Political Historical Fiction

In 1902, a young girl watches her family's life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador becomes trapped in the intrigue of a Cold War love affair. In 1983, an evangelical missionary discovers that the Good News may not be good news at all to the Mayan refugees she hopes to save. And in 1999, the mother of an adopted Mayan daughter embarks on a roots tour only to find that the history she seeks is not safely in the past.

Luciana Castellina, militante e parlamentare comunista, fra i quattordici e i diciotto anni ha tenuto un diario che racconta la sua iniziazione politica: dal giorno in cui, il 25 luglio 1943, a Riccione, la partita di tennis con la sua compagna di scuola Anna Maria Mussolini viene interrotta perché la figlia del Duce deve scappare (suo padre è stato appena arrestato a Roma), a quando si iscrive al PCI.

Ipàzia (Alessandria d'Egitto,) fu una matematica, astronoma e filosofa greca, e viene considerata come una "martire della libertà di pensiero." Ipazia" era giunta a tanta cultura da superare di molto tutti i filosofi del suo tempo, a succedere nella scuola platonica riportata in vita da Plotino e a spiegare a chi lo desiderava tutte le scienze filosofiche. Per questo motivo accorrevano da lei da ogni parte tutti coloro che desideravano pensare in modo filosofico".

Es una historia que gira en torno a la vida del ex presidiario Jean Valjean, quien, regenerado tras 19 años de presidio por robar pan para alimentarse, sigue cargando con su oscuro pasado. Obligado a llevar pasaporte amarillo que prueba su condición de ex presidiario es rechazado por la sociedad, hasta encontrarse con Monseñor Myriel, que le concede el perdón por haberle robado a cambio de que se comprometa a hacer el bien. Desde entonces Jean Valjean decide dedicar su vida a la filantropía.

Jocelyn McLaren is a beautiful, hardworking, yet naive visual artist who, through a twist of fate, ends up working for a major US defense contractor during the lead up to the Iraq war. She unknowingly witnesses and unwittingly participates in crimes that haunt her and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on the planet.

Quinto e ultimo Tomo dell'opera, dedicato alla morte e all'annullamento. Morte dei giovani rivoluzionari sulle barricate...

Daniel Mercier dîne seul dans une fameuse brasserie parisienne quand - il n'en croit pas ses yeux - un illustre convive s'installe à la table voisine : François Mitterrand. Son repas achevé, le Président oublie son chapeau, que Daniel décide de s'approprier en souvenir. Tel un talisman, le feutre noir ne tarde pas à transformer sa vie. Daniel aurait-il percé le mystère du pouvoir suprême ?

She had come to Virginia to work, not to fall in love - certainly not with someone like Kip Montrose. Both Kip and his ancestral mansion, Montclair, had captured her imagination. The history of the house intrigued her as much as its master. Even ten years after the end of WWI, the families of Mayfield, VA, still feel its destructive effects. With his days as a dare-devil flying ace behind him, Kip Montrose is having a hard time settling down in the small Southern town and finding a new direction for his life.

Una narrazione disincantata e ironica denuncia il vuoto di valori che seguì la disfatta napoleonica. La cittadella descritta da Stendhal è in realtà molto diversa dalla vera cittadella di Parma e, invece, molto simile a Castel Sant'Angelo, dalla cui cella fuggì (calandosi con delle corde), nel Cinquecento, Alessandro Farnese, rinchiuso per aver rapito e sedotto una nobildonna romana. In seguito diviene cardinale e, poi, papa.

Questo romanzo dell'autore della più celebre serie di romanzi di Sherlock Holmes fu pubblicato nel 1896, mentre l'autore era ancora impegnato a scrivere le serie di Holmes. Il titolo italiano (quello orgiale è”Rodney Stone”, dal nome del protagonista) allude a un mistero “gotico”, ma è in realtà un po' fuorviante perchè la storia del fantasma di Cliffe Royal, castello situato tra Brighton e Londra, non è altro che una cornice per trasportare il lettore in un momento storico accuratamente descritto, in cui la flotta inglese, comandata da Nelson, si trovava a combattere il grande nemico Bonaparte.

Il capolavoro della letteratura italiana e la base dell' italiano corretto. L’ascolto ribalterà le cattive impressioni dovute al forzato apprendimento scolastico. Si apprezzerà un romanzo fresco, ironico, di grande spessore spirituale.Di grande attualità; una storia d’amoreAdatto a: tutti, iIn particolare a chi a scuola l’ha detestato e si è sempre chiesto se era un capolavoro oppure no; ai cultori del romanzo storico; a chi ha fede e a chi non ne ha, per un confronto con un’opera dalle infinite sfaccettature.

Washington, D.C., 1861: As the United States teeters on the brink of civil war, Colonel Charles P. Rook organizes security in the nation’s capital and monitors the death threats pouring into the White House. He surrounds Abraham Lincoln with bodyguards, covers rooftops with sharpshooters, and investigates rumors of conspiracy fomented by secessionists. Yet amid the chaos and confusion, a mysterious killer slips into the teeming city.

Rosa Silbermann wird 1952 mit einem geheimen Auftrag in das Nobelhotel Bühlerhöhe geschickt. Die in den 1930ern aus Köln nach Palästina emigrierte Jüdin arbeitet für den israelischen Geheimdienst. Ihre Gegenspielerin ist die misstrauische Hausdame Sophie Reisacher. Sie musste 1945 das Elsass verlassen und sucht nun in der Bühlerhöhe ihre Chance zum gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg. Beide haben erlebt, was es heißt, wenn ein Land einen Neuanfang wagen will.

A young Yale academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe-deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a nonfiction manuscript by James Bond author Ian Fleming. The manuscript, detailing Fleming's own involvement in British espionage during World War II, contains evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, information so confidential that people are willing to kill to continue its secrecy.

Mary Ryder is a housewife, her once fiery nature ground down by a life of cleaning and cooking for her drunken husband, Nigel. A chance meeting with idealistic mineworker Lewis Evans makes her realize what love can be. Mary made a commitment to Nigel: for better, for worse. When the National Union of Mineworkers calls a strike, Mary doesn't realize it will change her and the town forever.

Tea anyone? After decades of erosion of the U.S. Constitution, the United States is faced with a major constitutional crisis not seen since the Civil War. A president and his administration filled with scandals and plagued by economic woes surprisingly wins re-election to a second term largely based on an "October Surprise" and the promise of redistribution of the nation's wealth. The night he is re-elected, an assassination attempt throws America into chaos, resulting in riots, food shortages and violence across the country.

Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before Gettysburg, and the nation's fate hangs in the balance. Major Russell Johns is being played by puppet-master Gerard Chantier, who hosts the city's most lavish entertainments, attended by members of Lincoln's cabinet and Washington's elite. Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But, in a land where adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as German proves contentious. And then there’s the face in the cemetery.

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser.