Showing results for "Trauma" in Historical Fiction

Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym—aimer, to love—resonates in every minute, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit, and intelligence of Vietnamese people.

What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her.

Als sie bei der Testamentseröffnung ihres Vaters erfährt, dass sie ein Haus auf Cape Cod geerbt hat, fällt Jane aus allen Wolken. Was hat es mit diesem Haus auf sich und mit dem Stapel Briefe – auf Deutsch verfasst – aus dem Nachlass ihrer Mutter? Seit ihrem traumatischen Einsatz als Sanitäterin im Irakkrieg wird Jane von Albträumen geplagt. Selbst die Musik, die ihr einst alles bedeutete, hat sie aufgegeben. Die Tochter eines schwarzen US Marines und einer weißen Krankenschwester mit deutschen Wurzeln fühlte sich immer zerrissen, nirgends zugehörig.

Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina, by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior, his son and Lottie Rebecca’s father, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the post Korean War GI Bill promises prosperity.

Él está luchando contra los demonios de su pasado. Ella está defendiendo a su hijo y su hogar. ¿Pueden dos guerreros de distintos siglos encontrar un futuro en el amor? Escocia, 2020. Cuando Konnor Mitchell, ex soldado del Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos y guardaespaldas, está vacacionando y disfrutando un tour de whisky por las Tierras Altas, escucha el grito de ayuda de una mujer. En el intento de asistirla, se termina cayendo por un barranco escarpado y, antes de lograr orientarse, un hada escocesa lo transporta al año 1308.

She didn’t know her life would change forever that day. She only knew it was cold, and something was not quite right about the room she was walking into. She couldn’t escape - every fiber in her being was telling her to run, yet she had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. She could only sit and watch someone take their last breaths. She made her choices and knew they weren’t all the right ones.