Showing results for "Lisa" in Historical

Années 70 dans le Sud des Etats-Unis. Une femme sort de prison. Elle devra reconstruire sa vie. Et mener à bien sa vengeance.

1973, une petite ville du Texas. Personne n'attend Delpha Wade quand elle revient après quatorze années derrière les barreaux pour avoir réglé son compte à l'un de ses deux violeurs. Delpha doit pourtant trouver un travail et tenter de se refaire une vie, " faire le plus possible semblant d'être calme et décontractée ", comme l'en avise son conseiller d'insertion. Alors Delpha décide de jouer la comédie à fond.

Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world—all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively household of the artist Peter Paul Rubens, whose work her father engraves for a living, Antonia begins to see a life of colour and possibility for herself—until Lucas entrusts her with a terrible secret that will alter the course of their family's future.

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Oklahoma 1909. Die elfjährige Olive weiß, dass ihr Stiefvater es nicht gut mit den beiden Choctaw-Mädchen meint, die als Mündel in seinem Haus untergebracht sind. Als das ältere Mädchen verschwindet, flieht Ollie mit der sechsjährigen Nessa in die Winding Stair Mountains, das berüchtigte Revier der Geächteten und Schatzsucher, wo sie auf Gleichgesinnte treffen.

The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild - prestigious for dishonourable hangmen at least. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, suspicions arise that someone is murdering them.

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The bitter conflict between the Union and Confederacy, spanning four terrible years from 1861 to 1865, brought the United States of America to the brink of annihilation. A war based on perceived tyranny and rebellion gave birth to many contradictions, where deceit ran rampant on both sides. Within this environment, it is known that at least four hundred women enlisted as soldiers under the pretense of being men, from both the North and South. Brave men who gave their lives for either side were not the war’s only heroes, and this story is dedicated to these remarkable women.

"Der zehnte Heilige" erzählt von der gefährlichen Reise der Archäologin Sarah Weston aus der schroffen äthiopischen Wüste auf die Straßen von Paris, London und Texas. Sie riskiert alles auf ihrer Suche nach der Entzifferung einer längst vergessenen Prophezeiung, die den Planeten vor einer brutalen, drohenden Katastrophe retten kann. Doch ist die Wahrheit den Preis wert, den sie zahlen muss? Cambridge Archäologin Sarah Weston macht eine ungewöhnliche Entdeckung in den Bergen des alten äthiopischen Königreiches von Aksum.