検索キーワード： "Haley" 歴史小説

Esta es mi historia: la de una mujer que encontró el amor en el lugar y en el momento menos indicados. Después de todos estos años, todavía deslizo la mano hasta mis labios y los acaricio con la punta de los dedos, con el conocimiento de que lo encontraré allí. Noto que aún me arde la boca a causa de sus besos, y es entonces cuando los ojos se me inundan de lágrimas.

The Treason of Mary Louvestre is based on the true story of a seamstress slave from the Confederate town of Norfolk, Virginia. When her owner gets involved with modifications to the ironclad CSS Virginia, Mary copies the plans and sets out to commit treason against the South. Facing certain death as a spy if caught, she treks 200 miles during the bitter winter of 1862 to reach the office of Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, where she hands over the plans.

Hiding the worn piece of paper among her father’s watch deliveries, her eyes fill with tears at the memory of her brave friend walking towards the Nazi soldiers, and the sharp sound of gun fire. Her friend sacrificed herself so that she could deliver this message. But if she hands it over, the love of her life will die...1942, Geneva: As her radio crackles with heart-breaking news from occupied France, Valérie Hallez gazes towards the snow-covered Alps after a long day helping her father, a local watchmaker.

For those of you who want to experience the War Between the States in one sitting, this is the book for you. Brother Against Brother is a collection of six Civil War short stories and two excerpts from both Union and Confederate points of view. This collection gives listeners many different perspectives: drummer boys, brave-hearted soldiers, a prisoner of war, and even a young lady waiting at home for the war to end. Through every word, feel their terror, determination, pain, relief, and joy.

Brothel owner Joel Rankin refuses his fiancé's request to close the Bird Cage. As a result, he is punished with an evil spell that changes his life forever. "Pretty Bird" is a western historical short story with romantic elements.

ఏడు తరాలు - తెలుగులో ఒక అనువాద రచన. దీని ఆంగ్ల మూలం ఎలెక్స్ హేలీ రచించిన రూట్స్. తెలుగు అనువాదాన్ని స్వర్గీయ సహవాసి అందించారు. ఈ పట్ల మనకి ఉన్న దృక్పథాన్ని మారుస్తుంది. ఆఫ్రికా చీకటి ఖండంలో ఉన్న తన వంశం మూలాలు, దాని పుట్టుపూర్వోత్తరాలను వెతికి పట్టుకునేందుకు నల్లజాతి అమెరికన్ రచయిత ఎలెక్స్ హేలీ చేసిన అసాధారణ అన్వేషణ ఈ పుస్తకం లో మనం చూడచ్చు. ఈ పుస్తకం కేవలం నల్లజాతి అస్తిత్వాన్ని ఎలుగత్తి చాటడం మాత్రమే కాక జాతి వివక్షపై తిరుగుబాటు జెండా ఎగరెయ్యటంలో కీలకపాత్ర పోషించింది. స్వేచ్చ నుంచి సంకెళ్ళకు, సంకెళ్ళ నుంచి విముక్తికి సాగిన ఈ ప్రస్థానం మానవీయత కోణాన్ని ఆవిష్కరిస్తుంది.

Having spent the past few years on missions in the Caribbean, Captain Bliven Putnam is all but ready to retire and settle down at home in Connecticut with his wife, Clarity. But as the Texas Revolution ignites and tensions in the Gulf of Mexico rise, Putnam is sent orders for a secret cruise that could decide the fate of their rebellion. American settlers in Texas have revolted against an increasingly tyrannical Mexican government.

It is 1801, and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion.

Following the naval victories of the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War, the United States is finally expanding its navy to take a place of prominence in world affairs. Bliven Putnam, now Captain of the sloop of war Rappahannock, has come into his own as a leader and is ordered to the Pacific. But with this new tour of duty to last more than two years, his patient wife, Clarity, unwilling to accept such a brief time together, at last puts her foot down. If she can't keep Putnam with her, then she'll just have to go with him.

At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war.

Petticoats, Wirtschaftswunder und die große Liebe – eine starke Frau auf der Suche nach dem Glück. Hamburg, Anfang der 60er Jahre: Die junge Klara Paulsen hat ihre Stelle als Bildredakteurin bei der Frauenzeitschrift "Claire" aufgegeben, um eine noch viel aufregendere Aufgabe zu übernehmen: Chefreporterin bei einer neu gegründeten Zeitschrift für Musik und Mode. Es ist die Zeit von Rock’n’Roll und Minirock, die ganze Stadt vibriert. Und niemand hat ein besseres Gespür für die prickelndsten Ereignisse als Klara und ihre Freundinnen.

Shade lives with his second wife amid their clan on the shores of a bountiful lake. A peaceable man, he knows that when danger threatens, the Hero ancestors will call on him to kill, or sacrifice himself, to save his people. Over 40,000 years later, Shade's remains are unearthed near the now dry Lake Learned in New South Wales. The sensational discovery fascinates Shelby Apple, a documentary film maker who tracks the controversies it provokes about who the continent's first inhabitants were and where Shade's bones belong.

The workers and the government are heading for bloody confrontation and the waterfront is the frontline. But this is a war with more than two sides, and nothing is what it seems. Into the secret world of rival union politics, dark political agendas and worldwide anti-communist hysteria steps Johnny Molloy, soldier turned private eye, who has been hired by an insurance investigator to find a supposedly dead man – a major player in one of the trade unions fighting both the government and the other unions.

An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man - a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to Northern Africa and the Australian outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware the two men share a great deal in common.

Hip-hop meets history in this four-part series about Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation. Not merely a retelling of Martin Luther's life, this musical indictment sheds a cold and questioning light on the controversial man of God. Will Luther's legacy be his salvation, or the nail in his coffin?