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Having found his place as a squire to a Norman knight, Roland Inness sets off with his master, Sir Roger de Laval, and fellow squire on a perilous mission to the Holy Land. King Richard has sworn to take Jerusalem from Saladin and orders Sir Roger to assess the military situation. Joining them is the Templar Knight Tuck as they contend with Moors, Berbers and a Sicilian usurper before reaching the battlefields in the east. There, Roland sees the ugly face of war and tests his mettle.

Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill.

It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, 17-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.

Eff is an unlucky 13th child...but also the seventh daughter in her family. Her twin brother, Lan, is a powerful double seventh son. Her life at the edge of the Great Barrier Spell is different from anyone else's that she knows.

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered.

Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive non-fiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow writers, etc. - as interpreted by Hemphill. Each poem is accompanied by an addendum that further explains the factual circumstances of that poem’s subject.

Power balances on a knife's edge. Destiny is uncertain. And love is the most terrifying thing of all. The Circle of Twelve is not who Avery though they were. Neither is Avery. Her mother is dead. Betrayal and attraction and history have tangled the strings that bind her, Jack, and Stellan. And now, Avery and her friends must put aside their own problems and focus on putting a stop to the most dangerous conspiracy of all.

Jennys nörgelige Stiefmutter Kathrin hat bei einer Auktion in Südengland ein sagenumwobenes Kästchen ersteigert: "Die Büchse der Pandora". Es enthält angeblich Hinweise auf den Lageplatz eines uralten Keltenschatzes, der vor 2000 Jahren von einem Druiden versteckt wurde. Doch auch der gefährliche Geheimbund der Schwarzen Mönche ist hinter dem Kästchen her. Gelingt es Jenny, das Rätsel um den Schatz zu lüften? Die Jagd nach dem geheimnisvollen Keltenschatz beginnt...

Trzecia czesc niezwyklych przygód Bialowlosego, który wraz z Widwojosem i Perilawosem przebywa w goscinie u króla Troi. Po trudach podrózy otrzymuje najwieksza nagrode - spotkanie z rodzicami. Wie jednak, ze nie jest to jeszcze kres wedrówki, gdyz niebezpieczenstwo ze strony wladcy Krety, wielkiego Minosa, jest wciaz realne. Tym bardziej, ze Widwojos wraz z synem udali sie samotnie za Biala Przelecz, aby wybrac kilka pasacych sie tam koni trojanskich. Czy wyprawa jest szlachetnym gestem króla Troi czy moze zlowrogim podstepem zagrazajacym ich zyciu?

Drugi tom przygód dzielnego Trojanczyka o imieniu Bialowlosy. Chlopiec wraz ze swoim towarzyszem Terteusem przebywa w Knossos, w palacu Wladcy Mórz, strzebac bezpieczenstwa królewskiego bratanka. Oto zbliza sie ceremonia ku czci nowego wladcy Krety poteznego Minosa. Bialowlosego meczy lek przed kaplanami zamordowanego Sebeka, którzy poprzysiegli mu zemste.

Akcja rozgrywa sie w czasach antycznych. Glówny bohater, Trojanczyk o imieniu Bialowlosy, wraz z przyjaciólmi przemierza Egipt i Grecje, by wreszcie wyruszyc w kierunku dalekiej Pólnocy - krainy cennego bursztynu... Fabula, obfitujaca w sensacyjne watki, i plastyczny obraz bajecznej przeszlosci sprawiaja, ze ksiazke, pomimo jej znacznych rozmiarów, czyta sie z zapartym tchem.

Czwarta, ostatnia czesc fascynujacej podrózy Bialowlosego, który wraz z towarzyszami dotarl do polozonej posród niezmierzonych bagien i wód kretych rzek i strumieni osady. Docieraja tam na chwile przed obrzedem pozegnania zimy, w którym jedna z dziewczat mieszkajacych w wiosce zostanie oddana w ofierze bogom. Ów los przypadnie tego Roku córce króla wioski, w której nieoczekiwanie zakocha sie Terteus. Bohaterowie zrobia wszystko, aby zapobiec zblizajacej sie smierci. Bedzie to jednak oznaczac przeciwstawienie sie bogom i ustalonemu od wieków porzadkowi swiata... Czy kradnac ofiare nalezna obcemu bogu nie naraza sie na zgube?

In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II.

Eff is riding west, away from the safety of the frontier city she's always known.... Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing - or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength - magical and otherwise - to come safely back home.

It’s 1942, and as the war rages in Europe, Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands swinging an ax for the Women’s Timber Corps. Maisie relishes her newfound independence working alongside other lumberjacks - including the mysterious John Lindsay. As Maisie and John work side by side felling trees, Maisie can’t help but feel that their friendship has the spark of something more to it. And yet every time she gets close to him, John pulls away. It’s not until Maisie rescues John from a terrible logging accident that he begins to open up to her about the truth of his past.

Spannender und einfühlsamer Jugendroman über Leben und Alltag in der damaligen DDR. DDR-Alltag, Ausbürgerung und was bedeutet Heimat in einem geteilten Land? Fragen, die sich Oli, der in Ost-Berlin lebt, erst im Laufe der Handlung stellt. Als er mit Freundin Nana bei dem Besuch eines Pop-Konzerts in Polen verhaftet und wegen staatsfeindlichen Verhaltens in die DDR zurückgeschickt wird, stoßen Oli die Schikanen des totalitären Systems auf. Eines Tages ist Nana verschwunden - in einer Nacht- und Nebelaktion mit den Eltern in den Westen. Schließlich wird auch der Druck der Stasi auf Olis Mutter so groß, dass sie einen Ausreiseantrag stellt.

Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, 15-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them.

When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together.

Twelve-year-old Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts which try to possess her in the night, desperate for refuge, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard. And now there's a spirit inside her. The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, and it may be her only defence when she is sent to live with her father's rich and powerful ancestors. There is talk of civil war, and they need people like her to protect their dark and terrible family secret.

Jacky Faber, having been called a pirate and had a price put on her head by the King of England, has no choice but to stay out of sight. Hoping for a safe hiding place, she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston, but the calm doesn't last long. On a class field trip to Boston Harbor, the girls are abducted and forced into the hold of the Bloodhound, a ship bound for the slave markets on the Barbary Coast where they will be put up on the auction block and sold into Arab harems.