検索キーワード： 歴史フィクション

In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson) lived a life that was often defined by others. Here...

After a lifetime of abuse at the hands of superstitious townsfolk, Ophelia Young, a bastard child of the notorious pirate queen, is tired of paying for the sins of her mother. Despite playing by the rules her whole life, shes earned nothing but spite and suspicion. So when a naval officer saves...

La autora de Lágrimas en el mar y Entre tonos de gris regresa con un extraordinario y cautivante relato de amor, silencio y secretos situado en la época de la dictadura de Franco en España. Madrid, 1957. Bajo la dictadura fascista del General Francisco Franco, España esconde un oscuro...

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by...

Mil años atrás una historia de amor quedó truncada por la desgracia y una maldición. Un poder tan maligno que había conseguido retener a sus espíritus generación tras generación. Y mientras tanto, los amantes esperan, condenados a reencontrarse y a perderse por culpa de los celos y el odio. El caballero y la dama. El guerrero y la doncella. Hasta que tal vez un día, tal vez en nuestra época, siglos después, un poder superior y benigno consiga romper el maleficio.

Elizabeth Farr never wanted to return to America. During her family’s vacation abroad, she has fallen in love with England, and is despondent when her father refuses to let her stay. Returning to New York means having her debut into society, and that means a swiftly arranged marriage. Elizabeth will never go to college, never learn to be a reporter - as she sees it, her life is over as soon as the Titanic reaches port. Of course, if she’s unlucky, her life will be over far sooner than that.

L'action se situe en 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII. D'Artagnan, jeune gascon courageux et rusé, est muni d'une lettre de recommandation de son père pour M. de Tréville, commandant des Mousquetaires. Très vite, il devient l'ami de trois gentilshommes, mousquetaires du roi, Athos, Porthos et Aramis. Tous quatre vont sauver la reine Anne d'Autriche des perfides manœuvres de Richelieu. Des aventures semées d'embûches qui ne feront pas renoncer les quatre compères.

In this sweeping WWII historical romance threaded with magic and myth, two star-crossed Japanese American teenagers find a love more powerful than the gods—inspired by the author's true family history of internment and resilience. A divine favor can change everything. 1942. War rumbles across...

Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical horses and stories inspired by her travels. Free to find love and passion beyond the watchful gaze of her mother and governesses. And free to learn the full truth about her father, the notorious Lord Byron. Then Ada meets a man whose invention might just change the world - and he needs her visionary brilliance to bring it to life....

Rachel never faced her own ghosts, and instead she chose to become one. I must not make that same mistake. It’s 1874 on the coast of southern Maine when seventeen-year-old aspiring writer Agnes Alder arrives at Ravenfield Hall, an old manor house situated along a jagged patch of Maine...

Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis, who have taken over. Everything he has and everyone he loves have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner - his arm tattooed with the words Prisoner B-3087.

An epic re-creation of the exhilarating and mysterious time when the Sun King ruled Egypt, Ramses, the Son of Light, has become the rage in France. With over two million copies sold, it is the greatest publishing phenomenon to hit the shelves there in 20 years. Rameses is only 14 when his father, the Pharaoh Seti, begins testing his true mettle. Being the younger of two sons, the proud Ramses has a problem with being relegated to second place.

In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird - a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.

Wartime Kent. Devastated, Juliet returns to her mother's ancestral home in Dungeness to stay with her sister and recover from the loss of her fiancé, Xander, a dashing Spitfire pilot. However, while sheltering with a group of young airmen during an air raid, she uncovers a truth about Xander that challenges everything she believed she knew about him. To restore her faith in herself and love, she must solve the tragic murder of local girl Minnie Munday, with the help of the spirit of Samphire House and an unlikely hero...

Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of...

Die DDR, August 1989. Hanna und Andreas träumen von Freiheit und von einem Leben, das sie selbst bestimmen können. Ihr Alltag in der DDR ist geprägt von Willkür, Misstrauen und zerbrochenen Träumen. Sie wagen das Unvorstellbare: die Flucht über die Ostsee. Fünfzig Kilometer Wasser liegen zwischen ihnen und ihrem ersehnten Neuanfang. Dunkelheit, Kälte und Erschöpfung bedrohen sie, und nur eine dünne Schnur, die ihre Handgelenke verbindet, rettet sie vor der absoluten Einsamkeit.

2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult Audiobook AudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY Award Wichita, summer 1968. The city’s redline still runs down the middle of TJ Crowley’s street. His father is gone. His brother is in Vietnam. His mother is unraveling. Then the Washingtons—a Black...

It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an 'enemy alien'. Those bombs are coming from Germany – the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive?

Sie wollten nicht wegsehen - da wagten sie alles! Der 16-jährige Daniel freundet sich mit dem alten Josef Gerlach an. Aber etwas zwischen ihnen bleibt unausgesprochen. Da überlässt ihm der alte Mann sein Tagebuch. Es erzählt, wie Gerlach als 14-Jähriger die HJ verlässt und sich einer Clique anschließt, die sich "Edelweißpiraten" nennt. Ihr Markenzeichen: lange Haare und coole Klamotten. Ihr Motto: Freiheit! Zunächst beginnt alles ganz unpolitisch. Doch als die Lage immer schlimmer wird, planen sie gefährliche Aktionen gegen die Nazis.

Au camp de Niederhagen où l'on déporte les traîtres à la Nation, une seule devise prévaut sur tout le reste : "Une génération de forts éliminera les faibles. Faire pénitence, c'est se sacrifier pour la science." Mais Krista n'est pas d'accord. Elle ne veut pas faire pénitence. Elle ne veut pas se sacrifier pour la science. Ni maintenant. Ni jamais.