Historical Fiction White

War hero and Expressionist painter Max Bauer is an ambitious protégé of the artistic-minded - but anti-Modernist - Adolf Hitler. Max is the assigned curator of the infamous Aryan Art and Degenerate Art exhibitions in 1937 Berlin. Torn between ambition and revulsion, he defends his creative integrity, his colleagues, and his steadfast, half-Jewish physician wife Frieda from escalating Nazi terror.

The child of an autocratic tyrant of a father, a slave girl grows up in the Delta swamps under perpetual oppression. However, she is inspired by the friendship of heroic figures in her early life. Bolstered by their memories but haunted by a murder, she tries to claw her way out of the darkness and experience a world she has never known.

Toronto, 1914. Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts never could have imagined their crime-solving skills would set them up as emblems of female empowerment in a city preparing to enter World War I at the behest of Great Britain. Yet, despite their popularity, the lady detectives can't avoid the unrest infiltrating every level of society. A war measure adopted by Mayor Montague puts a target on Jem and her Italian husband, Ray DeLuca.

England, 1459. Following her final defeat in The Hundred Years War, England has plunged into the bloody chaos of civil war. King Henry VI, the feeble son of the victor of Agincourt, is unable to prevent the rival houses of Lancaster and York from tearing each other to pieces. Book One of The White Hawk follows the fortunes of a family of Lancastrian loyalists, the Boltons, as they attempt to survive and prosper in this world of brutal warfare and shifting alliances.

This mystery is part of the famous "Had-I-But-Known School" of mysteries founded by Mary Roberts Rinehart with the 1908 publication of her first work, The Circular Staircase. The story deals with civic corruption, a popular theme of early American mysteries. Stories like this anticipate the hard-boiled school to come. So does Rinehart's realistic style, which does not gloss over life's problems.

Un roman qui retrace, à travers le vingtième siècle, les destins croisés de quatre générations qui se font écho autour d'une seule quête : celle de la liberté.

Who is the White Knight? He ruins fields so nothing can grow, burns down entire villages, and terrifies the people of Knox. People say it’s the new queen’s fault - that she’s a bad ruler. They want to take her throne away and give it to someone else. But she’s only been ruling for one month! When disaster strikes, can her nephew, Beau, save the throne for the queen and solve the mystery of the White Knight?

"The White Company" is a historical adventure novel by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story takes place in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. At the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves the Catholic abbey where he has been raised - intelligent, skilled, and well-liked, though sheltered and naive - and goes out to see the world, in accordance with the terms of his father’s will.

Ashlynn James was a southern Indiana country girl working on an archaeological dig along Hadrian's Wall in the Anglo-Scottish border country when she finds an ancient Roman coin among the rubble. Reading aloud the Latin inscription upon the coin's face, Ashlynn finds herself swept back in time to one of the ancient world's most dangerous empires, Roman occupied Britain.

Daring law firm investigator Alice White enters the glamorous world of high society in 1950s New York City to take on a gang of confidence artists whose vicious leader has recruited an innocent young man and framed him for a brutal murder to insure his loyalty. Can she beat the boss at his own game, con him out of a fortune, free the youth, and hang the leader in his own frame, without getting herself, the young man, or his girlfriend killed?

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

Lainie Gardner once dreamed of becoming a nurse. Of serving her country. Of doing something important in the war. But rheumatic fever changed all that, and instead of running home to her parents’ coddling, Lainie is determined to find a war job at Fort Robinson in Nebraska's sandhills, where she meets a soldier with his own broken dreams.

A través de personajes variados y con diferentes niveles narrativos, María London imagina en Piedras Blancas los orígenes y los primeros tiempos de la dictadura en Chile, cómo se tomaron ciertas decisiones y cómo pudieron reaccionar los jóvenes oficiales y algunos civiles ante la orden de participar en las exacciones.

حازت هذه الرواية على المركز الأول لجائزة المجلس الأعلى للثقافة وذلك ربّما بسبب موضوعها الشائك الذي تناولته فهي تتحدّث عن ظاهرة الاغتراب التي يعيشها الشباب بعد الربيع العربي وتركّز على مرحلة فقد الأب وجدلية الموت بشكلٍ عام عن طريق قصّة حب بين رجلٍ مصري وامرأةٍ سورية تنتهي بالزواج وبطفلٍ يملأ عليهما بضحكاته البيت الدّافيء، لكن ما تلبث هذه الصّورة أن تتدمّر بهروب الزوجة إلى أمريكا مع ابنها لأنّها لا تشعر بالأمان في الوطن العربي المضطّرب بالحروب والصّراعات السياسية لتبدأ الحكاية.

No-one thought barmaid Shannon Harcourt stood a chance with Hal Maitland, heir to the vast Maitland fortune. Yet their unlikely relationship flourishes until, one summer's day on the white sands of Charles Green Island, they realise their true feelings for each other - feelings that must motivate them to survive the coming war. Forty years on, Shannon, a successful businesswoman, and younger sister Jess, an accomplished chef, have left their days of poverty far behind. Shannon now has her sights set on purchasing the island where her young love began.

This young adult historical novel, tells the fictional account of young Mary Shirley, who just wants a normal life with friends her age and someday, suitors. She is brave, tenacious, and prone to be rash. The settlers along Indian Creek in Western Virginia are siding against King George, except Papa. He has declared loyalty and intends to remove the family to Kentucky territory. After discovering surveys with strange riddles, Mary witnesses her papa exchange documents between a patriot neighbor and a known loyalist. She believes Papa is a cowardly traitor, endangering the family.

Anna Goodman’s mother is dead, her father has given up on life, and her brother is missing in action in World War II. Anna’s dreams for the future are held captive by the responsibilities the war and life have thrust upon her. She’s desperate to hold the farm together while working at a war factory in nearby Kearney. She can’t do it alone. She must interact daily with Specialist Sid Chance, the cocky know-it-all who oversees the German prisoners who work on her family farm - prisoners that are a constant reminder of her father’s harrowing experience in World War I.

From the rural festivities in 'Village Christmas' to the poignant tale of a white robin, these two stories demonstrate the wry wit and light touch of Miss Read. Two heartwarming and wonderfully festive listens.

Heiligabend, 24. Dezember 1889: In der Baker Street 221B ist es ruhig und festlich. Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Mrs. Hudson sitzen beisammen, genießen den Apfelstrudel der Haushälterin und lassen das vergangene Abenteuer Revue passieren. Doch die besinnliche Stimmung währt nicht lange: Plötzlich steht Inspektor Lestrade in der Tür – mit einer letzten Bitte an Sherlock Holmes. Ein verschlüsselter Hinweis und eine noch immer verschwundene Schlüsselfigur bereiten Scotland Yard Kopfzerbrechen. Holmes wirft einen Blick auf den Hinweis – und erkennt sofort, worauf er hinausläuft.

Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed author Joanna Catherine Scott explores the terrain of a devastated South, where the war is over - but conflict lives on. Having endured years of hardship, Eugenia Mae Spotswood returns to Wilmington to find out who her mother is, only to be met with racism and hatred.... Until she is befriended by the most powerful Negro leader in the state Senate. Also driven forward are the strong-minded ex-slave Tom and his crippled former enemy Clyde Bricket.