Showing results for "September" in Historical

Frankrig 1937. 14-årige Irene Sauvelles flytter med sin familie til en lille kystby i Normandiet, hvor de slår sig ned på en kæmpe ejendom, der er ejet af den mystiske legetøjsfabrikant og opfinder, Lazarus Jann. Irene bliver straks betaget af stedets skønhed og de mange lokale anekdoter og ikke mindst den unge mand Ismael. Mordet på en ung pige ødelægger idyllen, og får Irene til at undre sig. Hvad gemmer der sig bag de mystiske fortællinger, der verserer blandt byens beboere?

Newly widowed at the start of the new millennium, novelist Olivia Hammond is at loose ends - until an unexpected discovery resurfaces a long-ago secret and makes her question the story she thought she knew about her past. As she embarks on a book tour for her new novel, Livvie reconnects with Robert Yardley, a legendary photographer and her first love. During a road trip to Robert's Southern childhood home, the two dissect their splintered relationship and the life they might have had.

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.