Free books: Historical Fiction
Il marchio del diavolo (2011)
**I received an ARC of this story for an honest review**Elizabetta is a student of archeology, trying to get more permission to work on a wall in some catacombs in Rome. She's denied permission from the Vatican. Suddenly her boyfriend is gunned to death, also injuring her. Ten years later, Elizab...
Hungry Hill (1943)
Hungry Hill, Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)عنوان: تل گرسنه؛ نویسنده: دافنه دوموریه؛ مترجم: عبدالرحمن صدریه؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، فردوس: شباهنگ، 1368، در 488 ص،؛ چاپ دوم: تهران، میترا، 1377، شابک: 9645998212؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی قرن 20 مجان مسی، از خانواده های پولدار منطقه، فهمیده تپ...
Una vita da eroe (2010)
Last Roddy Doyle book I read was Paddy Clarke, which I liked a lot. The first 100 pages of this one didn't really work for me - I'm not crazy about throwing fictional and non-fictional characters into the same story. But it picks up nicely after that -- Doyle's prose is lean and physical (cant'...
Too Jewish (2010)
I really liked the story, characters were very real, lots of family dynamics, and interesting plot. I would have given the book 4 stars except for the poor grammar in the second part of the book. The first part was flawless and the only reason I kept reading was I was invested in the characters, ...
The Jacatra Secret (2009)
Akhirnya selesai jugaa... bukan membacanya yang selesai, tapi reviewnya.Jujur, buku ini sebenarnya sudah selesai saya baca sebulan lalu, tapi selalu saja tertunda untuk tulis reviewnya.Teman mama merekomendasikan buku ini pada saya. Katanya, buku ini bagus dan ditulis dengan latar kental sejarah....
The Sultan Wife (2012)
Sultánova žena se mi opravdu moc líbila, byl to příběh plný intrik, krutosti a závisti, ale také i lásky, přátelství a pomoci, kterou jste našli tam, kde byste ji rozhodně nečekali. Je to kniha, kde zasáhl osud spojením dvou ztracených duší. Najdou díky zásahu osudu svůj smysl života? Nebo budou ...
Sultanova miljenica (2012)
I really love historical fiction set in exotic places with different cultures and this book seemed just up my alley. In seventeenth century Morocco, we enter the court of the Sultan Ismail, who reigns with an iron fist and sends people to their death on a whim. His harem is filled with beautiful ...
The Italian wife (2014)
Oh, how I wanted to like this. Coming from a large Sicilian family second generation, I looked forward to such a story as the blurb on the book described - a multi generational tale about Josephine Rimaldi, who married at fourteen in the old country, came to America, had children, and her life - ...
Freyas Geheimnis Roman (2008)
I loved this book! The Icelandic connection was the hook that got me to buy the book, but I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and plot as well. I was especially taken with the language, both the author's and the Icelandic language. I agree with another reviewer that the ending was perhaps too abr...
The Night Train (2011)
The Night Train is a loosely plotted novel about two adolescent boys, one black and one white, in a small Southern town in 1963. Larry Lime wants to play the piano like Thelonius Monk. His white friend Dwayne wants to recreate James Brown’s album Live at the Apollo. Together they have a forbidden...
Finding Jack (2000)
I definitely recommend this book to any dog lovers and/or anyone with a soul:) this was an excellent debut novel from this author and ill be looking forward to reading his future work. I got this book as a gift, and while it looked good at the time, I buried it in my stack and just got to it near...
Leaving Jack (2000)
This book is absolutely awesome. I found the details of war to be vividly astonishing and the story line was something I will remember forever. I read this book for the first time a couple years ago and I have read this novel about 5 times since. Every time I crack this book open its like reading...
Small Acts of Amazing Courage (2011)
This was a nice story yet strangely uninteresting. It managed to accomplish what melatonin supplements failed to do. I stayed with it because the second quarter of the book things looked promising and I managed to stay awake and zip through that part, but it never came through like I hoped. I ...
Kaleidoscope Eyes (2009)
Delightful story of 3 tween'agers, in the late 1960s, discovering buried pirate treasure. But it is way more than a cute story of kids on a summer adventure, because of so many interesting cultural references (Janis Joplin, peace marches), huge moments in history (the assassination of Martin Luth...
Kaleidoscope Eyes Kaleidoscope Eyes (2009)
gr 5-8 256 pgsWillowbank, NJ, 1968. 13 year old Lyza is tired of bad news. And 1968 was full of bad news: her mother leaves, young men from her neighborhood die in Vietnam, her best friend's older brother gets drafted, and her grandfather dies. When she finds an envelope full of maps that ...