The Mirrored Palace: A Historical Novel, Paperback - David Rich

Reducere. In 1852 Richard Francis Burton, the legendary explorer and author, fell in love with a Persian woman while in the British Army. When her parents di...

Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three war...

Reducere. Staring debtor's prison in the eye, George Frederik Handel is depressed and suffering from various illnesses. Faced with crushing verbal, intellect...

Reducere. This historical novel is the sequel to Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles, following our Captain and his steamboat during the year after the A...

Reducere. Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." -- BuzzfeedIn this enthralling historical...

In the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 to 1842, considered the most infamous of all colonial wars, only Dr. Brydon survived out of the 13, 000-to-20...

Reducere. Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope." -- BuzzfeedIn this enthralling historical...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Helene WeckerNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 38Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

** From the author of Golden Hill **'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Finan...

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Myths propagated by organized religion not only hamper efforts to apply reason to our problems but can even foster violent conflicts that threaten ...

Publisher: Holiday House IncAuthor(s): Hannah WestNumber of pages: 464Collection: The Nissera ChroniclesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 202...

Reducere. Escaping on the Danube River is their only hope for survival.Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Re...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Temptation of Saint Anthony is a historical novel. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in...

Everyone knows the end, but do you know the beginning? It was the war before the war. A time when America needed allies in Southeast Asia to defeat...

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognised as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in th...

A reimagining of Anne Frank's life as a holocaust survivor, reunited with her father in newly-liberated Amsterdam but haunted by the loss of her si...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1922, white colonialists in Shanghai see themselves as an impregnable supreme race. But then Russians come and ruin the perfect world...

In More Stories of the Rich and Famous: Aiken's Winter Colony in the Gilded Age, the reader is placed in the action as witness to the high and low ...

A historical novel about Nelson's mistress Lady Emma Hamilton

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Reducere. It is the time of the Scottish Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known a...

Reducere. Movement is life. The rhythm of the ocean tide. The revolution of the planets. The pulse of the breath in our bodies. When movement is effortless, ...

Reducere. "Mirrored Reflections: A Memoir, is the phenomenal chronicle of the life of Kitty La Perriere. In the course of her long life La Perriere has gone ...

DescriptionA young man is about to graduate from medical school when a sudden shift of fate changes his life forever. He becomes stuck in the most ...

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Contributor(s): Editor: Michael McKeonMichael McKeon, author of The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, here assembles a collection of influen...

Reducere. Pepita Jiménez depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, while he falls in love on the eve of his ...

Reducere. Winner Novel London Award 2019 18th Century China. In a devastating breach of etiquette, the Empress of China cuts off her hair and is exiled by a ...

An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise...Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Dinah JefferiesNumber of pages: 528Collection: The D...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through ...

Reducere. In the Gold Rush days, San Francisco city grew tenfold, where dreamers came to build a new world and ruthless men enjoyed their own money grab in a...

DescriptionNic Perugino always believed he was destined to become a real-life Santa Claus. The first time he donned a Santa suit and set out to del...

Barnaby Rudge is a story of a forbidden love in the time of great London riots in 1780. Both Edward's father, John Chester, and Emma's uncle, the C...

Reducere. Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, possesses occult powers and knows the secret of eternal life. However, he cannot fall in love without losin...