Títulos em Ficção Histórica

La gran novela de Arturo Pérez-Reverte que abrió el camino del éxito internacional a los thrillers inspirados en el mundo de los libros ¿Puede un libro ser investigado policialmente como si de un crimen se tratara, utilizando como pistas sus páginas, papel, grabados y marcas de impresión, en un apasionante recorrido de tres siglos?

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.

Filha de uma família rica e importante da Nigéria, Olanna rejeita participar do jogo do poder que seu pai lhe reservara em Lagos. Parte, então, para Nsukka, a fim de lecionar na universidade local e viver perto do amante, o revolucionário nacionalista Odenigbo. Sua irmã Kainene de certo modo encampa seu destino. Com seu jeito altivo e pragmático, ela circula pela alta roda flertando com militares e fechando contratos milionários.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.

Tristan Thorne, o Conde de Wintry, não é um homem para brincadeiras. Com uma vida de segredos, amado e odiado na sociedade, ele não é o parceiro ideal para uma dama. Dorothy Miller não sabe o que há por trás de suas motivações, apenas que ele é bastante intenso. Os jornais dizem que ele bebe demais, joga demais e ama escandalosamente. E até mata. Como uma dama determinada a ser dona do próprio destino como Dorothy Miller acaba em um acordo com um homem como Lorde Wintry?

Klaus Mann: Mephisto - Roman einer Karriere, gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. Klaus Mann schrieb seinen "Mephisto" in weniger als einem halben Jahr. Begonnen hatte er den Roman Anfang 1936 und im Mai desselben Jahres war das Manuskript bereits fertig. Kurz darauf erschien er in einer Pariser Zeitung als Vorabdruck. In der Hauptrolle glänzte der berühmte und ganz reale Schauspieler, Gustaf Gründgens, hier im Buch unter dem Namen Hendrik Höfgen benannt.

When the bomb goes off, how many passengers on the Buckingham lose their lives? You will only find out if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword. When Harry visits his publisher in New York, he's told that he's been elected the new president of English PEN and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in a Russian gulag in Siberia.

M. F. K. Fisher's first novel tells of a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, where guests have gathered at ease on the terrace next to the burbling fountain in which baby lettuces are being washed, there to enjoy the food and wine served them by this stylish American couple. But all around these seemingly fortunate people, the forces of darkness are gathering: The year is 1939; World War II approaches.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Quando Kitty Talbot é rejeitada pelo noivo três meses antes do casamento, o futuro se torna sombrio. Sem a fortuna dele para pagar as dívidas de jogo de seu falecido pai, a única coisa certa na vida dela e de suas quatro irmãs mais novas é a ruína. Mas a jovem nunca foi de dar as costas a um desafio, então sai de casa em direção ao campo de batalha mais perigoso da Inglaterra—a temporada social londrina. O objetivo é simples: encontrar um solteiro rico para salvar a família Talbot da miséria.

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and, at the heart of the school, its head mistress Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs Pringle, to the young school children, with their scraped knees, hopeful faces and inevitable mischief.

Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is.... But she's managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge: in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy; no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he's the first man who has truly tempted her, and it's getting harder and harder to resist.

Arriving in the town of Lenos, Lawrence and Holo take a respite from their travels north—but a true businessman never rests! It isn't long before an opportunity for profit presents itself to Lawrence, one that could fulfill his dreams of owning his own establishment. But as always, the promise of great reward carries great risk—and risk is never greater than when one plans to use a wisewolf as collateral! As Lawrence and Holo feel the ties binding them stretched thin, has the time come for the pair to go their separate ways?

Após treze anos em disputa com a família do pai, Eric Murray está determinado a reivindicar de uma vez por todas as terras e a fortuna que são suas por direito. Ao partir para enfrentar seus parentes hostis, ele vê ladrões atacando uma mulher que está com um bebê de colo. Depois que a ajuda a enfrentá-los, Eric promete proteger os dois e levá-los para um local seguro.

Miranda Cheever has been blessed with many things, but great beauty is not among them. Still, when she meets Viscount Tuner, she knows she is meant for him. As the years go by, fate is as kind to Miranda as it is harsh on the Viscount. He's skeptical about love with good reason - but he may be falling for Miranda

Filho de um servo que escapa dos abusos de seu senhor feudal e se refugia em Barcelona, Arnau tem a vida marcada pelo trabalho árduo e pela devoção à Virgem Maria. A fé liga sua história a um dos principais templos da Catalunha—Santa Maria do Mar—e a igreja do povo se torna ela mesma um personagem à medida que Arnau acompanha sua edificação.

Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship.

Quase 70 anos depois de ser escrito, chega ao Brasil o romance inédito de Simone de Beauvoir com uma história fundamental para a formação de uma das mais importantes intelectuais do século XX. Escrito em 1954, cinco anos após a publicação de O segundo sexo, As inseparáveis é o romance autobiográfico que conta a história da amizade passional que uniu Sylvie (Simone de Beauvoir) e Andrée (Élisabeth Lacoin, a Zaza).

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid flutter to the floor unclaimed. Esme seizes the word and hides it in an old wooden trunk that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house.