Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Historical

This third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and...

In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, leaves her husband and children for another man...

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America. “Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the...

This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. “Propel[s] us into the epicentre of a 17th century Paris where breaking out of the prison of arranged marriage is only one of...

Based on a true story, comes a sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, standing trial for...

Barbara Taylor Bradford's unique blend of passion and intrigue has made her one of the most cherished storytellers in the world. Her new novel is vintage Bradford: a powerful, suspenseful story of one woman's search to find out where she belongs, in life, in love, and within herself.... Where...

Two women vie to change their destinies after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders marriage to a princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir in this compelling novel from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria. “A fascinating tale that won’t soon be forgotten.”—Times...

An enthralling story of secrets and discovering love where you least expect it, in The Tenth Gift the art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that changes...

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna...

The art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories. In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite seventeenth-century embroidery patterns...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a...

This second book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court...

In this first book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Francis Crawford of Lymond, traitor, murderer, nobleman, returns to Scotland to redeem his reputation and save his home. It is 1547 and Scotland has been humiliated by an English invasion and is threatened by machinations elsewhere beyond...

When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian...

The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York's Little Italy, apprenticed to a shoemaker, leaving a...

Fesselnd, düster, gewaltig: Das Finale der großen Vampir-Saga "Vampyria” aus Frankreich. Jeanne hat alles im Kampf gegen Ludwig den Unwandelbaren gegeben – vergeblich. Doch jetzt erhält sie die Möglichkeit, die Schreckensherrschaft des Vampirkönigs ein für alle Mal zu beenden. Denn der Widerstand, jene geheimnisvolle Organisation, die im Verborgenen gegen die Vampiraristokratie vorgeht, bittet Jeanne um einen ungeheuerlichen Gefallen: Sie soll den finsteren Piratenkapitän Pâle Phoebus verführen, um ihn in den Kampf um Vampyria zu verwickeln.

Maria Borchardt steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens – und trotzdem findet sie die Kraft für einen Neuanfang, der ihr letztlich mehr beschert, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte... Maria Borchardt ist nicht mehr dieselbe Frau seit diesem schrecklichen Weihnachten 1976. Seit die Polizei an der Tür der Villa Borchardt geklingelt und der Staatsanwalt ihr den Durchsuchungsbeschluss präsentiert hatte. Seit sie erfahren hatte, dass ihr Mann Hanns Borchardt in betrügerische Machenschaften verwickelt war.

Maria Borchardt steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens – und trotzdem findet sie die Kraft für einen Neuanfang, der ihr letztlich mehr beschert, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte... Maria Borchardt ist nicht mehr dieselbe Frau seit diesem schrecklichen Weihnachten 1976. Seit die Polizei an der Tür der Villa Borchardt geklingelt und der Staatsanwalt ihr den Durchsuchungsbeschluss präsentiert hatte. Seit sie erfahren hatte, dass ihr Mann Hanns Borchardt in betrügerische Machenschaften verwickelt war. Aber jetzt ist keine Zeit, sich selbst zu bemitleiden.

Karriere oder Familie? September 1965: Malou Graf kämpft darum, in ihrem Beruf als Reporterin weiter Erfolg zu haben. Sie schreibt mit viel Feingefühl und Empathie, entlockt ihren Gesprächspartnern private Informationen, ohne sie bloßzustellen. Bald wird sie als "Gräfin der Gesellschaftskolumnen" bekannt. Romy Schneider, die Rolling Stones, Roy Black: Sie alle reißen sich förmlich darum, von ihr interviewt zu werden.