Showing results for "Noah" in Historical

Accused of treason and stripped of his knighthood, Crispin Guest has survived on the gritty streets of London by reinventing himself as The Tracker, an investigator for hire who can locate lost objects and uncover secrets. When the merchant Nicholas Walcote hires Guest to investigate his young wife Philippa for adultery, he discovers an underground world of danger and dirty dealings. Philippa is indeed hiding something—but she's not the only one. Walcote himself is rumored to possess a holy relic so powerful that some would even kill for it.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Mama, Daddy, and Granny claim to see signs of rain in the strangest things, even though there isn't a cloud in the sky. They predict that a great storm is on the way, but nobody believes them.

Un familia rota por la ambición, la venganza y la muerte. Un linaje condenado a morir con el último Irigoyen. Zarauz, 1568. Bartolomé de Irigoyen, maestro astillero, lucha por preservar su legado tras el desastre sufrido en la construcción del galeón más ambicioso de su carrera: la Santa...

Hannah Kent and Oliver Jennings pledged their hearts to each other as children. Now, years later, Hannah is thrilled to receive an invitation to spend the summer at Oliver’s family’s country estate. The path to wedded bliss is clear - so long as Oliver’s highbrow older brother, Damon, has ceased his juvenile antics, Hannah’s future looks bright indeed. But from the moment Hannah arrives at Summerhaven, nothing is as she expected. Oliver seems disinterested in renewing their acquaintance, and Damon is not the brutish boy she remembers but a man intent on avoiding marriage.

Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who...

Año 2021. Leonor viaja a Escocia con un grupo de amigas para hacer las prácticas de sus estudios de arqueología. En el yacimiento en el que trabajan no parece haber nada interesante, salvo una escultura de alguien a quien llaman el lobo de las Highlands. Sin embargo, un derrumbamiento repentino les descubre un antiguo baúl que parece llevar setecientos años cerrado.

Anna Atwood returns to Breckenridge, where she spent one blissful summer as a young woman. This time, though, she comes to the quaint town as a penniless spinster with a single hope: to build a life free from the constraints her father’s death put on her and free from the persistent suitor Mr. Green, whose plans for marriage are Anna’s worst nightmare. When she runs into David Tate, the boy she knew from that memorable summer, she finds he has grown into a confident and striking man.

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

Robert Jeremy Cole, der Nachfahre des legendären Medicus, findet in der Neuen Welt als Schafzüchter und Arzt sein Glück, doch er lernt auch die Schattenseiten des jungen Amerika kennen: Indianerhass, Sklavenwirtschaft und Bürgerkrieg. Als er vom Stamm der Sauks Land kauft, lernt er die Priesterin und Medizinfrau Makwa-ikwa kennen. Sie weiht ihn in das wertvolle Wissen über die heilenden Kräfte der Natur ein und wird ihm eine unentbehrliche Helferin. Bald jedoch fällt sie einem grässlichen Verbrechen zum Opfer und der beginnende Bürgerkrieg bedroht das geordnete Leben Coles.

In Ravens before Noah, Susanna Harutyunyan paints a vivid and haunting portrait of resilience and survival amidst the Armenian mountains. Beginning with a newborn and an old man fleeing the Hamidian massacres, the novel traces the lives of exiles who form a hidden community, cut off from the world and bound by shared traumas.

Auf der Flucht, auf der Suche nach Glaubens- und Familienangehörigen und auf dem Wege, selbst ein Mann zu werden, beginnt für Jona, die Hauptperson des Romans, eine Odyssee quer durch Spanien, bis er endlich nach einer abenteuerlichen und atemberaubenden Reise in Saragossa ankommt und dort in die Lehre eines Medicus geht. Noah Gordons jüngster Roman erweitert das Thema seines großen Erfolges "Der Medicus" - eine spannende Stimme erzählt die Geschichte einer Identitätssuche vor historischem Hintergrund. Die Stärken des Autors sind ein Gemisch aus sicherer Erzählkunst, guter Recherche und einer Handlung, die immer auch gute Krimikost liefert.

María es una mujer viuda que vive con su hijo en la costa de Zahara. Una noche el pueblo es asaltado por corsarios musulmanes y ambos son capturados. Tras ser separados en un mercado de esclavos, María se promete encontrar y liberar a su hijo, a pesar de ser esclava y mujer, sin importarle las consecuencias, aunque estas sean ser la esclava de una leyenda del mar.

As the successful owner of multiple railroad lines, Diana Barton is all too accustomed to fending off suitors seeking to stake their claim on her wealth. In order to keep the wolves at bay, Diana has contrived the perfect plan: appeal to the most notorious rake in London, the Baron Lord Bryant, to ruin her reputation and scare off the worst of the time wasters. The ruse will be no hardship - she’s secretly been fascinated by the man for years.

Der Waisenjunge Rob findet bei einem Bader Schutz und wird sein gelehriger Schüler. Nach dem Tod seines Meisters bricht er nach Persien auf, denn dort, im fernen Isfahan, lehrt Avicenna, der berühmteste aller Ärzte. Rob trotzt mutig den Gefahren seiner weiten Reise, Hunger, Pest und den Überfällen religiöser Fanatiker. Unbeirrt folgt er seiner Berufung als Arzt und Heiler.

A man travels to Israel to uncover a diamond's remarkable past in this vivid historical saga from the New York Times best-selling author of The Physician. A diamond cutter and seller from a long, respected line of precious-gem dealers, New Yorker Harry Hopeman is asked to broker a deal that will return a legendary gemstone to Israel. Arriving in the volatile Middle East, Hopeman soon discovers that his assignment will be anything but easy. Representatives of the Holy Land's three major religions are all laying claim to the priceless jewel.

In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain.

Der Glanz der Renaissance, ein tödlicher Kampf um die Macht, und eine scheinbar aussichtslose Liebe im Florenz der Medici: Der historische Roman "Florentia - Im Glanz der Medici" lässt die spannende Zeit der italienischen Renaissance lebendig werden. FLORENZ, 1469. Die ganze Stadt feiert die Hochzeit von Lorenzo de' Medici, dem Sohn der märchenhaft reichen Bankiersfamilie und zukünftigen Herrscher.

Un hombre tiene un cuaderno viejo, traído y llevado mil veces, en su regazo. Una mujer a su lado escucha lo que él le lee cada mañana, aunque no acaba de entender. Muchos años antes, Noah Calhoun vuelve a casa, a Carolina del Norte, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Noah intenta que la plantación de la que procede vuelva a su antigua gloria, pero las imágenes de la preciosa joven que conoció catorce años antes -una mujer a la que amó como a ninguna otra- no paran de perseguirle.

Lothian 1356. Tanarys y su séquito viajan al castillo del clan Black para enlazar a Inés con el hijo menor del laird de los cuervos. Consciente de que de un momento a otro Balliol asaltará la frontera y que sus aliados del sur traicionarán a su señor, Leonor no puede dejar solos a Tanarys y a Inés en lo que sería la última oportunidad del sur para liberarse al fin de los ingleses, y se lleva con ella a Alba y Paula.