Historical Fiction Revolution

Mientras aguarda ser rescatada, encerrada en la casilla del leñador y presa del pánico ancestral que siente por las tormentas, Prudencia mira hacia atrás. Su corta vida está marcada por la tragedia: la violencia de su madre, el abandono de su padre y el abuso de su padrastro, a quien debió matar para defenderse, y fue condenada a prisión.

It's the 1790s, and the circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier. On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into a farmer's field on the road leading to the circus.

Robert Hammock had a restless spirit. He grew weary of the quiet life of Colonial Virginia and left his ancestral lands in 1774 in search of a new life on the edge of civilization. He and his wife, Milly, guided their family on a adventurous overland journey to settle in the rugged, untamed Indian lands of Georgia. Frontier life suited the Hammock family. They formed new friendships and hacked a rich and fulfilling life out of Georgia woods.

In the midst of a struggle for survival in colonial Bermuda, Hal is thrust into a world of revolution and intrigue when Molly’s father enlists his help in a daring plot to aid the mainland rebels. Though more concerned with his next meal than distant conflicts, Hal finds himself caught between his personal desires and a cause he can’t ignore.

It's 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon's Revolution is about to begin. General George Washington orders a secret mission for two Continental Army soldiers to go behind enemy lines, abduct Arnold, and return him to his countrymen to be tried and hanged.

At the height of China's Cultural Revolution, a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general's wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general's mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after delivering her child.

As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt them down.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

Jonathan Russell hides a guilty secret. The Battle of Bunker’s Hill sweeps him and his Shenandoah Valley family into the war. The unthinkable happens, and he’s forced to deal with both his grief—and his guilt. Lieutenant Robert Shirley is summoned by his godmother and introduced to the Earl of Dartmouth, who charges him to gather intelligence in Boston. He is horrified but must obey.

Pierre Grimard’s dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America. He longed to begin a new life, business, and family in the French settlements of the faraway frontier in the Illinois country. Ten years later it seemed that Pierre had fulfilled every one of his dreams. He had a beautiful, devoted wife, a home full of children, and a thriving business in the French trading outpost at Vincennes on the Wabash River.

Captain Grayson Thayer is in a bind too. He has spent seven long years rising in the ranks as a full-fledged Tory officer, all the while reporting back to the rag-tag American militia as an undercover agent. Secretly, his heart is with Maggie.

In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future. She has no premonitions of war, let alone the revolution that is about to destroy her comfortable world. Her once-noble family is stripped of every possession, and more terrible losses soon follow. To save what's left of her family and future, Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.

Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone — whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold — but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness.

From the author of The Widow’s War and Bound comes a compelling new novel about a young woman’s struggle to decide where her loyalties lie - with family or with forbidden love; with royalist tradition or upstart independence - on the eve of the Revolutionary War.

Zwei Diebinnen, die Ihr Herz erobern werden. In einem alternativen Paris des Jahres 1829 ist die Revolution fehlgeschlagen. Skrupellose Aristokraten und kriminelle Gilden regieren die Stadt. Nina, Angehörige der Diebesgilde, versucht, das junge Mädchen Ettie zu retten. Denn ausgerechnet der Oberste der Gilde des Fleisches, spezialisiert auf Menschenhandel und Prostitution, hat es auf Ettie abgesehen. Nina und Ettie bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als sich den verfeindeten Gilden anzudienen und bis zur großen Zusammenkunft der Gilden, dem legendären Hof der Wunder, zu überleben.

In einem alternativen Paris des Jahres 1829 ist die Revolution fehlgeschlagen. Skrupellose Aristokraten und kriminelle Gilden regieren die Stadt. Nina, Angehörige der Diebesgilde, versucht, das junge Mädchen Ettie zu retten. Denn ausgerechnet der Oberste der Gilde des Fleisches, spezialisiert auf Menschenhandel und Prostitution, hat es auf Ettie abgesehen. Nina und Ettie bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als sich den verfeindeten Gilden anzudienen und bis zur großen Zusammenkunft der Gilden, dem legendären Hof der Wunder, zu überleben. Doch dann droht in ganz Paris ein Krieg auszubrechen.

Ce petit homme sec, sanglé dans un costume bleu de coupe impeccable, n'est autre que Robespierre, l'Incorruptible ! Et celui-là, avec son sans-gêne, son débraillé, c'est Fouquier Tinville, l'accusateur public. Ce jeune homme maigre, au regard fiévreux, c'est le citoyen Bonaparte. D'autres encore vivent familièrement sous nos yeux, les Tallien, les Barras, les Fouché... Car nous sommes en Thermidor, an II. En cet âge d'or de l'intrigue et de la conspiration, un personnage étrange, une femme joue un rôle passionnant, anime tous ces grands hommes qui tiennent le devant de la scène, s'en fait aimer ou haïr.

It is the dawn of the French Revolution when masses of hungry peasants burn the chateaux of aristocrats throughout France. After the death of his estranged family, an 18-year-old nobleman, the Marquis Marcel de la Croix, is forced to raise the royalist banner. The wreck of his family fortress becomes a bastion for newly disenfranchised aristocrats, and Marcel and his fiery associate, Pierre Lafont, lead a rebel group called the League of the Star. After a bitter falling out with Lafont, Marcel escapes to England incognito, hoping to put the past behind him.

In 1777, Captain Isaac Pearson joined the British Army when he believed the Colonial Rebellion would be dispatched with effortless haste. Taking a few American lives was an agreeable price for the pampered aristocrat who believed his actions in the conflict would afford him honor and glory. Yet, the path Captain Pearson rode was neither honorable or glorious and the price he would pay was beyond his imaginable fortunes. Phantom Regiments, ruthless shadow units, British Redcoats, American militia, and crazed men of the occult race to acquire a mysterious Iroquoian artifact which can defeat time.

Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto - one of the most luxurious department stores in the world. Famous for its exquisite offerings from French haute couture to Arabian silks, El Encanto indulges the senses in opulent extravagance. It caters to visiting Hollywood stars, rising politicos, and prerevolutionary Cuba’s wealthiest power players.