Historical fiction

  • Greenwood

    Creator

    Christie, Michael

    Abstract

    From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world. They come for the trees. It is 2038.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    McClelland & Stewart

    Non spécifié
  • The far pavilions

    Creator

    Kaye, M. M.

    Abstract

    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye's epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian Mutiny, young English orphan Ashton is disguised by his ayah Sita as her Indian son, Ashok. As he forgets his true identity, his destiny is set ...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Bath

    AudioGO Ltd.

    Non spécifié
  • The family

    Creator

    Krupitsky, Naomi

    Abstract

    A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers' unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The earl takes a fancy

    Creator

    Heath, Lorraine

    Abstract

    New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath pens another richly satisfying romance in her Sins for all Seasons series. She's looking for a nobleman to wed ... Though born out of wedlock, Fancy Trewlove is determined to fulfill her mother's wish that she marry into nobility. Fancy's keen intellect and finishing school manners make her the perfect wife for any gentleman--if he's willing to overlook her scandalous lineage.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Non spécifié
  • The duke heist

    Creator

    Ridley, Erica

    Abstract

    The start of a new Regency series features a woman looking to recover a stolen painting accidentally kidnaps a duke instead.Chloe Wynchester is completely forgettable -- a curse that gives her the ability to blend into any crowd. When the only father she's ever known makes a dying wish for his adopted family of orphans to recover a missing painting, she is the first one whom her siblings turn to for stealing it back. No one expects that in doing so, she will also abduct a handsome duke.Lawrence Gosling, the Duke of Faircliffe, is tortured by his father's mistakes.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York, New York]

    Hachette Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The downstairs girl

    Creator

    Lee, Stacey

    Abstract

    From the critically-acclaimed author of Under a Painted Sky and Outrun the Moon and founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [Old Saybrook (Conn.)]

    Tantor Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth

    Creator

    Goldberg, Leonard S.

    Abstract

    In the third audiobook of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York, NY]

    Macmillan Audio

    Non spécifié
  • The dictionary of lost words

    Creator

    Williams, Pip

    Abstract

    The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Ballantine Group

    Non spécifié
  • The devil and the heiress

    Creator

    St. George, Harper

    Abstract

    Sparks fly when a runaway heiress bargains with a devilish rogue to escape a marriage of convenience. No one would guess that beneath Violet Crenshaw's ladylike demeanor lies the heart of a rebel. American heiresses looking to secure English lords must be on their best behavior, but Violet has other plans. She intends to flee London and the marriage her parents have arranged to become a published author-if only the wickedly handsome earl who inspired her most outrageously sinful character didn't insist on coming with her.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [United States]

    Tantor Media, Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • The dead in their vaulted arches

    Creator

    Bradley, Alan

    Abstract

    Bishop's Lacey is never short of two things: Mysteries to solve and pre-adolescent detectives to solve them. In this New York Times bestselling series of cozy mysteries, young chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve the most dastardly crimes the English countryside has to offer and, in the process, comes closer than ever to solving her life's greatest mystery--her mother's disappearance.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Books on Tape

    Non spécifié