Ergebnis für "Box" in Historische Romane

Schicksalszeit Elegant, opulent, authentisch: Der erste Teil von Katja Maybachs großer historischer Familiengeschichte spielt in einem mondänen Kurort am Vorabend des 1. Weltkriegs. Leicht und sommerlich-träge ziehen 1914 die Tage in einem eleganten Kurort nahe der deutsch-französischen Grenze vorüber: Selbst am Vorabend des 1. Weltkriegs will niemand so recht wahrhaben, was sich in Europa zusammenbraut - auch nicht die Geschwister Franz, Luise und Victoria Laverne, die einmal das mondäne Grandhotel Deutscher Kaiser erben werden.

This box set contains all four books from The Domestic Discipline Quartet. Set in Victorian England, the four books interweave through all four couples leading to a guaranteed HEA for everyone...with a few hot bottoms on the way.

Eine wunderbare Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus vielen Jahrhunderten - vom 14. Jahrhundert bis in die Moderne! Mit dabei Meisterwerke von Boccaccio, Balzac, Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, de Maupassant, Tschechow, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Joachim Ringelnatz und Wolfgang Borchert!

Nur der Tod bringt Vergebung: Im Jahre 664 kämpfen im Königreich Northumbrien die Anhänger der Kirche Roms gegen die Lehren des Kelten Columban von Iona. Um den Kirchenstreit beizulegen, wird in Witebia eine Synode einberufen. Als die Äbtissin Ètain ermordet in ihrer Zelle aufgefunden wird und wenig später zwei weitere Diener Gottes sterben, vermutet man zunächst kirchenpolitische Motive.

Das Kloster der toten Seelen: Irland im 7. Jahrhundert: Aus einem kleinen Kloster sind sämtliche Mönche verschwunden. Haben hier dunkle Mächte die Hand im Spiel? Der König von Dyfed bittet Schwester Fridelma um Hilfe. Ein neuer Keltenkrimi mit Schwester Fridelma, die zu einer Zeit agiert, in der der katholische Glaube irisch-keltischer Prägung den Frauen noch Bildung, Macht und Einfluss gestattet.

Der Tod soll auf euch kommen: Die Amme des Sohnes von Schwester Fidelma wird ermordet. Von dem sechs Monate alten Jungen, der in ihrer Obhut war, fehlt jede Spur. Bei all ihrer Sorge um den Sohn kombiniert Fidelma messerscharf. Ein Krimi aus einer Zeit, als der katholische Glaube irisch-keltischer Prägung den Frauen noch Bildung, Macht und Einfluss gestattete.

Die schönsten und packendsten Wildwest-Stories von Bret Harte. Einsame Reiter, die zu Helden werden. Männer, die den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und...

Come back to a time when manners are everything and rules are made to never be broken. Come back to a time when men are in charge and women do what they are told. Yeah, that never happened. Welcome to Megan Bryce's Regencyland, where ladies with backbone get what they want. Where a woman can thumb her nose at rules and care little for convention, and yet somehow, unexpectedly and most reluctantly, find love.

Andy Wofford, middle-aged father and English teacher at a third-tier private school, receives a surprising invitation for a drink from an old college classmate. Once awkward and forgettable, Michael Kinnick has become a famous, wealthy, and absurdly confident lifestyle guru. Of all the people who’d want to catch up, why Michael? After thirty divergent years, why now? Mildly apprehensive, Andy is also very curious.

When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out the rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, dating from Iola's youth to her last days.

Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Cinque Alberi. And lay the past to rest.

From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Michael Wallace comes this collection of three of his most exciting historical thrillers: The Red Rooster, Blood of Vipers, and Wolf Hook.

When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James. Bobby claims he knows nothing about it, but his family has a grievance against Alice's landowner father. Tragically the child is never found. Decades later, Willow James, an architect working on a development at Yew Tree Manor, discovers that the land surrounding the house is holding a secret.

Berlin, 9. Juni 1933: Johann Rukelie Trollmann ist ein talentierter, unkonventionell kämpfender Boxer und charismatischer Publikumsliebling. Er steht im Kampf um die Deutsche Meisterschaft. Seinem Gegner ist er überlegen. Doch Trollmann ist Sinto. SA steht am Ring. Funktionäre und Presse tun alles, um seine Karriere zu zerstören und ihn endgültig auf die Bretter zu schicken. Stephanie Barts Roman "Deutscher Meister" führt ins Innerste der nationalsozialistischen Machtentfaltung und an ihre Grenzen.

A seven-volume collection containing some of the most fascinating journals and letters to have been written in the last two hundred and fifty years, all performed in a dramatised setting.

With university behind him, Lord Gerard Morrow, the Earl of Norham, is preparing for a grand tour to the future with a fellow time traveler. His first night home, he receives a summons from his father, the Duke of Kyloe: Come to Scotland, or their family will be ruined. Lady Layla Colvin is roused from her sleep to marry the duke’s son as part of settling of a gambling debt. Everything she has looked forward to vanishes with the words, "I will." She will never have a coming-out, or a suitor, or a wedding dress - and, apparently, not a husband, either.

The first three books in Peter Rimmer's epic Brigandshaw Chronicles, the massive series that will have you gripped for months! In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father.

World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntrees factory, and with rationing crippling the country, chocolate production has been driven to a bare minimum. It's all change for the Freeman sisters when the Rowntrees factory is turned over to making munitions. Molly is put on the fuse and detonator line, soon becoming skilled at her work despite the dangers. Rose copes with husband Ned’s absence with the RAF by relishing her position on the Board. And Annie joins the Land Army, billeted to a pig farm in Lancashire.

The Missy Box is an imagined story based on the young life of Maria Suhm Wheelock, the wife of the second President of Dartmouth College and her great grandmother, Maria Bourdoux Lasalle, a Huguenot refugee from France. Set in a time before the interior of America had been discovered by Europeans, the Missy Box recreates a world connected by oceans, peopled by refugees, and the kings who controlled their fates.

1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country - a country that would soon turn against his own family. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past.