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Eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War.

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all.

Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past. Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned...

China, 1925: Als die 15-jährige Anyu Zhang ein unbezahlbares Fabergé-Ei im Schnee findet, zögert sie nicht lange, es seinem rechtmäßigen Besitzer zurückzugeben. Isaak Mandelburg war einst Meisterjuwelier des russischen Zaren und ist nun auf der Flucht. Aus Dankbarkeit gibt er Anyu seine Adresse und ein Versprechen: In Schanghai wird sie ihm immer willkommen sein, ganz gleich, was geschieht. Jahre später, nachdem Anyu zur Waise wurde, sucht sie den Juwelier tatsächlich auf und taucht unmittelbar in eine Welt voller Geheimnisse, Glanz und Gier ein.

In the course of one ordinary day, Atlanta fast food worker Calvin loses his girlfriend, his band and his best friend. Suddenly, everything he had planned to spend the rest of his life doing seems to have flown away. Told with insight, sensitivity and deep respect for what it takes to make a life in music, King Cal is a coming-of-age novel about a determined young man who starts with little, aims to earn a little more and has to decide whether success, or even clinging to his dream, is worth the sacrifice.

Bryen realizes that freedom comes with a price. He joins forces with the powerful Magii Sirius and Rafia to master the Curse and devise a plan to free himself from the bonds of his servitude. But it involves risking the lives of his fellow gladiators who know that the odds are stacked against them.

In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their 60s, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades. Runaway is a crime novel covering 50 years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished.

I 1973 begynder 19-årige Mick på et studenterkursus på Frederiksberg i København. De næste to år er præget af druk, fester og damer, men hvis Mick vil skabe sig et godt liv, når de to år på studenterkurset engang er forbi, må han ændre kurs i god tid. Det er til gengæld svært, når det betyder, at man skal gå imod strømmen. "... rig på fine stemninger og portrætter fra en forvirret tid" - BT Hans Peter Rolfsen er en dansk forfatter. Han bevæger sig inden for mange forskellige genrer og har både skrevet romaner, noveller, fagbøger samt en lang række børne- og ungdomsbøger.

Den lille spurveunge Peter Pjusk er meget energisk, madglad... og måske en smule klodset. I hvert fald lander han ret tungt den dag, han ryger ud af sin rede. Nu er gode råd dyre, for Peter kan ikke flyve endnu, og pludselig står han ansigt til ansigt med en hel ny verden. Der venter både sjov og spænding, når Peter Pjusk både møder nye venner og andre dyr, der er knap så venligtsindede over for den lille gråspurv.

Spurven Peter Pjusk står endnu en gang over for eventyr og nye oplevelser. Denne gang af den mere naturlige art, da han for første gang i sit liv står over for en streng vinter fyldt med mørke, kulde og sne.

It is the summer of 1952 and three men—well, one man and two boys—are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.

Mit dem fröhlichen Egészségedre Palinka von Tante Luci fing es an, mit dem Schnüffeln am Rumtopf ging es weiter. Und dann folgten Eierlikör, die selbstgebraute "Schwarze Johanna", fröhliche Trinkrunden mit Freunden, Mutproben, Überbietungswettbewerbe, Abstürze... Diese Live-Lesung aus "Schluckspecht" wirbelt alles durcheinander: explosive Lebensfreude, Verzweiflung, Komik, Schmerz, Sprachlust, tiefe Menschenliebe.

Born in a quiet English village shortly before the onset of the Second World War, Simon Brand’s life is quickly and inextricably interwoven with the Clare-Thompson family and their country Estate which borders the village. His mother moves them away from the village after the war, and an honors degree in economics at Cambridge sees him opting for what proves to be a brilliant career as a business/financial consultant in the City. At the end of a day of goodbyes, in Cambridge, his eyes meet those of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman through the window of a bus.

From celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes Witchsign, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy. It has been seventy-five years since the dragons’ rule of fire and magic was ended. Out of the ashes, the Solmindre Empire was born. Since then, the tyrannical Synod has...

Flatmates Judith, Giles and David once had it all: youth, optimism, ambition and degrees from one of the country's best universities. In their 20s, they were full of potential, but 10 years later, they're simply might-have-beens. Stuck in Streatham and strapped for cash, they're forced to mooch off their more successful mates just to get by.

"Die Liebe, ach Junge, besser du lässt die Finger davon", warnt sein Opa ihn, da ist er vierzehn. Und tatsächlich steht die erste amouröse Bruchlandung bald an: Seine Kindheitsfreundin Lucretia, mit der er seit seinem dritten Lebensjahr fast jede Minute verbrachte, wird sich kurz darauf lieber mit dem Fleischergesellen statt mit ihm treffen. Ja, schlimmer noch, ohne jede Vorwarnung wird sie einfach von einem Tag auf den anderen verschwinden.

Thomas er ung i 1960'erne, men mange ting er ikke anderledes end i dag. Han er med i en klike, som almindeligvis hygger sig godt, men da de fryser Franz ude, fordi de bliver trætte af hans pralende og sleske facon, forvandles hyggen til alvor. Det er ikke rart at holde nogen udenfor, og hverdagen bliver kun værre for Thomas og hans venner, da minirockerne erklærer krig imod dem. Hans Peter Rolfsen er en dansk forfatter. Han bevæger sig inden for mange forskellige genrer og har både skrevet romaner, noveller, fagbøger samt en lang række børne- og ungdomsbøger.

The young orphan Oliver Twist flees a cruel workhouse for the dirty streets of London, where he falls in with a nefarious gang. As the shrewd Artful Dodger, the menacing Fagin and the vicious Bill Sikes lead Oliver deeper into a criminal life, a dark conspiracy is revealed around him.

Young wizards Eynon and Merry struggle to save their friends from a trio of wizard-assassins in the next installment of The Congruent Mage series.

Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the author: Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She died in 1935, aged just 37.