Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Historical Fiction

Wie aus einem Traum von Schokolade das wohl berühmteste Quadrat der Welt wurde ... Verführerisches Aroma und zart-schmelzender, vollmundiger Geschmack. Als die junge Clara zum ersten Mal ein Stück Schokolade probiert, weiß sie sofort, dass sie die süße Köstlichkeit zu ihrem Beruf machen will. 1912 legt sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann Alfred Ritter den Grundstein für eine Schokoladen- und Zuckerwarenfabrik. Clara erfindet schließlich eine quadratische Tafel, deren zahlreiche Sorten das Zeug haben, die Welt zu erobern.

Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon...

A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire. When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A fun, DaVinci Code–style blend of puzzles, mysticism and high-octane action” (People, Best Books of the Month), from the author of The Puzzle Master “This rip-roaring adventure thriller is an escapist puzzle box of delights: a neurodivergent hero, an unsolvable...

A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with revolution. The citizens of...

Es ist viele Jahre her, dass das Cro-Magnon-Mädchen Ayla vom Neandertalerclan des Bären verstoßen wurde und ihre lange Reise durch das eiszeitliche Europa begann. Nun ist sie mit ihrem Gefährten Jondalar bei seinem Volk, den Zelandonii der Neunten Höhle, heimisch geworden und hat ein süßes Töchterchen. Obwohl Ayla als junge Mutter alle Hände voll zu tun hat, lässt ihr die Heilerin und spirituelle Anführerin der Neunten Höhle eine gewaltige Ehre zuteilwerden.

After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before...

From the one and only Sandra Brown comes a searing novel of romantic suspense. . . as a beautiful young mother falls victim to a brazen crime. . . and a seductive captor. . . . When her divorce was finally granted, Miranda Price thought the worst was behind her. Now she could get on with her...

SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED. HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED. BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM? Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a...

The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood...

It is 1974. Indu has inherited a flat from her grandmother and wants to turn it into a library for women. Her parents think this will keep her suitably occupied till she marries her fiancé, Rajat, who's away studying in London. But then she meets Rana, a young lawyer with sparkling wit and a...

Dingelsbach am Fuße des Taunus 1927. Unruhige Zeiten stehen den drei Schwestern vom Dorfladen bevor! Während auf Frieda, die mittlere Tochter, ihr erstes Theaterengagement wartet – und die große Liebe –, fliegt ihre jüngere Schwester Ida von der Schule. Mit ihrem Freund Florian tritt sie dem Jugendverband der KPD bei, doch als Florian bei einer Straßenschlacht tödlich verletzt wird, kehrt sie zurück in die Heimat. Dort erwartet die dritte im Bunde, Herta, ein uneheliches Kind, was für viel Aufruhr im Dorf sorgt. Werden die drei dennoch ihr Glück finden?

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His...

Love is a choice you make every day. Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him, or the course of events...

In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood. Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare as a child during the Atlanta Race Riot of...

When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild...

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour. His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his...

München, 1985: Die junge Claudia Baumgartner lernt den sieben Jahre älteren Flötisten Florian Moser kennen und lieben. Das junge Paar bekommt Fünflinge, die als Frühchen auf die Welt kommen. Zwei der Babys sterben nach wenigen Monaten. Claudia kämpft wie eine Löwin, um ihrer Familie das optimale Zuhause zu bieten. Sie bekommt noch eine weitere Tochter, Julia, und nimmt ein Pflegekind auf, das türkische Mädchen Merve. Doch Florian, der eine bipolare Störung hat, wird zunehmend aggressiv, hat Affären und zwingt Claudia zu mehreren Umzügen quer durch die ganze Republik.

A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time. Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean caves of Palermo, the Beati Paoli, masked and hooded, mete out their own form of justice to counter the...

Two sisters, separated by oceans and global conflict, are bonded through music and love in this gripping novel based on true events from World War II. “Hauntingly beautiful . . . shines a light on wartime in the Philippines and Italy, places rarely depicted in historical fiction . . . a...