Bøger af Sara Donati

Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty.It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. Praise for Into the Wilderness"My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Into the Wilderness is one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place. I can think of no better adventure than to explore the wilderness in the company of such engaging and independent lovers as Elizabeth and her Nathaniel."-Diana Gabaldon"Each time you open a book you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. This book delivers on that promise."-Amanda Quick"A beautiful tale of both romance and survival…Here is the beauty as well as the savagery of the wilderness and, at the core of it all, the compelling story of the love of a man and a woman, both for the untamed land and for one another."-Allan W. Eckert"Lushly written . . . Exemplary historical fiction."-Kirkus Reviews"Epic in scope, emotionally intense."-BookPage

Gripping historical adventure set in the 1800s from the French Antilles to the tumultous battle for New Orleans.

"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne, and Savard relatives weighs heavily. In time Carrie finds footing as a midwife and nurse, but she never feels at ease in the city. So when, a decade later, she receives an invitation from a doctor in Santa Fe to join him at his practice, she readily accepts. The trip across the country is long and often dangerous, but she travels the last leg on horseback with men who have been hired to see her safely through the Native nations fighting the westward flood of colonizers. On that journey she makes friends who will be with her for all her life: Eva, a young widow; and Eli, an experienced surveyor. Once Carrie is established in Santa Fe, it becomes clear that her employer is not everything she was led to believe, and she is forced to face far more challenges and responsibilities than she anticipated. But she dedicates herself to the work and the women, providing health care, delivering babies, and earning the trust of her patients. In the course of that first summer in New Mexico, determined to make a life for herself in a new kind of wilderness far beyond her imagination, Carrie finds friendship, support, and even love where she least expected"--

The international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters presents a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Woman's Medical School-treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so puts everything they've strived for in jeopardy... Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating novel by an author at the height of her powers.

Por la autora best seller mundial de La edad dorada, llega la nueva epopeya histórica de Sara Donati sobre dos doctoras pioneras en el Nueva York del siglo XIX.La obstetra Dra. Sophie Savard regresa a casa con los ritmos dolorosamente familiares de Manhattan a principios de la primavera de 1884 para reconstruir su vida después de la muerte de su esposo. Con la ayuda de la Dra. Anna Savard, su amiga más querida, prima y compañera médica, planea continuar su trabajo ayudando a las mujeres desfavorecidas que la sociedad preferiría olvidar.Mientras Sophie se dispone a construir una nueva vida para sí misma, el marido de Anna, el sargento detective Jack Mezzanotte les invita a ambas a consultar sobre dos nuevos casos: la esposa de un prominente banquero ha desaparecido en el aire y el cadáver de una joven se encuentra con heridas desconcertantes que sugieren que un asesino anda suelto. En Nueva York parece que el avance de la mujer ha sacado lo peor de algunos hombres. Incapaces de ignorar la difícil situación de los menos afortunados de Nueva York, estas intrépidas primas recurren a todos los recursos para proteger a sus pacientes.Sara Donati es el pseudónimo de Rosina Lippi, autora best seller de la serie Wilderness publicada anteriormente en España por Salamandra. Nacida en Chicago, vive con su esposo, su hija y sus mascotas entre Bellingham Bay y las Montañas Cascade. Es autora también de La edad dorada, novela publicada en este sello editorial.

In an icy, untamed world of pristine beauty, a husband and wife are torn apart by fate but reunited forever by a love that can't be broken....An unforgettable love comes alive in this masterful epic of passion, treachery, and adventure....Award-winning author Sara Donati's debut novel, Into the Wilderness, was hailed as "one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time" (Diana Gabaldon). Now, in an eloquent blend of fact and fiction, Donati re-creates her beloved characters from Into the Wilderness in an enthralling new tale of romance and adventure.Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New-York wilderness in the winter of 1794. But soon after Elizabeth gives birth to healthy twins, Nathaniel learns that his father has been arrested in British Canada. Forced to leave Hidden Wolf Mountain to help his father in Montreal, Nathaniel himself is imprisoned and in danger of being hanged as a spy. In a desperate bid to save her husband, Elizabeth bundles her infants and sets out through the snowy wilderness and across treacherous waterways on the dangerous trek to Canada. But she soon discovers that freeing her husband will take every ounce of her courage and inventiveness — and will threaten her with the loss of what she loves most: her children. Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage, this time all the way across the ocean to the heart of Scotland, where a destiny they could never have imagined awaits them....

1893. En la ciudad de Nueva York son tiempos de un esplendor vertiginoso pero a la vez de una pobreza extrema y de cambios. El puente de Brooklyn está casi terminado y la ciudad se encuentra bajo el control de Anthony Comstock, quien lidera una brutal cruzada contra el vicio.Anna Savard y su prima Sophie, ambas graduadas por la Escuela de Medicina para mujeres, atienden a los ciudadanos más vulnerables, aun cuando haciendo esto les podría suponer poner en riesgo todo aquello por lo que han luchado. Para Anna, su papel como cirujana le ha puesto en el camino de cuatro niños que lo han perdido todo. Frente a su impotencia, Anna deberá tomar una decisión inesperada entre mantenerse en el dolor de su pasado o dejar que el amor finalmente entre a su vida.Para Sophie, una obstetra e hija huérfana de gente libre de color, ayudar a una desesperada y joven madre le obligará a aferrarse a su juramento como doctora y la empujará, junto con Anna, a la órbita de Anthony Comstock, un peligroso hombre que se considera a sí mismo como enemigo de todo lo indecente y de todo aquel que se atreva a desafiarlo.Con descripciones intensas del viejo Nueva York y la historia de dos doctoras adelantadas a su época, La edad dorada es una novela cautivadora, emotiva y repleta de coraje y amor.Sara Donati es el pseudónimo de Rosina Lippi, autora best seller de la serie Wilderness publicada anteriormente en España por Salamandra. Nacida en Chicago, vive con su esposo, su hija y sus mascotas entre Bellingham Bay y las Montañas Cascade.

A strong, vivid historical novel set against the backdrop of the 1812 war between Britain and America.

The third novel in the Wilderness series finds the Bonner family back home in the North American frontier.

The second book in The Wilderness Series is set in Canada and Scotland.