Книги жанра об истории серьезно
Это воспоминания о будущей войне. Той войне, контуры которой уже нарисованы на теле планеты.Герои книги ходят на войну, как на работу. Потому что это и есть их работа, просто рабочий день у них ненормированный.В этой книге вы узнаете:– Почему будет уничтожена королевская семья Англии и Уэльса– Как и ради чего создаются империи в Африке– Как много эффективных способов убийства практикует человек ци…
История основания Енисейского острога. Строительство города Енисейска в 17-м веке положило начало освоению всей Восточной Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Никому не известный, заброшенный в таежных дебрях острог превращается в крупнейшего донора Российской экономики, главного поставщика валюты для всей страны. Меховой и золотой столицей России. Дети Енисейских воевод становились царственными особами, а …
Книга посвящена одному из самых обсуждаемых и спорных периодов российской истории. Клим Жуков, военный историк-медиевист и исторический реконструктор, освещает важнейшие события в формировании Древнерусского государства, от основания Киевской Руси до монгольского нашествия: собирание русских земель, преодоление княжеских распрей и феодальной раздробленности – не забывая про описания битв и «острос…
В большой крестьянской семье рождается глухонемой мальчик, сирота при живых родителях. Окруженный любовью и заботой родни, он растет в уверенности, что весь мир за него и так будет всегда. Все видят в нем блаженную душу, бескорыстное украшение жизни, забавную и бесполезную дудку… Но когда ее теряют, то становится понятно, что дудка эта вела слепых.
Аннотация: Эта история произошла в далеком 1982 году. Группа ученых выдвинула теорию, что человек, полностью лишенный чувств и стимулов из внешней среды, сможет ощутить присутствие Бога. Они полагали, что пять чувств блокируют наше осознание вечности, и без них человек сможет действительно установить мысленный контакт с Богом. Лишенная возможности общаться и даже ощущать внешний мир Мария остается…
Celebrate the holidays with this magical Swift River Valley novella from New York Times bestselling author Carla NeggersWhen fashion designer Alexandra Rankin Hunt is asked to create the dresses for Olivia Frost's Christmas wedding in tiny Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, she jumps at the chance. She's certain she'll never get to design one for herself–not with her history of falling for the wrong m…
Former mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town and it's payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke and her best–make that only–friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business…if she meets a few conditions:She's got to live in Landon's mansion.With her gorgeous ex-fiancé, Caine Donovan.Who could also inherit the business.Which is a phone sex em…
HIS LADY IN WAITING In her long years at the convent, waiting for her betrothed, Lady Isobel de Turenne has built the Comte d’Aveyron into a fantasy – a man who will rescue, protect and love her… But when the Comte finally returns to claim his bride Isobel finds instead a man of contradictions – one who masks dark secrets with desire.Wary of a man’s touch, but desperate to grasp her new freedom, I…
Ottoman Empire, 1565Prince Khadin knows his days are numbered. His death could come at any moment, but even he cannot help but be distracted by the Bedouin princess he sees making a daring bid for freedom from the slave market.Even in captivity, her courage and purity attract Khadin to her as much as her beauty. Unable to resist the temptation, he takes the maiden back to the palace harem—to be br…
Tang Dynasty China, 823 A.D.Musician Jia needs a valuable book of poems by a famous courtesan to buy her freedom…and she believes Luo Cheng has taken it. Her attempt to steal the book from him fails, but the tall and powerful scholar unexpectedly offers to help her quest!But when they finally find the book – and the arousing poems and artwork inside – Jia's longing for freedom is replaced with a n…
Dissolute aristocrat Lord Valiant Oakenhurst hides a sexy, supernatural secret – as a powerful incubus, he is able to influence others through erotic dreams. At an exclusive Christmas house party, his latest mission is compromised by the beautiful but deadly succubus Lucille Beaulieu.Though still drawn to his former lover, Val cannot forget her betrayal…Hoping to atone for her past, Lucie uses her…
From the nightmare of battle… Being in the care of lovely Lisette, who tended to his every need, helped Rian Becket to forget the horrors of war – although his intuition led him to believe there was more to the seductress than she revealed…To danger close to his heart If Lisette was aligned with the enemy, and endangering the Becket clan, how would he ever bring himself to stop her? Especially whe…
Southern Montana, 1886When Chayston Williams agreed to act as sheriff of Spring Valley, Montana, he never dreamed his duties would include delivering his father’s pretty young mail-order bride to the family ranch in time for a Christmas wedding!Violet Ritter promised her late stepfather that she would marry the man of his choosing. But she’s shocked to discover her husband-to-be is old enough to h…
Anglesey Coast, AD 995.As one of the spoils of war, Welsh princess Eva filia Madoc belongs to his brother. But when the beguiling grey-eyed beauty demands that Reinn Geirsson take her with him when he leaves her father’s conquered stronghold, he cannot refuse.Eva is desperate to escape being forced into marriage – and she gambles everything on the hope that Reinn is as honourable as his brother is…
Lord of Vice Quintus MacLachlann is arrogant – unapologetically so. When he’s asked to impersonate one half of a married couple to infiltrate Edinburgh society he relishes the challenge of being ‘married’ to the frustratingly wilful yet beautiful Esme. Lady of Virtue?Esme makes no bones about her fervent dislike of the dishonoured rake. He’s the last person on earth she can conceive of marrying – …