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Categoría: Historical fiction 72 resultados

  • THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE
    THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE
    JUSTINIAN HUANG
    Stonewall Book Award Winner, 2025 "A sweeping triumph in queer romance." -Booklist "What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?" In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by...
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  • STRANGERS IN TIME
    STRANGERS IN TIME
    DAVID BALDACCI
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ...
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  • THE LITTLE LIAR
    THE LITTLE LIAR
    MITCH ALBOM
    An Instant New York Times Bestseller Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust. Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save ...
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  • LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    BURHAN SÖNMEZ / HÊZIL, SAMI
    An inventive literary obituary for Kafka, this thriller of love and revenge brings the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv.Amid the student protests in 1960s Europe, Kafka's best friend, Max Brod, becomes a target of their ire: Against the dying writer's wishes, he had published texts that never should have been part of his legacy. After Brod i...
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  • ROOMS FOR VANISHING
    ROOMS FOR VANISHING
    STUART NADLER
    A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worldsEveryone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but I would not be able to cross over to meet them. In Rooms for Vanishing, the violence of war has fractured th...
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  • HARLEM RHAPSODY
    HARLEM RHAPSODY
    VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
    In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realise her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founde...
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  • THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT
    THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT
    HURSTON, ZORA NEALE / DEBORAH G. PLANT
    A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision. In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about one of the most infamous figure...
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  • THE INSTRUMENTALIST
    THE INSTRUMENTALIST
    HARRIET CONSTABLE
    The Times top ten bestseller'As tightly tuned as a thriller' Telegraph'A marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Compelling, vividly described magic' Observer'Historical fiction as it should be written' Mail on Sunday'Remarkable' New York TimesAnna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent.Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi....
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  • THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    FOLLETT KEN
    The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, Fra...
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  • PEGGY
    PEGGY
    REBECCA GODFREY
    dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone"Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times."—Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation"Mag...
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  • THE HUNTING GUN
    THE HUNTING GUN
    INOUE, YASUSHI / MICHAEL EMMERICH
    "Delicate and powerful... a haunting, sensitive meditation on memory as well as a wonderful introduction to a master sorely underappreciated in the West. . . timeless, elegiac, and masterful" - Shelf AwarenessThe story of a love affair and its tragic consequences, told through the letters of three women — a contemporary translation of a Modern classic"A Japanese master. . . Ino...
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    Q. 260

  • DEEP RIVER
    DEEP RIVER
    SHUSAKU ENDO / VAN C. GESSEL
    "In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on a pilgrimage of grace"--Amazon.com. ...
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  • AUGUST BLUE
    AUGUST BLUE
    DEBORAH LEVY
    Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperforma...
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  • FALL OF GIANTS
    FALL OF GIANTS
    FOLLETT KEN
    The first in Ken Follett's ground-breaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.A WORLD IN CHAOS1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating ...
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  • WINTER OF THE WORLD
    WINTER OF THE WORLD
    FOLLETT KEN
    Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.A BATTLE OF IDEALS1933, and at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-w...
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  • EDGE OF ETERNITY
    EDGE OF ETERNITY
    FOLLETT KEN
    Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War.A FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young law...
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  • FIREBRAND
    FIREBRAND
    FREMANTLE, ELIZABETH
    Now a major motion picture, Firebrand shows the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotisti...
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  • THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA
    THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA
    HARPER, ELODIE
    The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den TrilogyA courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall?Amara's journey has taken her far, from a lowly slave in Pompeii's brothel to a high-powered courtesan in Rome. She is now a freedwoman with wealth and influence, yet she is still drawn back t...
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  • DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    EVE J. CHUNG
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family storyDaughters are the Ang family's curse.In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of a...
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  • THE SEVEN SISTERS
    THE SEVEN SISTERS
    RILEY, LUCINDA
    Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is ha...
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  • HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    NORTH, CLAIRE
    Men go to war, gods scheme, and the choices of a queen will change the course of the world, in this powerful sequel to Ithaca from multi-award-winning author Claire North. On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning t...
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  • MEDEA
    MEDEA
    EILISH QUIN
    Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind.Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, th...
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  • A BOOKSHOP IN BERLIN
    A BOOKSHOP IN BERLIN
    FRANÇOISE FRENKEL / STEPHANIE SMEE
    "In 1921, Françoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream come true. The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. It brings Françoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then, in the summer of 1939, the dream ends and Françoise's desperate, headlong flight from Nazi persecution begins. Unfolding in Berli...
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  • MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    ILYON WOO
    One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 18...
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  • A SPARTAN'S SORROW
    A SPARTAN'S SORROW
    HANNAH LYNN
    She is a mother, a queen, a villain. However we remember her, her wrath will never be forgotten. Clytemnestra is no stranger to pain. As a wife and queen, she bears it with stoicism. But when her husband does the unthinkable, sacrificing one of their daughters to appease the ruthless gods and bring himself glory in battle, Clytemnestra is forever changed. No longer will she st...
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  • THE TOWER
    THE TOWER
    FLORA CARR
    A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impre...
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  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains the first half of the complete novel...
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  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete nove...
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  • THE WILDEST SUN
    THE WILDEST SUN
    ASHA LEMMIE
    Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to e...
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  • ABSOLUTION
    ABSOLUTION
    MCDERMOTT, ALICE
    A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a ...
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