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Господин Великий Новгород. Наносная беда (сборник) Даниил Мордовцев
ISBN: 978-5-91929-003-2 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Клуб любителей аудиокниг, ДВД Классика Язык: Русский РазвернутьИсторическая беллетристика Даниила Лукича Мордовцева, написавшего десятки романов и повестей, была одной из самых читаемых в России XIX века. Не потерян интерес к ней и в наше время. В романе "Господин Великий Новгород", отражено отношение автора к той трагедии, которая совершалась в отечественной истории, начиная c XV века, в период объединения российских земель вокруг Москвы. Он ярко показывает, как власти предержащие, чтобы увеличить свои привилегии и удовлетворить личные амбиции, под предлогом борьбы за религиозное и политическое единомыслие сеяли в народе смуту, толкали его на раскол, духовное оскудение и братоубийственные войны. В…
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Тень Ирода Даниил Мордовцев
ISBN: 978-5-4475-3241-3 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Директ-Медиа Язык: Русский Мордовцев Даниил Лукич (1830-1905), писатель, историк и публицист.Исторической канвой романа "Тень Ирода" стало следственное дело Левина из архива Тайной канцелярии. Борьба реализма и идеализма в начале XVIII века - это борьба нового во главе с Петром I и старого, традиционного, раскольничьего. К разряду идеалистов принадлежал и Левин. Это была едва ли не самая энергичная личность из всех противников грубого реализма, которому должно было служить безоговорочно, не рассуждая.Судьба героев романа дает современным читателям повод для размышления об исторических судьбах русского народа, о величии путей, пройденных им. -
Царь Петр и правительница Софья. Исторические повести Д.Л.Мордовцев
Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Logos Язык: Русский Популярный в конце XIX - начале XX века историк-беллетрист Д.Л.Мордовцев оставил огромное литературное наследие. Собранные в настоящей книге романы и повести относятся к лучшим произведениям писателя. Основная их идея - борьба двух Россий: России допетровской, много потерявшей в течение не одного столетия спячки и застоя, и России имперской и европеизированной, созданной волею великого царя.
Конечно же, сюжеты романов и повестей знакомы читателю, но автор обогащает наши представления новым, интересным материалом. -
Florentia - Im Glanz der Medici Noah Martin
ISBN: 9783426465325 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Droemer Язык: Немецкий Der Glanz der Renaissance, ein tödlicher Kampf um die Macht, und eine scheinbar aussichtslose Liebe im Florenz der Medici: Der historische Roman »Florentia - Im Glanz der Medici« lässt die spannende Zeit der italienischen Renaissance lebendig werden.... -
Sitting on the fence : the diary of Martin Daly, Christchurch, 1981 Bill Nagelkerke
ISBN: 9781869437480 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Scholastic New Zealand Язык: Английский Based on the Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 when the nation was divided between pro and anti tour supporters. -
The Runaway Settlers Elsie Locke
ISBN: 9781869507695 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский The year is 1859 and the Small family arrives in the new Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life - all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in Australia. But there are adventures ahead ... -
Берег печалей Даниэла Раймонди
ISBN: 978-5-389-27130-2 Год издания: 2025 Издательство: Азбука-Аттикус, Иностранка Язык: Русский РазвернутьПоздней осенью, в последний год XVIII века, в маленький итальянский городок Стеллата на берегу реки По заехал цыганский табор, и прекрасная цыганка Виолка похитила сердце сорокалетнего холостяка Джакомо Казадио. Несмотря на противодействие обеих семей, влюбленные поженились, но однажды Виолка решила раскинуть карты, чтобы узнать, что ждет их в будущем. И карты предрекли ужасную трагедию, которая ожидает кого-то из их потомков... В этой пронзительной истории смешаны правда и вымысел, реальность и магия, слезы и шутки, и охватывает она два столетия истории Италии, от борьбы Гарибальди за объединение страны до терроризма и социальных…
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Le Barman du Ritz Philippe Collin
ISBN: 9782226479938 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Albin Michel Язык: Французский Juin 1940. Les Allemands entrent dans Paris. Partout, le couvre-feu est de rigueur, sauf au grand hôtel Ritz. Avides de découvrir l'art de vivre à la française, les occupants y côtoient l'élite parisienne, tandis que derrière le bar œuvre Frank Meier, le plus grand barman du monde.
S'adapter est une question de survie. Frank Meier se révèle habile diplomate, gagne la sympathie des officiers allemands, achète sa tranquillité, mais aussi celle de Luciano, son apprenti, et de la troublante et énigmatique Blanche Auzello. Pendant quatre ans, les hommes de la Gestapo vont trinquer avec Coco Chanel, la terrible veuve Ritz, ou encore Sacha Guitry. Ces hommes et ces femmes, collabos ou résistants, héros ou profiteurs de guerre, vont s'aimer, se trahir, lutter aussi pour une certaine idée de la civilisation.
La plupart d'entre eux ignorent que Meier, émigré autrichien, ancien combattant de 1914, chef d'orchestre de cet étrange ballet, cache un lourd secret. Le barman du Ritz est juif. -
Discovering Her Earl Allison B. Hanson
ISBN: 9798322404637 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Independently Published Язык: Английский When digging for treasure, you never know what your heart might find.Julian Huntly, Earl of Melville, is being forced into marriage to a proper woman by his dead father. If he doesn’t wed before he’s thirty, he will lose everything. Even worse, the workers counting on him will be in danger. But he has a year to have one last great adventure before being shackled to someone for the rest of his life.Miss Elaina Bantham has had an exciting existence away from Society as she’s traveled the globe and uncovered treasures with her aunt and uncle. It has been a wonderful distraction from her disastrous come out years ago. Too freckled, too tall, and too worldly, she’s settled contently into spinsterhood. But now, the man who’d destroyed her chance for a traditional future, is set to join their expedition to Egypt and ruin her life.Julian could be happy with Elaina, but she is not proper enough to satisfy his father’s demands. He must decide if he will lose everything, or give up his chance on love.Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!Scots and ScoundrelsBook 1 - Winning Her DukeBook 2 - Discovering Her EarlBook 3 - Tempting Her Viscount -
Salonika Burning Гейл Джонс
ISBN: 9781922458834 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Text Publishing Язык: Английский Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.
Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of these people—Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley—are at the centre of Gail Jones’s extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones’s imagination these four lives intertwine and ramify, compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world.
Immersive and gripping, Salonika Burning illuminates not only the devastation of war but also the vast social upheaval of the times. It shows Gail Jones to be at the height of her powers. -
Sunbirds Миранди Райво
ISBN: 9780702267499 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: University of Queensland Press Язык: Английский 1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, possibly with the family' s daughter, Anna, but she is torn between her dreams of Holland and her desire to belong. Meanwhile the housekeeper, Diah, keenly observes the goings-on around the plantation, wondering how much to tell her freedom-fighter brother. When the Japanese forces finally arrive on Java's doorstep, they all have to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives, especially those who must evacuate to Australia. Sunbirds depicts the intricate web of identities and loyalties created by war and imperialism, and the heartbreaking compromises that so often ensue. -
The Light of Seven Days River Adams
ISBN: 9781953002259 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Delphinium Язык: Английский Living with her Babby after her parents’ death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad’s legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union’s ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her “profile” don’t make prima ballerinas.
Love of Leningrad, ballet, friends, family, and books sustain Dinah until history intervenes. The Soviet war in Afghanistan, the rise of perestroika, and a re-emergence of Nazism leave her vulnerable and exposed. Realizing escape is her only option, she applies for refugee status in America.
Dinah’s adjustment to life in the US is a test as much of her identity as of her perseverance. Is who she is something Dinah can forge on her own? Or is identity imposed by upbringing, public opinion, and the myths of our cultures? As Dinah struggles with the questions of religion, race, and worth, her choices and the people she encounters will determine whether the dream of a better life can survive the weight of the past. -
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali Узма Аслам Хан
ISBN: 9781646051649 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Deep Vellum Publishing Язык: Английский Nomi and Zee are Local Borns—their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty. In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers with only her body and her memory.
When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. Soon the first shot is fired and Zee is forced to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice. The islands—and the seas surrounding them—become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, who find themselves increasingly entangled in a mesh of alliances and betrayals.
