Political Historical Fiction

In Philadelphia, in 1776, a British spy has been sent to assassinate leaders of the Continental Congress. Only one man stands in his way—an epileptic with a penchant for deciphering codes and solving puzzles.

Akhulgo, 1838: Jamalludin wächst als Sohn eines mächtigen Imams im Kaukasus auf. Als Zar Nikolaus I. die Region mit Krieg überzieht, verlangt er den Jungen als Unterpfand. So gelangt der kleine Junge nach Sankt Petersburg, an den prächtigen Zarenhof. Der Zar will den Sohn seines Widersachers als Russen erziehen, um ihn später als Verbündeten zurück in den Kaukasus zu schicken. Jamalludin ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen der Sehnsucht nach seinem Elternhaus und den Möglichkeiten, die sich ihm in Petersburg bieten.

1915. Deux hommes que tout sépare vont se rencontrer sur les champs de bataille. Lorenzo, jeune et brillant officier de l'armée italienne, et Nino le Sicilien, qui s'enrôle pour échapper à la prison après avoir commis un crime d'honneur. La guerre va faire d'eux des compagnons d'armes, des frères, avant que le règne de Mussolini ne les transforme en ennemis.

Ottaviano è a un passo dalla consacrazione finale: il raggiungimento del potere assoluto. In meno di dieci anni ha eliminato uno a uno tutti i suoi avversari e vendicato il padre adottivo Cesare. Solo un uomo può contrastare le sue sfrenate ambizioni, un personaggio influente e potentissimo, al punto che il futuro Augusto l'ha dovuto far diventare suo cognato e ha spartito con lui l'impero: Marco Antonio.

When the great Thomas Hardy published this heart-wrenching novel, he had no idea it would be his last. But the book stirred so much controversy and protest, Hardy vowed to never write fiction again. Jude the Obscure tells the story of a stonemason, tricked into a loveless marriage, who craves a formal education and a finer existence. Separated from his wife, Jude begins a new life with his cousin, and the couple defies social convention at every turn.

A life of peace and seclusion as the unknown Miss Denison. It's what Grace longed for even before her father banished her from Washington, DC. She just may have found it in Lordsburg, New Mexico - the small railroad town where people hide until the world stops looking. A place to send black sheep, skeletons in the closet, rebellious sons...and wayward daughters whose secrets could ruin a father's precious political career.

Am Schluss stehen wir alle vor uns selbst. Paula Bloom kehrt nach ihrer Ausbildung in Camp Ritchie, Maryland, als amerikanische Besatzungsoffizierin in ein zerstörtes und gebrochenes Deutschland zurück, das sie vor neun Jahren über Nacht verlassen hatte. Als Tochter eines amerikanischen Geschäftsmannes führte sie im Berlin der Nazizeit ein Leben im goldenen Käfig. Ein Leben, das eine Lüge war. Jetzt glaubt Paula, dass sie niemals vergeben kann. Nicht den Deutschen. Und nicht sich selbst.

America wasn’t founded. It was forged in smoke, sabotage, and the kind of silence that doesn’t beg for credit. The Boston Tea Party was a cover. Beneath wigs and warpaint, rebels moved Turkish opium through the harbor and crossed names off ledgers. Some were loyalists. Some weren’t. Nobody asked twice. In the smoke-filled port cities of rebellion, a syndicate formed. Part secret society, part shadow state, it traded liberty like cargo and laundered loyalty through blood. Washington held the center. Franklin read every cipher twice.

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco's bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell. Arriving in his mother's country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. Even Berlin—infamous haven of decadence—salutes fascism. Himmler's black-shirted troops rule the city, and every German arm bears a Swastika. But does every German heart belong to Hitler?

Leningrado, Rusia, 1968. Desde su infancia, está claro que Alexander Karpenko está destinado a liderar a sus compatriotas. Sin embargo, cuando su padre es asesinado a manos del KGB por haber desafiado al estado, Alexander y su madre se verán obligados a escapar de Rusia si quieren tener la oportunidad de sobrevivir. En los muelles se les presenta una disyuntiva de la que no hay marcha atrás: embarcar en un navío mercante que va de camino a América o en otro con destino a Gran Bretaña. Alexander lanza una moneda para decidir a cuál suben...

