careful what you wish for!

To start their new life together, Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched land. The other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. They never come out the other side.