Showing titles in Historical Fiction

Berlin 1961: Für Achim könnte es eigentlich nicht besser laufen – das Abitur hat er in der Tasche, einen Studienplatz sicher und Chris, das Mädchen, das er heimlich liebt, scheint auch ihn zu mögen. Doch über Nacht ändert sich alles. Mit dem Bau der Mauer schlägt das DDR-Regime einen härteren Ton an. Misstrauen, Verfolgung und Verhaftungen sind an der Tagesordnung. Als einer seiner Freunde im Gefängnis landet, fasst Achim einen schweren Entschluss: Er muss raus aus Ostberlin und alle, die er liebt, zurücklassen. Drüben angekommen, setzt er alles daran, Menschen aus der DDR bei ihrer Flucht zu unterstützen.

In seventeenth-century Paris, nineteen-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler’s wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution—until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-bent on avoiding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely on her prophetic visions and the grimoire gifted to her by a talented diviner to reinvent herself as a sorceress. With the help of the grifter Marie Bosse, Catherine divines fortunes in the Île de la Cité—home to sorcerers and scoundrels.

2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult Audiobook AudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY Award Wichita, summer 1968. The city’s redline still runs down the middle of TJ Crowley’s street. His father is gone. His brother is in Vietnam. His mother is unraveling. Then the Washingtons—a Black...

Édimbourg, 1817. Hazel est une jeune aristocrate à l'avenir tout tracé. Promise à un cousin, son rôle est de se préparer à devenir une épouse dévouée et soumise. Pourtant, Hazel rejette cette fatalité. Passionnée de médecine et aspirante chirurgienne, elle décide de braver les...

Wrens world shattered the day Arrik became king and broke every promise hed made to her. Fueled by rage and betrayal, she must double-cross her husband to save the realm from war. But with every passing day, as her devilish king tries to entice Wren to stand by his side, she finds herself...

Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is nothing like her hero Eleanor Roosevelt. She is timid and all together uncertain that she has much to offer the world. And as World War II rages overseas, Eleanor is consumed with worry for her Jewish relatives in Europe. When a chance encounter proves her to be a one-in-a-generation math whiz—a fact she has worked hard all her life to hide—Eleanor gets recruited by the US Army and entrusted with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help America defeat its enemies in World War II and secure the world's freedom.

In this audiobook, written and narrated by Jim Weiss, you'll experience the life and times of one of history's most brilliant women, Queen Elizabeth I, and share the swashbuckling, true adventures of Sir Francis Drake: pirate, world explorer, and ultimately, national hero. From daring sea voyages to glittering throne rooms to the dreaded Tower of London, you will experience the pageantry of olde England with two of history's most fascinating characters: Elizabeth I, brilliant and daring ruler, and Sir Francis Drake, pirate, world explorer, and ultimately, national hero.

Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, in the 1930s, Benjy Puterman and Tommy Anspach have always done everything together. It never mattered that Benjy was Jewish and Tommy was of German heritage. But as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party come to power in Germany and war brews in Europe, everything changes. Tommy is sent to Camp Nordland, a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, where he quickly learns that Jews are the enemy. 

Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and boring. After the death of her husband and a year of mourning, the seventeen-year-old wants nothing more than her independence and to have a little fun. She’s hardly looking to remarry, despite pressures from her late husband’s nephew, who is keen on obtaining her inheritance. Eleanor quickly devises a plan that includes a fake engagement. What’s not a part of the plan? Falling for a dashing, quiet man outside of her social circle—a man who is not her betrothed. Can she survive the Season with her heart and her fortune intact?

In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel, having parted ways with Cormack at St. George’s Bay, Sylvester decides to go out on his own, in search of the winter camp of the last of the remaining Beothuk.

In diesem Hörbuch geht es um die Geschichte von zweit Kindern, die am selben Tag geboren wurden. Der eine als Prinz und der andere als Sohn eines Zimmermann. Durch einen Zufall lernen sie sich kennen und das Schicksal wollte, dass der Sohn des Zimmermann bei dem Prinzen auf dem Schloss leben sollte. Der einfache Sohn lernt auf diese Weise, was es heißt Macht zu haben, Doch wenn diese Macht in falsche Hände gerät, nimmt das Unglück seinen Lauf. Eines Abends im Dezember klopfte ein wildfremder Mann an meine Haustür.

From the James Beard Award-winning author of Ruhlman’s Twenty comes a gritty story that gives a true look inside the belly of an upscale kitchen where love and danger boil behind closed doors. “The hustle and passion that flow during service drop readers squarely in the middle of the action...

Timely and unforgettable, The Brightwood Code sheds light on hidden history and the brutality of being a woman in a war built by men. Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. She spent...

Silence and Shadow is the sequel to Erin Beaty's YA medieval fantasy-thriller Blood and Moonlight, full of romance, magick and murder. After confronting a killer and fleeing to be with each other, Cat and Simon arrive in the sprawling city of Londunium. Cat is looking forward to honing her...

Pete de Lange must survive as a teenager in a small Natal town during the 1980s, together with his new-found friends, Sarita and Petrus. In a country marked by turmoil and racial conflict, this is not as easy as it seems. Pete and his friends witnessed a horrendous crime, and the perpetrator is on their case. Will justice prevail? In between all of this, Pete must try to make the first rugby team and win the heart of his high-school crush, Renate.

In Erin Beaty's fantasy mystery-thriller, Blood and Moonlight, an orphan with a secret, magical sight gets caught between a mysterious, genius detective and the serial killer she’s hunting. Rising about the city of Collis is the Holy Sanctum. Catrin, an orphan girl, watches over its many...

It’s 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she’s still reeling from her parents’ divorce, and her grandmother Katherine’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine’s vanity drawer, she begins writing stories about herself—a more popular version of herself, that is. But then the hot guy in her art class describes a dream he had about her—the exact scene she wrote about him in her journal—and Gracie realizes that she can create any reality she wants.

When a violent, decades-long feud between two powerful men comes to a head in the small settlement of Bladestay, Colorado, cunning resident Theo Creed must use her wits to stay alive. Disguising herself as a young boy, seventeen-year-old Theo bluffs her way into the inner circle of August Gains, the magnetic leader of the violent gang that has descended on her town. But the deeper Theo gets into the con, the more she starts to question her loyalties.

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming “No Dogs or Mexicans” and “No Mexicans Allowed.” When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of “repatriation” efforts to send Mexicans “back to Mexico”—whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. 

Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's heritage. So when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay.