Títulos em Ficção Histórica

Istanbul 1591: Kara kehrt nach zwölf Jahren aus nach Istanbul zurück, um das Herz Seküres zu erobern...

Düsseldorf, 1888. Der 600-jährige Geburtstag der Stadt wird mit einem gebührenden Feuerwerk gewürdigt. Mitten im Getümmel: Friedrich Sonderbergs Neffe Gregor, der kürzlich einen Arbeitsplatz in der Lampenfabrik Krump angetreten hat. Am nächsten Morgen wird Heinrich Krump tot in den Trümmern seiner Fabrik gefunden. Gregor beteuert seine Unschuld - doch der Einzige, der jetzt noch zu ihm hält, ist sein Onkel Friedrich Sonderberg.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1717 im altmärkischen Stendal geboren, galt Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts als die europäische Kapazität in Sachen antiker Kunst. Ein auch in Rom hochangesehener Mann, hatte er seit 1763 die Oberaufsicht über die klassischen Altertümer inne. Im April 1768 trat er eine längere Deutschlandreise an, brach sie jedoch ab und fuhr von Wien, wo er von der Kaiserin empfangen worden war, zurück nach Triest, um von dort nach Venedig überzusetzen.

Teufel nochmal! Der Tod geht um im mittelalterlichen Kölner Dom: Tausendsassa Frank Schätzing reicht es nicht, einen Bestseller nach dem anderen zu veröffentlichen. Die Hörbuchfassung für seinen Krimi "Tod und Teufel" verantwortet er als Drehbuchautor und Komponist. Einige kleinere Rollen spricht er außerdem selbst.

Johann Torn ist zum persönlichen Boten von Kapitän Hans Bredeken aufgestiegen. Doch die Geheimnisse, die sich ihm durch seine neue Funktion...

Als zwei kleine Kinder ermordet werden und die verdächtigte Mutter, eine Patientin Freuds, daraufhin verhaftet wird, muss der Professor...

Bei der Sanierung einer Strafvollzugsanstalt wird das alte Tagebuch eines der Insassen gefunden. In den Aufzeichnungen stehen detaillierte Ausführungen...

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes.... Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards.... Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit.... Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson.

Where the real frontier begins...A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt.... A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge.... From purple sage to gambler's gold, from a senorita's tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L'Amour twist.

A quiet farmer defends his honor in a moment of panic and luck...only to find true courage on the run from the dead man's brothers.

Set in Yonkers in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louis and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters. Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play is performed here by a full cast, featuring Barbara Bain, Dan Castellaneta, and more.

On a seldom-used smuggler's trail between Mexico and Austin, a man lies dying. Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie takes the stranger's body to Valverde, the nearest town. Upon arriving, a crowd gathers, watchful and silent as Bowdrie tells his story to the sheriff. In the crowd is the beautiful blonde Rose Murray, owner of the RM Ranch. Rose explains to Bowdrie that she has reason to believe the stranger was coming to see her in order to right a terrible wrong. Twenty years ago, the Chilton Gang robbed her family.

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party—gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn’t trust for a minute.

Cyrano is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents whose whimsical aptitude for the spoken word is overshadowed by an attribute that is iconic, outrageous, and gigantic - his nose. How can the curiously snouted Cyrano ever hope to win the affections of the beautiful Roxane?

This tale of illicit passion, set among the lush cane fields of the Hawaiian islands in 1919, was inspired by a true incident. Beautiful 16-year-old Yachiyo reluctantly leaves her impoverished parents to live with sophisticated relatives. As she acquires civilized graces, she also struggles with a passion for her hostess' husband.

Beginning aboard the U.S.S. Olympia, Blood and Iron is the first in a planned series of six books chronicling the adventures of Levi Rankin. Fresh from the wilds of Wyoming, young Marine Corporal Rankin is savagely tested in the Spanish American War (Battle of Manila Bay) while serving under Commodore Dewey. Rankin's courage is rewarded with promotion.

Director David Fishelson transforms Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot into spellbinding drama that illuminates both titanic novels. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate brothers spring to life, led by their roué of a father ¿ who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.

In a 7th century Europe of myths, gods, and monsters, Lady Bradamant (a maiden knight) vanquishes evil knights, rescues the unfortunate, fights black magic, and destroys entire armies in her adventurous quest for her lost lover, Roggero, an enemy knight she once rescued at the risk of her own life. Roggero, in turn, must battle monsters, giants, and seductive evil sorceresses in his quest to be reunited with Lady Bradamant.

Ranch foreman Ward McQueen recognizes trouble when he sees it - and trouble is what the Texan sees when he spies the tracks of a wounded man in the middle of the big Tumbling K spread. In town, he learns that a tinhorn gambler has just won the ranch next to the Tumbling K in a dirty card game - and is turning his oily gaze toward the K's pretty owner, Miss Ruth Kermitt.

Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man", who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. The police don't care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend, and his search for the killer makes for electrifying drama.

This acclaimed World War II psychological court room drama was the sensation of 1954. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine. Their suspicions concerning their captain's sanity lead to their rebellion and a subsequent court-martial.