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Outlaw Princess of Sherwood is award-winning author Nancy Springer's third delightful tale of Rowan Hood. Her popular adventure novels provide a fresh new vision of the medieval period. When Princess Ettarde refuses to marry the man her father, King Solon, has chosen for her, she flees to Sherwood Forest and joins Rowan Hood's band of outlaws.

Seraphina took the literary world by storm with 8 starred reviews and numerous “Best of” lists. At last, her eagerly awaited sequel has arrived—and with it comes an epic battle between humans and dragons. The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy...

The war in the Bear Highen is over. Aster, at thirteen, has defeated her uncle and become the High Queen. Peace is good, but things are still difficult: political challenges confront her, personal challenges stymie her, and the massive Hemoth Bear, symbol of the House of the Bear, is beginning to resist her control. When, during a royal hunt, Aster stumbles on a young girl living in a nest of wyverns, matters become even more complex. Because this girl is not a girl at all. She is a living star, come down from her constellation, on a mission both terrible and glorious.

Two friends face the Dark Knight’s deadliest scheme, but only one knight has the courage to overcome. Sir Quinlan leaves his boyhood friend to serve the Prince, fighting a battle darker and more intense than any he’s ever known. The mysterious Sir Baylor recruits him into the ranks of an elite unit of knights known as the Swords of Valor, but when tragedy strikes and everyone blames Quinlan, the Swords of Valor disband, ending a legacy of heroic deeds.

Este relato es la primera obra de caballerías de nuestra literatura. Nos cuenta las aventuras de un caballero andante muy valiente, sensato y buena persona: Zifar, al que con el tiempo llamarían el Caballero de Dios, por sus buenas obras y sus grandes hazañas.

Was nimmt man, wenn man keinen Fußball zur Hand hat? Im Mittelalter waren es Totenköpfe oder Kuhblasen - toller Roman über die Entstehung des beliebtesten Mannschaftssport der Welt. England, 13. Jahrhundert. Harold, kaum älter als elf, fiebert seinem ersten Fußballmatch entgegen, dem Spiel gegen das Nachbardorf. Sieger soll das Dorf sein, dessen Bewohner es schaffen, die mit Luft gefüllte Kuhblase in die Mitte des anderen Dorfes zu treiben - nur mit den Füßen.