Historical genre books (726)


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Island of the Lost : An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett EN

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“Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best—and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave’s schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another... continue


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It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo EN

Rating: 4 (12 votes)
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Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother–the only family Adelaida has ever known. Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night—to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping inWhen lo... continue

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Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook by Donald Rumbelow EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
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He was the most notorious killer of all time. Now, after being given unprecedented access to Scotland Yard's most confidential files, the world's foremost authority on Jack the Ripper, Donald Rumbelow, presents shocking new evidence--including postmortem photos of the Ripper's victims, illustrations, letters to the police, and newspaper dramatizations.

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Jane in Love by Rachel Givney EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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A Paperback Original. A charming, romantic debut novel in which Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years in the future. There she finds the love she's written about and the destiny she's dreamed of...but is it worth her legacy? Bath, England, 1803. At 28, Jane Austen prefers walking and reading to balls and assemblies; she dreams of someday publishing her carefully crafted stories. Already on the shelf and in grave danger of becoming a spinster, Jane goes searching for a radical solution--and as a result, seemingly by accident, time-travels. She lands in... Bath, E... continue

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Charlie Bucktin is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the mining town of Corrigan. Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.

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Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
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JERUSALEM (1901-1902) by Selma Lagerlof, first woman author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a story of Swedish families caught up in desire and divine exultation. Homestead tradition and religious inspiration, love and duty, come in conflict in this inspirational and gently bittersweet period novel that follows a pilgrimage of the idealist human spirit of Ingmar Ingmarsson and his kin.

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Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
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A moving story about what it means to be a woman in a society where choices are limited and decisions are difficult. A must read for mothers, and their adult daughters.

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Kashmir: The Case for Freedom by Tariq Ali EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
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Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people's on... continue

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Kingsbridge - Der Morgen einer neuen Zeit by Ken Follett DE

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Country: Europe / Wales flag Wales
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Ein Epos um Gut und Böse, Liebe und Hass - die Vorgeschichte zu Ken Folletts Weltbestseller "Die Säulen der Erde" England im Jahr 997. Im Morgengrauen wartet der junge Bootsbauer Edgar auf seine Geliebte. Deshalb ist er der Erste, der die Gefahr am Horizont entdeckt: Drachenboote. Jeder weiß: Die Wikinger bringen Tod und Verderben über Land und Leute. Edgar versucht alles, um die Bürger von Combe zu warnen. Doch er kommt zu spät. Die Stadt wird beinahe völlig zerstört. Viele Menschen sterben, auch Edgars Familie bleibt nicht verschont. D... continue