Resultados para "Underground" en Novela histórica

1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners in rural California. Although his parents don’t approve, he’s found true friends in Nick, Suki, and Ollie, sons of field workers. The group is inseparable. But Steven is in turmoil. He’s beginning to acknowledge that his feelings for Nick amount to more than friendship. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor draws the US into World War II, Suki and his family are forced to leave their home for the internment camp at Manzanar. Ollie enlists in the army and ships out. And Nick must flee.

In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It’s where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled. Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free.

Depuis toujours, un mur infranchissable sépare le Cocyte de la surface. Depuis toujours, la cité souterraine est soumise au bon vouloir du "Marchand d'Âmes", qui régit la vie et la mort. Depuis toujours... du moins, c'est ce que croit Orion. Car le jeune homme a sacrifié ses souvenirs lorsqu'il est entré au service du marchand. De sa précédente existence, il ne lui reste qu'une peur viscérale du noir et une étrange faculté : celle de déplacer les âmes. Un don qui lui permet de se réfugier chaque nuit dans un rêve de son invention.