Titoli in Storico

Judith Rothman è la figlia di uno stimato produttore di cioccolato e vive una vita agiata. Trascorre ogni minuto libero nella cioccolateria sperimentando idee creative per nuovi dolci deliziosi. Non vede l'ora, infatti, di prendere finalmente le redini dell'impresa di famiglia. Il padre di Judith però ha ben altri piani per lei, che prevedono un matrimonio molto vantaggioso con un uomo che la figlia non ama, né potrà mai amare...

Radko Suban è un giovane triestino di origine slovena che, nell'autunno del 1938 sentendosi inadeguato, sbagliato e incompreso abbandona il seminario e una strada già decisa per partire in cerca di se stesso. Si trova però impigliato nelle pieghe della Storia: da un lato insegue in modo quasi ossessivo il reinserimento a pieno titolo nella società laica, dall'altro cerca di ricostruire il suo universo di giovane uomo attraverso un'educazione sentimentale tardiva resa più difficile dalla situazione politica del periodo e dall'incombere della guerra.

Alle 12.40 del 10 luglio 1976 da una fabbrica dell'hinterland milanese si alza una nube carica di diossina che investe una vasta area e provoca una catastrofe ambientale che sconvolgerà la vita degli abitanti di Seveso. Laura Conti, medico e segretaria della Commissione sanità ed ecologia del Consiglio regionale lombardo, segue giorno per giorno lo sviluppo di quella crisi. Il romanzo, pubblicato nel 1978, nasce da quell'esperienza.

Back from the war, Captain Euan Irvine of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, and heir to the Laird of Drum, learns of his grandfather’s death...and the will stipulating whichever grandson produces an heir first will inherit his title and properties. Except that this is a race of which Euan wants no part. Marriage and heir producing is better left to the gentleman in society. He is not distinguished, and he is far from proper.

Tobias Walcott, the Earl of Blade, has learned it is best to exercise rigid control over his passions and emotions in all that he does. Uncaring that it makes him seem cool and aloof to most in the ton, he is content with his desire to only woo agreeable and demur females. Then, unforeseen circumstances see him trapped in a closet at a house party with the last woman he would ever make his countess.

From the author of the Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley, The Midnight Rose spans four generations and sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the...

Der Zauberberg erstmals als ungekürztes Hörbuch, virtuos gelesen von Thomas Sarbacher. Geplant als Novelle, als heiteres Gegenstück zum Tod in Venedig, entstand mit dem Zauberberg einer der großen Romane der klassischen Moderne. Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den Protagonisten Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur Bühne für die europäische Befindlichkeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Drawn out of her reclusive life and into Cal's illicit underworld, Fern discovers a side of herself she's never known, proving she is much more than just a pawn. She and Cal realize what it is to love someone they shouldn't—and it comes with violent consequences. With Cal's scheme falling apart, and a crucial choice set before them, Fern will come to know what she's capable of, scars and all.

Nel '68, a soli diciassette anni, Angela conosce Luca durante un ballo ed è un vero colpo di fulmine. Spesso lui gira attorno al vicolo di casa di lei e lancia alla finestra lettere d'amore. Ma d'un tratto sparisce e lei si rattrista. Ma, data la sua giovane età, dopo qualche mese smaltisce le sue pene e decide, assieme alla sua migliore amica, di iscriversi all'Università di Firenze. È proprio il periodo degli anni di piombo.

Parigi, anni Trenta. È una serata importante per Giulio: la sua band si è esibita per la prima volta al Luxure. Ma quella notte ha in serbo ben altre sorprese. Quando il locale per qualche istante si oscura, e un cerchio di luce illumina il centro del palco, Giulio resta folgorato da due grandi occhi che sfavillano nella penombra e dalla sinuosa figura che sta per stregare il pubblico.

Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler of the Metropolitan Police doesn’t count himself a gullible man. When he encounters a graphologist who deduces people’s lives and personalities from their handwriting with impossible accuracy, he needs to find out how the trick is done. Even if that involves spending more time with the intriguing, flirtatious Joel Wildsmith than feels quite safe. Joel’s not an admirer of the police, but DS Fowler has the most irresistible handwriting he’s ever seen. If the policeman’s tests let him spend time unnerving the handsome copper, why not play along?

Il temperamento coraggioso sorregge Giacinta attraverso le mille ingiustizie di una vita sempre tragicamente uguale a se stessa: dal perbenismo della provincia italiana del Dopoguerra da cui tenta di fuggire, alle aspettative disilluse di una Milano tragicamente diversa da come la immaginava.

L’8 aprile del 1889 Parigi è in gran fermento: la torre dell’ingegner Gustave Eiffel, è final-mente terminata e tutti si apprestano a vivere le meraviglie dell’Esposizione Mondiale.All’ombra della grandiosa struttura e lungo gli eleganti Champs Elysees, l’incontro tra due giovani renderà quella notte indimenticabile. Non sarà Parigi a essere magica, ma saranno loro a renderla tale.

Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Bane and Blight of the Ballisters", and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. He's determined to continue doing what he does best - sin and sin again - and all's going swimmingly…until the day a shop door opens and she walks in.

Tristan Shepherd never expected the London Season to throw him back into the path of Caroline Whitby—the spirited girl from his youth who once declared she detested both him and his horses. But when a single careless remark at a glittering ball damages Caroline’s prospects with a promising suitor, she lays the blame squarely at Tristan’s feet. Determined to make amends—and needing a wife himself—Tristan offers marriage. Caroline flatly refuses. Still, with the Season slipping away, they strike an uneasy bargain: he’ll help her find a husband, and she’ll help him secure a bride.

Their passion refuses to fizzle out and burns brighter, hotter, and, frighteningly, deeper every time. Rosetta manages to convince the land-hating Alister to port. They need supplies, and the Laughing Siren still needs repairs. But land may be dangerous for them—and not just because of the bounty on his head.

Lady Evie Chesterfield is a darling of the ton who refuses to become engaged. She's been desperately in love with her brother's friend, Richard Maitland, Marquess of Westfall, since forever. But the dark, dangerous marquess only sees her as a friend and refuses to marry any woman. When circumstances change and Evie has no choice but to take a husband, she decides to convince London's most notorious gentleman to marry her by seducing the scoundrel.

Charles Shepherd is in no rush to marry. He's sure he'll find a wife eventually with his good looks, small fortune, and considerable charm. After all, everything always works out for him…doesn’t it?

A ruthless tycoon Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to...

After escaping to the garden for a reprieve from the stuffy ballroom, Miss Evelyn Trainor bumps into a handsome stranger through a hedge. When he boldly requests an introduction, she lies and tells him a fake name, Lady Eve, positive she’ll never see him again. But when she returns to the country for Christmas and finds her handsome stranger—the Duke of Alverton—has moved in next door for the holidays, she does what she must to guard her secret. For he has declared the importance of titles and cannot find out she is a commoner.