Ambitiously imagined and hauntingly alive, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali writes into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex of history, powerless yet with powers of their own: of bravery and wonder, empathy and endurance. Uzma Aslam Khan’s extraordinary new novel is an unflinching and lyrical page-turner, an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the subcontinent. -
Kingdom of No Tomorrow Fabienne Josaphat
ISBN: 9781643755885 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Algonquin Books Язык: Английский It's that pivotal year, 1968, and Nettie Boileau, a young Haitian student in Oakland, gets caught up in the ongoing revolutionary fever. With her friend Clia Brown, she uses her public health skills to help operate the free health clinics created by the people she believes are "true revolutionaries," the Black Panthers. When she falls in love with Black Panther Party Defense Captain Melvin Mosley, their passionate love affair soon eclipses all else—her friendship with Clia and even her own sense of self. Pregnant, Nettie follows Melvin to Chicago to help with a newly-launched Illinois chapter of the Panthers, but once there, she finds Chicago segregated, police surveillance brutal, and her faith in love eroding as Melvin becomes unfaithful. After a violent tussle with the police and the loss of their unborn child, both Nettie and Melvin are caught in the viciousness of J. Edgar Hoover’s covert campaigns, and Nettie is soon on the run, desperate to find power in her roots and ultimately, to save herself. With richly imagined, relatable characters, Kingdom of No Tomorrow tells a story of Black love, self-determination, and the importance of revolution in the midst of injustice. -
Холодный ветер Александр Кизилов
ISBN: 978-5-4459-0313-0 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Престиж Бук Язык: Русский История Русской Америки полна красочными и драматическими событиями. Местные племена и кланы постоянно враждовали между собой, а Российско-Американская компания, утверждаясь на Аляске, вступала в противостояние и с могущественными индейскими племенами, и с опасными конкурентами - британскими и американскими торговцами. Этому бурному времени и посвящены вошедшие в книгу повести, действие которых происходит в середине ХIX в. в стране индейцев-тлинкитов. -
A Blade of Grass Lewis DeSoto
ISBN: 0060554274 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Ecco Язык: Английский РазвернутьA Blade of Grass is a graceful and stunning epic set in 1970s South Africa, on a remote farm owned by a newly married couple. The mistress of the house, Marit, is young, recently orphaned, easily intimidated, and unaccustomed to rural life. With no close neighbors or friends, Marit feels isolated in the house while her husband works in the fields all day. Marit's displacement is soon echoed in the character of Tembi, the daughter of Marit's household maid, who assumes her mother's responsibilities in the farmhouse after she is hit by a car. An encroaching civil war soon threatens the tranquility of the farm, and before long a plague of…
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The Secrets of Casanova Greg Michaels
ISBN: 9781620151785 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Booktrope Publishing Язык: Английский Loosely based on the life of Jacques Casanova, The Secrets of Casanova is a rich, lush novel of love, sex, family, ambition, intrigue, and adventure. Set in Paris of 1755, Casanova's luck is fading and his past is shoving up against his present with potentially disastrous consequences. What price must he pay to uncover a treasure of inestimable value? What hearts must he break along the way? Casanova's will and destiny collide again and again in this riveting historical fiction that brings to light a man of great passion and not a few secrets. -
Cinema Love Jiaming Tang
ISBN: 9780593474334 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Dutton | Penguin Publishing Group Язык: Английский A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.
For over thirty years, Old Second and his wife, Bao Mei, have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two aren’t in love. In rural China, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a rundown theater where gay men cruised without fear for intimacy and conversation.
While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found privacy—and love—in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold tickets to closeted men; guarding their secrets, guiding them in their relationships, and even finding her own happiness with the theater’s projectionist. But when Old Second’s passion for his lover is discovered, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.
As we follow these characters from China to New York, from first love to old age, we bear witness to the tensions of immigration—and how memory forever weighs down the present. Cinema Love is a big-hearted and heart-shattering novel about desire, secrets, grief, how we care for one another, and how we survive. -
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined Дэвид Уокер
ISBN: 9780593836118 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Ten Speed Graphic Язык: Английский A thrilling graphic novel re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South
Commonly regarded as one of the great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers since 1885. But since its publication critics have rightfully condemned Mark Twain’s troubling portrayal of Black Americans as stereotypes and caricatures, with contemporary fans searching for a modern update to this iconic tale.
