Showing results for "Fish" in Historical Fiction

In wartime Cornwall, Rupert Pengelly returns to a failing farm, and a promise whispered over the deathbed of a friend. A promise that pulls him across oceans, toward Africa, toward a life he never imagined. Rhodesia awaits with sun-baked fields, emerald hunts, and a restless horizon. Amid the heat and tension, a wild, fearless girl named Sasa emerges—unpredictable, untamed—ready to challenge Rupert’s loyalties and reshape the course of his future. The old order trembles, resistance rises, and the Pengellys, Savages, and Birkendales are drawn ever closer… and pulled apart.

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.

Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La - and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers.

A terrifying band of Vikings, led by a magnificent warrior. A headstrong beauty who falls captive to the savage brute. For the first time, a man's strength of will matches her own, and Elswyth discovers that a Viking's love is not to be denied. As her ruthless captor places her at his mercy, can she protect her heart, or must she surrender all? Filled with action and suspense, Viking Thunder features explicit scenes of sexy sizzle.

Lane Mercer, sent to Longview, Texas, in July, 1942, is part of a select group of women working undercover for a fledgling federal agency, the Office of Strategic Services. Assigned to protect the man carrying out President Roosevelt's initiative to build the nation's first overland pipeline to hurry East Texas crude to the troops, she discovers there is more to Longview than the dossiers implied. There is intrigue, mayhem, and danger.

The Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin is a story of the adventures of two Indian boys or, rather, of an Indian boy and a white boy, Indian. These two set forth from the lodges of the Blackfeet, in company with an older Indian who acts as their guide, philosopher, and friend, on a far quest to the salt water to find the medicine-animal that is called "fish-dog" because it lives only in the water, swimming like a fish, yet has the face of a dog and barks like a dog.

This is the thrilling follow-up to Orope: The White Snake. Orope introduced listeners to a unique fantasy world inspired by Bronze Age history and mythology. Pekari: The Azure Fish takes listeners further, going to new kingdoms and introducing new characters. The gods are still angry, but the Whisperers of the Gods are closer than ever to saving the world from a terrible flood.

Una mañana de 1972 aparece un cadáver flotando en aguas del Club Náutico de Barcelona. El muerto es Alberto García Rañé, joven hijo de la alta burguesía barcelonesa, tripulante del Blue Spice, uno de los veleros que debe participar en la selección para la Olimpiada de Munich. La autopsia demuestra que la causa de la muerte ha sido un fuerte golpe en la cabeza y todas las miradas apuntan al velero Blue Spice, donde se dice que iba embarcado el difunto, pero no todo es lo que parece.