Showing results for "Rosalie" in Historical Fiction

After 20 years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar.

Privilege, tragedy, and family secrets shape the lives of Alice and Juniper, two young women brought together on the cusp of adulthood. When Alice’s parents are tragically killed, she moves to Paris to live with her mother’s society sister. Despite the opulence of her new life, she prefers the bohemian friends of her late parents and parties in Montmartre. It is here she meets her passionate first love, the enigmatic artist Xavier.

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father - an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard - a decision Phoeba's mother bitterly (and loudly) resents. But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money.

In Jazz-Age Shanghai, Jingwen dances at the cabaret by day and runs errands for a powerful gang by night. But when a mysterious attacker steals faces from her fellow dancers, Jingwen is plunged into a world of powerful businessmen, silver-limbed gangs and vengeful gods as she tries to uncover the culprit.

When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection and a new romance at the local bar.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Saint-Eustache, 1957. La famille Delorme est tissée serrée. Les parents, heureux propriétaires du dépanneur de quartier sont épaulés par Rosalie, la cadette de la famille. Au gré des rencontres quotidienne, la jeune femme adore s'enquérir des nouvelles des uns et des autres. Généreuse et toujours prête à aider, Rosalie est tout naturellement la première à prendre soin de sa soeur Suzanne, née avec une déficience intellectuelle.

"Das Rosalie", ein Edelbordell in Berlin Kreuzberg und Bühne des lustvollen Versteckspiels zwischen Frau und Mann. Christin, Julia und Olga sind unverkäuflich, aber für Geld zu haben. Doch die Flut der Sexualität ist tief, ihre Bändigung scheint nicht möglich. Sie sind umgeben von Voyeuren, die sich maskieren mit den Tugenden einer bürgerlichen Sittlichkeit, und alles tun, um das zu zerstören, wonach sie sich selber sehnen: Lust. Aber die Frauen wehren sich, schließen sich zusammen. Eine Geschichte über die verlogene Moral in unserer Gesellschaft und über den Wert von Freundschaft und Solidarität.

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father - an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard - a decision Phoeba's mother bitterly (and loudly) resents. But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money.

1872: Clara Winterfeld hat Hals über Kopf Berlin und ihre Familie verlassen, um sich und ihre Tochter Celia an Bord eines alten Teeklippers vor dem wütenden Ehemann Franz in Sicherheit zu bringen. Ihr fernes Ziel ist Japan, wo sie mit ihrer großen Liebe Akeno einen Teegarten bewirtschaften und endlich glücklich sein will. Als Akeno nicht wie verabredet im Hafen von Nagasaki auf sie wartet, macht Clara sich auf die Suche nach dem Geliebten – und findet ihn seltsam verändert und abweisend in seinem durch ein Feuer zerstörten Teegarten.

Berlin, 1870er-Jahre: Um das familiengeführte Teehaus Winterfeld finanziell zu retten, geht die 24-jährige Clara Winterfeld eine Zweckehe mit Franz ein – ihrem reichen Freund aus Kindertagen. Doch ihr Herz gehört dem Teehändler Akeno aus Okayama, der mit japanischem Grünen Tee handelt. Akeno reist zurück nach Japan und Clara bleiben nur heimliche Briefe und eine kostbare Teedose. Als sie erfährt, dass sie schwanger ist, weiß sie nicht, wessen Kind sie in sich trägt. Verzweifelt und doch mutig will sie der Stimme ihres Herzens folgen und Franz verlassen. Doch wird sie Akeno jemals wiedersehen?

Plongez-vous dans les tumultes de la Révolution française avec Rosalie, une jeune fille du peuple catapultée au cœur de la tempête ! Depuis ses humbles débuts aux cuisines du château de Versailles en 1789, Rosalie se retrouve en figure de proue de la Révolution. Sa rencontre avec Olympe de Gouges l'entraîne jusqu'à la Bastille ; et, témoin de la fuite à Varennes, le destin de Rosalie est désormais inextricablement lié à celui de la France.

Rosalie, die jüngste der Schwestern, kann es gar nicht abwarten, endlich in den Stand der Ehe zu treten. Doch woher einen Verehrer nehmen und nicht stehlen? Francis Bennett, der zukünftige Earl of De Lacy, den Rosalie ins Herz geschlossen hat, heiratet eine andere. Jonathan Babington, mittlerweile der Earl of Conteville, kümmert sich um Rosalie, doch er scheint nur an ihrer Gesellschaft interessiert. Als Rosalie dem Earl of Grafton begegnet, ist sie wie gefangen, von seinem Charisma.

Denied recognition and acceptance by the white people in Oregon Country, Margaret Jewett Bailey, the first novelist of the Northwest, faded into oblivion after an attempt was made to destroy all copies of her novel. Although she and her husband William J. Bailey arrived in the mid-1830s and worked beside well-known historic figures as Jason Lee and John McLoughlin, today few know of the Baileys. Why? Their story is explosive.

Ellie's father believed one should reach for dreams and, before he disappeared, he instilled that quest in his daughter. However, he also taught her about secrets and, like the tornado that raged the day of Ellie's birth, unpredictable and disastrous secrets formed to whirl throughout her life.

In The Drugstore, stories of ordinary people's strife in the 1950s come to life—like the fire at Miss Pansy's dime store and the quest of 14-year-old Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the corner drugstore. Everyone in the neighborhood is caught in a whirlpool of crime when holdups and a murder overtake the mom-and-pop business on Park Avenue. Then the holdup man begins to stalk Becky Bartlett, but he had no idea about her possible strength of character...which could lead to his demise.

When four girls from the Tillamook and Clatsop People befriended Joseph Gervais, he changed from the cantankerous French-Canadian fur trapper to become an amusing storyteller and hero. One day, he saved a Métis girl from being snatched by a stranger and earned respect from the Chinook and Clatsop Tribes, as well as, the love of a child who claimed she would become his wife.

Abused by his father and tormented by his brother Regalito, seventeen-year-old Antonio Scaglione plans to sail to America, but jeopardizes the freedom he seeks by taking Regalito's ruby necklace with a Gypsy's curse. While on the ship, he and his new friend Thomas test the curse by placing the necklace on a prisoner in the brig. The prisoner dies. Antonio will spend his life trying to find a way to keep the necklace from killing again.