Ergebnis für "mitternacht" in Historische Romane

Europa zur Zeit der Völkerwanderung. Ein Mädchen irrt über ein Schlachtfeld am Rhein. Goldrun entstammt dem Volk der Burgunder, das von den vordringenden Hunnen vernichtend geschlagen wird. Doch Goldrun besitzt eine besondere Gabe: Sie kann mit Pferden sprechen, sie besänftigen und ihre Krankheiten heilen. Dieses Talent lässt sie als Sklavin im hunnischen Reich bis in die höchsten Kreise aufsteigen...

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny.

From the author of the Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley, The Midnight Rose spans four generations and sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the...

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....