Historical Fiction United States

If you think of our 34th president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm".

In about 1450 AD, an exceedingly prosperous generation of Native Americans, known then as the Anasazi, vanished from their strongholds in the American Southwest--disappeared without so much as a trace. However, the Native Americans of the present day Navajo Nation dispute the theoretical findings of modern day archeologists and anthropologists.

A moving story of love, loss, and tragedy of an indigenous three generations of a family of women living amid the radical cultural transition of the early 18th century through 1838, ending with the government-mandated relocation of the Eastern tribes, a 650-mile walk to federal land known as "Trail of Death". The personal stories of three women - Centurion Moon Stone, the last yet living, having witnessed the transformation of her culture; and the elusive love of sisters White Deer and Wind Song for the same man, Two Dogs - have been accounted into this tribal story.

Jock MacNeil, the eldest son of a Highland Catholic family, leaves school at 13 to follow his father's footsteps and become a blacksmith. But after a family tragedy changes his plans, Jock boards a schooner and heads to the New World. Soon, he befriends the retired Royal Navy Surgeon, James Gunn, and David Llewellyn of the CSS Alabama. Living among the seamen, Jock learns how to take responsibility - and how to defend himself. But can Jock survive the perilous journey, and what awaits him on the other side of the Atlantic?

Nadia Guerra’s mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just 10 years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she’s an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn’t quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night, she DJs a radio show government censors block from broadcasting. Frustrated, Nadia finds hope and a way out when she wins a scholarship to study in Russia.

A coming-of-age story told from the point of view of a boy growing up in Virginia during the Great Depression. Set in 1933 and 1934, the stories of his family’s struggles to survive are both heartbreaking and inspiring as we watch them go from the heights of peace and serenity to the depths of scarcity and hopelessness. Will they be able to rise together, or will the brutal realities of the rural world they live in separate them and destroy their hopes and dreams?

This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. The central character is Louis the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt.

Rio de Janeiro, 1904. Johan Edward Jansson sbarca in Brasile in qualità di nuovo console svedese. Lui e la moglie Brigitta scelgono come domicilio una piccola stazione balneare lontana dal centro, che si affaccia sull'oceano con una lunga spiaggia bianca e immacolata. Johan decide di far costruire un castello per la sua famiglia e così ha inizio il mito di quella che diventerà una delle destinazione turistiche più apprezzate al mondo, sinonimo di bellezza, esotismo ed eccessi: Ipanema.

Mi Sangre: Part I is a historical novel of people and a family struggling through life in late 19th- and early 20th-century Mexico and South Texas. Most of what you will listen to are actual events told with a certain degree of liberty in the details. In essence, it is historical fiction. Nevertheless, most of the stories are true events passed down in the oral tradition of Native Americans.

Kelly Moreau returned from Afghanistan to the Turtle Mountains to heal and forget. But peace for this former marine would not come easy, as she is immediately drawn into a family mystery that will take her across North Dakota in search of a long-lost battlefield and the site of a desperate Métis stand against overwhelming hostile forces.

Author Lawrence Reid Bechtel has captured the story of Isaac Granger, a slave from Thomas Jefferson's plantation as told through the eyes of amateur historian Reverend Charles Campbell. In 1852, after much searching through the Black districts of Petersburg, Virginia, the amateur historian Charles Campbell finally located Isaac Granger, a former slave of the late Thomas Jefferson.

This narration of Chi Him Chiu's book, Recollections of an Overseas Chinese, by Ian Brinkley, recounts the story of our hero, Huai Ren, and his friends, as they find themselves swept through southeast Asia in the turbulent times surrounding the Chinese Cultural Revolution and World War II. The story quickly moves through adventures spanning Singapore, Johor, Malaya, Kuching, Sarawak, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and finally, the United States.

Впервые роман "Последний из могикан" был опубликован в 1826 году. Действие книги разворачивается в августе 1757 года, в разгар Франко-индейской войны. Это трагическая история борьбы и гибели индейцев Северной Америки под натиском современной цивилизации.

In earlier books in the series, we met the Snow family of Porlock, England, traveled with them through the bloody streets of London during Tudor times, crossed the Atlantic with the original Pilgrims and now stand with them in the American Revolutionary war. Based on over 30 years of genealogical research into the author's own ancestors, this is a story like no other. There is love and hardship; there is treachery and murder. There is honor and courage.

Eighteen-year-old Pearl Hardisty discovers the small town of Silver Lake in Eastern Oregon has more to offer than dry sage brush, old farmhouses, and unbearable freezing cold winters when she met Frank Bunyard. The kindhearted, handsome cowboy made her glad she decided to move with her family after all. Through stories Frank shares with her, she learns about friendship, survival, and an unforgettable story of privation and loss from a small band of Modoc Indians who were left behind after the Modoc war.

In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio - a writer and photographer - are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the remote Spooklight Holler outside of town, they set off eagerly in search of a headline story.

Two Feathers was a young Native learning the ways of the Choctaw. However, he was not like the other men in his village who lived off of the land, farming and raising livestock. He enjoyed spilling the blood of the invaders and was absent, fighting, more than he was home. Still, he had fallen for the little white girl who couldn’t farm, couldn’t make baskets, and was generally a failure at native life. Returning from a battle, he discovered the white men had taken Bliss, the woman with whom he expected to share his life. Gone were his desires to do anything other than locate her.

Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe's captivating series that sweeps listeners back to 1930's Alabama and into the lives of two neighboring couples whose deceitful friendships and imperfect marriages are just the beginning of their troubles...

In 1836, John McGregor, a Scottish and Seminole half-breed, kills a white man in Florida. The crime is worse, when the man turns out to be an army sergeant. Self-defense is no excuse. McGregor is angry - angry with God, the maker and taker of breath, and angry with the red man as well as the white. Among the Indians, this rage earns him the name "One Who Gives No Chance".

En una panadería de Ugarte, en el País Vasco, un niño que un verano ha regresado sin habla de un internado en el sur de Francia recupera las palabras gracias a su amistad con dos hermanos gemelos y a algo extraño que descubren los tres en las aguas del canal que baja de la montaña. La dictadura franquista está llegando a sus últimos días.