Big Jim and the White Boy is a radical retelling of this American classic, centering the experiences of Jim, an enslaved Black man in search of his kidnapped wife and children, along with his cheeky sidekick, Huckleberry Finn. Jim and Huck’s high-stakes adventures take them on an epic voyage across the antebellum South and Midwest, through Confederate war camps and runaway safe houses, into Old West standoffs, and on the road as covert Underground Railroad agents. Intertwined with the story of Jim and Huck are the stories of Jim’s descendants in the 1930s, 1980s, and 2020s, making this a multi-generational family epic as well as an adventure story. -
One Big Open Sky Леса Клайн-Рэнсом
ISBN: 9780823450169 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Holiday House Язык: Английский Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free—or cost them everything they have—in this intergenerational verse novel that explores the history of the Black homesteader movement.
1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land.
But Thomas’ hopes—and mouth—are bigger than his ability to follow through. With few supplies and even less money, the only thing that feels certain is danger.
Right after the war ended/and we were free/we believed/all of us did/that couldn’t nothing hurt us/the way master had when we were slaves/Couldn’t no one tell us/how to live/how to die.
Lettie, her mother, Sylvia, and young teacher Philomena are free from slavery—but bound by poverty, access to opportunity, and patriarchal social structures. Will these women survive the hardships of their journey? And as Thomas’ desire for control overpowers his common sense, will they truly be free once they get there?
Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome’s striking verse masterfully portrays an underrepresented historical era. Tackling powerful themes of autonomy and Black self-emancipation, Cline-Ransome offers readers an intimate look into the lives of three women and an expansive portrait of generations striving for their promised freedom. -
Fireworks Every Night Beth Raymer
ISBN: 9780812993165 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Random House Язык: Английский A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice—save her family, or save herself—in this larger-than-life debut novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite.
“Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night.”
That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters in a place he picks largely at random, because the living seems easy.
CC’s mother is thirty-five going on seventeen, a housewife who just wants to drive a Mustang and hang out at the mall. CC’s sister goes from loving Debbie Gibson and jelly shoes to having a full-on drug addiction and listening only to heavy metal, after enduring forms of abuse within her family. In the midst of this dysfunction, CC is trying to stay afloat and make it out—to achieve some semblance of a stable life in America while coming up against the structural and cultural challenges of growing up in poverty.
This tumultuous coming-of-age novel features an unforgettable protagonist, a character who narrates her life story with dark comedy and compassion for her family, even as she is failed by them. Those failures—and her self-taught methods for succeeding anyway—are the backbone of this deeply funny and surprisingly poignant story about hard bargains, family loyalties, and the grit of a woman determined to create a better life for herself than the one she was born into. -
Indigo Field Marjorie Hudson
ISBN: 9781646033256 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Regal House Publishing Язык: Английский "Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget." —Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees
In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there. When the colonel runs into her car, causing a surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful. In prose that’s been called “dazzling” and “mesmerizing,” in the animated voices of trees and birds and people, in Southern-voiced storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy, Marjorie Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning. -
Traces Patricia L. Hudson
ISBN: 9781950564293 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Fireside Industries Язык: Английский An early American adage proclaimed, "The frontier was heaven for men and dogs—hell for women and mules." Since the 1700s, when his name first appeared in print, Daniel Boone has been synonymous with America's westward expansion and life on the frontier. Traces is a retelling of Boone's saga through the eyes of his wife, Rebecca, and her two oldest daughters, Susannah and Jemima.
Daniel became a mythic figure during his lifetime, but his fame fueled backwoods gossip that bedeviled the Boone women throughout their lives—most notably the widespread suspicion that one of Rebecca's children was fathered by Daniel's younger brother. Traces explores the origins of these rumors, exposes the harsh realities of frontier life, and gives voice to the women whose vibrant lives have been reduced to little more than scattered footnotes within the historical record. Along the path of Daniel's restless wandering, the women were eyewitnesses to the clash of cultures between the settlers and the indigenous tribes who fought to retain control of their native lands, which made life on the frontier an ongoing struggle for survival.
Patricia Hudson gives voice to these women, all of whom were pioneers in their own right. The Boone women's joys and sorrows, as well as those of countless other forgotten women who braved the frontier, are invisibly woven into the fabric of America's early years and the story of this country's westward expansion. -
The Seed Keeper Diane Wilson
ISBN: 9781571311375 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Milkweed Editions Язык: Английский A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato--where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
On a winter's day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her white husband's farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron--women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.
