Historical fiction

  • An unexpected peril : Veronica Speedwell, book 6

    Creator

    Raybourn, Deanna

    Abstract

    A princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club-an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women-Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Small world

    Creator

    Evison, Jonathan

    Abstract

    One of the LA Times's 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List This Month! One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads of January 2021! "A bighearted, widescreen American tale." -Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Masterpiece…the quintessential Great American Novel."- Booklist (starred) "A vivid mosaic." - BookPage (starred) Jonathan Evison's Small World is an epic novel for now.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The Paris bookseller

    Creator

    Maher, Kerri

    Abstract

    A BookBub Best Historical Fiction Book of 2022 ∙ A BookTrib Top Ten Historical Fiction Book of Spring ∙ A SheReads ' Best Literary Historical Fiction Coming in 2022 ∙ A Reader's Digest 's Best Books for Women Written by Female Authors ∙ A PopSugar Much-Anticipated 2022 Novel The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves .

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The midnight hour

    Creator

    Griffiths, Elly

    Abstract

    The Brighton police force is on the hunt for another killer, but this time they have some competition-a newly formed all-women's private eye firm, led by none other than the police chief's wife. Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Non spécifié
  • Perfume : the story of a murderer

    Creator

    Süskind, Patrick

    Abstract

    In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    HighBridge Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Exodus

    Creator

    Uris, Leon

    Abstract

    A passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel. Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon-the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies-the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Duke gone rogue : Love on holiday, book 1

    Creator

    Carlyle, Christy

    Abstract

    Christy Carlyle dazzles with the first romance in her enchanting Love on Holiday series. Will Hart, the Duke of Ashmore, is everything his father was not: scrupulously honest, forbidding, and apparently joyless. As a duke, he's a catch, but as a grumpy stick-in-the mud, no lady knows quite how to catch his eye. When his sisters concoct a plan for him to visit a run-down family property in Cornwall, he reluctantly agrees, hoping it will be a chance for him to rediscover the carefree man he once was.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Non spécifié
  • Virgins : Outlander, book 0.5

    Creator

    Gabaldon, Diana

    Abstract

    Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds; both have good reason to stay out of Scotland; and both are still virgins, despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue. But Jamie's love life becomes infinitely more complicated-and dangerous-when fate brings the young men into the service of Dr.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • A plague of zombies : Llord John Grey, book 3.5

    Creator

    Gabaldon, Diana

    Abstract

    In this tale of adventure, murder, snakes, revenge, and zombies, the Royal Governor of Jamaica sends an S.O.S. to London, asking urgently for help in putting down a burgeoning slave rebellion. London replies by sending Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John Grey, with half a battalion of infantry, a company of artillery, and his trusty valet, Tom Byrd.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • Go tell the bees that I am gone : Outlander, book 9

    Creator

    Gabaldon, Diana

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series. The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . . Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Non spécifié