Titoli in Storico

Cleopatra llora el fin de su amor en una barca que remonta el Nilo. Ha sido abandonada por su amante, el romano Marco Antonio. En el corazón de ambos todos los conflictos del amor y la pasión, que llevarán a nuevos encuentros que inevitablemente tendrán un destino fatal. No digas que fue un sueño es una gran novela de amor, enmarcada en un período histórico apasionante: los estertores del Egipto amenazado por el imperialismo de la todopoderosa Roma. Pero es, sobre todo, un intento de reivindicar la figura de una de las mujeres más fascinantes de la historia. Cleopatra aparece en esta novela como un personaje original y contradictorio.

Thea, Princesa de Kostas, no estaba dispuesta a casarse por conveniencias de Estado con el anciano Rey Otho, Monarca de un país vecino y a quien su Padre pretendía imponerle. Para evitarlo, la Princesa decidió huir del Palacio y cabalgando llega a un sorprendente lugar... Ignoraba que al decidir quedarse en ese lugar, iba al encuentro de su destino y entre la realidad y el ensueño viviría una aventura que jamás podría olvidar. Todo esto y más es relatado en esta romántica novela de Barbara Cartland.

TRZY POKOLENIA, DWIE HISTORIE, JEDEN WSPÓLNY LOS. PIĘKNA OPOWIEŚĆ O MIŁOŚCI I WOJNIE. Anna Matkowska i Marcin Zieliński zaczynają nowe życie. Razem będą zapisywać czystą kartę ich przyszłości. Podczas przyjęcia zaręczynowego okazuje się jednak, że ta historia zaczęła się wiele lat wcześniej, podczas wojny, kiedy los połączył ich dziadków. W tej opowieści jest wszystko: szaleńcza miłość, zazdrość, tajemnice, kłamstwa, przemilczenia, lęki i nadzieje. I najtrudniejsze - przebaczenie. BO PRAWDZIWA MIŁOŚĆ TO DOBRO. I PRAWDA.

Opowieść o wielkiej sile miłości - ratującej i niszczącej, zmuszającej do najtrudniejszych decyzji. To także historia o tym, jak wybory poprzednich pokoleń wpływają na nasze życie. Upalne lato 1939 roku. Na horyzoncie wojna - nieprzewidywalna, mroczna. Ale teraz jeszcze słońce i jego spojrzenie: błękitne, gorące, jedyne. Sara Flinkierówna zakochuje się w Janie Górskim, to miłość zrodzona z przypadku. Łączy ich potężne uczucie, dzieli wszystko inne - ona jest Żydówką z dostatniego domu, on - biednym lekarzem, Polakiem.

Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school in 1830s Victorian London. She is also a well-respected author of stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories - the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men. Under the pseudonym Charles King, Elizabeth has written about dashing heroes fighting supernatural threats, intelligent detectives solving grisly murders, and dangerous outlaws romancing helpless women.

Emma Cadbury had been an innocent, a whore, a charity worker, and a surgeon. She chose a life without love until she saved a dying soldier in a charity ward. Brandon Rohan had lost himself to drugs and degradation, wanting to die, and only one person could save him. But she’d disappeared. Now they’ve come together again, but he doesn’t remember, and she doesn’t want to. But someone is trying to kill her, and Brandon is the one man who can save her.

One reckless moment was all it required for Lady Julianna Somerset to lose her innocence to her best friend’s brother. When he broke her heart, she fled London to heal her wounded pride. But a desperate change in circumstance has forced her to return. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who ruined her may be the only one who can save her.

Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene, who inherits her uncle's farm, the largest estate in the area. She surprises the villagers of Weatherbury by deciding to run it herself. Attracted to this bold young woman are three suitors all vying for her affections. They include the lonely gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the young and handsome but inconsiderate Sergeant Troy and the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak.

Twice Claire has used an ancient stone circle to travel back to the 18th century. The first time she found love with a Scottish warrior but had to return to the 1940s to save their unborn child. The second time, 20 years later, she reunited with her lost love but had to leave behind the daughter that he would never see. Now Brianna, from her 1960s vantage point, has found a disturbing obituary and will risk everything in an attempt to change history.

With her face on wanted posters from New York to Missouri, Christal Van Alen dons a disguise, determined to clear her name by bringing the real killer to justice. But when outlaws ambush her wagon train, her fate falls into the hands of the most dangerous gunslinger in the West. Bringing a gang of deadly felons to justice was supposed to be Macauley Cain's last job. Then the Confederate soldier-turned-undercover US marshal could retire in peace. But first he is going to solve the mystery of the beautiful blonde in widow's weeds.

Miss Jane Quayle excels at invention. How else could the sheltered daughter of an English gentleman create lurid Gothic novels so infamous someone wants their author silenced forever? Fortunately, Jane has taken steps to protect herself: first, by assuming a pen name, and second, by taking up residence at remote Dunnock Castle, surrounded by rugged scenery that might have been ripped from the pages of one of her books. Her true identity remains a secret...until one dark and stormy night.

'Tis the season when lovers' eyes shine by the light of a blazing Yule log, when a quick kiss is shared beneath the mistletoe, and when love is the most splendid gift of all. Savor the beauty and passion of Christmas with two heartwarming stories by outstanding Regency author Elizabeth Mansfield. From A Sneeze on Tuesday: A broken engagement and a miserable cold were not in Elinor's holiday plans. But her spirited heart found its own remedy: a true and lasting love.

Jane discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide gathering dies in a tragic accident whose circumstances Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snowbound guests. With clues scattered amid cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?

When a two-thousand-year-old curse is the only thing keeping you safe, you should probably just leave it alone. Here’s the problem—the curse is now breaking itself. The sanctuary is crumbling, Pell’s anger issues come with a new destructive voice, Pie has no control over her spellings, and Tomas is trying to convince himself that, one day, Madeline is going to love being a dragon.

Lorelei did what she was supposed to do: cut the King's throat, liberate a kingdom, and then fade into the darkness once more. But this time, she can't leave. The rebellion wants to use her as a figurehead in their mad plan to steal a kingdom from a bloodline, and Lore has other more pressing matters at hand. The King survived, and within his clutches are the last dragon eggs in all of Umbra.

Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession - one she has hidden from her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbours sweet memories too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in order to save hers.

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley - and a new life she never wanted nor expected. In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz - and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind.

Scarred by the brutal ravages of war, Lorne Gordon, Duke of Sutherland and colonel in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, returns to the Highlands to discover that his clan thought him long dead. His greedy half-brother has assumed his title, sold his family seat, and disappeared with the fortune. Once he engineers the return of his title, he must convince the new estate owner to reverse the wholly legal sale with the promise that his half-brother and the funds will be found. 

When Lord Alec Hay returns from war, his mother is determined to see him wed. But he wants only to escape into the darkest room in his ruined castle and relive the harrowing moments in battle where he was unable to save his best friend. Lady Giselle Hepburn, an impulsive lass, rides out from a neighboring estate during a storm, attempting to escape her family and a forced marriage to a man with a vicious dark side. She falls off her horse and nearly tumbles over a cliff but is saved by a handsome, mysterious Highlander. 

Roger Bennett, el futuro marqués de Riderland, se define a sí mismo como un caballero dispuesto a ayudar a las pobres infelices carentes de placeres sexuales. Le gusta tanto su vida que desea continuar así hasta el final de sus días. Sin embargo, una persona truncará esa vida de libertinaje que tanto ansía mantener.