The Hunt For Frederick Douglass is an extraordinary first novel by author Terry Balagia, whose historical fiction work takes us along on an outrageously authentic ride, where he combines deep insights, fights with Texas Ranger heroics, and unexpected surprises that keep the listener holding on tight to every word.. It’s the tale of Texas Ranger Rip Gatlin, who is ordered to go up North and capture Frederick Douglass in an attempt to get the newly elected Lincoln to negotiate with the South in hopes of avoiding the Civil War and permanently eliminating slavery.

Córdoba, 1009. El pueblo de la que entonces era la capital del mundo se levantó en armas contra la tiranía de los hijos de Almanzor, respaldada por mercenarios e integristas. Dicha rebelión no fue fruto de un malestar súbito, sino el corolario de un movimiento planificado y gestado en la clandestinidad por una suerte de asamblea o consejo. Aquella revolución vertebraría en el plano político la sociedad, dando lugar a la creación de un ejército propio e integrándose en el gobierno naciente.

In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world? When discord rocks the community, Abraham must choose between dissolving the colony and compromising the ideals that elevated him.

The 1968 Tet uprising plunges America deeper into the abyss of Vietnam. Martin Luther King is shot, and riots rage in 130 burning American cities. Students protesting the War take over American universities, and street battles in Paris nearly topple the French government. Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the Democratic presidential race against Lyndon Johnson, followed by Bobby Kennedy, who goes on to win the California Democratic primary.

Il raggio d'ombra si ispira liberamente a un fatto accaduto nel 1927: un evaso politico trova rifugio presso alcuni compagni clandestini, ma si rivela una spia e li fa arrestare. Tra le vittime anche un medico milanese, diviso tra moglie e amante, che per amicizia aveva dato ospitalità all'evaso e ne vedrà la propria carriera annientata.

Almost anything scares young Eleanor: mice, the dark, and a host of imaginary dangers. But she learns to hide her feelings - her father disapproves of fear, and she longs only to please him. She knows she will always disappoint her beautiful, socialite mother, because Eleanor is painfully shy and plain.

As a young debutante in Manhattan, she spends her days teaching needy children and touring crowded tenements.

When 16-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybody’s saying there’s going to be a coup—and no one says it louder than Gabriel’s dad, a Nixon-loving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the C.I.A. Gabriel’s father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts, their family is going home. To Gabriel, though, Chile is home.

AD 211: Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, has invaded what is now Scotland, but Tullius, second-in-command of the legendary Sixth Victrix Legion, has more to worry about. Severus’s eldest son, a young Caracalla, is already testing the limits of his power as his monstrous nature begins to reveal itself. With his family under threat of death from him, Tullius must balance their safety with a sworn duty to his emperor and turn to the only people who can help – those north of Hadrian’s Wall – his enemies.

Eine Frau kämpft für die Rechte der Kinder. 1830: Nicht nur in Preußen herrscht die Überzeugung, dass man von Kindern nichts hören und sehen sollte. Um sie vom Weg der Sünde abzubringen, ist körperliche Züchtigung notwendig. Entsetzt verfolgt die junge Luise Levin, wie ihre Neffen geschlagen werden und wie man die Kinder von Arbeiterinnen in Verwahranstalten diszipliniert. Als sie von einer neuartigen Erziehungsanstalt erfährt, die Friedrich Fröbel in Thüringen gegründet hat, bewirbt sie sich dort gegen den Willen ihrer Familie als Haushälterin.

Deportado cinco veces por cuatro presidentes peruanos, sospechoso de haber estado involucrado en tres golpes de estado en el Perú y uno en el extranjero, Eudocio Ravines, figura ácida y rutilante en la historia latinoamericana del siglo XX, aparece por doquiera que uno escarbe, conspirando, denunciando, polemizando, escaldando y sacando de quicio. Después de una relación estrecha y dramática con Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre y José Carlos Mariátegui, abandona sus roles de comisario político de alto nivel en la Internacional Comunista para combatir la ideología que antes defendía férreamente.